Closing Means Moving With Package During Closing Patents (Class 53/371.5)
  • Patent number: 8458993
    Abstract: Various device embodiments include first and second plate assemblies. Each plate assembly includes a base, a seal plate, one or more air bladders and a servo motor to provide a linear motion of the seal plate with respect to the base. The device further includes at least one plate assembly motor operably linked to the bases of the plate assemblies to provide a linear motion of the first and second plate assemblies toward each other to perform a sealing operation and away from each other. The device further includes a controller connected to the at least one plate assembly motor and to the first and second servo motors to coordinate the motion of the first and second seal plates to perform a seal operation on a web while traveling with the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Delta Industrial Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David Schiebout, Jeffrey T. Bruin
  • Patent number: 8171702
    Abstract: Various device embodiments include first and second plate assemblies. Each plate assembly includes a base, a seal plate, one or more air bladders and a servo motor to provide a linear motion of the seal plate with respect to the base. The device further includes at least one plate assembly motor operably linked to the bases of the plate assemblies to provide a linear motion of the first and second plate assemblies toward each other to perform a sealing operation and away from each other. The device further includes a controller connected to the at least one plate assembly motor and to the first and second servo motors to coordinate the motion of the first and second seal plates to perform a seal operation on a web while traveling with the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Delta Industrial Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David Schiebout, Jeffrey T. Bruin
  • Patent number: 8117808
    Abstract: An apparatus for transverse sealing of a packaging tube, filled with products, in order to form bag packages, has a delivery conveyor for delivering the packaging tube, a removal conveyor for carrying the bag packages away and a transverse sealing unit engaging an interstice between these two conveyors. Means is provided for supporting the bag packages at least in part at the transition through this interstice. This means for supporting the bag packages is a supporting base, which reaches beneath the bag packages from two diametrically opposed sides and both supports the bag packages and transports them onward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Strasser
  • Patent number: 7775018
    Abstract: Various device embodiments include first and second plate assemblies. Each plate assembly includes a base, a seal plate, one or more air bladders and a servo motor to provide a linear motion of the seal plate with respect to the base. The device further includes at least one plate assembly motor operably linked to the bases of the plate assemblies to provide a linear motion of the first and second plate assemblies toward each other to perform a sealing operation and away from each other. The device further includes a controller connected to the at least one plate assembly motor and to the first and second servo motors to coordinate the motion of the first and second seal plates to perform a seal operation on a web while traveling with the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Delta Industrial Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David Schiebout, Jeffrey T. Bruin
  • Patent number: 7722730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for heat-sealing windows into folding carton blanks for producing liquid-proof folding cartons having film windows. Pieces of film that are cut to measure are placed on the window openings of the folding carton blanks and the edges of the pieces of film are heat-sealed with the folding carton blanks so as to be liquid-proof using heated pressure segments or heat-sealing dies. The folding carton blanks, together with the pieces of film, are fed to a tail pulley for a transport belt by means of the transport belt and are inserted in the gap between the tail pulley and the transport belt resting thereon. In this gap, the blanks and pieces of film are continuously heat-sealed together by means of at least two heated pressure segments that are disposed on the outer periphery of the tail pulley and push radially from inwards against the transport belt in the area of deflection of the transport belt and thus onto the edges of the pieces of film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Inventor: Julius Schröder-Frerkes
  • Patent number: 7497065
    Abstract: Various device embodiments include first and second plate assemblies. Each plate assembly includes a base, a seal plate and a servo motor to provide a linear motion of the seal plate with respect to the base. The device farther includes at least one plate assembly motor operably linked to the bases of the plate assemblies to provide a linear motion of the first and second plate assemblies toward each other to perform a sealing operation and away from each other. The device further includes a controller connected to the at least one plate assembly motor and to the first and second servo motors to coordinate the motion of the first and second seal plates to perform a seal operation on a web while traveling with the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Delta Industrial Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David Schiebout, Jeffrey T. Bruin
  • Patent number: 7032365
    Abstract: The wrapping of groups of products positioned according to a determined number of mutually superposed layers is achieved by feeding in succession groups of products firstly into a tubular case made to heat-sealable material and, then, to a first wrapping device when the number of layers is equal to one and to a second wrapping device when the number of layers is at least equal to two; the two wrapping devices being able to wrap each group inside a related wrapping sheet, which is folded substantially in contact with the related group, and which is stabilized by means of sealing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: KPL Packaging S.p.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Cinotti
  • Patent number: 6543205
    Abstract: A form and seal unit (1) for producing aseptic sealed packages from a tube (2) of packaging material filled with a pourable food product; the unit having a fixed structure (3), and two forming assemblies (5, 5′) interacting alternately and cyclically with the tube (2) of packaging material, and in turn having respective pairs of jaws (7) movable between an open position and a closed position in which the jaws grip the tube (2) of packing material between respective sealing members (13, 14), and respective forming flaps (21) having respective half-shell forming portions (22) which surround the tube (2) of packaging material to determine the shape and volume of the packages; the closing movement of the forming flaps (21) about the tube (2) of packaging material is controlled by cams (30) carried by the forming flaps (21) and interacting with rollers (64) fixed to the structure (3) of the unit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Behrooz Faskhoody, Magnus Johansson, Gert Kostropetsch