Abstract: A method of reducing the proportion of oxygen in an at least partly formed package before product is filled into the package in a filling station in a filling machine, where the package comprises a tube-shaped blank of packaging material, the blank being closed in a first end and open in a second end. The method involves, during transport of the package to the filling station from an immediately preceding station in the filling machine, passing the package beneath a supply means for inert gas, and when the package passes the supply means generating a gas pulse in a direction down into the package. An apparatus is provided for reducing the method into practice.

Abstract: An information presentation device and methods for mounting a display sheet to the device. The device includes an elongate housing having a first opening through which the display sheet passes. The display sheet is wound onto a drum within the housing. A releasable attachment arrangement in the form of an attachment strip to which a display sheet can be affixed and a receiving slot in the drum permits a display sheet to be attached to and removed from the information presentation device without the need to disassemble the device.

Abstract: An information presentation device and methods for mounting a display sheet to the device. The device includes an elongate housing having a first opening through which the display sheet passes. The display sheet is wound onto a drum within the housing. A releasable attachment arrangement in the form of an attachment strip to which a display sheet can be affixed and a receiving slot in the drum permits a display sheet to be attached to and removed from the information presentation device without the need to disassemble the device.

Abstract: Drinking straws (1) are enclosed at certain distances from each other and in parallel between two plastic films (2) as a continuous strip (3) of straws. The strip (3) is fed into a transport box (4) without lateral displacements in a straight stack with parallel layers. The internal width of the box (4) corresponds to the width of the strip (3).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical stretching device for the expansion of tissue, in particular for the expansion of skin. The invention is characterized in that it includes one or more threads (1) or bands (1) extending between two fastening arrangements (2). The fastening arrangements have one-way nips for the threads (1) or the bands (1) so that at least one fastening arrangement (2) can be moved on the threads (1), or bands towards the other fastening arrangement. When this happens, the distance between fastening points on the tissue is reduced such that a stretching of the tissue occurs outside the fastening points.