Abstract: In a strip pack apparatus in which an end portion of a bag being grasped is attached to a tape, a grasper device for grasping the bag holds the end portion from a direction substantially perpendicular to the end portion to be attached to the tape. The grasper device holds the end portion at both sides of an attachment region. In addition, the strip pack apparatus also includes a dewrinkler device for dewrinkling the end portion, and the grasper device grasps the end portion at both sides of the dewrinkler device.

Abstract: A strip pack apparatus is an apparatus for manufacturing a strip pack with a plurality of items attached on a backing sheet. The strip pack apparatus includes a conveying unit configured and arranged to convey the item generally in the horizontal direction, a moving unit configured and arranged to move the item from the conveying unit to a position obliquely downward on the front side in the conveying direction, and an attaching unit configured and arranged to attach the item moved by the moving unit to the backing sheet.

Abstract: An ultra-small angle X-ray scattering measuring apparatus includes a detector for detecting X-rays emitted from a sample, an X-ray collimating mirror arranged between the X-ray real focus and the sample, a monochromator arranged between the X-ray collimating mirror and the sample and an analyzer arranged between the sample and the detector. The X-ray collimating mirror includes a pair of X-ray mirrors that are arranged orthogonally relative to each other. The X-ray mirrors are multilayer film mirrors and their X-ray reflection surfaces are paraboloidal. The interplanar spacing of lattice planes of each of the multilayer films is continuously changed along the paraboloid so as to meet the Bragg's condition. The monochromator and the analyzer are formed by using a channel-cut crystal. The analyzer is driven to rotate for scanning around a 2?-axial line and diffracted rays reduced to a spectrum by the analyzer are detected by the detector.

Abstract: A film roll is provided in which the terminal end of the film can be temporarily held in place and easily peeled off without damaging the film. A film roll (9), which is formed by winding a length of film (F) around a paper tube (9a) and is automatically loaded into a bag packaging machine (3), is provided with an adhesive member (9b) on a portion thereof within 10-20 mm from a terminal end (F1) of the film (F), and between the reverse side of a portion of the terminal end (F1) and the front side of a portion of the film (F) on which the portion of the terminal end (F1) overlaps. The adhesive member (9b) is formed so as to increase in thickness from the inside of the film (F) toward the terminal end (F1).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display strip with which the step of attaching a product-enclosed bag is easily automated and a product-enclosed bag is easily bonded again after the bag is once detached. The present invention relates to a display strip for arranging and attaching a plurality of product-enclosed bags for the display, which comprises at least a substrate layer and a sealant layer, the sealant layer being bondable to a surface layer of the bag by thermocompression bonding and having no pressure sensitive adhesive property before the thermocompression bonding, but being bondable to the bag again owing to exposure of a pressure sensitive adhesive face in the case of peeling of the bag bonded by thermocompression bonding.

Abstract: It is the object of the invention to provide a display strip having sufficient punch hole strength for allowing a plurality of product-enclosed bags to be attached thereto for the purpose of arrangement and display, and package assembly. The invention is a display strip for allowing a plurality of product-enclosed bags to be attached thereto for the purpose of arrangement and display, which at least comprises a substrate layer containing a long fiber having a fiber length of not less than a width of the display strip and a sealant layer having heat-sealability, a punch hole being formed at an upper portion for hanging.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display strip easy for automating the process of bonding product-enclosed bags and capable of bonding the product-enclosed bags once removed again.

Abstract: A vertical/horizontal small angle X-ray scattering apparatus, for enabling plural numbers of X-ray diffraction measurements, such as, transmission small angle X-ray diffraction, reflection small angle X-ray diffraction, and in-plane X-ray diffraction, etc.

Abstract: In a printing blanket comprising a reinforcement layer formed of more than one sheet of fabric, a compressive layer, and a surface rubber layer laid through a supporting body, the compressive layer is separated by a separation layer so as to be divided into two layers of a first compressive layer and a second compressive layer. Because the compressive layer is formed in a two-layer construction, normal printing pressure and abruptly applied excessive printing pressure can be efficiently absorbed. It is preferable that the first compressive layer close to the surface rubber layer has an air space amount of 0.10-0.20 mm, and the entire part of the first compressive layer and second compressive layer has an air space amount of 0.25 mm or more. It is also preferable that the hardness of the compressive layer is 50-90 JIS-A, and the separation layer has a hardness of 50 JIS-A-80 JID-D and a thickness of 0.05 mm.

Abstract: A bag forming and packaging machine for packaging a product using a roll of packaging material including a recording medium that readably records packaging related information. The bag forming and packaging machine includes a non-contact reading device that reads the packaging related information electromagnetically recorded in the recording medium in a non-contact fashion through a resonance phenomenon of radio waves; and a bag forming and packaging unit that produces a bag using the packaging material of the roll and packages the product in the bag based on the packaging related information read by the reading device.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a biodegradable bag for packing a food capable of storing a food such as a snack food which is required to have an oxygen barrier property and a water vapor barrier property, which can be produced at a high speed by a bag making and packaging machine, which can be degraded by naturally occurring microorganisms in soil or water finally to a non-hazardous degradation product, which can be biorecycled, and which is not accumulated in nature. The present invention is directed to a biodegradable bag for packing a food, which comprises a laminated film obtainable by laminating in the following order; a sealant layer comprising a biodegradable polymer; a barrier layer having an oxygen barrier property and a water vapor barrier property; and a barrier layer-supporting substrate layer comprising a biodegradable polymer, said laminated film being heat-sealed in order for the sealant layer to be inside.

Abstract: The bag-making packaging machine 20 comprises a tubular former 23 having a former surface for aligning a packaging film 11, a pull-down mechanism 24, a vertical seal mechanism 21, a horizontal seal mechanism 22, and a molding apparatus 25 for molding three dimensional designs, in which the tubular former 23 has a molding surface 30 for molding the three dimensional designs at any position of the former surface, and the molding apparatus 25 is provided at the position opposite to the molding surface 30 of the former. As specific examples of the molding apparatus 25, a heater, a light irradiation apparatus, a mold, and pressing machine can be exemplified. When the molding apparatus 25 is the heater or the optical irradiation apparatus, a foamable ink is contained in the printing layer of the packaging film 11 to foam. When the molding apparatus 25 is the mold, the embossing is performed by further laminating the reinforcement sheet or the sheet for the three dimensional designs on the packaging film 11.

Abstract: In a bag 10 in which a laminating film 11 is formed with a substrate layer 13 and a sealant layer 12 sealed in the vertical and horizontal direction and which is provided with the front surface and the rear surface, three dimensional designs molded by a mold are formed on at least either front surface or the rear surface of the bag. As specific means, the methods include the one for imparting the three dimensional designs by the mold to the film with an enhanced shape retention property by providing a reinforcement sheet 14 on the inner side surface of the laminating film 11 or by providing a three dimensional designing sheet 15 on the outer side surface of the laminating film 11 or the one for laminating the three dimensional sheet 16 in which the three dimensional designs are formed beforehand by the mold on the outer side surface of the laminating film 11 by a hot melt adhesive 16A.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a display strip with which the process of attaching product-enclosed bags can easily be automated and from which the product-enclosed bags can easily be detached without having their appearance degraded and a display strip and product assembly can be provided. The display strip according to the present invention is utilized to hold and align a plurality of product-enclosed bags vertically for the display. It comprises at least a substrate layer and a sealant layer with the sealant layer containing an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and an adhesive promoting tackifier.

Abstract: It is the object of the invention to provide a display strip having sufficient punch hole strength for allowing a plurality of product-enclosed bags to be attached thereto for the purpose of arrangement and display, and package assembly. The invention is a display strip for allowing a plurality of product-enclosed bags to be attached thereto for the purpose of arrangement and display, which at least comprises a substrate layer containing a woven fabric and a sealant layer having heat-sealability, a punch hole being formed at an upper portion for hanging.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of evaluating the performance of an ion-exchange film. In the method, small-angle scattering curves for the ion-exchange film at different humidities are obtained by an X-ray measuring apparatus that can detect X-rays scattered at small angles with respect to the axis of an X-ray applied to the ion-exchange film. From the positions of the peaks on the small-angle scattering curves and the X-ray intensities at these peaks, the change in the characteristic of the film, which accompanies change in the molecular structure (hence, ion-exchanging ability) of the ion-exchange film due to the change in humidity, is evaluated. The humidity ambient to the ion-exchange film can be adjusted by a humidity-adjusting device that comprises a vapor source, gas source, gas mixer and gas-introducing pipe.

Abstract: A packaging apparatus includes a support unit having a first support shaft with a first open end portion, the first support shaft being adapted to rotatably support the film roll in a cantilevered manner; a packaging unit adapted to receive the film of the film roll supported by the support unit, the bag packaging unit being adapted to package items with the film; and a temporary holding unit. The temporary holding unit has a second support shaft that has a second open end portion, the second support shaft being adapted to support the film roll in a cantilevered manner, and a movement mechanism configured to controllably pass the film roll from the second support shaft to the first support shaft when the first open end portion of the first support shaft and the second open end portion of the second support shaft are substantially aligned.