Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible pouch (1) having a wider opening (2) allowing to get a better access of the content of the pouch (1). The perimeter (a) of the opening (2) of the flexible pouch (1) is greater than the perimeter (b) of its bottom (3). At least one of the lateral folding lines (5) of the flexible pouch (1) comprises a welding line (6) of a width (w). A part or all of the lateral welding lines (6) of the flexible pouch (1) have a width (w) which is not constant along its length. The invention also relates to a kit-of-part comprising the flexible pouch (1) according to the invention and a container (14) adapted to receive said flexible pouch (1).

Abstract: A bottom-gusseted package comprises a package body, and a bottom gusset positioned transversely of a longitudinal axis of the package body. Formation of the bottom-gusseted package is effected by positioning individual sleeves transversely of the longitudinal axis of a flexible web which forms the package body. During package formation, the flexible web is cut to form individual packages, with each individual sleeve positioned to form a bottom gusset in a respective package.

Abstract: A double postcard with bank check includes a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel. The first and second panels are separated by a first line of weakness. The second and third panels are separated by a second line of weakness. The first panel includes first and second opposing surfaces. A face of a bank check is located on the first opposing surface and an outgoing address is located on the second opposing surface. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses principally a method of permitting packaging of one or more piece goods in one or more bag units, where said bag units are, in a selected transport direction, oriented after one another and mutually united with the aid of two, each arranged bag side allocated, thickened portions. A first means (1) is disposed whereby each one of said bag units, from a folded and/or united state, becomes openable by causing said respective bag side allocated thickened portions to pass along a distance from one another oriented rails or similar arrangements. A second means (2) is disclosed in order to, in thus opened bag units, allow insertion of one or more piece goods (G). A third means (3) is utilized, whereby each one of said bag units is sealed along a sealing zone, in order thereby to allow the enclosure of said one or more piece goods. A fourth means (4) is adapted to clip and/or cut off a sealed bag through or above said sealing zone, however under said thickened portion.

Abstract: A cutter includes a male blade, a female blade, an advancement and retraction controller and a suction device. The male blade includes: a linear cutting portion linearly shaped with a predetermined thickness in a center part; a rounded cutting portion where a radius having a substantially arc shape in planar view is continuously formed from the linear cutting portion; and an end provided adjacent to the rounded cutting portion. The female blade has a fitting portion that is a hole conforming to the profile of the male blade in planar view and to which the male blade is fitted. On a lateral side of the female blade, an elongated hole for inserting a base film from one lateral side to the other lateral side is formed as an insertion portion.

Abstract: A method for installing a closure in the mouth of a pre-made flexible bag. The closure may, for example, be a shrouded plastic zipper with or without a slider. The bag may, for example, have side gussets. In the disclosed embodiment, the bag is made using a laminated material comprising an interior layer of thermoplastic material and a non-interior layer of non-thermoplastic material, such as paper. The package is made by a method comprising the following steps: method for providing a bag with a closure, comprising the following steps: (a) slitting the bag along first and second lines so that a top marginal portion of one wall of the bag disposed between the first and second lines forms a flap; (b) folding back the flap to uncover a topmost portion of the other wall; (c) joining one side of a closure to at least a portion of the topmost portion of the other wall uncovered by step (b); and (d) joining a portion of the flap to the other side of the closure after steps (a)-(c) have been performed.

Abstract: A machine and method for making bags is described and includes a web traveling from an input section to a rotary drum, to an output section. The rotary drum includes at least one seal bar, having a first sealing zone, and an adjacent weakening zone. The weakening zone may be a heated perforator, includes a heating wire, or be disposed to create an auxiliary sealed area. The heating wire can have, connected thereto, a source of power that is at an adjustable voltage or magnitude, and/or pulsed, and/or a feedback loop. The heating wire may be an NiCr wire and make intermittent contact with the web and be disposed in an insert. The weakening zone may create a line of weakness that is uniform or varies in intensity, is a separating zone, or includes a heat film, a toothed blade, a row of pins, a source of air, or a source of vacuum. The sealing zones may include temperature zones, cartridge heaters, cooling air, or heated air, or a source of ultrasonic, microwave or radiative energy.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for eliminating unattached remnants or tails of bag making film adjacent a string zipper during manufacture of reclosable bags. Gathered film tails may interfere with slider insertion or slider operation or may cause the film to be pulled off of or peeled away from the string zipper during slider operation. After trimming, the tails of the film are welded to the zipper by conductive heat sealing or equivalent means.

Abstract: A process for applying a portion of a closed zipper inside a container of flexible material, in which a segment or portion of a closed zipper-strip is first applied by a fixing device upon the inner sides of a film of flexible material, prior to cutting of the zipper strip portion from the remainder of the zipper strip. The zipper portion is applied in such a position that it will not interfere with the subsequent sealing along transverse seal lines defining the opposite sides of the container.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing foil bags, wherein at least two foils are supplied that serve as side foils of the foil bags, the foils are connected to each other and then cut into individual foil bags, wherein possibly existing differences in the amounts of foil materials provided by the at least two foils in the feed direction for a respective foil bag are eliminated by stretching the foil that provides the smaller amount of foil material for a foil bag, and to a bag-producing apparatus for performing the method.

Abstract: Method and device for producing rolls (17) of bags. At least one longitudinal side edge (15, 16) of a line of overlapping bags (17) is folded towards the centre axis of said line of bags. The line is then winded to rolls (17).

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing containers or bags includes a sealer that produces seals on a moving film. These seals are spaced at intervals that determine the length of the containers. An operator can change the desired container length while the film is moving. In response to such changes, a control arrangement adjusts the speed at which the sealer rotates and, in turn, the spacing of the seals and the length of the containers.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting a dip strip within a flexible pouch. The apparatus has a first advance means for advancing a predetermined length of the dip strip material and a punch means for punching a hole in the material. The apparatus has a second advance means for advancing the strips of the flexible pouch material and an insertion means for inserting the dip strip material between the strips of the flexible material. The apparatus also includes a side sealing means for sealing a plurality of lateral lines along the strips of the flexible material and a cross sealing means for sealing the dip strip material between the strips of the flexible material in the vicinity of the dip strip hole such that a transverse seal line is created and the flexible pouch is formed.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for manufacturing interconnected, easily separable, protective pouches, made from heat-sealable material, and adapted to enclose and protect objects. The pouches are made by feeding a continuous sheet of heat-sealable material through a folding unit, folding the material approximately in half, perforating and heat-sealing the sheet across the width of the sheet, moving the sheet downstream the length of the opening for the pouch, heat-sealing across the sheet, moving the sheet downstream the length of the edge allowances for the pouch, and repeating the steps until the desired number of pouches have been produced. The finished pouches are collected on rewind rolls.

Abstract: To make blocks of bags having blocked stubs, which are joined by perforation lines substantially only to the lower opening-defining edge of each block, which lower edge is separated by a substantially continuous slit from the upper opening-defining edge, a tubular web of synthetic thermoplastic material is formed in partial regions with perforation lines extending through both plies. Only the upper ply is cut to form separating slits extending substantially throughout the width of that upper ply. The bags are then separated from the tubular web by hot-wire welding and are stacked.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liner for a waste container is provided, comprising the steps of extruding a flexible envelope, the envelope having ends; flattening the envelope so as to form a top side and a bottom side; cutting a lengthwise slit in the top side of the envelope substantially along the centerline of the envelope; sealing the ends of the envelope; folding the envelope along the centerline; and rolling one end toward the other to form a rolled bundle. A waste container liner may be formed by this process, comprising a flexible envelope including a top side; a bottom side; first and second ends; gusseted side panels connecting the top side and the bottom side; a lengthwise slit in the top side between the first and second ends substantially along the centerline of the envelope; and wherein the top and bottom sides are sealed together at the first and second ends.

Abstract: Heated seal bars are located on opposite sides of an elongated strip of heat sealable material adapted to be advanced with a step-by-step motion. When the strip dwells, the bars are shifted linearly inwardly into engagement with the strip to form a heat seal and then are retracted linearly a short distance away from the strip to permit the strip to advance through its next step. If an abnormal condition prevents the strip from advancing, the bars are retracted linearly to a parked position in which the bars are spaced a substantial distance away from the strip in order to prevent the heat radiating from the bars from damaging the stopped strip.

Abstract: A method of cutting blanks from an elastic paper comprises the following steps: removing a single elastic paper web of indefinite length from a mother roll; longitudinally cutting the single web, as it runs off the mother roll, into a plurality of paper panels; guiding the running paper panels in pairs into a superposed, face-to-face relationship to form at least one running superposed paper panel pair; guiding the running paper panel pair between cooperating cutting rollers of a rotary cutter and cutting the blanks from the running paper panel pair by the cutting rollers alternatingly from opposite sides of the paper panel pair while countersupporting the paper panel pair by the momentarily non-cutting cutting roller.

Abstract: To make plastic carrying bags or sacks, sections are cut or are severed by hot wire welding from a gusseted tubular film by a formation of transverse seam welds and transverse severing cuts or by hot wire-welded transverse seam welds. At least in their bottom portion the sections are provided with corner seam welds, which are separately formed in the two folds and which diverge obliquely from the outer fold lines toward the top and/or bottom seam weld and terminate short of the inner fold line and merge into the latter. To prevent in the making of the carrying bags an elongation of the intermediate portion of the tubular film, the latter is initially formed with corner seam welds only in one fold of each of the two gussets before the transverse seam welds and transverse severing cuts or hot wire-welded transverse seam welds are formed. When said corner seam welds have cooled, congruent corner seam welds are formed in the respective other folds.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing various shapes of polyethylene bags includes a heating mold separating means, a cutting mold separating means and a collecting means. By using such an apparatus for making PE bags, a double-layered polyethylene sheet rolled on a roller is transported into the heating mold separating means by input rollers to form polyethylene bags of any desired shape. Since the bags can not be completely separated from the sheets by heating mold, the bags together with the sheets must be sent into the cutting mold separating means by transporting rollers again. The cutting mold separating means will cut the boundary of the bag except the root portion, so that the bag is completely separated from the sheets, except for the root portion. Finally, the bags together with the sheets are sent into the collecting means. The cutter of the collecting means indents the root portion of the bags and the needles of the collecting means pokes through the root portion of the bags.

Abstract: A package which is formed as a bag to be caried has a plurality of lateral walls having upper portions which form a gripping part and lower portions which form a body part, two first opposite walls are folded, two second opposite walls are provided in the region of the gripping part with a gripping opening and upper and lower welding seams which connect the walls with one another and separate the gripping part from the body part, one of the second opposite walls has a section adjoining the gripping part and is provided with window-like opening, and a covering foil covers the window-like opening of the section of one opposite wall.

Abstract: A plastic film sack having gussetted side walls, and in the bottom of said sack, a heat-seal stripe welding together the four film layers in the gusseted regions of the sack and a heat seal stripe welding together the two film layers between said gusseted regions; and between the heat-seal stripes of the four film layers and the heat-seal stripe of the two film layers are unsealed, arcuate stress-relief regions and the method of forming the same.

Abstract: The specification discloses a refillable sanitary ice pack (10) for single patient use. The ice pack takes the form of a generally rectangular envelope (12) having two sides (14, 16), an open end (18) and a closed end (20). Two pairs of tie strings (22, 24) and (26, 28) extend from the open and closed ends, respectively. A bag (30) closed on three sides and having a throat (34) opening at the open end of the envelope is formed internally of the envelope for receiving and retaining ice. A funnel (38) dimensioned to conform with the divergence of the throat in the bag may be inserted into the throat for filling the bag. A closure member (50) is also provided for sealing the throat of the bag when the bag has been filled with ice.

Abstract: A labelled fabric includes a wide-mesh fabric having two opposite surfaces, a first web which is guided against one of the opposite surfaces of the wide-mesh fabric and a second web which is guided against the other of the opposite surfaces of the wide-mesh fabric. The second web is provided with labelling indicia. The first and second webs are bonded to one another through the interstices of the wide-mesh fabric.