Patents by Inventor Joel Mennetrat

Joel Mennetrat has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Packaging machine and method of forming a carton
    Patent number: 7093408
    Abstract: An apparatus for regulating the flow of articles from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine which apparatus comprises a plurality of article feed lanes for supplying a row of articles converging at a predetermined position, each feed lane having a regulator to control article flow, one of said regulators providing a reference position by which the relative positions of the articles may be controlled such that as the lanes converge one row of articles is offset from the or each other rows of articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Philippe Duperray, Joel Mennetrat, Pierre Genty
  • Packaging machine and method of forming a carton
    Publication number: 20020083680
    Abstract: An apparatus for regulating the flow of articles from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine which apparatus comprises a plurality of article feed lanes for supplying a row of articles converging at a predetermined position, each feed lane having a regulator to control article flow, one of said regulators providing a reference position by which the relative positions of the articles may be controlled such that as the lanes converge one row of articles is offset from the or each other rows of articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Philippe Duperray, Joel Mennetrat, Pierre Genty