Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 11/07

20070275840 - Non-euclidian three-dimensional objects and methods of forming the same: A method of forming a three-dimensional object having a base region and a plurality of curved sidewalls is disclosed (FIGS. 5-8). The object is formed from a two-dimensional piece of material that has been inscribed with geometrical information to form a template. The template comprises a base region and a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070275841 - Page indicator tab: A page indicator tab (1) may be provided by cutting out a tongue-like section in parallel with free side edge (2) of a paper page. The section (1) is provided at a predetermined distance from the side edge (2), thus providing a remaining strip (3) between the section (1) and... Agent: James C. Wray

20070275842 - Sheet folding device and sheet post-processing apparatus: A sheet holding apparatus having: first and second folding rollers; and first and second pressurizing rollers, wherein the apparatus introduces a sheet of paper by rotating at least the first folding roller to pass the sheet of paper between the first folding roller and the first pressurizing roller, while the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070270297 - Folding apparatus in a web-fed rotary printing press: A folding apparatus (1) in a web-fed rotary printing press for folding signatures (2) which are cut off from a running web of material (6) by a cutting device (40) and carried on a signature transport surface (10) of a folding blade cylinder with the aid of at least one... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070265152 - Rim unroller for paper cups: A device is provided for unrolling a rim of a container, such as a paper cup. The device includes a first structure or section with an inside surface, a first end and a second end, including a pair of spaced apart cutting blades projecting from the inside surface. Attached or... Agent: Ralph J. Crispino

20070265153 - Paper folder utilizing sheet inversion to develop auxiliary fold types: A method and apparatus for folding inserts by inverting the insert sheet after the first fold is made and reintroducing the folded insert sheet into a first buckle chute from the opposite end. The second fold is then made in a second buckle chute which results in either a bottom... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070259765 - Plastic bag sealing device: A plastic bag sealing device includes a work table, a silica gel roller fixed on the work table, a material intake press roller fixed on the work table at one side of the silica gel roller, a material outlet press roller fixed on the work table at one side of... Agent: Chun-shan Chen

20070254793 - Folder feeder: A folder is adapted to fold sheets. A drum having a circumferential surface is adapted to withdraw sheets from a stack or from an overlapping flow and feed the sheets to the folder. A creasing apparatus is operatively arranged with the drum and includes: a first creasing wheel which cooperates... Agent: Venable LLP

20070254794 - Envelope-making aid: A device useful in the formation of handcrafted envelopes comprises a board (10) with a planar surface (11) wherein the planar surface is provided with at least one guide means (12), and at least one abutting surface (13) that allows an envelope material such as paper or card to be... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP