Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for manufacturing a cushioning product made of paper. The device comprises a crumpling machine (16), which compresses and/or crumples a paper web (34), a cutting machine (18) which is arranged thereafter viewed in the conveyance direction (38), and which detaches a section of the crumpled paper, and a discharge shaft (20) with a delivery channel (124), which leads the detached paper section to a delivery opening (123) of the delivery channel (124). A cross section height (W) and a curvature (K) of the delivery channel (124) are adapted to each other in such a manner that a typical user cannot reach the cutting machine (18) from the opening (123) through the delivery channel (124).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for manufacturing a cushioning product made of paper. The device comprises a crumpling machine (16), which compresses and/or crumples a paper web (34), a cutting machine (18) which is arranged thereafter viewed in the conveyance direction (38), and which detaches a section of the crumpled paper, and a discharge shaft (20) with a delivery channel (124), which leads the detached paper section to a delivery opening (123) of the delivery channel (124). A cross section height (W) and a curvature (K) of the delivery channel (124) are adapted to each other in such a manner that a typical user cannot reach the cutting machine (18) from the opening (123) through the delivery channel (124).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for manufacturing a cushioning product made of paper. The device 10 comprises a driven conveyor roller (40) and a counter roller (44) opposite said conveyor roller, for conveying a paper web (34), and a driven crumpling roller (42) and a counter roller (46) opposite said crumpling roller for crumpling the paper web (34), wherein the conveyor roller (40) is operated at a higher speed of rotation than the crumpling roller (42), and the crumpling roller (42) is arranged in the conveyance direction (38) after the conveyor roller (40). The conveyor roller (40) and the crumpling roller (42) are identical.

Abstract: Dunnage for filling a void space in a container. An inflatable dunnage bag has an inflation valve for inflating the bag with a gas. The inflation valve is a solid member having an elevated portion. An outer surface of the bag is tightly fixed to the solid member along a circumferential sealing area distant from the top of the elevated portion. The top of the elevated portion is a circumferential sealing rim tightly contactable by the outer surface of the bag. The solid member has an inflation opening between the sealing area and the sealing rim. The bag has an inflation opening radially inward of the sealing rim.

Abstract: An arrangement for packing at least one article in a container comprises an automatic picking list generation means (136) generating a picking list (138) which specifies at least the at least one article to be placed in the container; closing means (142) for closing the container; and inflating means (146) for inflating a dunnage bag provided in the closed container. The invention proposes that the arrangement further comprises automatic bag type selection means (134) for selecting a type of the inflatable dunnage bag to be used, the selection depending at least on a parameter of the container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crumpled paper tube for use as a cushion in packing items, and to a method and apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: A dunnage means for filling a void space in a container comprises an inflatable dunnage bag and an inflation valve for inflating the dunnage bag with a gas, the inflation valve comprising a solid member. The invention proposes that the solid member comprises an elevated portion an outer surface of the inflatable dunnage bag being tightly fixed to the solid member along a circumferential sealing area being distant from the top of the elevated portion, the top of the elevated portion comprising a circumferential sealing rim, which is tightly contactable by the outer surface of the inflatable dunnage bag, the solid member comprising an inflation opening arranged between the sealing area and the sealing rim, and a wall of the dunnage bag comprising an opening being arranged radially inwardly of the sealing rim.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crumpled paper tube for use as a cushion in packing items, and to a method and apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: An apparatus, and the methods therefore, that automatically detects, elaborates and interprets the geometry of a container (2) and of one or more of the contained articles (3), and supplies and inserts, automatically, packaging material into the container in a suitable manner and amount. The apparatus comprises one or more sensors (6) for measuring the geometric profile of the container (2) and of the contained articles (3). The apparatus comprises in addition processing means (14) that acquire the measurement data of the geometric profile and elaborates packaging instructions. The apparatus comprises also devices for the dispensing (42) and insertion (43) of packaging material into the container (2). The apparatus can be equipped with a conveying device (4) for transporting the containers to the measuring sensor (6) and to the dispensing device (42) and insertion means (43) of the packaging material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crumpled paper tube for use as a cushion in packing items, and to a method and apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crumpled paper tube for use as a cushion in packing items, and to a method and apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crumpled paper tube for use as a cushion in packing items, and to a method and apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crumpled paper tube for use as a cushion in packing items, and to a method and apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for padding corners of, for example, equipment housings. The device has two arms joined to each other at an angle and cheeks. The cheeks are fitted to the outside of the arms. To enable a device of this kind to be used in a variety of applications, i.e., over a wide range of housing sizes, and still remain firmly in place, each arm of the device has a honeycomblike structure designed so that it can be stretched in the lateral direction of the device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing loose fill in the form of spherical segments having a convex outer surface and a concave inner surface, and the granules formed. It is provided that starch granules are fed into a drum, and that in the drum, a nucleating agent is drum-coated onto the starch granules, and that the starch granules drum-coated with the nucleating agent are fed to an extruder, in which the starch granules are converted from their solid state into a viscous-liquid state. A starch foam created, by furnishing heat, in the extruder by the decomposition of the nucleating agent emerges from a forming opening of the extruder with a curved surface as a result of the difference in speed prevailing over the cross section of the composition, and that the skein of starch emerging from this forming opening is cut off directly at the forming opening, before any considerable expansion has taken place. The thus-created starch particles are received in a storage container.

Abstract: A shaped body made from a plurality of granulate beads of biodegradable material. The beads are subjected to either hot air or steam having relative residual moisture content of 0.5 to 2%. As a result, the beads have at least a part of their surface dissolved forming an adhesive surface. Adjacent adhesive surfaces are then bonded to each other to form the shaped body.

Abstract: Units for supplying a circuit of a heating or cooling supply system which are required for conveying a medium and for regulating and monitoring are arranged at parallel pipelines for the forward and return flows so as to be combined in an installation-ready structural component group in a housing of thermal insulating plastic, the housing being divided into a lower shell and an upper shell by a seam extending approximately in the central plane formed by the pipelines, the lower shell and the upper shell having a lock-seam connection with lock-seams that form a positive-locking connection along the entire outer edges of the shells, the upper shell being provided with openings that allow the parts of the units essential for operation to penetrate, while the lower shell is provided with a component for direct fastening to a wall, the strength and thickness of the material of the lower shell and upper shell being selected so that the housing can be used as protective transportation packing for the structural comp

Abstract: A cushioning or padding body for insertion into footwear, a method of manufacturing the body and a method for the simultaneous manufacture and exact fitting of the body to the respective shape of a corresponding part of the foot of the wearer are related. The body comprises a plurality of individual foam material beads alone or a mixture of a plurality of individual foam material beads and a resiliently cushioning, thermoplastically non-deformable plastic material. The beads are each provided with a closed surface and each is generally impermeable to air. The beads are fixed in their position relative to each other by the effect of that.

Abstract: A thermoplastic plastic granule having an expansion agent uniformly distributed within a plastic polymer-matrix and, containing additionally a cell-forming agent in a finely and uniformly distributed manner. Such thermoplastic granules are used for producing foamed molded bodies in a mold.

Abstract: A packaging filler formed by cutting off and expanding small pieces of continuously extruded plastic to have generally the shape of an H in plan view. The filler has a transverse part and a plurality of substantially elliptically shaped lateral parts extending from either end of the transverse part defining with the transverse part two spaced apart substantially rounded recesses. The length of the packaging filler is at least equal to the height of the lateral parts.