Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 08/07

20070203005 - Device for manufacturing plastic sheet having foldable ruled line: A creased-plastic-sheet manufacturing apparatus which can warm a plastic sheet to uniform temperature, and can form smooth creasing lines on the sheet is provided. The creased-plastic-sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a punching apparatus for manufacturing a plastic sheet having creasing lines, which is folded into a container or the like, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070203006 - Pressure pad for closing bottom of carton: Pressure pads useful in the closing and sealing of multiple components which define the bottom of a carton, particularly a gable-type carton, bottom having a square or rectangular footprint. The invention is especially useful in the closing of the bottom of cartons wherein the sealing fin of the carton bottom... Agent: Hasse & Nesblitt, LLC

20070203007 - Structure of interfolding machine with adjustable cut-off: An interfolding machine (100) having a modular structure and with variable cut-off, having a frame (21) comprising a first plate (21a) and a second plate (21b), parallel to each other, interconnected by means of beams (25). Between the plates (21a and 21b) folding rollers (8 and 9), means for moving... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070203008 - Stack conditioning apparatus and method for use in bookbinding: Apparatus and method for conditioning an edge of a sheet to be bound so that the edge is conducive to accepting heat activated adhesives used in conventional binding. The sheet is first bent in one direction to form a folding line, with the fold line being a short distance from... Agent: Girard & Equitz LLP Attn: Philip A. Girard

20070197363 - Polylactic acid based containers and methods of making the same: A process for forming a container blank with flexible fold lines from polylactic acid sheet material. In the process, a sheet of polylactic acid material suitable for use as a container blank is placed between a forming tool and a substantially flat surface. The temperature of the forming tool is... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation Alexandra B. Urban,esq.

20070197364 - Method and an apparatus for picking up flat folded tubular blanks from a magazine and for moving them to an erecting station: In an apparatus for picking up flat folded tubular blanks from a magazine and for moving the blanks to an erecting station, a horizontal transmission shaft transmits a rotational movement about a first articulation axis to a functional arm hinged with one side to a terminal portion of the transmission... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070197365 - Structure of interfolding machine: An interfolding machine of sheet material for making a stack of interfolded sheets (1) comprising at least one web (2) of material to interfold that is cut (3) into sheets (4a,4b,4c, 4d,4e,4f,4g) of predetermined length and partial overlapping means (5,6) for the sheets (4c,4d,4e,4f,4g) in order to form an overlapped... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070191201 - Carton feeding and forming machine with selectively actuated lugs and related methods: A machine for intended use in feeding and completing a partially formed carton is disclosed. In one embodiment, the machine includes an overhead conveyor with selectively actuated, depending lugs that engage and convey the carton in a first direction while a first flap on a lid is folded and sealed.... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20070184956 - Device and method for producing container blanks: A device for producing container blanks (2) from a material web (3), comprising a plurality of tools (5) supported by a rotary tool holder (4). The tool holder (4) is on rotation arranged to move each tool (5) along a working path (WP) along which each tool (5) is engageable... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070184957 - Device and method for automatic control of plastic bag handles: An automatic control system (3) for the handles (B) of plastic bags disposed in stacks (M) is described, including a video camera (30) adapted to capture the image of the stack (M) of bags in the position of the handles (B) and an image processing system which converts the pixels... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070184958 - Heat pipe for a bag machine: A method and apparatus for bag making includes an input section, a sealing section and an output section. The sealing section includes a seal bar having a heat pipe with a relief zone, through which pressure is relieved. The heat pipe is preferably disposed in or near the seal bar.... Agent: George R Corrigan

20070184959 - Devices and methods for drawing at least one web of material or at least one web strand into a folding apparatus: A device is provided which is usable to draw at least one web of material or at least one web strand, that includes several webs of material, into a folding apparatus. The folding apparatus includes at least an upper structure, at least one folding funnel and a cross cutting device... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070184960 - Tear tape applicator for ream wrap and other packaging materials: A method and equipment for applying tear tape to ream wrap, packaging material, and/or other paper or film products are disclosed. The method includes pulling a web of ream wrap or other packaging material through a number of festoon or dancer rolls that move up and down; momentarily stopping said... Agent: Weiss & Weiss

20070184961 - Slider applicator for applying sliders: A method of making and filling reclosable packages using a duplex machine includes the steps of providing a zipper profile, package film and a plurality of sliders; feeding the zipper profile; applying the sliders to the zipper profile; coupling the zipper profile to the folded web; sealing two edges of... Agent: Attn: Mara E. Deboe Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070179035 - Method and apparatus for a bag machine: A bag machine, and method of making bags, has a sealing station a perforating station, and a downstream seal and perforation inspection station, or a perforation detection station and/or a seal inspection station is disclosed. Control of the perforating and sealing stations is preferably closed loop. The seal and perforation... Agent: George R Corrigan

20070179036 - Method and apparatus for a bag machine: A bag machine, and method of making bags, has a sealing station a perforating station, and a downstream seal and perforation inspection station, or a perforation detection station and/or a seal inspection station is disclosed. Control of the perforating and sealing stations is preferably closed loop. The seal and perforation... Agent: George R Corrigan

20070179037 - Method and a system for manufacturing printed products: For manufacturing books having different sizes and comprising a plurality of text pages constituting a book block, a web of material having a given width is sequentially printed in a digital printing station. The printed web of material is then provided either with one weakening line extending parallel to the... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP