Depositing Articles And Arranging Material In Preformed Receptacles Patents (Class 53/235)
  • Publication number: 20130055686
    Abstract: An apparatus for inserting one or more goods into a moveable cover includes a goods conveyor configured to move the one or more goods with a first velocity, at least one filling aid, and a cover conveyor configured to move the cover with a second velocity, the second velocity being different from the first velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: BOEWE SYSTEC GMBH
    Inventor: BOEWE SYSTEC GMBH
  • Publication number: 20130055687
    Abstract: An apparatus for inserting one or more goods into a moving cover includes a cover transport, and at least one separating device configured to engage with a first part of the cover and to maintain the first part of the cover separate from a second part of the cover during at least a part of the movement of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: BOEWE SYSTEC GMBH
    Inventor: Boewe Systec GmbH
  • Publication number: 20130023919
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems are provided for loading an implantable device into a container. One aspect of the loading system contains a loader element with a loading tunnel that is configured to gradually contract an implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Pulmonx, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Olivera, Hoang Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20130017385
    Abstract: A packing system for a plurality of prepreg rolls, the packing system comprising a plurality of prepreg rolls on a pallet, wherein each prepreg roll comprises a helical winding of prepreg material co-axially mounted around a central cylindrical tube, the prepreg material having opposite side faces, the central cylindrical tube having opposite ends which are each spaced outwardly from a respective side face, the prepreg rolls being stacked on the pallet in a horizontal orientation, with the roll axes being vertically oriented and the side faces being horizontally oriented, the rolls forming at least two layers of vertically stacked prepreg rolls, and at least one rigid separation layer, each rigid separation layer separating adjacent prepreg roll layers, the ends of the central cylindrical tubes contacting the pallet and the rigid separation layers to form a structural assembly of alternating central cylindrical tubes and rigid separation layers which supports the entire weight of the plurality of prepreg roll
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Gurit (UK) Ltd.
    Inventors: Irene LOZOYA-LOPEZ, Monica FERNANDEZ-GARCIA, Jose Maria MUNOZ-ESPIGARES, Emilio Esteban-Franceschi
  • Publication number: 20130008131
    Abstract: Refinements made to distributor units which serve to continuously transfer and position tablets or pills in organized alveoli in an advancing strip, the advancing strip presenting its alveoli on each occasion in correspondence with holes normally organized positioned radially in a distributor disk. The distributor disk has zero setting means, and is associated with means which supply the rotation motion by means of intermediate means. The intermediate connection means arc connected stably to the distributor disk and detachably to the means which supply the motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE SPA
    Inventor: Ivano Baroncini
  • Publication number: 20120233969
    Abstract: A dust extraction system and method are provided to collect some of the dust generated during handling of tablets during a tablet packaging process. For example, a tablet packaging system may be provided that includes a vibrating tray configured to feed a plurality of tablets to respective packages. The tablet packaging system may also include a first gas nozzle configured to direct a first flow of gas across the vibrating tray with the first flow of gas having a spaced relationship from the vibrating tray. The tablet packaging system may also include a second gas nozzle configured to direct a second flow of gas toward the vibrating tray. Further, the tablet packaging system may include a receiving hood configured to collect at least a portion of the gas provided by the first and second gas nozzles and to collect dust from the plurality of tablets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Myszak
  • Publication number: 20120204514
    Abstract: A packaging machine includes a pair of brushes that hold a tubular film (Fm) therebetween while rotating and impeding the advancement of packaged articles. Consequently, an elongated stream of packaged articles aggregate at the leading end of the pair of brushes. When the pair of brushes release the tubular film, the packaged articles are again conveyed in a more closely aggregated state than the aggregated state thereof when the advancement of the packaged articles was temporarily impeded. The rotational axis of each brush is also biased a predetermined distance from the central axis of a core thereof. Since the brushes swing in conjunction with the rotation thereof, small vibrations and large swings cause the gaps between packaged articles to be readily filled and reduce the space occupied by the packaged articles. As a result, the bag size can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideshi MIYAMOTO, Masashi KONDO, Makoto ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120198794
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is coupled to an electric power generator. An exhaust manifold for the engine includes an exhaust gas conduit. A housing includes a catalyst in fluid communication with the conduit to receive exhaust produced by the engine. The catalyst is operable to reduce one or more constituents of the exhaust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Mark E. Turpin, Shawn John Kipka, Gary A. Salmonson, Kurt Butz
  • Publication number: 20120198796
    Abstract: A device for packaging preferably two-dimensional products is designed for forming a bag-like tube by way of a longitudinal connection device, from a web of packaging material. The bag-like tube, with respect to a conveying direction of the packaging material, is open in a region in front of the longitudinal connection device and is closed in the region after the longitudinal connection device. The device includes a suction device which leads into the still open bag-like tube, and in the closed region includes a suction opening, through which gas can be sucked out of the region after the longitudinal connection device, out of the bag-like tube and through the suction device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: FERAG AG
    Inventor: Werner Heuberger
  • Patent number: 8235248
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic tablet packing apparatus having sliding racks, wherein tablets received in a plurality of tablet cassettes are successively packed on a per dose basis based on a medical prescription. Each of the sliding racks includes a pair of left and right partition walls, a tablet discharge passage to guide the tablets discharged from the tablet cassettes being defined by facing inner surfaces of the left and right partition walls. Cassette pedestals are attached to outer surfaces of the left and right partition walls and in turn, the tablet cassettes are detachably arranged on the cassette pedestals. The left and right partition walls are able to be individually pulled out from a body of the apparatus. As the left or right partition wall is pulled out, the tablet discharge passage is revealed to the outside thus enabling easy cleaning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: JVM Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun-Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20120186192
    Abstract: A multilevel vertical conveyor system for transporting uncontained case units to and from a multilevel storage structure having an array of vertically stacked storage levels is provided and includes a frame having platform guide members, a drive member connected to the frame, and support platforms coupled to the drive member. The drive member is configured to move the support platforms relative to the frame in a substantially continuous vertical loop, each of the support platforms being configured to support multiple uncontained case units where each of the multiple uncontained case units is disposed at a respective predetermined area of a respective support platform, the support platforms have support members that are guided by guide members substantially throughout a path of the substantially continuous vertical loop, where the support members are guided in three point contact by the guide members substantially throughout the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: CASEPICK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen C. Toebes, Robert Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20120167529
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for filling at least one thin-walled transport container (12) with at least one article of value (20), in which a frame (14) having an opening (23) is contacted by a part of the outside surface (18) of a transport container (12), which outside surface (18) is turned inside. A part of the transport container (12) is moved through the opening (23) of the frame (14) in feeding direction (P1) of the article of value (20) by means of the article of value (20) supplied during filling so that at least a part of the inside surface (16) of the transport container (12) that is turned outside is turned inside. Further, the invention relates to a device (10) for transporting at least one article of value (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: WINCOR NIXDORF INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Langhuber, Günter Holland-Letz
  • Publication number: 20120159900
    Abstract: An apparatus for laying sliced foods (11) into containers (390) comprises a main transport unit (20, 91) and a secondary transport unit (50, 150) downstream of the main unit. The two units are adapted to carry sliced foods (11) from a slicing station to a packaging station. A control unit (40) controls the individual and combined movements of the two transport units based on at least one arrangement parameter (P1, P2) inputted through a user interface (60). The apparatus for laying sliced foods (11) into containers (390) receives these foods from a slicing station through a feeding station (80, 180) and causes advancing of same to a laying unit for arrangement in containers (310). The containers (390) are then routed to a packaging station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventor: GIORGIO GRASSELLI
  • Publication number: 20120137638
    Abstract: The invention provides a packaged tow being characterized in that a carbon fiber precursor tow (1) having a flattened shape in cross section and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface is layered and packaged in a packaging container in untwisted state. A front end and a back end of the carbon fiber precursor tow (1) thus packaged are placed on a top of the fully-packaged carbon fiber precursor tow. There is no twist in a part of the tow from a bottom parted of the packaged tow to a front end (1a) placed on the top of the carbon fiber precursor tow (1). When the front end (1a) and a back end (1b) of the tow are respectively applied with top/bottom surface identification means to identify top and bottom surfaces thereof, top and bottom surfaces on front ends (1a) and back ends (1b) of tows packaged in a plurality of packaging containers (4) can be correctly identified and joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Ikeda, Atsushi Kawamura, Hiromasa Inada
  • Publication number: 20120131885
    Abstract: An insertion system includes an enclosure supply device, an envelope supply device, an insertion device to insert an enclosure supplied from the enclosure supply device into the envelope supplied from the envelope supply device, a first input unit to input identification data of the enclosure inserted into the envelope in each of multiple insertion setting records, a second input unit to input identification data of the enclosure set in the enclosure container of the enclosure supply device, and a controller to determine whether the identification data of the enclosure to be inserted, input by the first input unit, matches the identification data of the enclosure set in the enclosure container, input by the second input unit, and to control supply of the envelope by the envelope supply device as well as supply of the enclosure by the enclosure supply device based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Matsushita, Takeshi Sasaki, Satoshi Saito, Ikuhisa Okamoto, Junichi Tokita, Akira Kunieda, Takahiro Watanabe, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120102892
    Abstract: A device for packaging substantially flat products (1) in a box (2), comprising a guide and a stop having a surface (7) perpendicular to said guide, said stop surface (7) being perpendicular to said guide, wherein a slot (8) extends between the end of said guide and said stop surface 7), means for holding a box (2) at the other side of said guide with its opening towards the slot, a reciprocating push member (23) arranged to push one or more products (1) through said slot (8) into said box (2) with each reciprocating movement, guide means (51) arranged to guide said products (1) into said box (2) such that they rest with one side against the bottom of the box and with their flat front side against a first end wall of the box (2) or against the flat back side of the one or more products that were previously pushed into the box, and box guidance means arranged to allow movement of the box relative to said slot from a start position to an end position such that the products fill the box from said first end wall
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SIGMA ENGINEERING B.V.
    Inventor: Antonius Adrianus Arnoldus Smits
  • Publication number: 20120102878
    Abstract: The orienting device (101) comprises a hopper (103) for containing tiles (P) with an exit mouth for the exit of the tiles, wherein to the exit mouth a rotating member (111) is associated, provided with a plurality of annular channels (115), of cross dimensions corresponding to a dimension of said tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Luciano Morini, Jovanka Pizzo
  • Patent number: 8167008
    Abstract: A tablet filling instrument 1 for dispensing tablets into a vial 9 in accordance with prescription data and discharging the vial 9 filled with the tablets in an outlet 113 includes a pair of holding members 111 each provided with at least one slope extending from an upper end located within the instrument 1 to a lower end located in the outlet 113, the holding members 111 being designed to receive at the upper ends the vial 9 filled with the tablets and to allow the vial 9 to slide down under its own weight to the lower ends with supporting a flange 9a around an outer periphery of the vial 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Taniguchi, Takafumi Imai, Yoshinori Maeji
  • Publication number: 20120096808
    Abstract: A packaging machine (10) for continuously packaging articles (B) comprising a first conveyor line (23), a second conveyor line (22a, 22b, 22c) and a transfer mechanism (26a, 26b) which transfers articles (B) from the first conveyor line to the second conveyor line into a primary or intermediate carton (C) or transfers primary or intermediate cartons (C) from a second conveyor line to the articles (B) and a second transfer mechanism which transfers packaged articles (B) in said primary or intermediate cartons (C) from the first conveyor line to the second conveyor line to be packaged in secondary or final cartons (T) or transfers articles (B) from the first conveyor to the second conveyor to be packaged directly in the secondary or final cartons (T) or which second transfer mechanism is adapted for reorientation of articles (B) or packaged articles (B) in said primary or intermediate cartons (C) or which second transfer mechanism is idle allowing primary or intermediate cartons to pass for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Benoit Poutot, Pascal Martini, Jean Christophe Bonnain
  • Publication number: 20120090276
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are described for transferring a plurality of articles (1), at least partially made of a fragile material, such as for example syringes for injections, by an automatic machine (M) which presents them at an outlet (U) thereof, separated from one another, to containers (2, 20) having a plurality of housings (21, 210). The articles (1) are singly housable, separate from one another, in the housings. The method comprises the following steps: placing a plurality of articles (1) presented at the output (U) of the automatic machine (M), in a predetermined formation in which they are maintained separated from one another; removing more than one of the articles (1) and while maintaining them separate from one another, taking them to a container (2, 20) and inserting the articles (1) therein, with the articles maintained separated from each other in the container (2, 20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Marchesini Group S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe MONTI
  • Publication number: 20120079796
    Abstract: According to example embodiments, an automatic packing apparatus includes at least one box supply unit configured to move a box stack upwards such that a product is inserted into a packing box of the box stack, the packing box being the uppermost box of the box stack, an inlet formation unit configured to lift the upper surface of the packing box to form an inlet on at least one unbonded side surface of the packing box, a product supply unit configured to transfer the product to the inlet; and a side surface bonding unit configured to bond the at least one unbonded side surface of the packing box. The at least one unbonded side surface includes the inlet and the packing box includes the product inserted therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Kim, Byoung Oh Park, Yong Ki Cho, Jong Soo Jeong, Bong Sup Lim, Yun Jin Jung
  • Publication number: 20120073247
    Abstract: A method for producing individually assembled printed products includes supplying from a production line at least one envelope product with an individual, optically detectable marking affixed thereto. A regionally oriented supplement and/or a target-group specific supplement is supplied from at least one other production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Mueller Martini Holding AG
    Inventor: Thomas Kuenzli
  • Publication number: 20120055939
    Abstract: A container, utilized for the storage and transport of articles, includes a body comprised of one or more sidewalls drawn in a generally longitudinal fashion and two end pieces, disposed distally on either end of the container body. A plurality of ribs are disposed between the end pieces to facilitate inward compression of the container body. In his manner, the container volume can be permanently or temporarily altered to take up the tolerance between the volume of articles and the otherwise fixed volume of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Paul A. Weissbrod
  • Publication number: 20120023866
    Abstract: The installation comprises an infeed conveyor (7) and an outfeed conveyor (8) with, between the two, a module (5) for forming a wrapping of the tray or wrap-around type, the cleated belt conveyor (11) of which is constituted by two continuous belts (11a, 11b) which are retractable so as to allow the installation of a substitute conveying system (13) which is capable of forming a continuous slider bed between said infeed conveyor (7) and said outfeed conveyor (8). This arrangement makes it possible to provide a versatile installation which is capable of carrying out on the one hand, wrapping operations with blanks of the tray or wrap-around type and on the other hand, simply transporting batches of products, said products being, for example, placed on supporting cardboard sheets so as to convey them to the packing machine to receive a plastic film and then into the heat-shrink tunnel to complete the wrapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Dominique RABEC
  • Publication number: 20120023867
    Abstract: Machine (1) for packaging articles (2) inside containers (3), wherein a conveyor (6) is provided with a longitudinally movable transporting section (7) for feeding the articles (2) in a given direction (D) and along a given conveying path (P); a robot (23), which is arranged along the conveying path (P) and controlled by operating and control means depending on detection at least of the position of each article (2) on the transporting section (7), picks up single articles (2) from the transporting section (7) and transfers each picked-up article (2) inside a container (3); the transporting section (7) is delimited transversely by two side walls (18) stabilising the position and direction of each article (2) with respect to the said transporting section (7); on the latter the articles (2) are stably seated between the side walls (18), one behind another in a row, in the conveying direction (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: CT PACK S.R.L.
    Inventors: Daniele DAVI, Michele PALLARA
  • Publication number: 20120023872
    Abstract: A thermoforming packaging machine according to the disclosure comprises a forming station for producing packaging troughs in a bottom foil, and a filler for filling the packaging troughs with products. The filler is arranged at a transition region for conveying the packaging troughs from a first transport plane to a second transport plane. A corresponding method for filling packaging troughs with products is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Elmar Ehrmann
  • Patent number: 8099929
    Abstract: Automatic feeding machines are commonly used for filling blister packs with items of product such as pharmaceutical dosage forms. These machines are usually designed for the handling of a specific shape and sized product item. Handling of different shaped items requires expensive re-tooling of all the product item contact components. The invention allows a single feeding machine to be quickly configured for use to handling a wide variety of item sizes/shapes. A machine (21) has a tray (36) defining a series of tapered channels (40) and a container (22) slideably mounted above the tray. A wall of the container and the channels together define apertures into each channel through which items of product pass out of the container. Sliding movement of the container across the planar tray surface (38), along and over the channels, allows the size of the apertures to be adjusted depending upon the size of the item of product to be handled, using the same components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Surgichem Limited
    Inventors: Raymond George Kirby, Kim Warrick
  • Publication number: 20120011808
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for loading at least one item into each of a plurality of containers. The system includes a plurality of buckets, each configured for supporting at least one container. The system also has a conveyor interconnected to each of the buckets. The conveyor has a conveyor axis of rotation that is oriented at an acute conveyor angle to a horizontal plane. The buckets are oriented relative to the conveyor axis of rotation by a wedge angle. The buckets move in series around the axis of rotation from a first path portion to a second path portion. An inner surface of the container is oriented generally in or parallel to the horizontal plane when the buckets are moved along the first path portion and the inner surface is oriented at an angle to the horizontal plane that is of an amount that is twice the wedge angle when the buckets are moved along the second path portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: H. J. Paul Langen, Istvan Ungar
  • Publication number: 20120000125
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pick-up and delivery system including a pick-up assembly and a delivery assembly. The pick-up assembly includes a robotic arm, a pick-up device rotatably mounted on the robotic arm, and a first vacuum pressure supply port operably connected to the pick-up device. The delivery assembly includes an insertion device. The insertion device may include an insertion member having a tip and a release assistance piston arranged inside the insertion member. The release piston is moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. When the release assistance piston is in the extended position, a proximal end of is substantially flush with an end of the insertion member. Further aspects are directed towards methods for grasping and releasing an object with a pick-up and delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: WEYERHAEUSER NR COMPANY
    Inventors: Fredrick T. Rubatino, Michael W. Teodoro
  • Publication number: 20110308205
    Abstract: A three aerogenerator blades (1, 2, 3) packing system for transporting, handling and storing of aerogenerator blades (1, 2, 3). The prior art does not provide for cost-effective packing systems for sets of three blades. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method of packing three aerogenerator blades (1, 2, 3) and other aspect is directed to a packing system comprising a root frame (4) and a binding frame (5), wherein the blades (1, 2, 3) are in a edgewise position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Ismael Rodrigues Vitor
  • Publication number: 20110308206
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging system and a method for filling a collecting container (12) with articles (7), whereby a guide device (9) changes a first spatial distribution of the articles into a second spatial distribution from the discharge position (8) into the collecting container (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMULLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Armin Beckel, Wolfgang Gross
  • Publication number: 20110302887
    Abstract: Soy-based modeling product. The present disclosure includes disclosure of various embodiments of soy-based modeling products. In at least one embodiment, the soy-based modeling product comprises a quantity of water, a quantity of a salt, a quantity of an oil, and a quantity of a flour, wherein at least one of the oil and/or the flour is derived from soybeans. In another embodiment, the soy-based modeling product further comprises corn starch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Sawyer Sparks, Sue Ellen Sparks
  • Publication number: 20110302882
    Abstract: A system for vertically packing of products into a container, with a predetermined number of products which are fed singly to the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Nor-Reg Systems AS
    Inventors: Geir Brunes, Aril Bekkasen
  • Publication number: 20110289883
    Abstract: A container treatment plant, with a discontinuously working container treatment machine and having a feed conveyor and/or a discharge conveyor each for individual containers, and in the feed conveyor and/or the discharge conveyor, at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means supplying each other with individual containers, and where the conveyor means being closer to the discontinuously working container treatment machine in the conveying direction exhibits a closer conveying pitch than the conveying pitch of the conveyor means which is further away. In this manner, a container acceptance and/or transfer interruption caused by the respective cycle standstill of the discontinuously working container treatment machine is compensated by the conveying pitch difference to be able to continuously supply individual containers for the discontinuously working machine or continuously discharge them from the discontinuously working container treatment machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Michael NEUBAUER
  • Publication number: 20110283663
    Abstract: Packaged systems for implanting a marker in a patient and methods for manufacturing and using such systems. In one embodiment, a packaged system comprises an introducer having a cannula and a stylet configured to be received in the cannula, a marker in the cannula, and a package having a sterile compartment. The marker can have a casing configured to be implanted in a patient and a resonating circuit in the casing. The resonating circuit can comprise a coil configured to wirelessly transmit a target signal in response to a wirelessly transmitted excitation signal. The introducer is contained within the sterile compartment. In another embodiment, the marker is not loaded in the introducer within the compartment of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Seiler, Eric Hadford
  • Patent number: 8033082
    Abstract: A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further includes disappearing lugs that pivot into the lanes via a cam surface provided in the lanes. The product rides upon a raised surface of the cam surface as the lug pushes the product set together down the lane, thus ensuring that no gaps are provided between product set members. A gripper/grid section of the packaging machine includes a bars that travel about a carousel with a gripper head assembly and a grid assembly pair moving up and down the bars as defined by cam surfaces within the gripper/grid section. The grid section is presented below the product set such that the product set is fed through the grid section in a one-way trip into a case. The gripper head assembly cam device and the case feed section both include height adjustment assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Standard Knapp Inc.
    Inventors: John L. Raudat, J. Michael Weaver, Rick Dolce, Jeffrey Reilly, Lloyd Johnson, Vincent M. Cassarino
  • Publication number: 20110239589
    Abstract: A packing device of a bookbingind spring is disclosed, which comprises a supply frame on which a spring supplied in series from a spring producing device is provided and supplied in series as well; a cover member supply part which is formed of a supply roll on which a cover member having a certain with and made of a synthetic resin material is wound and rotates, and a direction change roll for allowing a cover member supplied from the supply roll to be supplied on an upper side of the spring, with the spring being placed on an upper side of the supply frame and being supplied; a forming guide of which one end is extended at a tapered angle in a conical shape, while surrounding an upper surface of the cover member, as being closer to an end of the supply frame, and the other end surrounds the spring excluding the portion in which both sides of the cover member are overlapped in the lower side of the same; a pair of pressing rollers for pressing and bonding the portions in which both sides of the cover member a
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Ki Jong Lee
  • Publication number: 20110232238
    Abstract: Automated (poultry) bagging packaging systems include a plurality of spaced apart holding stations that are configured to rotate in concert about a defined endless travel path to automatically serially position a respective holding station to be in communication with each of a plurality of different workstations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Dennis J. May, Samuel D. Griggs
  • Publication number: 20110209440
    Abstract: Bag packaging machine comprising an intermittent carousel having vertical spindles (M) fastened to the horizontal carousel (G) and facing upwards allowing the realization of bags (S) with the opening facing downwards and the bottom facing upwards and collecting means adapted to collect the bags (S) from the spindles (M) and to reverse them so as to place them with the opening facing upwards and the bottom facing downwards so as to be able to fill them. For example, the collecting means may comprise a belt (N) in continuous transit, to which holding means (V), such as for instance suction cups, are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventor: Gino RAPPARINI
  • Publication number: 20110203231
    Abstract: A goods-to-person picking station and method of picking goods from a product container and placing the goods in at least one order container includes a product container-handling mechanism and at least one order container-handling mechanism juxtaposed with the product container-handling mechanism. The product container-handling mechanism supplies a product container to a pick area. The at least one order container-handling mechanism supplies at least one order container to the pick area. In this manner, an operator can pick goods from a product container at the pick area and place the goods selectively to the at least one order container at the pick area. The product container-handling mechanism includes a product container elevator assembly and a product container extractor assembly. The elevator assembly elevates a product container from the feed area to the pick area. The extractor assembly transfers a product container from the pick area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Dematic Corp.
    Inventors: Philipp J. Hortig, Matthew A. Steenwyk, Aaron J. Hayden, Raffaele Destro, Beat Losenegger
  • Publication number: 20110203224
    Abstract: An inserter apparatus for inserting an item into a holder. The inserter apparatus includes a deck, a mover, an opening system, and a controller. The deck can slidably support the holder from a first location to an item loading location. The mover can move the holder along the deck, wherein the mover includes a drive motor, a conveyor connected to the drive motor, and a gripper connected to the conveyor. The drive motor is a servo motor. The opening system is at the item loading location for opening the holder and inserting the item into the holder. The controller is connected to the servo motor. The controller is adapted to vary speed of the servo motor to thereby vary speed of the conveyor and the holder along the deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas H. Rosenkranz
  • Publication number: 20110203230
    Abstract: A method of inserting postal items into envelopes, comprising, for each of said envelopes: holding the envelope in an inserting position with an open end oriented towards a postal item transport path and with an envelope edge perpendicular to the open end against an alignment surface that defines an envelope alignment axis at the inserting position; displacing one or more of the postal items along the postal item transport path into the envelope, an edge of the or each postal item, at least partway along the transport path, being urged against and guided by an alignment surface that defines a postal item alignment axis along the postal item transport path, wherein the envelope alignment axis is offset from the postal item alignment axis by a predetermined distance in a direction away from the postal item transport path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Harrie HEEMSTRA, Herman SYTEMA
  • Publication number: 20110173930
    Abstract: A system for packaging articles, which system comprises a first conveyor (6) for conveying items to form a first stream of items (7), and a second conveyor (23) for conveying items to form a second stream of items, and a first tool (16) capable of engaging items from one or more of the two streams, and of transferring any items so engaged from one of the two streams, in a direction substantially transverse to that stream, and to deposit those items at an adjacent point in the other of the two streams, whilst at least one of those two streams is in continuous motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventor: Benoit Poutot
  • Publication number: 20110138752
    Abstract: A packaging system and method is disclosed for use with a conveyance system. The package assembly provides protrusions which keep the assembly properly oriented on a conveyor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: INGRAM MICRO INC.
    Inventor: Kimberly Klos
  • Publication number: 20110113726
    Abstract: A padding machine (1) for packaging substantial products, particularly cucumbers and the like, comprising, on a supporting frame (2), a carousel assembly (3) for the advancement of containers (4) and the like, the machine further comprising, on the carousel assembly (3), at each container (4), a positioning pad (20) for centering the products that over-flow laterally from the mouth of the container (4) and a packing pad (30) for inserting the products in the container (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ZANICHELLI MECCANICA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Caterina Pagani
  • Patent number: 7918068
    Abstract: A tablet filling instrument 1 for dispensing tablets into a vial 9 in accordance with prescription data and discharging the vial 9 filled with the tablets in one of a plurality of outlets 113 designates at least one of the outlets 113 to be a priority outlet 113p and discharges the vial 9 filled with the tablets in the priority outlet 113p when the tablets are to be dispensed in one of the outlets 113 at a time-point within a predetermined time length from a present time-point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Kumano
  • Publication number: 20110030319
    Abstract: An apparatus for inserting planar articles into packages having mouths, the apparatus comprising a bed to support a package; an opener to open the mouth of a package; a pusher to push a planar article along an article path into the package when the opener has operated, The pusher comprises a guide adapted to engage in the package mouth while guiding the article to ensure a free path for the article as it is moved into the package. The guide has a generally V-shaped configuration with side walls splayed out from an apex to an open side, and wherein the guide is mounted with the apex substantially facing the bed and the open side substantially facing the pusher, said open side providing an open slot in the article path for receiving and guiding an article and the apex being configured to enter a package mouth as an article is pushed into a package to assist separation of the leaves of a package as they guide an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Martin O'Malley, Deirdre O'Malley, Stephen Casey, James Frost, Ernie Herterich, Michael O'Toole
  • Patent number: 7866125
    Abstract: A packaging system for automatically producing dunnage pads and inserting one or more of the pads into a container for packaging an article in the container. The invention includes a pad discharge assembly and/or pad insertion assembly. The discharge assembly includes a gating device for effecting passage of the pad out of a holding zone in a direction transverse to the pad length and onto a working surface, preferably a conveyor. The conveyor conveys the pad into a pad insertion zone in a first direction, and a pusher assembly is operative to push the pad from the pad insertion zone in a direction transverse to the first direction. A plunger is provided for pushing a pad located at the pad insertion zone through an opening over which the pad is conveyed for insertion into a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
    Inventors: James A. Simmons, Jr., Richard O. Ratzel, Joseph J. Harding
  • Publication number: 20100319300
    Abstract: An inserting apparatus for inserting documents into envelopes comprising an envelope holder for holding an envelope in a document inserting position, wherein a first upstream end of the envelope is in an open position for receiving said document, a document displacement arrangement for displacing the document along a document inserting path into the envelope, wherein the apparatus further comprises a document steering arrangement arranged opposite to an envelope crease line provided between an envelope flap and an envelope body. The arrangement comprises steering elements spaced apart along a central axis that in use is substantially aligned with the envelope crease line. The steering elements are interconnected such that in use said respective steering elements are rotatable about the central axis in a similar direction with a similar speed during a similar time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Neopost Technologies
    Inventor: Christiaan Antoon MUNNEKE
  • Patent number: 7775022
    Abstract: The method is used for handing a gas turbine engine during packaging. The method comprises receiving the engine at a handling apparatus pivotally secured to the floor, removably connecting the engine to the handling apparatus, pivoting the engine while supported on the handling apparatus, lowering the engine into a container, and then removably connecting the engine to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Denis Tardif, Claude Giardetti