Abstract: A stacking packaging machine and a process for stacking and packaging resilient workpieces. The workpieces are usually rolled paper products. The machine is comprised of an input conveyor, an elevator, cams, workpiece holders, a packaging film feeder and an output conveyor. A first group of workpieces is placed upon the elevator by the input conveyor and the elevator is lowered. The workpiece holders are brought into place. A second group of workpieces are fed into the holders and held above the first group. The elevator begins to rise and the second group of workpieces are released. The stacked workpieces rise on the elevator toward the output conveyor. Packaging film is fed over the stacked workpieces. The film drapes over the workpieces as they rise preventing any workpieces from falling off the stack. The workpieces enter the output conveyor and are moved to final processing. The timing of the whole sequence is controlled by the cams.

Abstract: A continuous packaging sleever assembly and process for wrapping packaging sleeves about product groups. The assembly has a frame structure with a generally horizontal working surface, a transfer conveyor to move the product containers across the working surface, and horizontally movable flight bar structures connected to a continuous chain structure. The flight bar structures are constructed and arranged to be selectively movable in a generally perpendicular direction to the product transfer conveyor means and to separate the product containers into predetermined groups. A packaging sleeve transfer and placement structure is provided in synchronization with the flight bar structures for depositing flat packaging sleeves between adjacent flight bar structures and above the product groups. The flight bar structures simultaneously move the product groups and the individual sleeves thereon.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular bagging machine comprising at least two cross-welding jaws arranged on opposing sides of a foil tube to be welded and rotating along a self-contained cam track. In order to be able to precisely infuence the amount of air to be enclosed in a tubular bag the invention provides squeezing members such that each one squeezing member is provided in direction of movement in front of the cross-welding jaws, which squeezing memer contacts the tubular bag only over a portion of its width in order to squeeze in this manner the air in the tubular bag out of said bag. The tubular bagging machine of the invention can particularly be used for large tubular bags, in which a defined air cushion must be constructed to protect sensitive goods.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production and packaging of a bag-type dispenser comprising a casing surmounted by a dome, a sealed flexible bag fixed in said casing and dispensing means sealingly connected to said dome and to said bag characterized in that, prior to any other assembly and packaging operation, a dome of plastics material is produced by moulding, the dome comprising an internal tubular portion permitting sealing fixing thereon on to the upper end of a skirt forming the blank for the bag, and then said fixing is produced, thus providing a preassembled component, dome+skirt, the dome further comprising portions for fixing thereof respectively on to the upper end of the casing and to the dispensing means. The invention also concerns the resulting sub-assemblies and bag-type dispensers. The invention is used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetological, hygiene and foodstuff fields.

Abstract: Apparatus for packing a number of small packages into containers of a larger size and having an inclined conveyor for receiving packages, a counter flat adjacent to upper end of the conveyor for generating count signals, a storage chute for receiving packages being angled downwardly, container holders located adjacent to the chute lower end adapted to hold container in registration with the chute lower end for receiving packages the holder means being intermittently operably whereby to move the container when it has received a predetermined number of said packages, and to place an empty container, in registration with the chute lower end, and, controls operable to cause intermittent movement of the holder in response to a predetermined number of count signals, and a method of packing packages on the apparatus.

Abstract: Strapper with a mechanism that has a tensioning wheel and tensions a section or steel strap obtained from a supply role and wrapped around a package and with a mechanism that has a stationary lower jaw and an upper jaw that executes a punching motion, fastening together the overlapping ends of the strap with at least two pairs of angled cuts positioned along the strap. The upper jaw that executes the punching motion is mounted and operated such that, as it executes its intended punching motion, one of the pairs of angled cuts begins to be introduced before the other pair does. To introduce the pairs of angled cuts, the operating surface of the upper jaw, the surface, that is, that faces the lower jaw, executes an essentially roller motion over the operating surface of the lower jaw combined with a motion that approaches the upper jaw to the lower jaw, so that the motion that introduces the first pair of angled cuts to begin terminates before the next pair of cuts to begin.

Abstract: A compact, low shipping volume paper product comprising a compression loaded, core-wound roll of paper and a compression constraining element; and concomitant method of making such a paper product. The roll comprises a length of paper which is wound on a tubular core, and which roll may have an obround or parallelopipedal shape due to being unidirectionally compressively loaded after winding; and then constrained against expanding by a suitable constraining element. Preferably, the roll is sufficiently compressively loaded to completely flatten the core. In another aspect of the invention, the roll may be further compressed by applying a compressive loading that is substantially greater than that needed to cause the core to become flat; and, some of that high compressive loading may be relieved before the constraining element is applied or secured.

Abstract: The invention is a method of forming large-volume foam cushions for packaging purposes wherein each cushion comprises a closed bag formed from respective first and second superposed sheets of plastic material and filled with foam.

Abstract: An inert gas substitution method comprising blowing an inert gas into a container in the state wherein an opening of a container is covered with an inert gas substitution apparatus (5, 20) having an inert gas blow opening (7, 30), thereby substituting the inert gas within the container, and after substitution, covering the opening of the container with a cover material film (15). An inert gas substitution apparatus (5) formed with an inert gas blow opening (7) and having a plate of which bottom surface is flat. An inert gas substitution apparatus (20) having a chamber (21) of which bottom surface is open, the chamber (21) covering an opening of a container to blow an inert gas into the container.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for packaging a plurality of individual packages containing fluent material is disclosed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for making an easy open substantially rectangular bag of compressed flexible articles in which the flexible articles are arranged in a stack and held in compression in a direction substantially parallel to their thickness.

Abstract: For baling shrubs or bushes, in particular rose bushes, the roots (12) of the plants (10) substantially freed from soil are embedded in a moisture-containing substrate (14) such as peat and provided with a sheath or envelope. For this purpose a hollow of wire grating (16) is formed which is then partially filled with substrate (14). Thereafter the roots (12) of the lying plant (10) are placed on the substrate (14). Further substrate (14) is then applied to the roots (12). Finally the wire grating (16) is deformed by bending two edges (24, 26) of the hollow together to form a tube and the edges (24, 26) of the wire grating (16) are fixedly connected together. A machine for carrying out this method comprises at least one trough (48) onto which the wire grating (16) can be placed. A ram (74) is shaped complementary to the trough (48) and adapted to be pressed into the latter to deform the wire grating (16 ) to a hollow.

Abstract: The apparatus is fitted with a transfer turntable (1) suitable for conveying dishes in the open state from a station for dispensing open dishes to a filling station, and then from the filling station to a station for receiving filled dishes. The turntable comprises a top plate (10) whose openings retain the lids of the dishes and a bottom plate (11) whose openings receive the bottoms of the dishes, said bottoms resting constantly against a fixed refrigerated sole plate (55) while they are being transferred. The turntable (1) is driven by means of a drive disk (6) placed beneath the sole plate (55) and magnetically coupled to the turntable by means of two series of facing magnets (61-12). The apparatus is suitable for constituting laboratory equipment.

Abstract: In a method of radiation sterilization of medical articles, replacing the oxygen in the sterilization package with nitrogen prior to sterilizing prevents most of the brittleness and discoloration in the articles.

Abstract: An apparatus for seaming a can end to a filled cylindrical can includes can feed device for supporting the bottom of the can rotatably about its own axis and feeding the can linearly along a travel path at a predetermined speed. A can end holder member is provided for detachably holding the can end directly above the can feed device and holding the can end rotatably about its own axis. A can end feed member is provided for moving the can end holder member to feed the can end in synchronism with the can which is fed by the can feed device. A lifting/lowering member is provided for lowering the can end holder member to hold the can end held by the can end holder member against an open end of the can. A seaming device is provided and extends linearly along the travel path for pressing an end hook of the can end against a flange of the can while the can end against which the can end is held is being fed by the can feed device.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for arranging articles in a container, wherein the articles are stacked within the container. In one embodiment, a container is fed in a substantially horizontal upper position and transferred to a nonhorizontal position. Articles are horizontally fed to the container while the container is in the nonhorizontal position, and the articles are stacked in rows within the container. The articles are arranged such that the container can be used to display the articles for sale.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for packaging items, for example herring, sardines or similar fishes in cans, is provided. The fish are conveyed at continuous speed lying on a conveyor with a predetermined longitudinal and transversal orientation. The foremost fish on the conveyor is moved while maintaining its orientation to a first compartment in a line of compartments adjacent the path of the conveyor. The next following fish on the conveyor is moved correspondingly to the next following compartment in the line, until the number of fishes in the compartments equals the number of fishes to be canned in one can. The line of compartments is then shifted away from the conveyor to a can, while the fishes are turned around their longitudinal axis within the compartments to a predefined position. Finally, the fishes are pressed out of the compartments and into the can.

Abstract: A sealed dispensing cup is prepared by forming a portion of a plastic sheet into a cup, adding dispensable material to the cup, placing a sealable closure over the open end of the cup and marginally beyond the periphery of the open end to provide an overlap area that includes a lateral rim section, sealing the closure to the lateral rim section, excising the lateral rim section, with its subtending cup, from the plastic sheet in a configuration that includes an elongated handle portion extending outwardly from the rim, and shaping the elongated handle portion into the form of a finger mount.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling sacks is disclosed which has opposed clamps for engaging the initially collapsed sacks adjacent to the side portions of their opening-defining edges, suction devices included in the clamps, which engage mutually opposite side walls of the sacks adjacent to their opening-defining edges and pull said side walls apart, and a filling pipe. The carriers for the suction devices are provided each on each side of the sack at least below the suction device or suction devices with a transversely extending bar, which is made of elastomeric material and urges the pulled apart edge portions of the sacks into sealing contact with the side walls of the filling funnel.

Abstract: A packaging system wraps a sheet material around an article supplied at an article supply station and discharges the article at a discharge station. The packaging system includes a turret which is intermittently rotated by 180.degree., a pair of body wrapping mechanisms which are provided on the turret at an interval of 180.degree. so that they are alternately positioned at the article supply station and the article discharge station when the turret is stopped. Each of the body wrapping mechanisms wraps the sheet material around the body of the article while the body wrapping mechanism is rotated from the article supply station to the article discharge station. A sheet supply mechanism supplies the sheet material, while the turret is stopped, from outside to a predetermined position on the turret where the sheet material can be supplied to the body wrapping mechanism.