Abstract: A process for efficiently conveying containers along a table-top conveying system includes the steps of temporarily securing a transfer stabilizing support (1a, 1b) to a bottom end of a formed container (14) so that the container can freely move along a production line using the table-top conveying system where the transfer stabilizing support has a bottom surface (2a, 2b) with an opening (4a, 4b), a sidewall (6a, 6b) extending substantially perpendicular to the bottom surface, and a ridge area (10b) surrounding the opening and inside the sidewall of the support; and after the container has gone through operations of the production line, the transfer stabilizing support is removed so that aesthetic qualities of the formed container shape are revealed.

Abstract: An automatic film-lid cohering machine, which consists of a film transmission structure, an anti-slide device, a film-lid cohering transmission structure, a film-lid cohered object replacement device, and a holder. This invention is essentially to simplify the anti-slide device and the holder, whereby the manufacturing cost may be lowered and installation of the film is made easier. An automatic propping device is included in the subject machine to make it faster to remove an object which has been cohered by film-lid. Gears, instead of chains, are used to operate the primary film roller to prevent slacked transmission.

Abstract: A machine for sealing packages comprising a frame which includes a base, a pair of generally parallel columns extending upwardly therefrom, and a member spanning between the columns for maintaining the columns generally parallel. An upper die is mounted between the pair of columns for traveling along the length thereof and a hollow lower die having an opening extending therethrough for receiving a package to be sealed is mounted to pivot between a position between the columns and beneath the upper die, and a position away from the column and clear of the upper die. An extractor for extracting a sealed package from the lower die comprises a plate-like member normally positioned beneath the lower die when it is at the position away from the columns. The plate-like member is dimensioned to fit through the opening extending through the lower die and is displaceable to advance into the opening thereby to extract a sealed package retained within the lower die.

Abstract: A heat seal capper head assembly for forming a closure and sealing a container with a heat seal cap having a heat shrinkable film includes an elongated housing having at one end adaptor means for releasably securing the assembly to the conventional filling apparatus for the container, while at the opposite end of the housing there is provided means for folding and heat sealing the heat seal cap to form a heat sealed closure having a central portion and a skirt portion. The folding means includes an annular folder ring secured to the housing, and an annular center collar concentric with and slidably mounted on the folder ring, with spring means disposed between the folder ring and the center collar for biasing the collar toward its extended position. The heating means is disposed internally of the annular collar and includes a disc-shaped portion for uniformly distributing heat across the central portion of the heat seal cap.