Patents Assigned to Nor-Reg AS
  • Patent number: 6467241
    Abstract: Flat box blanks are set up into boxes by feeding a succession of the blanks one at a time to a setup station and gripping the blanks and pulling them one after another by grippers in a direction without stopping through the station. A plurality of setup tools are moved through the station in the direction synchronously with the grippers and the blanks and are engaged with the continuously moving setup tools transversely with the blanks in the setup station to shape the blanks into boxes while the blanks are held out of contact in the station with any structure other than the synchronously moving tools and grippers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Nor-Reg AS
    Inventors: Heinz F. Odenthal, Bruno Baumeister
  • Patent number: 6408601
    Abstract: A pocket belt is continuously advanced by a drive at a variable pocket-belt speed, and a package supply feeds packages at a variable spacing one after another to a transfer station offset from the pocket belt. A feeding system has an intermediate belt extending through the transfer station from the supply to the pocket belt, and a drive for advancing the intermediate belt at an intermediate-belt speed and thereby moving the packages on the intermediate belt at the intermediate-belt speed from the supply to the pocket belt. A controller connected to the drives maintains the intermediate speed at a predetermined ratio to the pocket-belt speed as determined by the spacing between succeeding packages as they arrive at the transfer station from the supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Nor-Reg AS
    Inventors: Heinz F. Odenthal, Marian Cioc