Patents Assigned to Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp.
  • Patent number: 11685568
    Abstract: An unwind station for a packaging machine may be configured to form wrappers having different sizes from a web of packaging material and supply the wrapper to a wrapping station. The unwind station may include a base configured to support the web of packaging material and a carriage configured to selectively slide in a longitudinal direction on the base. A rotating blade can be configured to periodically score the web to form a break line extending between lateral sides of the web. A first conveyor arm and a second conveyor arm may project longitudinally outward from the carriage. The first conveyor arm and the second conveyor arm can each include a low-speed conveyor configured to transport the web to a high-speed conveyor. The high-speed conveyor is configured to separate the wrapper from the web as the break line passes a shear point between the low-speed conveyors and the high-speed conveyors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Wegner, Jeffrey Cogswell, Brian Borowski
  • Publication number: 20220297862
    Abstract: An unwind station for a packaging machine may be configured to form wrappers having different sizes from a web of packaging material and supply the wrapper to a wrapping station. The unwind station may include a base configured to support the web of packaging material and a carriage configured to selectively slide in a longitudinal direction on the base. A rotating blade can be configured to periodically score the web to form a break line extending between lateral sides of the web. A first conveyor arm and a second conveyor arm may project longitudinally outward from the carriage. The first conveyor arm and the second conveyor arm can each include a low-speed conveyor configured to transport the web to a high-speed conveyor. The high-speed conveyor is configured to separate the wrapper from the web as the break line passes a shear point between the low-speed conveyors and the high-speed conveyors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Wegner, Jeffrey Cogswell, Brian Borowski
  • Patent number: 9517850
    Abstract: A rotating tucking device for securing a wrapper to a roll in a roll packaging system comprises a tucking arm for insertion into a hollow cavity of a roll and a rotating insertion system connected to the tucking arm for moving the tucking arm in a rotational pattern coordinated with the movement of the roll through the roll packaging system such that the tucking arm and the rotating insertion system tuck a wrapper into the hollow cavity of the roll as the roll moves continuously through the roll packaging system. Also provided is a roll packaging system having a rotating tucking device, as well as a rotating tucking method for securing a wrapper to a roll as the roll moves continuously through the roll packaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Christian Zagnoni, Todd Lee Hanson, Scott Santaga
  • Patent number: 7506486
    Abstract: A modular packaging system includes a base system configured to manipulate a product and configured to receive at least one of a group of packaging modules, wherein the base system is used with a variety of packaging modules depending on a desired packaged output. The system also includes a first packaging module selectively coupled to the base system, the packaging module having a first member coupled to the packaging module, the member configured to manipulate an object. The system may also include a second packaging module selectively coupled to the base system, the second packaging module having a lifting device coupled to the second packaging module, the lifting device configured to manipulate an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Wegner, Peter T. Hunnicutt, Douglas P. Wegner, Jeffrey D. Cogswell, Scott A. Santaga, Michael A. Yuenger