Patents by Inventor Joseph F. Ball
Joseph F. Ball has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6926486Abstract: A seaming lever containing a micro adjusting seaming element. When used in a seaming lever, the micro adjusting element permits both a coarse and a fine adjustment of the position of the seaming roll with respect to the chuck. This micro adjusting element may be retrofitted into any existing seaming lever which uses a worm gear for rotational adjustment of the seaming roll. It may also be incorporated as a design element of newly manufactured seaming levers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Pneumatic Scale CorporationInventors: Timothy J. Kooser, Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 6065508Abstract: A filler product supply apparatus (10) and method has one or more conduits (17) for delivering filler product under pressure to a manifold (30). Filler product is delivered through manifold (30) to one or more filling heads (18, 28) integral with the manifold. The filling heads (18, 28) deliver the filler product directly from the manifold into containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1998Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Pneumatic Scale CorporationInventors: Joseph F. Ball, Michael Mihalik, Michael A. Davis
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Patent number: 5915555Abstract: A coil of an interconnected chain of open bags is provided in which the coil has a center opening having a diameter at least as great as the transverse dimension of the bags. A dispenser is provided on which a coil of bags is mounted. An end of the chain is pulled from the center opening and fed around a tapered mandrel and thence over a feed control mandrel oriented in angular relationship with the tapered mandrel. The web is then fed to a bagging machine for dispensing, loading and closing of the bags. The table on which the coil is mounted is rotatable so that the orientation of a span of bags running from the coil to the tapered mandrel remains substantially constant as the web is fed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1993Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 5474208Abstract: A coil of an interconnected chain of open bags is provided in which the coil has a center opening having a diameter at least as great as the transverse dimension of the bags. A dispenser is provided on which a coil of bags is mounted. An end of the chain is pulled from the center opening and fed around a tapered mandrel and thence over a feed control mandrel oriented in angular relationship with the tapered mandrel. The web is then fed to a bagging machine for dispensing, loading and closing of the bags. The table on which the coil is mounted is rotatable so that the orientation of a span of bags running from the coil to the tapered mandrel remains substantially constant as the web is fed.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1995Date of Patent: December 12, 1995Assignee: Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 5426918Abstract: A coil of an interconnected chain of open bags is provided in which the coil has a center opening having a diameter at least as great as the transverse dimension of the bags. A dispenser is provided on which a coil of bags is mounted. An end of the chain is pulled from the center opening and fed around a tapered mandrel and thence over a feed control mandrel oriented in angular relationship with the tapered mandrel. The web is then fed to a bagging machine for dispensing, loading and closing of the bags. The table on which the coil is mounted is rotatable so that the orientation of a span of bags running from the coil to the tapered mandrel remains substantially constant as the web is fed.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1993Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 5310056Abstract: A coil of an interconnected chain of open bags is provided in which the coil has a center opening having a diameter at least as great as the transverse dimension of the bags. A dispenser is provided on which a coil of bags is mounted. An end of the chain is pulled from the center opening and fed around a tapered mandrel and thence over a feed control mandrel oriented in angular relationship with the tapered mandrel. The web is then fed to a bagging machine for dispensing, loading and closing of the bags. The table on which the coil is mounted is rotatable so that the orientation of a span of bags running from the coil to the tapered mandrel remains substantially constant as the web is fed.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1992Date of Patent: May 10, 1994Assignee: Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 5301889Abstract: A coil of an interconnected chain of open bags is provided in which the coil has a center opening having a diameter at least as great as the transverse dimension of the bags. A dispenser is provided on which a coil of bags is mounted. An end of the chain is pulled from the center opening and fed around a tapered mandrel and thence over a feed control mandrel oriented in angular relationship with the tapered mandrel. The web is then fed to a bagging machine for dispensing, loading and closing of the bags. The table on which the coil is mounted is rotatable so that the orientation of a span of bags running from the coil to the tapered mandrel remains substantially constant as the web is fed.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1992Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 5174449Abstract: A coil of an interconnected chain of open bags is provided in which the coil has a center opening having a diameter at least as great as the transverse dimension of the bags. A dispenser is provided on which a coil of bags is mounted. An end of the chain is pulled from the center opening and fed around a tapered mandrel and thence over a feed control mandrel oriented in angular relationship with the tapered mandrel. The web is then fed to a bagging machine for dispensing, loading and closing of the bags. The table on which the coil is mounted is rotatable so that the orientation of a span of bags running from the coil to the tapered mandrel remains substantially constant as the web is fed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1991Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Assignee: Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Ball
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Patent number: 4937744Abstract: A point of sale cash register having multiple drawers. The drawers are opened on a selected basis to prevent employee theft. One procedure would be for the drawers to open randomly so that the employee could not in advance know which drawer was opening. A second procedure would be a random lockout wherein any or all drawers of the cash register are locked until a management employee comes to conduct an audit of cash register receipts. The management employee obtains access to the cash register drawers by means of a key or code word known only to the management employee.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1988Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Inventor: Joseph F. Ball