Abstract: An apparatus for continuously forming containers, filling the containers with material and packing the containers containing material includes a heating device for heating a bottom sheet of thermoplastic resin supplied intermittently thereto, a forming device for forming container portions from the heated bottom sheet while keeping the latter continuous, a filling device for filling said container portions with material, a sealing device for sealingly covering the container portions with a cover sheet bearing pitch marks corresponding to symbol marks printed thereon, a punching device for removing the sealed containers from the continuous bottom material sheet, and is characterized by that a mark reading device is disposed at a position separated from the sealing device by a distance equal to a distance between the forming device and the sealing device, that a device is associated with at least one of the sealing device and the punching device for forwardly or reversely moving at least one of the sealing devi

Abstract: A method of preparing a cylindrical corrugated article, comprising supplying a sheet material in between a pair of rotatable forming rolls having interlocking corrugated surfaces thereby to press and corrugate said sheet material, mounting the resulting corrugated article on the rounded surface of one of said forming rolls by means of a guide member, and then discharging the thus mounted cylindrical corrugated article from said forming roll.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a cylindrical corrugated article, which apparatus includes a pair of forming rolls having corrugated surfaces which are drivingly interlocked for causing rotation of the rolls in opposite directions. A sheet material is fed between the rolls to cause corrugation thereof. Grooves extend circumferentially around one of the forming rolls, and ringlike guide plates extend circumferentially around the other forming roll, which guide plates have the fore ends thereof disposed within the grooves. These guide plates thus ensure that the corrugated sheet material is coiled around the other forming roll. A discharging device then coacts with the other roll for axially removing the cylindrical corrugated article therefrom.