Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for handling and manipulating packages in automated or semi-automated fashion and packages adapted for the same. The systems may include package-holding devices, package-manipulating devices, and package-detection components for locating packages or portions thereof in a three-dimensional space. The packages may include features that enable automated or semi-automated handling and manipulation thereof, such as different types of opening/closing mechanisms with different geometric structures that allow for holding, shifting, and manipulating the packages and/or portions thereof with the package-manipulating devices. The packages additionally or alternatively may include mechanical fasteners, magnets, and/or spring-biased opening/closing mechanisms for keeping the packages closed prior to manipulation thereof.

Abstract: An all-plastic, reciprocating foam dispenser is contemplated. The dispenser relies upon a bellows that also serves as the air chamber/cylinder, thereby eliminating the need for complex valving while also reducing total plastic mass and shortening the axial profile of the dispenser. In this manner, the dispenser can be coupled to narrow-necked containers (?40 mm diameter) and dispense large doses (?1.2 mL). A locking collar secures the pump in a sealed, up-locked position, while also providing greater flexibility to adjust the air-to-liquid ratio to help impart the desired consistency to the dispensed foam product.

Abstract: A method for folding pads shaped as pants includes providing a first wing and a second wing of a pad with hook and loop elements, overturning the first and the second wing by 180° on the plane of the pad, and maintaining the first and the second wing in such position until the pad having the shape of pants is closed.

Abstract: There is provided a dispenser fastening device that automatically fastens a dispenser to a container. The dispenser fastening device comprises a columnar housing, a link unit, a plate connected to the link unit, a side wall of the plate having a recessed shape, a finger tip spaced apart from the plate, a side wall of the finger tip having a recessed shape recessed, a finger base connecting the plate and the finger tip and installed on a first surface of the plate, a first adjusting pulley, a second adjusting pulley, and a driving pulley provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the plate, and a belt surrounding the first adjusting pulley, the second adjusting pulley, and the driving pulley, wherein a center of the first adjusting pulley, a center of the second adjusting pulley, and a center of the driving pulley form a triangle.

Abstract: A device includes a platform configured to receive a plurality of containers, a fan, a manifold, and a biasing element. The manifold is fluidly connected to the fan and directs air into a container of the plurality of containers. Directing air into the container causes the container to at least partially expand to permit the container to be loaded with one or more items. The biasing element biases the platform in a direction toward the air being directed into the container.

Abstract: A container packaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a moving table supporting a container, a bag supply unit configured to supply a vinyl bag to cover the container on the moving table, wherein the vinyl bag has a sealed upper part and an opened lower part, a load port including a pair of support blocks that support the bottom surface of the container transferred from the moving table and are spaced apart with a gap through which the vinyl bag passes, and a thermosetting unit configured to form a sealing line on the lower part of the vinyl bag to seal the vinyl bag, the thermosetting unit including a heating block having a heating coil and an elastic pad in contact with the heating block while the vinyl bag is heated by the heating block.

Abstract: An impact power tool including a housing, a motor supported by the housing, a gear assembly driven by the motor, and an impact assembly driven by the gear assembly. The impact mechanism includes a camshaft, an anvil, and a hammer. The camshaft is coupled to the output of gear assembly and rotates about a rotation axis. The anvil is rotatably supported by the housing and can receive a tool bit. The hammer rotates and moves axially along the camshaft and is configured to selectively impact the anvil. When a reaction torque is greater than a threshold value is applied to the anvil, the hammer moves in a first direction away from the anvil and simultaneously compresses a compressible fluid. At a maximum distance from the anvil, the compressible fluid begins to exert a restoring force on the hammer and moves the hammer in a second direction towards the anvil.

Abstract: The present invention becomes a non-operating state when suspended. In grinder, moving a slide bar in a housing from an OFF to an ON position switches a switch from an OFF to an ON state. A motor stop lever is movably provided in the housing, and is configured to be couplable to a suspension device. Upon receiving a rear tensile force from the suspension device, the motor stop lever moves from an initial position to a withdrawn position. Then, supported portion of the slide bar in the ON position moves to the left, switching the switch from the ON to the OFF state. Specifically, in the withdrawn position of the motor stop lever, a posture-maintaining state of the slide bar in the ON position by the motor stop lever is released, changing a posture of the slide bar, thus switching the switch from the ON to the OFF state.

Abstract: A surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument can include a first jaw, a second jaw, and a jaw closure lockout system. The first jaw can comprise a pivot pin slot and a slide pin slot. The second jaw can comprise an anvil and, in addition, a mounting portion comprising a pivot pin, which can be movably positioned in the pivot pin slot. A shiftable guide can be movably positioned in the first jaw and can comprise a body and a barrier wall. The body can comprise a slide pin movably positioned in the slide pin slot. The barrier wall can be aligned with a portion of the pivot pin slot when the slide pin is positioned within a range of positions in the slide pin slot, and the barrier wall can be offset from the pivot pin slot when the slide pin is positioned outside the range of positions.

Abstract: Envelopes for holding one or more items include a first and a second flexible wall. The second wall overlies, and is affixed to the first flexible wall. The second flexible wall can include a plurality of overlying layers of paper affixed to each other so as to define an interlayer region within which at least two of the plurality of overlying layers of paper are not adhered to each other.

Abstract: A unit for mixing and dispensing an aerosol precursor composition, and containers to be dispensed therefrom. The unit includes a plurality of bulk material filling stations, the plurality of bulk material filling stations have at least one first filling station with aerosol former and at least one second filling station with a flavor material for creating the aerosol precursor. The unit also includes a bulk consumable pack staging a plurality of containers configured to receive the aerosol precursor, and a robot configured to retrieve a container from the bulk consumable pack and move the container through at least two dimensions to stop at at least two of the plurality of bulk material filling stations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dispenser container for pressurized fluids, comprising the steps of providing a cylindrical; a partition wall for separating the internal volume of the cylindrical shell; and a piston; and bringing the partition wall and piston together into the lower part of the cylindrical shell before applying an external indent in the cylindrical shell. The invention further relates to a dispenser container for pressurized fluids as manufactured with this method.

Abstract: A powered handle for a surgical stapler has a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle includes a shaft recognition mechanism such that when a reload shaft for use with the surgical stapler is installed, a control system can actuate the drive system with the recognized shaft. The powered handle further comprises a LED light ring driven by a light control scheme to display a handle status. The control system also includes a startup module to assess hardware and control system performance before use. The startup module assesses different criteria depending on whether the handle is new, previously used, or previously reset. The control system of the powered handle further includes a lockout module configured to identify when a lockout has been encountered. The lockout module applies different criteria depending on whether the motor is operating at a maximum speed state or less than a maximum speed state.

Abstract: A manufacturing line for manufacturing a compostable pod for brewing products, the pod made of two complementary portions. The manufacturing line includes at least one shaping line for shaping the complementary portions, and the shaping line includes: a handling unit for handling the sheet of biodegradable paper-based material with gas barrier biodegradable polymer; a humidifying unit for moistening at least one side of the sheet of biodegradable paper-based material; an optional pre-drying unit for drying, at least partially, the at least one side of the sheet of biodegradable paper-based material; a forming unit for shaping the sheet of biodegradable paper-based material into one of the complementary portions; and a drying unit for drying the at least one side of the sheet of biodegradable paper-based material forming one of the complementary portions.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for forming a sleeve of paper wrapping material around a load of goods.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for the preparation of an instant food and an instant food prepared according to same, wherein even when the instant food is prepared using raw ingredients and liquid sauces that are susceptible to microbial contamination or difficult to sterilize, the amount of microorganisms in the prepared instant food is lower than a threshold value, and thus a sufficient sterilization effect can be achieved, and the problem of reduced quality that may cause due to strict sterilization does not occur, and thus an instant food having excellent texture and taste can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a heat-sealing apparatus of a flow wrapper machine which facilitates efficient, reliable and versatile operation. Notably, the apparatus includes multiple ring gears driven by multiple servo motors in a desirably compact configuration, with the arrangement including quickly removable heat-sealing die heads for efficient operation and service. The improved drive mechanism facilitates more accurate heat-sealing head placement, smoother operation, controlled stops, independent temperature control, and continuous running through die jams. Also included is a four-bar link on the heat-sealing head for opening and closing the heat-sealing dies.

Abstract: An impact tool includes: a motor; a motor housing portion that houses the motor; a grip portion extending downward from the motor housing portion; a hammer rotated by the motor; an anvil that is impacted by the hammer in a rotation direction; a hammer housing portion that houses the hammer; a prop portion arranged on a front side of the grip portion and extending below the motor housing portion or the hammer housing portion; a battery holding portion which is connected to the grip portion and the prop portion and to which a battery pack is detachably attached; and a light emitter unit that is held at a front portion of the hammer housing portion and includes a plurality of light emitters arranged in the rotation direction around the anvil. A lead wire electrically connected to the light emitter unit passes through an inside of the prop portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus, arrangement and method for packaging loaded goods (2) that are palleted or arranged on a pallet (1) by winding a paper web (3) around the goods helically whilst simultaneously unwinding the paper web (3) from a paper roll (4), comprising:—a rotary device (5) for rotating the pallet (1) and the loaded goods (2) located on the pallet (1) about a pallet rotational axis (6), —a roll holder (7) with at least one holding extension (8) for rotatably holding a paper roll (4) about a roll rotational axis (9), —an output device (10) for outputting the paper web (3) unrolled from the paper roll (4) in an output direction (11) pointing towards the rotary device (5) or the loaded goods (2), and—a lifting device (12) for changing the height (13) of the output of the paper web (3) from the output device (10), a pivoting device (14) with a pivoting carrier (16) pivotable about a pivot axis (15) being provided to tilt the output direction (11) of the paper web (3).

Abstract: A beer dispensing system includes a kegerator under a countertop for holding a beer keg; a beer tower above the countertop and having a tap for dispensing the beer; a dispensing line between the keg and the tap for supplying beer from the keg to the tap; a drain line for draining beer in the dispensing line during non-use; a valve selectively movable between a first position connecting the dispensing line to the drain line and disconnecting the dispensing line to the tap, during non-use and a second position connecting the dispensing line between the keg and the tap and disconnecting the dispensing line to the drain line, during use of the beer dispensing system; and a mounting base mounted on and around the countertop for directing the dispensing line around the countertop for connection between the keg and the tap.