Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 04/08

20080096748 - Reusable package, apparatus, and method: A package for the delivery of products of various sizes and shapes to customers, and apparatus and a method of producing the package are disclosed, wherein a sealing and a cutting process is employed to produce a customized shipping package from a first and a second web of material. The... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080090711 - Multi walled container and method: A container and method of manufacture are provided. The container includes a cup with a permanently attached sleeve overlying an exterior portion of the cup sidewall. The sleeve includes a plurality of inwardly directed protuberances providing a gap between a substantial portion of the cup sidewall and the sleeve.... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080090712 - Drum for a creasing device: A drum for a creasing device, a resilient creasing ring and method are provided. The drum includes first and second drum parts that cooperate with one another to define a circumferential channel of the drum a base and two side wall for receiving a resilient creasing ring. At least one... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080090713 - Crease roller apparatuses and methods for using same: Apparatuses and methods are provided for improving handling of sheet articles during processing within sheet or mail processing machines, particularly for causing creased sheet articles to assume a more planar position within a sheet or mail processing machine. Rollers may be provided for bending a crease of a sheet article... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080085823 - Method for making a bag: A method for making bags from flexible plastic film comprises the steps of feeding a sheet of plastic film; making at least one indented pleated portion in the film and, in particular, a first and a second indented pleated portion (916, 918), and e forming the film into a tubular... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080085824 - Device for folding and bolding plastic-laminated pre-cut blanks: The invention discloses a device for folding and bonding plastic-laminated pre-cut blanks, in particular PE-laminated cardboard packages for beverages, comprising a peeling station for selectively peeling off a plastic lamination of a pre-cut blank; a creasing station for production of a folding line in a blank; a heating station for... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080081753 - Systems and methods for processing a container blank: A system includes a first scoring station, an optional second scoring station, and a cutting station. The first scoring station includes a stationary platen for supporting a substrate, a movable platen juxtaposed a spaced distance therefrom, and one or more scoring rules operatively associated with the platen and movable between... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080081754 - Container forming machines and methods: The present invention provides machines, methods and apparatus for forming containers including Bliss style containers of a type in which one or more V-shaped support pillars are formed on one or both of the sidewalls of the container being formed. The machines, methods and apparatus of the present invention form... Agent: Mark D Miller Kimble, Macmichael & Upton