Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 05/09

20090137374 - Sheet finisher, image forming apparatus, and sheet processing method: A folding unit folds a sheet. A pressing unit presses a folded side of the folded sheet. A driving unit causes the pressing unit to slide in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction. A control unit independently sets number of slides at which the pressing unit is to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090137375 - Mechanism and method for bonding paper sheets on interfolding machine: In a mechanism and method for bonding two paper sheets on an interfolding machine, pre-compressing mechanisms are provided on each of two folding rollers to produce compress-to-bond areas on overlapped portions of two thick or air-impermeable paper sheets transferred to the two folding rollers, so that all plies of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090124477 - Cartoner machine and a method of operating same: Cartoner machine and a method of operating same. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the... Agent: Nils H. Ljungman & Associates

20090124478 - Multi-direction carton setup on a single direction machine: An improved system and method for assembling cartons for containing various items. The present invention comprises a system that is capable of assembling a carton regardless of the direction in which the carton is intended to be assembled. By being able to assemble such cartons independent of the carton's intended... Agent: Mark D Miller Kimble, Macmichael & Upton

20090124479 - Reciprocating sealer for web converters: Various device embodiments include first and second plate assemblies. Each plate assembly includes a base, a seal plate, one or more air bladders and a servo motor to provide a linear motion of the seal plate with respect to the base. The device further includes at least one plate assembly... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090118109 - Vertical filter filling machine and process: 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. Solid... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090118110 - Flexible vase with integral label and a method for its manufacture: The present invention provides an article of manufacture formed from a sheet material. The article has a collapsed vase portion and a label portion integral with the vase portion. The vase portion and the label portion have a common boundary, and when the label portion is detached from the vase... Agent: The Nath Law Group