Indeterminate Length Member Patents (Class 493/77)
  • Patent number: 8403820
    Abstract: A method of making reinforced paperboard cartons comprises the steps of advancing a web of paperboard along a path and progressively laminating at least one ribbon of reinforcing material to the advancing web of paperboard. The ribbon of reinforcing material, which also may be paperboard, has a width less than the width of the web of paperboard and is applied with adhesive at a selected location across the width of the web. The web and its laminated ribbon are cut into sheets of a predetermined size and the sheets are die-cut and scored with fold lines to form carton blanks. The fold lines may transition from non-reinforced to reinforced portions of the blank and a special transition zone is contemplated to accommodate the transition. The carton blanks are subsequently formed into cartons for receiving articles, the laminated reinforcing material providing reinforcement in selected portions of the cartons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Zoeckler
  • Patent number: 8403819
    Abstract: A method of making reinforced paperboard cartons comprises the steps of advancing a web of paperboard along a path and progressively laminating at least one ribbon of reinforcing material to the advancing web of paperboard. The ribbon of reinforcing material, which also may be paperboard, has a width less than the width of the web of paperboard and is applied with adhesive at a selected location across the width of the web. The web and its laminated ribbon are cut into sheets of a predetermined size and the sheets are die-cut and scored with fold lines to form carton blanks. The fold lines may transition from non-reinforced to reinforced portions of the blank and a special transition zone is contemplated to accommodate the transition. The carton blanks are subsequently formed into cartons for receiving articles, the laminated reinforcing material providing reinforcement in selected portions of the cartons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Zoeckler
  • Patent number: 8215085
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of preparing a web of flexible material for production of receptacles for packaging. The method comprises the steps of feeding a web of flexible material past a succession of stations in which operations are carried out on the web including defining blanks for receptacles having walls and tabs by creating fold lines in the web, and then laminating a film of heat-sealable plastics materials to a face of the web of the flexible material. The film of heat-sealable plastics provides a heat-sealable surface on the web for bonding tabs of each blank together to form seams between adjacent walls whereby the blanks, when severed from the web, can be erected to form receptacles having openings to receive items to be packaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Rapid Action Packaging Limited
    Inventors: Quang Tien Phung, Fernanda Costa Pereira, Julian David Kyrle Money
  • Patent number: 6174274
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for formation of a preformed bonded pull tab over a reseal liner is disclosed. The pull tab seal layer of material is bonded together with a reseal liner layer of material for insertion into a closure. The pull tab on the pull tab liner seal is formed prior to combination of the two layers and is folded backwards between the two layers of material. Thus, after combining the two layers, punching out the closure liner and insertion into the closure, the reseal liner is separated from the pull tab seal and the pull tab seal is adhered to the rim of the container. Only one punch press step is required for forming the closure and container seals and insertion of the members into the closure. By forming the pull tab prior to combining the two layers, an assembly of the pull tab and reseal liner is made more efficient and less time consuming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Rexam Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronnie Lee Hawkins, William R. Weinert
  • Patent number: 4822326
    Abstract: A tamper evident safety seal is formed from a sealing liner having an integral tab portion, the tab being double folded for increased strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Boardman Molded Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Myron E. Ullman, Milton Kessler
  • Patent number: RE33886
    Abstract: A tamper evident safety seal is formed from a sealing liner having an integral tab portion, the tab being double folded for increased strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Inventors: Myron E. Ullman, Milton Kessler