Patents Assigned to Pussikeskus Oy
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Patent number: 6510670Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging apparatus for wrapping flat articles, such as books, in a cardboard-made flat package blank, including first flaps remaining on the inside and second flaps remaining on the outside. The packaging apparatus comprises a supply station for package blanks, including alignment and centering elements for a bundle of package blanks and feed means for delivering the blanks from the bundle one by one onto a packaging line, an opening mechanism for the inner flaps of package blanks, a supply station for feeding one or more articles, or a consignment, onto each package blank, means for folding and bending the inner flaps around the consignment means for turning the package blank through 90° relative to its advancing direction, and means for folding and bending the outer flaps around the consignment on top of the inner flaps. The packaging apparatus is provided with first measuring elements capable of measuring the package blank for its width lateral to the travel direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2000Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: Pussikeskus OyInventor: Tarmo Janhonen
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Patent number: 5772569Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus the continuous production of package blanks. The package blank is intended for delivering books by mail and it is fabricated by drawing from a roll, a web of cardboard (1w), having a surface which is coated with adhesive zones (19) at distances corresponding to the length of a blank. A stud-chain conveyor (14) driven in synchronization with a cardboard-web (1w) chopping device supplies the adhesive zones (19) with paper strips (2p) forming an inner wrapper for the package.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1996Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: Pussikeskus OYInventor: Veikko Janhonen
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Patent number: 5487256Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine for wrapping books or the like for postal deliveries. The package blank includes a rectangularly shaped outer cardboard (2), which is folded by means of transverse belts (5) from a flat condition to a tube surrounding the four sides of a book. The belts (5) extend through sliding slots included in the bottom edge of guides (8) and said guides (8) are operated in vertical and horizontal plane by means of pneumatic cylinders (11, 14). The apparatus also requires two sets of individually operable press plates (6 and 7) for pressing the package from above before and after the folding of a sheet of cardboard (2).Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1995Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Assignee: Pussikesku OyInventor: Veikko Janhonen
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Patent number: 5410862Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine for wrapping books or the like for postal deliveries. The package blank includes a rectangularly shaped outer cardboard (2), which is folded by means of transverse belts (5) from a flat condition to a tube surrounding the four sides of a book. The belts (5) extend through sliding slots included in the bottom edge of guides (8) and said guides (8) are operated in vertical and horizontal plane by means of pneumatic cylinders (11, 14). The apparatus also requires two sets of individually operable press plates (6 and 7) for pressing the package from above before and after the folding of a sheet of cardboard (2). (FIG.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1994Date of Patent: May 2, 1995Assignee: Pussikeskus OyInventor: Veikko Janhonen
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Patent number: 5248034Abstract: A book package blank and method and machine for its fabrication by a continuous process. A cardboard web (2) of thin and solid pulp is pulled from a reel. The web is gently corrugated between splined rollers (4) to guide the folding of the cardboard around one or more books. The final separated blank is a rectangular sheet of double layered cardboard having bending lines along its two opposite edges between the two superimposed layers. The layers are attached to each other with the exception of two opposite flaps (17) defined by slits (16) in the topmost layer and detached from the bottom cardboard layer, the width of the flaps corresponding to that of the book(s).Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1992Date of Patent: September 28, 1993Assignee: Pussikeskus OyInventor: Tarmo Janhonen
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Patent number: 5115618Abstract: The invention relates to a method for packaging books. The book(s) to be packaged are placed upon a rectangular flat cardboard sheet (11), followed by pulling over the book/books a separate plastic film or paper (17), which is transverse relative to the cardboard sheet and whose ends are fastened to the cardboard sheet to its top surfaces (14) adjacent the long edges thereof, and the ends of said cardboard sheet are folded around an article to be packaged for producing a tubular protective wrapping.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1990Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Assignee: Pussikeskus OyInventor: Veikko I. Janhonen
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Patent number: 4972653Abstract: An apparatus for closing a package around an article to be packaged by folding one or a plurality of closing flaps (3, 4) around the open side of a package. The apparatus comprises a conveyor track (13), first folding means (32) which are movable crosswise of the conveyor track, holder and pusher means (22) mounted below folding means (32) and movable crosswise of the conveyor track, a first conveyor track section followed by a second conveyor track section (13), the latter being vertically liftable and lowerable, and press means (8, 18) mounted above the second track section and vertically liftable and lowerable. Said folding means (32) are adapted to be movable together with holder and pusher means (22) and, in addition, relative to holder and pusher means (22). Above the first conveyor track section are means for positioning and measuring of the width of an arriving package.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Assignee: Pussikeskus OyInventor: Veikko I. Janhonen
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Patent number: 4956961Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for wrapping and closing a book package. On either side of the plane of a strapping frame (4) in an automatic strapping machine (1) are provided folding means (7) for a cardboard package blank (5) as well as vertically movable press members (10) for holding a book package (6) stationary during the folding of cardboard (5) and for pressing and holding the folded cardboard against the top surface of a book package at the same time as the strapping machine winds a strapping band around said package (5, 6).Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Pussikeskus OyInventor: Veikko I. Janhonen