Abstract: Continuous anti-adherent treatment process for a surface-tacking thermofusible adhesive, characterized in that a carrier belt (1) is continuously displaced in translation, the upper surface thereof being cooled by its lower face, said surface being covered by a layer (3) of an anti-adherent protection product, the thermofusible adhesive (4) to be treated being deposited on the protection product layer. The assembly (7) comprising of the adhesive (4) and the layer (3) of protection product is folded back on itself so as to release a composite material (8) consisting of a double thickness (4, 4') of thermofusible adhesive sandwiched between two layers (9, 9') of anti-adherent protection product (3) and the composite material is cut into fragments.

Abstract: Levelling method realized by the simultaneous action of an abutment device and a retaining device for the product, rotating at variable speed in a periodic manner. The abutment device eliminates the end projections of the elements of the long shaped pasta, while the retaining device holds the single long shaped pasta elements firmly in their position, acting from above. The rotational speed varies during levelling, from a value equal to that of the transport collector for the product, so that the devices may be introduced in the collector, to a slowed down value, lasting for a longer time, where the soft contact between the levelling devices and the levelling product occurs.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spectacle frame includes molding a frame having two extensions formed in the side portions. The extensions each has a groove for receiving a spring and a ball and each has a lateral channel intersecting the groove. A pair of legs each has one end pivotally coupled to the free end portion of the extensions by a pin for allowing the legs to be engaged with the ball. The legs are not required to be excavated. In addition, the spring members can be easily assembled in the extensions of the spectacle frame.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for collecting and packaging a plurality of strips of a web material operates in conjunction with a rotary cutter assembly which forms a plurality of strips in parallel, longitudinally spaced array. A platen includes an intake portion with a plurality of inclined surfaces extending longitudinally in parallel array away from the cutter assembly, the inclined surfaces being stepped to capture the strips. A fixed top plate extends above the intake portion of the platen, and is provided with steps formed in complementary fashion to the platen steps to retain the cut strips therebetween. The strips are moved longitudinally along their respective steps to a collection portion of the platen. A movable top plate disposed above the collection portion translates longitudinally to expose the strips on the collection portion.

Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping an article in a film (e.g. a plastics film) comprises a pair of stretch rollers for stretching the film, a film dispenser for delivering the film to the stretch rollers and means for rotating the article to take up stretched film from the stretch rollers, wherein the means for rotating the article comprises a first hydraulic motor and the stretch rollers are driven by a second hydraulic motor connected in series to the first motor to run on the exhaust from the first motor, whereby the ratio of the output of the first and second motors is fixed. One of the pair of stretch rollers constitutes the first of two nipped rollers, the second nipped roller being directly driven by the second motor and geared to the first nipped roller to drive it at the same peripheral velocity. The apparatus may be used for wrapping bales of silage.

Abstract: A compact disc packaging machine is disclosed for packaging trays, compact discs, booklets and inlay cards in a variety of different sized containers. The compact disc machine is compact in size and its primary functions are mechanically driven. Pneumatics are only used on approximately 10 percent of the machine functions. Because the components are within the easy reach of an operator, the compact disc packaging machine is operated without requiring the operator to circle the machine. Feeders and magazines provide supplies of trays, booklets, inlay cards and compact discs to the machine. The compact disc magazine uses multiple spindles to allow one spindle to be active while the other spindle is replaced. A pick-and-place mechanism lifts the inlay cards, booklets, trays and compact discs and positions them in an intermediate centering positions and then into compact disc boxes. Sensors are used to verify the existence and placement of those items in the boxes.

Abstract: A method and a machine for automatically bagging articles in a bag and in a sequential and uninterrupted manner. A plurality of articles are continuously fed to the machine and received in two or three compartments, herein three compartments. Once the third article is received in the third compartment, all three articles are discharged within a bag held under the machine. A control circuit, after a predetermined time delay actuates an article support element which is caused to enter into the third compartment or the first compartment depending on the sequence of loading the machine whereby to support a fourth article entering the third compartment due to the fact that the bottom end of all compartments is open. The feeding device is uninterrupted and continues to feed articles to the machine regardless if the bottom discharge gate is open and the sequence is automatically reversed, back and forth, between the first and third and third and first compartments.

Abstract: Based on a non-orderly flow of supplied articles, which may also be sticky articles of food, there is effected in a compulsory manner an isolation of mutually separated small article portions, which are moved through a weighing station (20) and thereafter brought together selectively into larger portions, e.g. with a predetermined weight. In a preferred system according to the invention use is made of an endless row of carrier trays (12) which, in two straight runs, pass along a number of receiver containers (22), into which they are selectively emptied after having passed the weighing station. In front of this station distributor means (14, 18) are provided above a horizontal reversing path of the tray chain for ensuring that the supplied articles are distributed to the trays without overlapping therebetween. Various advantageous embodiments of the single parts of the system are described, including a special weighing station enabling the system to work with a desirably high capacity.

Abstract: A continuous lamina (3) is indexed through a forming station so as to be arranged around a tubular element (14); edges of the lamina (3) are welded together to form an unexpanded envelope (2a) which is then inflated when the envelope (2a) is closed in a die (11) through opposite sides of which said tubular element (14) passes; a container (2) formed by expanding said envelope (2a) is then filled and closed while a following envelope (2a) is being expanded.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a carton concaving device capable of manipulating and maintaining the shape of a carton being sealed on a packaging machine. The device has a shaft which rotates with the movement of a conveyor chain thereby allowing for indexed movement of the device. The device has a plurality of rollers for deflecting the sidewalls of a carton about to be sealed at a top sealing station on a packaging machine. The device may be an add-on component or an integrated component of a packaging machine. The device reduces the number of bulged cartons being dispensed from a packaging machine.

Abstract: A packaging machine having a plurality of processing stations is used to form, fill, and seal a carton having interior surfaces and exterior surfaces. The packaging machine includes a sterilization station. The sterilization station comprises a conveyor for transporting the carton through various ones of the processing stations along a processing path, a source of ultraviolet emissions, and an irradiation chamber. The irradiation chamber comprises a plurality of reflecting surfaces substantially surrounding the carton as it passes therethrough along the processing path. The plurality of reflecting surfaces direct ultraviolet light from the source of ultraviolet emissions to irradiate and thereby sanitize the interior surfaces and the exterior surfaces of the container.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for continuously counting, stacking, and packaging relatively rigid and stackable articles, such as frozen meat patties, is provided. The apparatus includes a bottom stacker for stacking stackable articles in a column, a stack mover for moving the stack of articles to a packaging station, and a packager for packaging the stack of articles. The packager can provide an open plastic bag without injecting air.

Abstract: Process and plant for packaging in the fluid state substances which are sticky or soft at room or handling temperature, wherein the substance (A) is cast in a mould (1) provided with holes and lined, by means of vacuum thermoforming, with a thin film of plastic material (4) which is non-sticky at the room temperature and compatible, in the fluid state, with the sticky or soft substance (stage I). The free-surface of this substance thus formed is cooled (stage II) and finally covered with a non-sticky material (25) which is then heat-sealed with the film (stage III). The sealed materials are finally cut in the region of the sealed joint (stage IV).

Abstract: A packing structure for a container for containing semiconductor wafers is disclosed. The packing structure comprises a polypropylene box, and upper and lower pressing members for sandwiching the container for containing semiconductor wafers, wherein both the upper and lower pressing members comprise an olefinic resin.

Abstract: A system for packaging a water soluble medicant film which is dissolvable in a body fluid within a multi-ply packaging material which comprises a spool of dissolvable film, a mechanism for longitudinally cutting the film into at least two webs, a mechanism for drawing each of the webs through a roller assembly, a mechanism for laterally separating the webs, a mechanism for preventing the webs from adhering to the drawing mechanism, a mechanism for transversely cutting the webs into individual dosages of film, and a mechanism for sealing the film dosages between the packaging plies.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process, as well as a device which is suited for the same, for the processing of containers, particularly of bottles or the like, into which a fluid is injected for the expulsion of the air from the head room of the bottles after the filling, before the aperture of the container is closed, in a sealing manner, by means of a closure cap. After the injecting of the fluid, a closure cap is first of all moved forward to the opening of the container and held, for a certain period of time, in a position above the opening, in such a manner that the open aperture is covered by the closure cap, but that gas can exit from the container between the opening and the closure cap. After that, the closure cap is attached to the container in a sealing manner.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dispensing baby bibs is disclosed. The apparatus includes a container, such as a bag, envelope, pouch or box, defining an opening sized to allow withdrawal of a single bib at a time. The bib is folded in a novel manner, and is then carried by the container such that the opening in the container is in a location adjacent to a folded cuff at the base of the bib. The method of dispensing the baby bibs allows the user to withdraw a single bib by grasping it by the apron or cuff and withdrawing it.

Abstract: A process for filling and self-sealing containers with molten materials is provided. The process comprises filling a container with a molten material and covering the surface of the molten material which is still at elevated temperature after filling with an insert consisting of a plastic film and a plastic disk. The plastic film faces the molten material and is larger than the plastic disk. The diameter of the plastic disk is slightly smaller than the internal diameter of said container.

Abstract: Between a machine that manufactures bags of variable volume containing cohesionless material (exemplified by tea bags), and a packing machine which packs the bags as stacks, an indexing rotor with pockets in its outer periphery acts, in cooperation with a loading mechanism and an unloading mechanism at respective angularly distributed stations, at which each bag is respectively oriented bottom down and bottom up, to tend to redistribute the cohesionless material away from each bag bottom and to cause individual bags to be generally equally thick relative to one another.

Abstract: A method for aseptic and automatic transfer of unsealed pharmaceutical containers (2), which have been aseptically filled with a pharmaceutical preparation (5), from a filling device (6) to a subsequent unit (4), is described and comprises the steps of:a) introducing a sterile inert protective gas (3) into a transportable chamber (1),b) inserting the chamber (1) into the filling device (6),c) introducing the pharmaceutical containers (2) into the chamber (1) and closing the chamber (1), andd) transporting the chamber (1) to the subsequent unit (4), in which the pharmaceutical containers (2) are removed from the chamber (1), said protective gas (3) being continuously and evenly distributed in steps b)-d) over the unsealed pharmaceutical containers (2).