Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 02/09

20090054220 - Method and arrangement in cardboard creasing: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement in a cardboard creasing machine performing creases on a cardboard blank web. The web has a width of at least two lanes of blanks in parallel to each other and comprise in at least one zone per pair of lanes... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090048084 - Gluing unit and method of applying adhesive to opening devices for gluing to sealed packages of pourable food products: There is described a gluing unit (1) for applying adhesive to a succession of opening devices (3) to be fitted to respective sealed packages of pourable food products, the unit (1) having: conveying means (20) for feeding the opening devices (3) along a path (A); and adhesive dispensing means (21)... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090048085 - Method and apparatus for making dunnage: An apparatus for manufacturing dunnage including a plurality of rollers for pulling a web of material through the machine, a nozzle with at least one port through which gas or liquid flows, a plurality of ceramic elements in opposing positions such that the web of material can pass between the... Agent: Jaime A. Siegel, Esq.

20090048086 - Chopper table: A chopper table comprises table bodies for guiding a signature transported by transport belts, and a pair of inlet guides for guiding the signature pushed in by a chopper blade. The table bodies are detachably supported on chopper frames, and the inlet guides are detachably supported on the chopper frames... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090042704 - Rotary cutting apparatus comprising a placing system for the orderly sorting of cuts: A device creates blanks with the aid of a rotary cutting apparatus. The device is characterized in that a placing system is mounted downstream of the cutting apparatus for orderly sorting of the blanks.... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20090042705 - Multi-compartment microwaveable food container: A multi-compartment microwaveable food container and, in particular, a microwaveable container having at least two compartments with different degrees of shielding to provide different energy inputs to food products contained therein while being heated in a microwave together at the same settings. At least one compartment of the container contains... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090042706 - Method and apparatus for applying hot-melt adhesive to zipper flanges and applying zipper to packages: The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for the attachment of a zipper to a reclosable package or bag, particular packages or bags of relatively larger sizes. Pinch rollers separate the flanges of the zipper so that the interior walls of the flanges are pointing upward, then hot-melt adhesive... Agent: Day Pitney LLP Account: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20090042707 - Reclosable storage bag closure with internal valving: A reclosable fastener having a one-way valve interposed between first and second sets of interlocking members permits fluid flow in one direction through the fastener and blocks fluid flow in an opposite direction through the fastener.... Agent: Carr LLP

20090042708 - Folding table and corresponding chopper folding device: A folding table, in particular for a folding device which is provided with a chopper folding device, includes a folding face which is suitable for receiving a flat product to be folded, and a folding aperture which extends in a conveying direction, the table extending along a table plane. The... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090036284 - Vertical filter filling machine and process: A process and apparatus for the mass production of compound cigarette filters function to deposit granular filter material into the open ends of vertically oriented filter tubes. Predetermined amounts of diverse granular material are withdrawn by suction from sources of such material, and these amounts are deposited into the tubes.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090036285 - Carton, carton blank and associated methodology: A carton blank may be formed having at least one score line therein. A second layer of material may overlay at least a portion of the first layer, including the score line, thus defining an overlaid score area. The overlaid score area may include at least a portion in which... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090036286 - Apparatus for manufacturing a circular bag: An apparatus for manufacturing a circular bag is configured with two anvil half-sections that are movable relative to each other from an open position to a closed position. An ultrasonic sealing tool is provided that is movable towards and away from the anvil half-sections and configured to seal a lid... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090036287 - Method of folding in the middle and sheet post-processing apparatus provided with saddle unit: A saddle unit provided with a fold-enhancing unit for performing fold enhancement of sheets of paper folded in the middle. The fold-enhancing unit includes a fold-enhancing roller mechanism which performs the fold-enhancing operation in the direction orthogonal to the sheet carrying direction. The fold-enhancing roller mechanism includes a fold-enhancing roller... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.