Abstract: A method and apparatus for maintaining critical alignments between the neck of a container and closure application stations. The embodiment disclosed illustrates apparatus for handling containers during the process of filling and applying closures to the filled containers. A star wheel with outwardly opening container body pockets and a container guide rail receives filled containers as they are descending from a filling position, and moves the containers through closure pickup and pre-tightening apparatus to a closure applicating machine. A container neck guide receives and guides the necks of filled containers along a predetermined path through the pickup and pre-tightening stations. The neck guide, pickup and pre-tightening stations are supported on the same structure to insure that the predetermined alignment positions are maintained.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying container caps of different sizes to containers includes a main housing arranged for rotation by a driving spindle, an upwardly biased cam rod coaxially disposed relative to the spindle and movable reciprocably, a releasable holding device normally restraining the cam rod against upward movement, a transverse cam follower shaft mounted in a transverse passage formed in the cam rod and having outwardly projecting ends, on which a pair of cam followers are rotatable, a main cam fixed in position relative to the main housing and disposed about the cam rod and having opposed vertical cam tracks in which the outwardly projecting cam followers are disposed, a helix cam arranged for limited angular movement and disposed about the cam rod and within the main cam and having opposed helical cam tracks in which the outwardly projecting ends of the transverse cam followers are disposed whereby limited angular movement is imparted to the helix cam by the biasing means upon release of the cam rod by

Abstract: In a method for affixing a ribbon to a bag containing rolls etc. the bag is continuously fed to a predetermined position. A tie material is continuously fed such that the tie material is close to the bag, is able to tie up the open top of the bag, and then is severed for a specific length. Also, the ribbon is continuously and longitudinally fed along the bag to the open top thereof and severed for a specific length. A tie piece severed from the tie material is wound around the open top to tie up the open top together with the ribbon and to affix the ribbon to the bag.

Abstract: Apparatus for cartoning liquid-filled pouches. A horizontal intermittent motion cartoner conveys cartons in a vertical orientation. At a first station, a hole is formed in a lower major flap. At a second station, glue is applied in a circular pattern around the hole. The flaps are then closed with the glue exposed to the inside bottom of the carton. A liquid-filled pouch is deposited by gravity into the carton. The upper portion of the pouch is tamped within the carton and the upper flaps closed and sealed.

Abstract: A device for the step feeding of web material for making bags, in automatic bag-filling machines. The device comprises two opposing feeding members which are made to rotate continuously and are supported by slides running along horizontal guides, in order to move alternatively from an advanced position in which they frictionally feed and move forward a sufficient length of web material to form a bag, to a retracted position.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for sealing jars and other containers within specialized environments, such as a vacuum, is provided. The containers are introduced into chambers of a rotary drum, and an outer enclosure for the drum is provided by means of a substantially flexible moving belt which conforms to the periphery of the drum and seals the chambers. A vacuum may then be introduced to the chamber to evacuate the interior of the container, and the lid of the container may then be secured to maintain the desired vacuum within the container. The flexible belt may move in synchrony with the rotation of the drum, eliminating relative motion between the outer enclosure and the drum and avoiding need for complex sliding seals. The device is quickly adaptable to sealing and closing numerous configurations and sizes of containers.

Abstract: A method of producing bales of agricultural products includes wrapping a bale with a wrapping material, discharging the fully wrapped bale from the press, and forming a new bale, with an intermediate storage of the product in the press retained as short as possible by overlapping of some of the method steps, so that the time required from the beginning of wrapping of a finished bale to the beginning of forming a new bale is very short.

Abstract: A continuous molding machine (10) for forming two chains (55) of soil plugs (50) for use in germinating seeds or otherwise growing plants. A continuous sheet of paper (22) is corrugated to conform to a series of mold elements (14) and a reaction mixture (32) of polymerizing agent and soil slurry is added over the paper to conform to the mold element shape. Another sheet of paper (38) is added over the top of the mixture (32) and the entire assembly is then passed under a series of pressure belts (42, 44, 46) during which time the mixture (32) is cured. The chain of soil plugs (50) which emerges from the pressure belts (42, 44, 46) is encased on both sides by paper (22, 38) and may be cut to provide a pair of separate soil plug chains (55).

Abstract: The invention pertains to a self-cleaning high speed core boring tool for enlarging an existing deep hole. The elongated tool includes a shank held within a rotating tool holder, a central portion upon which cutting elements are mounted in diametrically located relationship, and the forward end of the tool comprises a cylindrical extension having a pair of spiral flutes defined therein each of which communicates with a cutting element for receiving chips. The flutes spiral in a direction opposite to the direction of tool rotation during boring whereby chips received within the flutes are displaced forwardly of the cutting elements to keep the cutting area free of chips.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a combination of a case accommodating a flexible ynthetic plastics container or bag having a pouring opening and filled at least partly with liquid. The starting point for forming the case is a blank having such folding lines and cuts that when the blank is folded about the synthetic plastics bag, the latter is automatically fixed in the case being formed. The blank has two rectangular portions, one so-called base portion and a top face portion, which portions are interconnected by a second end face panel. The two edges of the base portion opposite the second end face panel and the top face portion connect with a first end face panel and a third end face panel, respectively. The opposed free edges of the base portion and the top face portion connect with side panels, and at least a part of the end face panels is provided with flaps. The various portions are interconnected by means of folding lines.

Abstract: A packing machine for the manufacture of packing containers wherein tubular packing container blanks which in flattened condition are placed into a magazine and wherein the feeding out of packing container blanks from the magazine is accomplished by a reciprocating driving element (7) located at the lower end of the magazine (7) which is provided with fingers which engage the open ends of the container blanks and to feed out one blank at a time is disclosed. As a result, a reliable operation, independent of the thickness of the blank, is obtained.

Abstract: Gear teeth of the gear being worked are machined by rotating the gear with a gear-type machining tool moved radially into tangential contact with the gear being worked. The relative of rotation rates of the gear and the tool are determined by the number of gear teeth in both the gear and the tool. The tooth width of the gear-type machining tool, which may be a worm gear, is less than the finished measurement of the tooth space of the gear being worked. When the gear-type tool reaches the prescribed manufacturing center distance, it is contiguous with the gear from one frontal face to the other. Two flanks of the gear are machined by feeding either the gear or tool in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction of movement so that the teeth of the tool can machine the gear tooth flanks as the gear and the tool rotate. First one flank of each tooth of the gear may be machined and then, by reversing the movement direction, the other flank of the tooth is machined.

Abstract: A coolant inducer pipe has one end thereof communicating with a source of coolant and is fixedly supported to place the opposite open end thereof adjacent to and beneath a machine tool spindle. The coolant inducer pipe is engageable with a coolant inducer ring on a metal cutting tool simultaneously with engagement of the cutting tool shank within the machine tool spindle.

Abstract: Cigarettes are transferred by a rotatable device from the exit ends of guide channels in a receiving funnel to a device which arranges the cigarettes in layers for subsequent formation of cigarette blocks to be wrapped. The rotatable transfer device consists of a drum provided with spaced groups of cigarette receiving grooves on its periphery, the receiving funnel and the layer-forming device being generally oppositely situated with respect to the drum and being vertically separated whereby gravity feed to and discharge from the drum may be effected. A mechanism for insuring that cigarettes will be fed from the receiving means to all of the grooves of each group on the drum at the same time is associated with the drum.

Abstract: The drill stand has a vertical column and a clamp moveably mounted on the column. A carriage adapted to support a drill is moveably mounted on the column for movement with and with respect to the clamp. A link is pivoted on the clamp and has two pivot locations. A lever arm is pivotally connected to the carriage and has two roller pivots selectively engageable with either of the pivot locations to change the force multiplication and travel distance as the arm is pivoted about the selected pivot location. Each pivot location is at the end of a track having one portion on a curve centered on the link connection to the clamp and another portion on an arc centered on the pivot location associated with the other of the tracks. Each roller engages one of the tracks. The pivot locations are closer together than are the rollers so only one roller can be in a pivot location at one time.

Abstract: Header cards adapted for folding around small flexible articles, such as infants vinyl pants, are packaged on an automatic folding machine. The folding machine includes a first station for automatically feeding unfolded header cards from a magazine onto a conveyor. A second station provides for folding of a first flap onto the header card using an inclined bar and a plunger assembly. A third station provides for folding and sealing the two side flaps, while the fourth station holds the package together until the adhesive has had a chance to set.

Abstract: A disposable, portion controlled container for condiments and other comestibles formed from heat sealable material is disclosed, featuring an easy opening of the container by virtue of a unique fold and heat seal made at one corner of the container during manufacture. An inside reverse fold is made in one corner of the container and a heat seal made along a four thickness layer of this inside reverse fold defines a tear line, stronger than the adjacent material. A tab extended from this four thickness heat seal of the inside reverse fold provides the means for opening the container along the tear line. The size of the opening in the container is controlled by the initial width of material used to form the inside reverse fold.

Abstract: A machining center comprises a bed and an arch-shaped column having a pair of post portions spaced from each other in the transverse direction of the bed and a crossbeam portion connecting the post portions. A spindle head is supported on the crossbeam portion of the column to be movable both in the vertical direction and in the transverse direction of the bed and supports a spindle which is rotatable about a substantially vertical rotating shaft and on which a tool is demountably mounted. A base table is supported on the bed between the post portions of the column to be movable back and forth and a support supported on the base table by a supporting portion of the base table to be rotatable in an indexing manner about a rotating shaft inclined upward toward the front end thereof at 45.degree. to the rotating shaft of the spindle. A turn table is provided on the support to be rotatable in an indexing manner about a rotating shaft at 45.degree.

Abstract: A wicket bar construction for mounting mesh bags on the bagger portion of an automatic weigher/bagger machine including a wicket bar, spaced prongs extending outwardly from the wicket bar and having first free ends and second ends attached to the wicket bar at junctions, the spaced prongs extending through spaced openings in the top rim of one side of the bags, and blades mounted at the junctions of the prongs and the wicket bar for severing the top strand adjacent the spaced openings when the bag is pulled away from the wicket bar.

Abstract: Blocks of cheese are entubed in relatively thin plastic film wrapping material that is heat shrinkable and sealable. According to the method and apparatus, the entubed blocks of cheese are heated to tightly shrink the wrap onto the blocks of cheese to drive air out from between the cheese and the film wrap to provide for good shelf-life and to maintain flavor and other qualities of the product.