Patents Examined by Tanzim Imam
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Patent number: 11780628Abstract: A pallet wrapping system with a pre-stretch carriage and at least two encoders. The pre-stretch carriage is configured to pre-stretch stretch film and has at least two stretch rollers and a hinged door. The at least two stretch rollers includes a first stretch roller with an outer surface that moves at a first speed and a second stretch roller with an outer surface that moves at a second speed higher than the first speed. The door provides access to the stretch rollers when in an open position and entraps the stretch film between the stretch rollers and the door when in a closed position. The encoders are mounted on the door. Each of the encoders is configured to contact the stretch film on the outer surface of one of the stretch rollers and measure a length of stretch film passing over that stretch roller.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Darrel Bison
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Patent number: 11780068Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing unit with a fastener striking opening, a striking member with an engaging slot, a locking member with a front engaging end detachably engaged to the engaging slot, and a handle unit pivoted on the housing unit. When the handle unit is pressed down to shift the driving tool from an initial to an energy-storing state, the locking member is driven to move the striking member away from the striking opening. When the handle unit is pressed down continuously to shift the driving tool from the energy-storing to a striking state, the front engaging end is driven to disengage from the engaging slot, and the striking member is driven to move down to the striking opening for performing a striking stroke.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Pao Shen Enterprises Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sheng-Lung Yeh, Chun-Man Lai
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Patent number: 11781846Abstract: An ammunition packaging apparatus and system is reconfigurable to package a select caliber of ammunition by changing a set of components to those associated with the selected caliber of ammunition and selecting the corresponding operating procedure. An ammunition collating and packaging apparatus can be quickly reconfigured from packaging a first caliber of ammunition to packaging a second caliber of ammunition by quickly replacing a define set of components and modifying operationally timings to correspond to the selected caliber.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: CK Manufacturing, LLCInventor: Gordon P. Chicoine
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Patent number: 11780196Abstract: A line and method for the production of covered cardboard boxes are disclosed. The line includes a conveyor unit including a belt and a conveyor actuator that drives the belt intermittently in an alternating sequence of movements and stops. A feed unit individually feeds covering blanks from a reservoir to the conveyor unit in a sequence of feed instants. An erecting machine folds box blanks into corresponding boxes. A positioner individually positions the boxes from the erecting machine, in alignment on corresponding covering blanks disposed on the belt of the conveyor unit. A gluer spreads glue on one face of the covering blanks. A covering machine folds the covering blanks into contact with their respective boxes to cover the boxes. A control unit connected to the feed unit adjustably sets a phase displacement of the feed instants relative to the sequence of stops of the belt.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: EMMECI S.P.A.Inventors: Alessio Giovanneschi, Pablo Baroni
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Patent number: 11780067Abstract: A pneumatic tool includes a drive part configured to be driven by compressed air, a control valve configured to switch the presence or absence of operation of the drive part, and a timer part configured to switch the presence or absence of operation of the control valve after a lapse of a predetermined time. The timer part includes a timer piston configured to move in one direction, a timer piston cylinder configured to support the timer piston such that the timer piston can slide, and an on-off valve part configured to switch the presence or absence of operation of the control valve in conjunction with the timer piston. The on-off valve part includes a shaft portion configured to move in conjunction with the timer piston, and compressed air flowing into the on-off valve part presses the shaft portion in the one direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Mochizuki, Kousuke Moriwaki, Hiroshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11779518Abstract: A container forming apparatus includes a plurality of forming members that have outer forming surfaces, which are shaped to form pockets in a sheet of material. A plurality of actuators are in mechanical connection with the forming members. The actuators are able to extend and retract the forming members. A controller is in electrical communication with the plurality of actuators. The controller is able to simultaneously extend any one or any combination of the forming members to create a plurality of pockets in a determined pattern in the sheet of material to produce a customized blister pack.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: Michael L. Davis, Kenneth G. Coulter, David C. Trice
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Patent number: 11780072Abstract: In a dust collector for electric power tool, while a casing includes a tubular suction opening portion disposed to protrude forward, a dust collecting route is formed in the casing to ensure capturing a dust suctioned with an air by a filter disposed in a dust box. The suction opening portion is abutted on a surface to be processed and a tool bit of a hammer drill is passable through the suction opening portion. The dust collecting route suctions the air from the suction opening portion and guides the air into the dust box disposed to the casing. The dust box includes a dust removal device (rubber) configured to directly act to the filter from outside to remove the dust accumulated on the filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Masanori Furusawa
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Patent number: 11780616Abstract: Comprises a flexible band feeding unit (10); a positioning unit (14) to position and fix on the flexible band (12) some first functional elements (3); a flexible band cross-cutting unit (16) providing cut sheets pieces (17) with a first functional element (3) fixed to it; a station (18) configured to shape the container by folding a cut sheet piece (17) including a supporting rod (22) with retention means of the cut sheet piece; a station (19) welding lateral sides of the folded cut sheet piece (17) forming the container (2) with un upper non-sealed edge and a station (20) transferring the formed container (2) to a line configured for filling a dosed product into the container (2) and closing the non-sealed edge of the container (2).Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Jose Morral Roca
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Patent number: 11780202Abstract: A conversion assembly for a dunnage conversion machine includes both a downstream pair of rotatable members and an upstream pair of rotatable members upstream of the downstream rotatable members. The downstream rotatable members include a pair of gears, and each gear has a plurality of teeth and is rotatable about a respective axis. The gears are positioned so that the teeth of one gear are sequentially interlaced with the teeth of the other gear as the gears rotate. The upstream rotatable members include a pair of feed wheels, and the gears and the feed wheels define a path for a sheet stock material from between the upstream pair of feed wheels to between the downstream pair of gears. The rate at which the sheet stock material is advanced by the feed wheels is the same as the rate at which the sheet stock material is advanced by the gears.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Ranpak Corp.Inventors: Robert C. Cheich, Steven M. Toneff, Hubertus J. M. Cals, Raimond P. M. Demers, Ronny Hubertus Joseph Hendrix, Johannes Hermanus Wilhelmus Driehuijs, Stephen Louis Dominak, Alexandra Snijders, Carrie A. Schlegel, Thomas Bayt, Kevin W. Park, Dennis Wagner
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Patent number: 11780629Abstract: A bag rack and method of using the same is disclosed. The presently disclosed bag rack may include a bag rack that is formed of a base assembly and a hanger assembly on which multiple storage bags may be hung. A method of using the presently disclosed bag rack may include, but is not limited to, the steps of hanging the storage bags on the bag rack, opening the frontmost storage bag, holding open or propping open the storage bag using a bag hooking mechanism, placing the food item(s) or any other types of item(s) into the storage bag, removing the bag hooking mechanism, if used, closing the storage bag, and removing the filled storage bag from the bag rack.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Inno-Pak, LLCInventors: Jonathan D. Sill, Christopher T. Sill
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Patent number: 11780201Abstract: A device for machine-making a dunnage product from a single- or multi-ply continuous paper web may include a delivery conveyor configured to draw the paper web into the device in a conveying direction; a cutter configured to separate the dunnage product from a three-dimensional strand of dunnage material formed from the paper web within the device; and a removal conveyor positioned after the cutter in the conveying direction and configured to remove the separated dunnage product from the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier-Und Wellpappenwerke & Co.Inventors: Bastian Schalk, Christoph Engemann
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Patent number: 11780622Abstract: Disclosed is a taping apparatus including: a tray storage device supplying a designated one of plural kinds of trays on which respective different kinds of parts are scattered; a carrier tape feed device intermittently moving a designated one of plural kinds of carrier tapes which correspond to the respective different kinds of parts; a first camera capturing an image of the scattered parts on the designated tray; a first image recognizing device recognizing respective centers of the scattered parts; a rotary head individually sucking the scattered parts to rotatable suction nozzles; a second camera capturing an image of the parts sucked to the suction nozzles; a second image recognizing device recognizing respective orientations of the sucked parts; and a part inserting device adjusting the orientations of the sucked parts to orientations insertable into part storage recesses defined in the designated carrier tape and then inserting the parts into the part storage recesses, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Saito
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Patent number: 11780630Abstract: A method of using a bag rack. A method of using the bag rack may include, but is not limited to, the steps of hanging the storage bags on the bag rack, opening the front most storage bag, holding open or propping open the storage bag using a bag hooking mechanism, placing the food item(s) or any other types of item(s) into the storage bag, removing the bag hooking mechanism, if used, closing the storage bag, and removing the filled storage bag from the bag rack. The bag rack may include a bag rack that is formed of a base assembly and a hanger assembly on which multiple storage bags may be hung.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Inno-Pak, LLCInventors: Jonathan D. Sill, Christopher T. Sill
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Patent number: 11691784Abstract: A processing line for packaging coils has a first conveyor, a sortation table, a pallet loader for placing a pallet on the sortation table, a coil discharge apparatus to move a coil from a discharge of the first conveyor to the sortation table, and a control. The control is configured to control: (i) the sortation table to move to an open position adjacent the pallet loader; (ii) the pallet loader to place a pallet at the open position of the sortation table; (iii) the sortation table to move such that the pallet occupied position is adjacent the discharge of the first conveyor; (iv) the coil discharge apparatus to move a coil from the discharge of the first conveyor on to the pallet; and (v) the sortation table to move such that the pallet occupied position is away from the discharge of the first conveyor. A similar method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Red Bud Industries, Inc.Inventor: Jared Trautman
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Patent number: 11667416Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product are provided that utilize wrap profiles that specify controlled wrap cycle interruptions to handle specialized load requirements for loads to be wrapped by a stretch wrapping machine. Also provided is a method of creating wrap profiles, and a plurality of wrap profiles are stored in a database.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Lantech.com, LLCInventors: Patrick R. Lancaster, III, Daniel R. Hendren, Jim Lancaster, Michael P. Mitchell, Robert D. Janes, Sr.
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Patent number: 11661226Abstract: The present invention provides a wrapping robot with enhanced safety and reliability, the wrapping robot being able to prevent a safety accident that occurs when a worker or another object hits against a handle protruding outward from a robot body while the robot revolving around a product to perform wrapping by biasing the handle toward the product to be wrapped; and being able to improve reliability of wrapping by stopping operation of the wrapping robot when a wrap is loosened or cut during wrapping, using a sensor that senses loosening or cutting of a wrap.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventor: Myoung-Koo Yoon
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Patent number: 11660736Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, including a front end portion, the front end portion including a staple outlet and a plate member, the plate member including a concave adjacent to the staple outlet; a holder, switchably disposed on the main body, including a plurality of notches with different sizes and a plurality of first positioning portions; and a positioning member, disposed on the main body, releasably positioned with one of the plurality of first positioning portions so that one of the plurality of notches corresponds to the concave in a front to rear direction, for receiving a portion of a cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
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Patent number: 11654539Abstract: Nail jamming in a driving tool is easily solved. The driving tool includes: a striking driver configured to drive a driver blade that strikes a fastener; a first blade guide fixed to a main body having the striking driver; and a second blade guide attached to the first blade guide and configured to form an injection path for the fastener together with the first blade guide. The driver blade is arranged so as to go through a space made of two opposite side walls of the injection path, a top wall and a bottom wall, and either one of the two side walls, is separated from the injection path when the first blade guide and the second blade guide are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: KOKI HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ueda, Koji Shioya
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Patent number: 11649080Abstract: A rectangular blank has sides X and Y, where a and b are side dimensions, h is height, and r is width, or width reduced by height h, of the periphery region R of the finished packaging. The method includes: producing folding lines B in the blank parallel to side Y at these distances from the latter: B1: a1=h; B2: a2=h+a; B3: a3=2h+a; severing of two severing lines T, each starting from opposite sides X, along one of the folding lines B, or the extension thereof; selecting the distance between two end points ET of the severing lines T which are closer to an axis of symmetry S1 parallel to the side X, such that the distance corresponds to a side B? of the finished packaging or length of a side M of a packaging insert.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: KERN AGInventors: Marcel Stalder, Wolfgang Freyer, Patrick Vogel
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Patent number: 11642863Abstract: Folding unit for forming an empty cardboard box; the folding unit has a mandrel, around which a blank is folded to form the empty cardboard box. The mandrel has at least two parts, which are mobile in respect to one another between an expanded configuration, in which the two parts are further from one another so as to confer a maximum size to the mandrel, and a contracted configuration, in which the two parts are closer to one another so as to confer a minimum size to the mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SASIB S.P.A.Inventors: Roberto Ghiotti, Matteo Lena