Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 01/08

20080026924 - Bottom finishing station components for cup making machine: A cup making machine has a bottom finishing station provided with a mandrel for holding a sidewall blank and a bottom blank such that a flap portion of the sidewall blank is folded around a lip of the bottom blank. The bottom finishing station has a seam clamp engageable with... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080026925 - Method and apparatus for folding a web: A web has a series of cut outs that define bridging portions therebetween. A method for folding the web includes providing the web to a first conveyor, folding the web about a folding wheel to define a folded edge that extends through the series of cut outs, transferring the web... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. Catherine E. Wolf

20080020916 - System and method for making custom boxes for objects of random size or shape: A system and accompanying method produces cartons for randomly sized and shaped objects or groups thereof by automatically measuring minimum bounding dimensions and transferring these dimensions to an automatic carton-making system. The system for determining the dimensions of an object to be packaged preferably includes a conveyor for moving the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080020917 - Method and device for creating a hinge-like bendable zone in a sheet of paper, paperboard, cardboard or foil: In a method for producing a hinge-like bend line (3a,b, 4a,b or 5a,b) in a sheet (1) of paper, paperboard, cardboard or foil, particularly a brochure cover, by rotatively driven tools (7.1, 7.2), the bending line (3a,b, 4a,b or 5a,b) is produced by roll bending without scoring the material in... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20080015098 - Disposable fluted paperboard plates and method of making same: A paperboard plate such as a paper plate includes a generally planar bottom portion, an upwardly and outwardly extending fluted sidewall, wherein the sidewall comprises a plurality of sidewall flutes substantially around the outer perimeter of the plate to define a fluted perimeter. The flutes are suitably present at fewer... Agent: Patent Group Ga030-43 Georgia-pacific LLC

20080009399 - Machine and method for forming tubes by helical winding of strips of web material: The invention relates to a machine for producing tubular articles (T) by helical winding of strips of web material, comprising a spindle (4) and a winding member (7) to helically wind the strips (S1, S2) of web material around the spindle. To improve adhesion between strips pressure is applied to... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20080009400 - Envelope processing evaluation guide: In a method and system for facilitating evaluation of the production accuracy of an envelope machine for producing folded envelopes from sheets of envelope stock, a guide of the same size as the envelope stock has indicia printed thereon corresponding to the locations of desired envelope folding operations. By processing... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel