Patents Issued in February 13, 2018
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Patent number: 9889962Abstract: The invention relates to a precut blank (1) consisting of a foldable material such as corrugated cardboard, paperboard or carton for producing automatically erectable packaging, in particular, a tray. The precut blank has a bottom (3) and hinged to it, two lateral panels (4), a rear panel (6) and a front panel (5), as well as two connecting flaps (7, 8) hinged to the front panel (5) and two hinged to the rear panel (6). According to the invention, an unstressed elastic element (15) is fastened at the connecting flaps (7) that are hinged to the front panel. Further, the invention relates to packaging erected from the precut blank (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: DS Smith Packaging Deutschland Stifung & Co. KGInventors: James McDonald, Gert De Smedt, Fredrik Jacobsson
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Patent number: 9889963Abstract: A container of stacked moist wipes includes a dispenser housing. The housing defines top and bottom walls, first and second side walls, and first and second end walls. The walls collectively define an interior space, and the first end wall can be removed to provide access to the interior space via a refill orifice. The top wall includes a dispensing orifice through which wipes are extracted. A refill direction is generally perpendicular to a dispensing direction. In particular embodiments, the dispensing orifice is covered by a lid assembly. In certain embodiment, the first end wall includes a removable cap that has no permanent connection to the top wall, bottom wall, first side wall, or second side wall. In certain embodiments, the top wall, the bottom wall, the first side wall, the second side wall, and a permanent layer of the second end wall are integrally molded with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Christopher M. Bechyne, Brian J. Brigham, Jereme N. Dumm, Scott A. Ternovits
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Patent number: 9889964Abstract: Embodiments relate to a cover, a method of covering, and a cover system for shipments of products transported by air with ULDs. The cover system can be adapted to any skid such as wooden or plastic pallets used for smaller loads used in air transport or any other mode of transportation. The cover system can include one or multiple parts. Each part of the cover system can be made of one or more layers. Each layer can be made of a single material or a combination of different materials. Different parts of the cover can be made of different materials or different combination of materials. The cover system provides thermal protection to temperature-sensitive products in or on the ULD. The cover system maintains the proper relative humidity level and gas concentrations for horticultural product loads. The cover system decreases the amount of water vapor released in the cargo holds.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: BLUEYE, LLCInventors: Jean-Pierre Emond, William Pelletier
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Patent number: 9889965Abstract: A leak-proof, interlocking, stackable travel container assembly has a sealing plug and a plurality of travel containers. The sealing plug is designed to create an airtight seal when positioned within an opening. In order to do so, the sealing plug has a first sealing ring, a second sealing ring and a lip. Each of the plurality of travel containers has a neck portion, an opening, a body portion and a base portion. The opening perpendicularly traverses into the neck portion allowing an user to place and remove items within the travel container. When required, the sealing plug is placed within the opening. Next, a protective cap is used to surround the sealing plug. If multiple travel containers are to be used, a base interlocking mechanism and a neck interlocking mechanism are used for interlocking each of the plurality of travel containers.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventors: William Earl Morgan, Linda Lee Morgan
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Patent number: 9889966Abstract: A container for the storage and dispensing of viscous liquids having an opening with a valve, a vent, and a modified inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Franco Silva Medeiros, Ralph Albert Sagel, Raymond Charles Bell, Christopher Lawrence Smith
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Patent number: 9889967Abstract: A component tray system, the system including a tray having one or more pockets, each pocket adapted to receive at least one component, and a removable, thermoformed sheet adapted to cooperate with said tray to reduce at least the depth of said on or more pockets. In some embodiments, the tray has a top surface and a bottom surface, pockets being defined on either or both of the top and bottom surfaces. In some embodiments, the thermoformed sheet is adapted to cooperate with the top surface or the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Leong Chow Cheah, Hong Yung Bee, Muda Alang @ Sabri Bin Ahmad
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Patent number: 9889968Abstract: A cup/lid combination includes a sleeve disposed about an exterior surface of an open-top container for movement relative to the container. A first magnet is disposed adjacent to the open top for movement relative to the container. A link assembly coupled to the sleeve and to the first magnet causes the movement of the sleeve and the movement of the first magnet to be in opposing directions. A drinking lid disposed on the open top has a gravity-controlled closure element and a second magnet coupled to the closure element. The first and second magnets are positioned for magnetic interaction to thereby fix a position of the closure element when the sleeve is only subject to the force of gravity. The first and second magnets are positioned for no magnetic interaction when the movement of the sleeve opposes the force of gravity.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventors: Cory L Morewitz, Herbert Morewitz, II
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Patent number: 9889969Abstract: The present invention provides a process for incorporating a wireless device into a plastic container as part of the steps of manufacturing the container. The plastic container can be a flexible plastic bag and are formed of one or more sheets, generally two or more sheets of plastic film or a rigid plastic container such as a tub or tote. The bags are formed by sealing together adjacent edge portions of each film layer. One embodiment of the present invention is to incorporate a wireless device between the edge portions of the film(s) before or during sealing so that the wireless device becomes permanently sealed into the film material but is isolated from both the bag interior and the outside environment. Another embodiment is to incorporate the wireless device onto or into a plastic component that is sealed to the container, such as a nipple or port, so that the wireless device becomes permanently sealed to the container but is isolated from both the container interior and the outside environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: EMD Millipore CorporationInventors: Aaron Burke, David DeCoste
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Patent number: 9889970Abstract: The novelty gift container is a container that is adapted for use in containing and transporting objects. The novelty gift container is decorated with a plurality of motivational symbols and a plurality of instructional messages that, in concert with the object contained within the novelty gift container, are intended to improve the psychological state of a person receiving the novelty gift container. The novelty gift container comprises a container, a plurality of motivational symbols, and a plurality of instructional messages.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventor: Phillip Woody
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Patent number: 9889971Abstract: The invention relates to a stopper device with an external cap made from plastic and an internal insert for fixing the device around the neck of the container. The sleeve of the cap forms a head, into which the insert may be introduced and permanently fixed and a skirt extending axially from the insert. According to the invention, contamination on the neck of the container may be limited and the appearance improved. Particularly at the base of the neck, the skirt essentially forms a frustum converging towards the axis of the sleeve on extending from the head, before the installation of the device around the neck, the frustum forming, at the end opposite the head, an internal surface to come into contact against the container neck under the influence of an elastic deformation of the sleeve as a result of the installation of the device around the neck.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SOLOCAP-MAB S.A.Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Gregory Antier
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Patent number: 9889972Abstract: A bottle crown engagement system includes a cap structure sized and shaped to releasably receive a bottle crown. The bottle crown engagement system also includes a magnetically attractable clamping member configured to magnetically interact with the cap structure to releasably affix the cap structure to an attachment surface between the cap structure and the magnetically attractable clamping member.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Kam Tech, LLCInventor: Chris Sugai
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Patent number: 9889973Abstract: A storage container having a sensor unit and a refrigerator having the same. The storage container includes a container body; a container cover coupled to the container body; a sensor module disposed at least at one of the container body or the container cover; and a coupling member provided as to accommodate at least a portion of the sensor module, and detachably coupled to at least one of the container body or the container cover. The sensor unit is detachably coupled to the storage container, and thus a replacement of the sensor unit may be easily performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Bum Seo, Jung-Geun Lee, Kang Il Song
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Patent number: 9889974Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a seal between an open body end of a container body and an edge of a lid which is pressable into the open end of the body in a sealing manner, both made from sheet metal, wherein at the end of the body the sheet metal is bent outward by approximately 180° with a bending radius, the lid edge, which is separated from a lid surface by a channeled bead, extending axially upward with its radially external defining edge of the bead beyond an axial position of the lid surface and being bent outwards with a radius which is larger than the bending radius at the body end, to form a rolled edge for receiving an annular sealing material filling the rolled edge and extending downwards, wherein a sheet edge of the rolled edge terminates at a radial distance before the defining edge, said distance being dimensioned such that during the sealing process the body end, with the bending radius thereof in contact with the defining edge of the lid, may be inserted between the same and the sealing mateType: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: ARDAGH MP GROUP NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Uwe Kloss, Birger Keilberg, Manfred Hubert
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Patent number: 9889975Abstract: The present invention provides a dropper having a light that can be switched on and off. The light provides illumination when liquid is being dispensed from a hollow tube of the dropper. The light helps to see how much of the liquid is being dispensed so that liquid would not be wasted.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventors: Ronald E Van Tassell, III, Dylan Harrison, Matthew Paul Lilly
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Patent number: 9889976Abstract: Various embodiments include a child resistant and senior friendly dispenser. The dispenser can be used to hold or retain medicine such as, for example, pills. The dispenser can include a bottle and a bottle cap. The cap can restrict access to the contents of the bottle based on one or more incorporated child resistant features. The cap can include a base and a lid. The base can be coupled to a top portion or neck of the bottle to secure the cap to the bottle. The lid can include one or more snaps for securing to the base when in a closed positioned. The base can include one or more corresponding recesses or slots for accepting and securing the snaps.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: CVS Pharmacy, Inc.Inventors: Michael David Miller, Jacquelyn Hui-Yan Wan, Bennett P. Daley, Peter Rezac, Timothy Bernard Coker, Ryan Neil Peter Hall, Timothy Andrew Vanderpoel
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Patent number: 9889977Abstract: A child-resistant container has a container body having an externally threaded neck (36) and a first pair of engagement features. A cap closes the container body in a closed condition and is removable from the closed condition. The cap comprising the unitary combination of an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall. The inner sidewall has an internal thread for engaging the neck external thread. An outer sidewall for gripping by a user has first and second pairs. The second pair of segments are hinged to the inner sidewall for depressably flexing from relaxed condition to a flexed condition and bear a second pair of engagement features. In the installed condition of the cap and relaxed condition of the second pair of segments, the first pair of engagement features and second pair of engagement features are positioned to collide to block an unscrewing rotation of the cap. An upper web joins the inner sidewall and the outer sidewall first pair of segments.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Plastek Industries, Inc.Inventor: Peter A. Piscopo
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Patent number: 9889978Abstract: A protective cap for a dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic liquids, wherein the dispenser has a liquid reservoir and an outlet opening through which the liquid can be dispensed into a surrounding atmosphere, and wherein the protective cap has at least one ventilation opening to allow communication between an interior and external surroundings. An irreversibly removable sealing element which covers the at least one ventilation opening is arranged on the protective cap, which sealing element closes the at least one ventilation opening in an airtight and germproof manner before a first use.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Matthias Wochele
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Patent number: 9889979Abstract: A lock-box may include a set of walls defining a compartment, an electromechanical lock assembly, and a door rotatably coupled to the set of walls that, when in a closed position, forms a fully enclosed lock-box, the door including a front side that includes a user interface in communication with the electromechanical lock assembly, and by which a user interfaces to lock and unlock the door. The front side of the door further includes a panel configured to be backlit and an illumination device configured to backlight the panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Safemark Systems, LPInventor: Scott Nelson
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Patent number: 9889980Abstract: The present invention provides a dividable packaging structure, which includes: a plurality of first and second side frame members (2, 4) and a plurality of corner connection pieces (6) respectively connected to the first and second side frame members (2, 4). The plurality of corner connection pieces (6) connects the first side frame members (2) and the second side frame members (4) together to form a frame. The dividable packaging structure of the present invention has a dividable and thus splittable configuration, allowing for effective reduction of material cost. To package an object, the frame carries and supports the objet and the corner connection pieces provide positioning of the object to effectively prevent the object from shifting during shipment that may lead to occurrence of deformation of the objet.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Qinjun Shi
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Patent number: 9889982Abstract: Aerosol actuation mechanisms include improvements allowing a user to extend the reach of an aerosol application device, apply an aerosol in a windy environment, improve coverage of the aerosol product, or facilitate improved ability to ensure coverage for an aerosol product.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Silgan Dispensing Systems CorporationInventors: Sara Jane Falcon, Ryan A. Bailey, Kelly A. Harrigan, Connie Tran, Steve Kazanjian, Bradford J. Walling
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Patent number: 9889983Abstract: The invention relates to a (cigarette) package consisting of an outer package (10) and two inner packages (11, 12). The latter can be moved by a pivoting movement about a respective articulation joint in the region of an outer base wall (40) out of the closed position (upright within the outer package (10)) into an oblique open position. To this end a covering tab (28) which closes off the cup-shaped inner package (11, 12) on the upper face is automatically moved out of the closed position, such that the oblique inner package (11, 12) is ready for the removal of the contents of the packaging.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: JT International S.A.Inventors: Henry Buse, Viktor Hein, Burkard Roesler
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Patent number: 9889984Abstract: A corrugated container for shipping a glass sheet, such as an automotive windshield, is disclosed. The container includes one or more support braces for contacting a first side of the glass sheet and one or more braces for contacting the opposing second side of the glass sheet. Suction cups can be connected to the braces. A cross-brace, generally perpendicular to the other support braces, can be provided for added protection and support of the glass sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Menasha CorporationInventor: Richard B. McDowell
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Patent number: 9889985Abstract: A container for transporting an item is provided having an outer case member and a pair of partition members. The container is erectable from a collapsed configuration, in which the container is substantially flat, to an erected configuration in which the partition members form a support structure within an interior cavity of the outer case member to support a portion of the item to be transported. Methods of packaging and transporting an item in a container are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Alliance Packaging, LLCInventors: Lawrence L. Rutstrom, George Jamison
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Patent number: 9889986Abstract: The cover of a plastic tank suitable for containing water is attached to the tank base by means of alternative joints, including elastically engageable features and lock features to prevent unwanted release. The base of a plastic water tank is comprised of a substrate and a liner and is formed by means which include injection molding into a mold where the core part of the mold is surrounded in part or full by the film which forms the liner.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Infiltrator Water Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Paul R. Holbrook, Bryan A. Coppes, Roy E. Moore, Jr.
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Patent number: 9889987Abstract: The invention relates to a device (11) for the prevention of liquid overflow from an outside installation comprising a storage tank (10) for said liquid and a liquid retaining means (12) arranged around said tank, said device comprising a plate element (111, 112, 113) to be arranged between the tank and the retaining means, said plate element defining an impact surface (131, 132, 133) hit by the liquid overflowing onto said plate in the event of a rupture of the tank and openings distributed over said surface and through said plate element in order to reduce the kinetic energy of the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: TOTAL RAFFINAGE CHIMIEInventor: Claude Gallet
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Patent number: 9889988Abstract: An apparatus for separately storing compostable material in a kitchen waste receptacle has a holder panel with an adjustable releasable attachment for suspending the apparatus in the waste receptacle and a cradle panel connected to the holder panel with a hinge, the cradle panel movable between a first position coplanar with the holder panel and a second position non-coplanar with the holder panel. The cradle panel includes a lock for releasably engaging the holder panel to maintain the cradle panel in the first position. A bag retainer seated in an aperture holds a compost bag, and the bag retainer positions the opening of the compost bag such that the opening is occluded when the cradle panel is in the first position, and the opening is clear when the cradle panel is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventor: Nicholas Michael Degnan
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Patent number: 9889989Abstract: A storage and distribution device and method based on an arrangement whereby the largest sides of boxed products are in contact with one another are disclosed. The device includes a storage device, a blind door and a restocking manipulator. The blind door is disposed at the front of the storage device, and the restocking manipulator is disposed at the rear of the storage device. The storage device includes a plurality of storage units. Each of the storage units includes a matrix storage rack provided with a plurality of storage passages in a matrix arrangement. Each of the storage passages includes two baffle plates having brushes and a bottom plate. A discharge control device is disposed at the front of a discharge end of each storage passage. A spiral spring driver is further disposed on each storage passage. The driver is driven by a spiral spring energy-storage device to move stored items towards the discharge end of the passage.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: JIANGSU XUNJIE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIMITED COMPANY OF EQUIPMENT AND TOOLSInventors: Zhonglin Gong, Zhiqiang Chen
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Patent number: 9889990Abstract: An electromechanical actuator power drive unit for dynamic braking is provided, comprising an electric motor with a stator, a rotor that rotates with respect to the stator, and windings fixed to the stator. There is a control unit configured to supply a current to the windings. When the control unit is not supplying current to the windings, an electrical device allows current to flow through a parallel current path to the windings. The new current is generated by the interaction of a roller connected with a gear set to the rotor. The roller, and therefore the rotor, is urged in a rotational direction by the translational velocity of a load in contact with the roller. The new current generated by the rotating rotor flows in the opposite direction as the first current supplied by the power supply unit and creates a dynamic braking torque in the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Ancra International LLCInventors: Daniel Dimitrov, John Nica, Roy Yamatoku
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Patent number: 9889991Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transporter includes a first conveyor and a second conveyor. The first conveyor receives an object that is carried by an arm device and conveys the object in a first direction. The second conveyor is configured to receive and convey the object from the first conveyor and is movable in a second direction that crosses the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideichi Nakamoto, Akihito Ogawa, Takafumi Sonoura, Haruna Eto, Junya Tanaka, Atsushi Sugahara
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Patent number: 9889992Abstract: A conveyor belt includes a plurality of spaced rods and a plurality of slats. Each of the plurality of slats includes a base portion for carrying an item. The base portion has a perpendicular leading edge of the base portion relative to a direction of conveyance travel of the conveyor belt and a perpendicular trailing edge of the base portion relative to the direction of conveyance travel of the conveyor belt. At least one of the leading edge and the trailing edge is coupled to one of the plurality of rods.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: PRINCE CASTLE LLCInventors: Matthew Adomaitis, Frank Anthony Agnello, Richard Bauer, Eloy Cerda, Mark Edward Fastabend, Sean Patrick Forrest, Charles B. Hartfelder, Karl Ronald Heinze, Scott R. Hammac, Kyle Thomas Kestner, Christine S. Laub, Eugene Stanley Maslana, Calvin States Nelson, Laurence A. Schoell, Zoran Ulicevic, Aleksandr Yazvin, Loren J. Veltrop, Brian J. Truesdale, Dennis Malkowski
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Patent number: 9889993Abstract: An apparatus for conveying food slices, the apparatus comprising a conveyor element having an upper conveying surface, the conveying surface being downwardly inclined from an input end thereof towards an output end thereof, a vibratory actuator coupled to the conveyor element and adapted to cause vibratory motion of the conveying surface, the vibratory motion being at least partly in a direction along the conveying surface, and a liquid supply for supplying liquid onto the conveying surface to form a liquid film over at least part of the conveying surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: FRITO-LAY TRADING COMPANY GMBHInventors: Bob Abbas, Richard Bailey, Lindsay Dobson, Oliver Herbert, Peter David Herring, Maria Alejandra Torres
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Patent number: 9889994Abstract: A mechanism for mounting and adjusting a conveyor belt scraper comprises a conveyor belt assembly capable of receiving and disposing of material on a surface thereof and a structural element wherein the structural element comprises a securing member. The mechanism further comprises a belt scraper comprising a slide plate capable of slidably receiving the securing member. A release mating bracket is provided which is capable of being reversibly drawn towards a fixed mating bracket wherein at least one of the fixed mating bracket or release mating bracket comprises a recess. An orientable mandrel is received between the fixed mating bracket and the release mating bracket. A scraper assembly is attached to the orientable mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventor: Willem Veenhof
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Patent number: 9889995Abstract: A noncontact support platform includes a plurality of pressure nozzles on an outer surface of a PV stage of the noncontact support platform. The pressure nozzles connected to a pressure source for creating an outflow of fluid through the pressure nozzles. A plurality of vacuum nozzles are interspersed with the pressure nozzles on the outer surface and are connected to a vacuum manifold via one or a plurality of hoses to create an inflow of the fluid through the vacuum nozzles. At least one flowmeter is configured to generate a signal that is indicative of a measured inflow via at least one hose of the hoses. A controller is configured to analyze the signal to determine whether the measured inflow is indicative of blockage of a vacuum nozzle and to generate a response when blockage is indicated.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Core Flow Ltd.Inventors: Boaz Nishri, Ronen Lautman
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Patent number: 9889996Abstract: An adhesive melter and a method for operating the adhesive melter enables predictive maintenance of an exhaust air filter used to remove pressurized air flow that delivers solid adhesive particulate from a fill system into the melter. To this end, the fill system repeatedly actuates to refill a receiving space, and a controller monitors a duration of each fill system cycle. When changes in a calculated average duration of a plurality of fill system cycles exceed a maintenance threshold, an alert is emitted at a user interface to prompt maintenance or replacement of the exhaust air filter before a complete shutdown of the fill system is caused by clogging of the exhaust air filter. Consequently, unplanned downtimes caused by clogged exhaust air filters in the adhesive melter can be minimized, regardless of any variable conditions occurring at the melter.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Benjamin J. Bondeson, Justin A. Clark
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Patent number: 9889997Abstract: The invention relates to denester for use with a tray sealer. The denester includes a magazine for accommodating at least one stack of trays. The magazine includes a first vertical guide and a second guide, the second guide capable of being inclined at an inclination relative to the first guide. The inclination of the second guide is adjustable to accommodate destacking of the trays in the stack of trays.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KGInventors: Stefan Bieringer, Alireza Taghipour
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Patent number: 9889998Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit which performs recording on a recording medium, a tray which stores the recording medium, a tray storage portion which stores the tray, a feed roller which feeds the recording medium out from the tray, and a roller support member which supports the feed roller and causes the feed roller to be lifted and lowered in relation to the tray by changing posture, in which a cam shaft capable of rotating is provided in the tray storage portion, in which the cam shaft is provided with a first engaging portion which engages with the tray and a second engaging portion which engages with the roller support member, and in which the roller support member is configured to change posture due to the tray causing the cam shaft to rotate.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Narihiro Oki, Kazuo Otsuka
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Patent number: 9889999Abstract: A sheet supplying device is provided. The sheet supplying device includes a separator to separate sheets one by one. The separator includes a separation pad, a spring, and a separation pressure adjuster. The separation pad contacts each of the sheets. The spring applies a separation pressure to the separation pad. The separation pressure adjuster adjusts the separation pressure to one of separation pressure values variable in multiple steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Ueno
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Patent number: 9890000Abstract: There is provided a sheet conveyance apparatus, including: a casing; a sheet support unit including a first surface inclined to a placement surface; a separation unit arranged in the sheet support unit on a side of the placement surface and abutting against edges of the sheets supported by the first surface; a first plate member including a second surface arranged in the sheet support unit on a side opposite to the separation unit and faces in the same direction as the first surface; and a feed unit which feeds the sheet supported by the first surface and the distal end of the second surface to the conveyance path while slidably moving the sheet with respect to the separation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru Sugiyama, Yuta Uchino, Ryuji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9890001Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a feeding unit, a separation surface, a first separation part configured to switch between a condition in which the first separation part is protruded from the separate surface and the sheet comes into contact with the first separation part and a condition in which the first separation part is retracted from the separate surface and the sheet does not come into contact with the first separation part and to be fixed to each of the two conditions and a second separation part configured to be movable in a direction from a condition in which the second separation part is protruded from the separate surface and the sheet is capable of come into contact with the second separation part to a condition in which the second separation part is retracted from the separate surface, according to a contact force received from the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Yasuyuki Hirai, Yasuyuki Asai, Motoyuki Taguchi, Atsushi Ikeda, Kyoshiro Okude
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Patent number: 9890002Abstract: A plant for making packages includes at least a machine to work packaging material and an automatic feed apparatus to feed the packaging material to the machine in a direction of automatic feed; a manual feeding and loading station of the packaging material, adjacent and parallel to the automatic feed apparatus, the machine being mobile in a direction of movement transverse to the direction of automatic feed and selectively positionable in a first position aligned to the automatic feed apparatus and in a second position aligned to the manual feeding and loading station; and a guide system to guide the machine between the first position and the second position and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventor: Giuseppe Capoia
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Patent number: 9890003Abstract: A sheet discriminator, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet loader on which a recording medium is loaded, an information detector including a light emitter to emit light to a surface of the recording medium loaded on the sheet loader and a light receiver to receive the light emitted by the light emitter and detecting information of the recording medium, a sheet distinguisher to distinguish a type of the recording medium based on the information detected by the information detector, and a detector body encasing at least the information detector therein and having an opening formed on an opposing face facing the sheet loader. The opposing face has an opening formed thereon. The opening has at least one arc-shaped side.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nakayama, Noriaki Takenaga, Hideyo Makino, Tetsuya Ofuchi, Takayuki Nishimura, Yasuyuki Sekino, Tohru Matsumoto, Yukifumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9890004Abstract: A method for feeding sheets of paper comprises the following steps: providing a stack of papers on a storage surface of a paper feeding device; providing a flow of air for separating an uppermost sheet of paper from the rest of the stack of papers; determining the vertical position of the uppermost sheet of paper; adjusting the flow of air in dependence on the determined vertical position of the uppermost sheet of paper; and repeating the steps of determining the vertical position of the uppermost sheet of paper and adjusting the flow of air in dependence on the determined vertical position of the uppermost sheet of paper. During continuous operation, the flow of air is controlled in cycles with one part of the cycle, preferably the first part of the cycle, with a higher flow of air, and one part of the cycle, preferably the second part of the cycle, with a lower flow of air.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: PLOCKMATIC INTERNATIONAL ABInventor: Patrik Dahlqvist
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Patent number: 9890005Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a first transport unit, a second transport belt disposed with a part thereof shifted from the first transport unit toward the downstream side in a transport direction of the web, a suction chamber positioned in an inner side of the second transport belt and configured to create suction inside the suction chamber to suck the web onto the second transport belt, and a current plate positioned inside of the suction chamber to adjust an air current. The current plate has a plurality of holes, and is spaced apart from a surface of the second transport belt such that the air current is diffused between the current plate and the surface of the second transport belt to achieve a uniform suction force in a width direction of the second transport belt.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Naotaka Higuchi, Shigeo Fujita
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Patent number: 9890006Abstract: An absorption apparatus 1 that is an example of a loop amount absorption apparatus of a slitter line to which the present invention is applied is disposed in a region of a loop pit 3 provided in the slitter line 2. The absorption apparatus 1 includes a negative pressure roll 9 that grips and conveys strips and an up-down moving device 10 that enables the negative pressure roll 9 to move up and down. By gripping and conveying the strips 14 by the negative pressure roll 9, two loops 15 of the strips are formed. The negative pressure roll 9 includes a rotating shaft 16, an inner cylinder 17, an intermediate cylinder 18, and a non-woven fabric laminated outer layer 19.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: JDC, INC.Inventor: Yoshito Hashikawa
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Patent number: 9890007Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for manipulating a fibrous web (10). The device comprises at least one blower (21A, 21B) provided with a flow-preventing element (24A, 24B) which is arranged to produce at least one blow (26A, 26B) substantially in the direction of the fibrous web (10), and a friction element (28) against which the fibrous web (10) is arranged to be pressed at least partially from the effect of said blow (26A, 26B) and flow-preventing element (24A, 24B) to apply a friction force resisting the motion of the fibrous web (10) to the fibrous web (10). According to the invention, the blow (26A, 26B) is directed substantially away from the friction element (28) and the friction element (28) comprises a surface profile which is arranged such that, from the effect of said at least one blow (26A, 26B), a continuous vacuum is created on the surface of the fibrous web (10) on the side of the friction element (28).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: TAKSO Software LtdInventors: Juha Laitio, Markku Nieminen
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Patent number: 9890008Abstract: Stacking machines, delivery units, and methods suitable for handling and stacking sheets of material, and particularly sheets of magnetizable materials that are relatively heavy and susceptible to damage during a stacking operation. Such a stacking machine includes at least one delivery unit equipped with a belt and a magnetic unit. The belt and magnetic unit are adapted to operate in cooperation with each other to magnetically carry individual sheets of a magnetizable material from one side of the machine to another. The delivery unit may be part of a kit that can be installed as a unit on an existing stacking machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: PERM Machine & Tool Co., Inc.Inventor: Lee J. Milazzo
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Patent number: 9890009Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing bags from a roll includes a base, a bag separator, and a swing arm pivotably mounted on the base that includes a roll retaining portion shaped and arranged for being received in an axial opening of the roll. The swing arm is pivotable with respect to the base about a pivot axis in a braking direction in which the roll retaining portion travels toward the base. A spring is operatively connected between the swing arm and the base to bias the swing arm in the braking direction whereby, when the roll retaining portion is received in the axial opening, the roll retaining portion engages the roll and urges the roll into braking engagement with the base.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Inteplast Group CorporationInventors: Daniel Chen, Todd Hart, Janine Paley, Tasneem Krishna, Kelvin Yang, Ben Tseng
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Patent number: 9890010Abstract: Provided is a sheet post-processing apparatus capable of reliably protecting an edge-binding stapling unit and a sheet material, and of performing a sheet-binding process without increasing the size of the apparatus. The sheet post-processing apparatus includes: a binding unit movable to a binding position in which the binding unit performs a binding process using a binding member on a sheet, and an access position in which a user is accessable to the binding unit; and a control unit configured to cause, when the binding unit performs a setting operation for the binding member, the binding unit to perform the setting operation after causing the binding unit to move to a position different from the access position.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.Inventor: Koji Okamoto
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Patent number: 9890011Abstract: A control portion controls a distance H and/or a shift amount L1 such that a relationship of L<H?L+L1 holds, where L is a length of each sheet among the sheet bundle in the conveyance direction, H is a distance from the conveyance roller pair to an end regulation member in the conveyance direction, and L1 is a shift amount between a first sheet among the sheet bundle and a second sheet adjacent the first sheet. The second sheet is conveyed toward the end regulation member by the conveyance roller pair in the state in which the leading edge of the preceding sheet is in contact with the end regulation member.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoto Tokuma
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Patent number: 9890012Abstract: A cord storage and retrieval apparatus that is operable to be engaged with a midpoint area of undesired slack of a cord so as to wind and store a portion of the cord wherein the ends of the cord remain available or operably coupled to an object. The cord storage and retrieval apparatus includes a lower portion and an upper portion that are rotatably coupled. A channel and sidewall openings are formed within the lower portion so as to facilitate engagement of a cord. A shaft with a slot is operably coupled to the upper portion and extends downward therefrom so as to rotatably engage an aperture formed within the channel. A ceiling structure, couplings, keepers, and connectors are included in some embodiments to facilitate separation movement, rotational resistance control and/or locking functionality. The shaft is further configured to receive a topside locking member from a second unit for stacking purposes.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventor: Michael K. Polen