Patents by Inventor Wayne F. Everman

Wayne F. Everman 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).

  • Apparatus for filling a lined container
    Patent number: 4872493
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for filling a bulk container with particulate material from a source through a filling spout assembly that includes a pair of concentric inner and outer tubes connectable to the source and to a container opening, respectively, whereby while material is being delivered to the container from the source through the inner spout member, air is introduced into the container and is being exhausted from the container through a pair of air transfer ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wayne F. Everman
  • Container forming apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4798571
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming a three-piece paperboard, bulk shipping container from a flat collapsed tubular body member and a pair of flat end members, which apparatus and method includes means for erecting the body member from the flat collapsed to the tubular erected condition, pushing both end members against opposite ends of the erected body member at the same time, and then folding and securing the flanges of the end members to opposite ends of the body member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug, Raymond L. Russell
  • Box filling apparatus
    Patent number: 4782865
    Abstract: Apparatus for simultaneously vibrating and weighing a bulk container, as it is being filled, and for automatically modulating the intensity of the vibrating motion during the filling operation as is being filled, to insure complete settling and compaction of the product without having product spilled out of the container by excessive vibration, especially during the latter stages of the filling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wayne F. Everman
  • Apparatus for making bulk containers from laminated paperboard
    Patent number: 4717371
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for making a bulk container from a pair of outer and inner blanks of foldable sheet material such as paperboard wherein the blanks are laminated to each other to form a multi-ply sheet then scored to provide fold lines, and then glued and folded to provide a tubular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug, Raymond L. Russell
  • Apparatus and method for forming, inserting, filling and closing a container liner bag
    Patent number: 4698951
    Abstract: Apparatus and method wherein at a single operating station a flexible liner bag can be formed and inserted into an outer bulk container, and then the bag can be filled and its open end closed and sealed automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug
  • Film tube gusset forming machine
    Patent number: 4578051
    Abstract: A machine for converting tubular plastic film from flat fold to pleated fold cross section which includes self-contained radio controlled inflating capsule positioned within the tube to inflate it as the gussets are being formed by conventional forming or plowing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wayne F. Everman
  • Method and apparatus for forming plastic liners and inserting them into bulk containers
    Patent number: 4537584
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a plastic liner bag from a roll of plastic sleeve material and inserting the liner bag snugly within and over the upper edges of a bulk container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, D. Michael Lewis, Raymond L. Russell
  • Apparatus for assembling items
    Patent number: 4143773
    Abstract: Food patties are severed from logs and fed into magazines. A plurality of logs may be processed simultaneously; and the severed patties may be simultaneously fed in columns into one or more magazines. Under certain conditions columns of patties are moved through a transition means to separate same prior to entering the magazines. Thereafter successive magazines are moved to a position where the patties are sequentially deposited from the magazines onto a divider web and conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Swift & Company
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Vincent E. Bernard
  • Method and apparatus for assembling items
    Patent number: 4051753
    Abstract: Food patties are severed from logs and fed into magazines. A plurality of logs may be processed simultaneously; and the severed patties may be simultaneously fed in columns into one or more magazines. Under certain conditions columns of patties are moved through a transition means to separate same prior to entering the magazines. Thereafter successive magazines are moved to a position where the patties are sequentially deposited from the magazines onto a divider web and conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Assignee: Swift & Company
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Vincent E. Bernard