Patents by Inventor Neil Glynn Price
Neil Glynn Price 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: 9242748Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: PREGIS INNOVATIVE PACKAGING LLCInventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price
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Publication number: 20150158604Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc.Inventors: John Stuart GREENWOOD, Neil Glynn Price
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Patent number: 8905110Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc.Inventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price
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Patent number: 8627637Abstract: Devices and methods for forming air pillows are described. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, an apparatus for manufacturing air-filled pillows from a tube material includes a plurality of support rollers, a drive means, an injector means, and a sealing means. The plurality of support rollers support a roll of a tube material along an outer circumferential extent of the roll, in which the tube material includes two opposing sheets joined along at least one longitudinal edge thereof. The drive means draws the tube material from the roll along the support rollers, the injector means injects air into an interior space between the two opposing sheets of the tube material drawn from the roll, and the sealing means seals the two opposing sheets together with the injected air entrapped in the interior space therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc.Inventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price
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Publication number: 20130232913Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc.Inventors: John Stuart GREENWOOD, Neil Glynn PRICE
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Patent number: 8430147Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc.Inventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price
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Publication number: 20100051202Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc.Inventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price
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Patent number: 7578333Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for forming air filled cushions. The device includes a drive mechanism to move inflatable tubing through the apparatus, and an injector, optionally including an outlet, located continuously within, or within a portion of, the tubing. This arrangement can permit the formation of air filled cushions in a continuous stream. Also disclosed is a roll of plastic tubing that is sealed transversely at a succession of intervals, with each pair of seals stopping just short of a longitudinal center line of the tubing. Such tubing might be used in conjunction with the apparatus, the central gap between the seals allowing passage of the injector.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2005Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Pregis CorporationInventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price
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Patent number: 6789376Abstract: A machine for the manufacture of air-filled pillows includes a mounting (14. 114) on which a roll (16) of thin-walled plastic tube is mounted, and a drive system (50. 150) to draw the flat-wound tube from the supply and to feed the tube intermittently through the machine. The machine includes an injection means (70, 74: 170, 174) operative intermittently to inject air into the space between upper and lower walls (16a, 16b) of the tube, and a sealing system (60, 160) downstream of the injection means, and which is operative intermittently to seal the upper and lower walls of the tube together, particularly around the aperture through which air has been injected, and to provide a tear-line between the adjacent pillows. The machine includes a separator member (20, 120) which may be located manually within the tube upstream of the injection means, a system (30, 130) being provided to maintain the separator member in an operative position within the machine during advancement of the tube through the machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Pactiv CorporationInventors: John Stuart Greenwood, Neil Glynn Price