Abstract: A method for producing a package to receive a ring (7) of reeled wire, tube or the like cut to a predetermined length, especially an electrical line (8). The ring (7) is introduced between two substantially square panels of rigid material, e.g. cardboard or the like, with the center axis of the ring running perpendicular to the panels. A substantially tubular rigid means (10) is after introduced through both panels and the center opening of the ring (7) and is thereafter locked in the introduced position in relation to the ring (7) well as the panels. The package can be used as a reel by removing a protective shell of the package. As an alternative said tubular rigid means can be removed, whereby the line or the like is removed from the center of the package.

Abstract: An automatic packaging system comprising a container fabricating mechanism for forming a tubular structure from laminated paper capable of heat sealing, marking folding guidelines for forming rectangular-prism-shaped containers, cutting individual pouched containers from the tubular structure, and shaping one end of each pouched container, and a packaging mechanism for filling the shaped containers with a filling material and sealing the openings of the containers. The container fabricating mechanism includes a rotating mandrel mechanism formed of a plurality of radially arranged pairs of forming plates to receive the cut pouched containers.

Abstract: An automatic tightening method comprises the steps of transferring a torque, generated in a driving section for a screw cap through a power transmission joint section to a container, thereby screw-tightening the screw cap in a tightening apparatus for screw-tightening the screw cap by a rotational torque from the driving section, detecting a tightening torque applied to the container, adjusting the driving section or the power transmission joint section when the tightening torque reaches a predetermined tightening torque, and holding the predetermined tightening torque for a predetermined period of time, thereby obtaining the predetermined tightening torque irrespective of the transmitted rotation torque. Also, an apparatus for carrying out the method is disclosed herein.

Abstract: A chip collecting device for a routing tool is in the form of a hood or box having a wall surrounding part of the circumference of the routing bit. Chips thrown tangentially outwards from the bit are guided by the wall onto an upwardly sloping ramp when they pass into the suction current of a dust aspirating means that acts in an upward direction adjacent to the bit. The chip collecting hood or box is mounted on the lower side of an L-shaped stop in rails. The stop has a passage for the chips placed over the ramp.

Abstract: A device and method for laminating a barrier film to a blister pack utilizing a two-cycle, reciprocatory carriage assembly. The carriage assembly includes a tray upon which the blister pack is placed and reciprocated in and out of the device housing. During one cycle, the barrier film is prevented from contacting the blister pack by means of a pair of rollers which back the film away from the blister pack a predetermined distance. During the other cycle, the rollers advance the barrier film toward and in contact with the blister pack to apply the film. In addition, the rollers apply pressure through the film and blister pack against preselected pressure or bonding areas associated with the tray sufficient to bond the film to the pack. Different types of blister packs may be laminated by the device by changing the tray to include the necessary pressure or bonding areas.

Abstract: A number of elongate articles such as slide fasteners are placed on a length of a band web supplied on a bundle tray. Free and opposite ends of the length of the band web are gripped by a gripper mechanism with the length surrounding the elongate articles. End portions of the length are then ultrasonically fused together by an ultrasonic horn and an anvil. The opposite end of the length as it is gripped by the gripper mechanism is cut off by a cutter mechanism to form a band bundling the elongate articles. The elongate articles bundled by the band are then discharged by the bundle tray.

Abstract: An attachable apparatus for covering round bales of agricultural harvested goods with a section of a covering inside a molding chamber of a baling press includes a supply roll freely rotatable about a tranversal axis and having an adjustable braking force. The supply roll extends across the width of a housing parallel to the center axis of the press chamber. A pull-off device which initiates the starting phase of the covering process is located adjacent the opening where the goods to be harvested enter or a comparable slit is located in the housing of the press chamber. During the starting phase, the braking effect of the supply roll is considerably reduced or suspended.

Abstract: A bottle divider grid assembly including a plurality of lower dividers for channeling downwardly moving bottles into specified arrays with plastic and/or metal guiding fingers secured onto guide support assemblies, secured into slots defined in the upper and/or lower portions of the lower dividers. The guide support assemblies are removable for maintenance in a manner specifically facilitated by easily removable locking devices. These locking devices are made easily removable by usage of a spring plunger device or a simple single screw which allows complete removal of the guide support assemblies. Also, there can be divider panels positioned immediately above the lower dividers to guide the bottles neatly on the bottle supply conveyor into paths which are then guided downwardly by the guide support assemblies into the pre-chosen arrays.

Abstract: The device for the formation of orderly groups of cigarettes in cigarette-packaging machines, in which each group of cigarettes is formed in a collecting container (6) which passes intermittently through two or more successive feeding stations (1,2,3) and receives in each of them a layer of cigarettes (S1,S2,S.sub.3) formed below the bottom outlets of corresponding substantially vertical feeding channels (C1,C2,C3), comprises interceptors (11) which are provided at the feeding stations to prevent the cigarettes (S) from exiting out of the bottom outlets of the feeding channels (C1,C2,C3).

Abstract: Apparatus for handling a stream of flat, flexible web products where first and second gripper means are disposed to intersect said stream for tandem operation, and with means operably associated with the first gripping means for deactivating the same after a predetermined number of web products has been gripped.

Abstract: A bale-sheathing device is provided for placing a tubular plastics sheath around bales of straw, grass, hay or silage, in order to facilitate chemical treatment of the latter. The bale-sheathing device includes a mobile sheath-carrying structure for supporting and holding open an axially closed-up portion of the sheath in a manner enabling this closed-up portion to be progressively pulled out rearwardly off the sheath-carrying structure. The sheath-carrying structure is forwardly provided with means, such as a pair of inclined guides, for lifting up a bale to be sheathed and guiding it through the closed-up portion of the sheath as the device is advanced. The bale-sheathng device enables a sheath to be passed around each successive bale of a row of juxtaposed bales without having to drag the bale over the sheath or the sheath under the bales.

Abstract: A device for wrapping a bale of ruminant animal feedstuff and injecting it with a chemical treatment, comprising a frame carried by a tractor, and a turntable with spikes thereon on the frame for holding a bale off the ground and rotating it relative to the frame. The device is equipped for holding a supply of wrapping material and for rotating the turntable and a bale thereon with the wrapping material attached to the bale, whereby the wrapping material is wrapped around the bale as the bale rotates with the turntable. The device is also equipped for injecting chemical treatment from a source on the tractor into the bale.A method of injecting a chemical treatment into a bale is also disclosed.

Abstract: A container capping method and system for applying mechanical lock type tamper-evident closures to containers wherein the closures are heated prior to closure application to temporarily increase the flexibility thereof in a manner that tamper-indicating portions of the closures more readily withstand the closure application process without incurring visible damage or otherwise degrading the tamper-indicating function.

Abstract: A baling press for agricultural products has a pressing chamber limited by a plurality of winding rollers, and a device for wrapping a finished bale with a wrapping material, which is provied for its threading into the pressing chamber with guiding elements between wrapping material drawing rollers and the pressing chamber.

Abstract: In wrapping machinery for wrapping articles in heat sealable plastic film, a web of film is drawn from a supply roll and is severed by pulling the film under tension downwardly onto the narrow edge of a thermal cut-off device, which may be a heated rod or blade, to melt the film material along a thin transverse line and to permit severance thereof by pulling. Following severance of the film, the film-wrapped package is sealed by placing the package on a pedestal hot plate. The temperature of the hot plate is higher than that of the thermal cut-off device used to sever the film. The hot plate is supplied by electrical energy from a single source through a temperature sensor and control. The thermal cut-off device obtains its heat by conduction from the hot plate.

Abstract: An apparatus, for controlling dynamic characteristics of a press load, facilitates changing the balance between a hydraulic pressure and a pneumatic pressure in a hydroblank holder, wherein a first pneumatic device which supplies a standard pneumatic pressure with which a predetermined dynamic load can be obtained and a second pneumatic device which supplies a pneumatic pressure higher or lower than the standard pneumatic pressure are provided in parallel in a pneumatic device which supplies pneumatic pressure to the hydroblank holder and the first and second pneumatic devices are switched in accordance with a press stroke and, when the switching is made to low pressure, an accumulator is depressurized by the operation of a depressurizing device.

Abstract: The invention provides the combination of a dispenser and a series of incontinent or catamenial pads that are connected by easily severably areas. These pads may be rolled without harmful effects to the pad. The rolled pads that are connected by severably means are suitable for combination with a dispensing container that allows them to be withdrawn a single pad at a time.In a particularly preferred embodiment an incontinent pad having elasticized edges and double baffle is connected in series by severably portions at the ends. The pad is placed into a generally cubical box and withdrawn either from the center of the roll at the top of the box or from the end of the roll at the side of the box. The container is provided with a removable section at either the top or side for the withdrawal of pads.

Abstract: High speed system and mechanism for selecting a vial or vials from a series line of vials driven in a given spaced relationship into a capping and sealing mechanism, wherein detection signals are taken in a seal force monitor according to preset criteriae such as bottle configuration and efficiency of capping and sealing, and a vial acceptance or rejection device is operatively tied in to the seal force monitor on a screw feed mechanism, the vials being advanced by a screw feed mechanism into pockets in rotating starwheels, gripper fingers are positioned in conjunction with the starwheel and operable by cam means selectively operated by a signal from the monitor to indicate that a specific vial is to be rejected, the gripper fingers being designed to snap around and hold the vial as long as required, a secondary cam being used to drive the gripper fingers back to a normal inoperative position and/or to release a selected vial to be rejected and deposited into a special path, the secondary cam being further de

Abstract: A machine for packing groups or bundles of cigarettes has a packing conveyor 15 on which each wrapped bundle 32 is laterally supported within an outer blank by corner tabs 12 of the blank being reverse folded at a station C before an inner frame 38 is inserted. The tabs 12 subsequently slide along a raised track 28, which extends up to a station G where the inner frame is applied, so that the inner wall 11 of the lid is kept upright. At a downstream station N is a rejector device for faulty packs, including a continuously reciprocating pusher 50 which is swung down into its operative position by a rib cam 76. One of the cam followers 80 is brought into contact with the cam during its dwell portion 77 by operating an actuator 88 to extend and align a pair of toggle links 84, 86.

Abstract: A transportable bagging apparatus for continual, sequential loading of individual bales of agricultural products such as grass, alfalfa, corn stalks, hay, etc., into plastic tubing. The apparatus can be towed by an ordinary farm tractor or other vehicle, and can be loaded with any fork-type bale carrier or loader. A removably mounted bracket delivers plastic tubing from a roll over one of opposite open ends of a vertically positioned, pivotally mounted drum on the apparatus. When the entire roll of plastic tubing is gathered over the drum outer surface and tied over one of the drum's opposite open ends, the drum is then pivoted to a horizontal operating position with the opposite open end facing a bale engaged by a carriage. The engaged bale activates a hydraulic cylinder to force a telescoping ram against the opposite face of the carriage. This causes the engaged bale to enter the drum and load into the plastic tubing.