Work Penetrating Member Patents (Class 493/351)
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Patent number: 11084244Abstract: A tamper-evident food delivery packaging systems, methods of tamper-evident packaging of food for delivery, and apparatus for tamper-evident food packaging operate to form resilient self-fastening perforations through a packaging. A binding apparatus includes an anvil and a flipper plate. A cutter head includes a profile blade and a slot blade. A pusher is pivotably connected between the profile blade and the slot blade. The cutting apparatus moves in a reciprocal motion relative to the anvil while the flipper plate engages a pusher to pivot the pusher during the reciprocal motion.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eugene S. Maslana, Sean Forrest, Brian Smetana, Richard Bauer
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Patent number: 10245873Abstract: A binding mechanism cartridge is detachably held by a binding device body instead of a staple cartridge which is detachable into the binding device body. The binding mechanism cartridge includes a body portion, an upward-and-downward moving portion and a base portion. The body portion is detachably held by the binding device body. The upward-and-downward moving portion is on the body portion to move close to or away from one surface of a bundle of sheets by moving upward and downward by interlocking with a drive mechanism of the binding device body. The base portion is on the body portion to face the upward-and-downward moving portion and supports the other surface of the bundle of sheets. The upward-and-downward moving portion includes a binding mechanism which is partially in pressure contact with the one surface according to a movement of the upward-and-downward moving portion to binds the bundle of sheets.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventor: Tatsuya Kenjo
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Patent number: 9475332Abstract: A punching blade can form a cut-and-raised piece provided with a wide width portion in a distal-end region, a cutting blade is provided with a first blade having a window with which the cut-and-raised piece is engaged and forming a first slit and a second blade for forming a second slit extending in a direction of a punched hole from the midstream of the first slit. It is also configured such that an edge from the wide width portion of the cut-and-raised piece to the base end can be engaged with the second slit.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Aoi
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Patent number: 9440478Abstract: A paper binding device comprises: a pair of binding members that has a pair of teeth portions, and presses to bind a bundle of paper sheets; a moving unit that causes one of the pair of binding members to move along with the other of the pair of binding members between a binding position at which the bundle of paper sheets is bound and a retracted position; a separating unit that moves coordinating with movement of the one of the pair of binding members, and when the one of the pair of binding members moves from the binding position to the retracted position, that contacts with the bundle of the paper sheets and causes the bundle of paper sheets to separate from the one of the pair of binding members; and a restricting member that stops the separating unit at a restricting position between the binding position and the retracted position, when the one of the pair of the binding members moves from the binding position to the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Wataru Takahashi, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Katsuhiro Kosuge, Hidehiko Fujiwara, Makoto Hidaka, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takuya Morinaga, Ryuji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20140235418Abstract: The invention provides an improved game playing card holder made from monocoque construction providing a plurality of card compartments using raised fins through linear slits in the frame. The fins protrude vertically from the card holding surface provides a separation boundary between card types as required by individual game requirements. The rear support of the card compartment is a common wall providing a uniform presentation of the decks to the dealer. The supporting top surface is raised at an approximate 20 degree angle from the base, with the front card edge of each deck protruding beyond the front support of the card base, allowing ease of access to the cards to create improved card handling and dealing characteristics of the holder. The metallic structure allows application of electrostatic powder coat finishes providing long durability with enhanced appearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventor: Richard M. Haddock
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Publication number: 20140128237Abstract: The post-processing device includes: a binding unit that forms a cut in a sheet stack and cuts a part of the sheet stack into a predetermined shape to form a tongue portion in the sheet stack, the tongue portion having a part where one end part of the tongue portion is not separated from the sheet stack, and binds the sheet stack by bending the tongue portion and inserting the other end part of the tongue portion into the cut; and a sheet stack transport unit that transports the sheet stack in an orientation such that the one end part of the tongue portion in the sheet stack bound by the binding unit is on a downstream side of the other end part of the tongue portion in the sheet stack transport direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: FUJI XEROX., LTD.Inventor: Hiroaki AWANO
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Publication number: 20130190156Abstract: A fastening tool can be held by a single hand and can obviate the necessity of application of strong force when fastening sheets of paper together. The fastening tool has a construction in which a placing table configured to move only in a vertical direction is provided at an inner upper portion of a base member, a paper holding member configured to move in a vertical direction is disposed above the placing table, a handle member is mounted on the base member so as to rotate relative thereto about a position lying near a rear end thereof, and a portion of the handle member which lies inside and further rearwards than a central portion of the handle member is formed into a pressing portion, whereby an upper surface of a rear portion of the paper holding member is pressed down directly by the pressing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: PLUS CORPORATIONInventor: PLUS CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20130036986Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a customizable modular pet house and entertainment system. In one general embodiment of the invention, a pet house comprises a module formed from a sheet of self-supporting material. The module comprises a top panel, a bottom panel, and four side panels. At least one of the panels may have at least one of a removable transition panel, a removable door panel, and perimeter of a removable window panel. Optional accessories include a top accessory panel, a side accessory panel, and an accessory bracket. More than one modular pet house may be joined together to form an extended structure. Embodiments of the invention have interior spaces and apertures sized for admittance of a common house cat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventor: Francesco Callari
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Patent number: 8075236Abstract: Method for binding a quire formed of folded sheets slipped into each other, characterized in that it consists in providing at least one cut through the sheets of the quire as of a short distance from the folding edge of the quire, whereby every cut through a sheet of the quire defines a lip extending mainly crosswise to the above-mentioned folding edge of the quire and which is connected to the quire with its far end turned towards the folding edge, and whereby said lip has a widening.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Inventor: Stefaan Penne
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Publication number: 20090275457Abstract: A system, and associated components and methodology, having a dunnage supply with an outlet through which one or more crumpled strips are supplied, a positioning device that positions in juxtaposition portions of the one or more strips of dunnage, and a stapler for connecting the juxtaposed portions to hold them together. In a particular system, the system includes a converter that has a conversion assembly that converts a sheet stock material into a crumpled strip of dunnage and has an outlet through which the strip of dunnage is emitted. The system also includes a coiler that rolls the strip of dunnage into a coil, and a stapler that secures the trailing end portion of the strip of dunnage to at least the next-innermost portion of the strip in the coil by inserting a staple through the trailing end portion and the juxtaposed portion of the coiled strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: RANPAK CORP.Inventors: Harry H. Lu, Thomas E. Manley, Joseph J. Harding
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Patent number: 7540113Abstract: Various sleeves and bags or packaging goods, especially floral groupings such as bouquets and pot plants, can be provided using the present invention. Exemplary sleeves are manufactured with an outer wall and an inner wall, each of which is formed of two layers. The outer layers are a transparent or semitransparent sheet material such as polypropylene, and the inner layers are a nonwoven fabric material made of a compatible polymer. The outer and inner layers of each wall may be printed with complementary images or patterns. The inner and outer layers of the one or both walls may be fastened to each other not only along the side edges of the sleeve, but also at discrete locations along the top edge where the sleeve is opened. The connection can be made using glue or the equivalent, by melting or welding the two layers together, or by punching a tab of the outer layer through the inner layer. The top and bottom edges of the inner and outer layers may be coincident, or not.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2004Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Inventor: Scott R. Gilbert
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Patent number: 6248051Abstract: An apparatus and method for making improved folded signature for subsequent use in gathering and combining or binding in bookbinding. Each folded signature includes uniquely positioned perforated folds, sequences of folding and adhered together perforated folded edges which reduce folding time, alter folded signature orientation during gathering, eliminate the need for having a conventional backbone, and provide a binding or pulling edge.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Joseph Bellanca Revocable TrustInventor: Joseph V. Bellanca
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Patent number: 6231493Abstract: A method of making a pleat in a sheet-like material comprising the steps of feeding a flexible and thin sheet-like material having a flat surface in a direction of an extended line of an imaginary straight line which is perpendicular to its one end and along the surface, left and right parts of the sheet-like material being conveyed at a substantially same speed at both sides of the straight line, the one end of the sheet-like material being of a flat form at a start of the feeding, the left and right parts of the sheet-like material being gradually reduced in distance therebetween and drawn near toward the straight line at the middle portion of the extended line so as to face with each other and diagonally cross the surface, and coming in contact with each other perpendicularly to the surface at the forward portion of the extended line, thereby to form the pleat, conveying the sheet-like material through the middle portion to the forward portion with the left and right parts gradually twisted in a directionType: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Nakanihon-Juki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koshimi Kato
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Patent number: 6176819Abstract: The embossing process is effected between a pair of embossing rollers provided with toothings of the same kind which comprise rows of pyramidal teeth extending in the axial and the circumferential directions. Compared to the theoretical pyramid shape, the heads of the teeth are flattened while the edges of the pyramids are cut. The rollers, which are mutually displaceable in the axial direction, are thus able to catch in a stable mutual position of maximum penetration and to remain in this position in operation. This allows a safe mutual synchronization of the rollers and an optimal embossing of any kind of materials, especially of paper foils.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1998Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Boegli-Gravures S.A.Inventors: Charles Boegli, Bernard Wist
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Patent number: 6080097Abstract: A pair of clutches selectively transmit power to a coining mechanism and to a cut-off mechanism in a paper converting machine. As sheet-like material is advanced through the machine, it is formed into a three dimensional strip of padding by a forming mechanism. Next the strip is coined or otherwise secured to keep its three dimensional shape by a coining mechanism. Thereafter the strip is cut into sections of the desired length by a cut-off mechanism. Advantageously, both the coining mechanism and the cut-off mechanism are powered by a single motor, then are selectively connected to the motor by a pair of clutches. The clutches may be wrap spring clutches, and the clutch controlling power to the cut-off mechanism may be a single revolution clutch.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: RanPak Corp.Inventors: Richard O. Ratzel, James A. Simmons, Jr
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Patent number: 6035613Abstract: A cushioning conversion machine, method and product characterized by a connecting assembly that provides a mechanical interlock between overlapped portions of sheet-like stock material to prevent "unzippering" of a low density cushioning product produced by the cushioning conversion machine. The connecting assembly comprises a pair of rotatable stitching members, a first one having a plurality of radially outwardly extending projections, or teeth, around the circumference thereof, with the projections having at least two axially spaced apart segments defining a recess therebetween. The second stitching member includes at least one axial punch segment which includes a peripheral edge portion dimensioned to be received in the recess in the first stitching member during rotation of the stitching members.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1996Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Ranpak Corp.Inventors: Michael J. Lencoski, Edwin P. Beierlorzer
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Patent number: 5976065Abstract: An apparatus and method for making improved folded signature for subsequent use in gathering and combining or binding in bookbinding. Each folded signature includes uniquely positioned perforated folds, sequences of folding and adhered together perforated folded edges which reduce folding time, alter folded signature orientation during gathering, eliminate the need for having a conventional backbone, and provide a binding or pulling edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Joseph V. Bellanca Revocable TrustInventor: Joseph V. Bellanca
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Patent number: 5921066Abstract: The invention relates to a wrapped pulp bale of the kind which, apart from a proper bale, comprises an enveloping wrapping which is folded along opposite faces of the bale while forming mutually overlapping parts in which the paper lies in two or more layers on top of each other. For holding the wrapping against the proper bale, sets of lugs (26) are provided in the overlapping parts of the wrapping, each set of lugs including a number of lugs corresponding to the number of paper layers, which are punched out from the paper layers while leaving through holes therein, and folded along a common folding line (25) as well as jointly inserted between the inside of the innermost layer of paper and the outside of the bale in order to be held therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Inventors: Kaj-Ove Olsson, Siinto Ikalainen
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Patent number: 5899841Abstract: A device for the mechanical connection of documents comprising a base, a paper support, a cover pivotably connected to said base, a stylus with an eye for creating a cut, a stamping and bending element for stamping out and pushing a plurality of paper tongues though said eye, said stamping and bending element having a cutting face in the form of a stamping plunger and a projection for bending the stamped out paper tongues, and a carrier for actuating the pivot movement. The stamping and bending element is pivotably fastened on the base. The paper support forms a pushing element which can be lowered into the base and which is maintained in an upper position of rest by a spring. The paper support, as a die plate for stamping the paper tongues, forms a first recess, and, for stamping the cut, forms a second recess.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1997Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: Metodya B & BInventor: Christian Berger
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Patent number: 5782736Abstract: A method and device for supplying collar-coupon assemblies to the wrapping line of a packing machine for producing rigid hinged-lid packets, whereby a collar and a respective coupon, as they travel along respective paths to a mating station, are respectively provided, by cutting, with a pocket, and with an appendix which is inserted at least partly inside the respective pocket at the mating station to make the collar and coupon substantially integral with each other as they travel along a common path extending downstream from the mating station.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1995Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignee: G.D Societa' Per AzioniInventors: Marco Brizzi, Lorenzo Cocchi, Antonio Gamberini
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Patent number: 5447402Abstract: A paper binding instrument for binding a sheaf of papers without the use of metal staples including punching edges and auxiliary punching edges. The punching edges can make small holes in a sheaf of paper continuing from punched foot parts of a small width and punched head parts of a large width. The punching edges push down head pieces which were the head parts through the sheaf of papers while leaving punched pieces corresponding to the foot parts. The auxiliary punching edges can make auxiliary small holes facing in different directions from the facing directions of the small holes that are formed with the punching edges.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1994Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: Sun-Star Stationery CorporationInventor: Eizo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5334129Abstract: Rotary cross-cutter for final processing of at least one web of material from which excess portions have been removed includes a cross-cutting unit disposed at a given location along a travel path of the web, rotary bodies disposed at locations along the travel path upstream of the cross-cutting unit, the rotary bodies having a first device for causing webs of material to cling to one another in a direction transverse to the travel path and a second device for cutting off edge portions of the webs of material.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1992Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventor: Ralf Haller
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Patent number: 5092829Abstract: A method and apparatus by which stacks of pattern pieces cut from a layup of sheet material by a cutting tool are bundled and removed from the remaining waste material. A bundler inserts fasteners to bundle at least some of the stacks together and an automatic take-off device removes the bundled stacks from the layup. The cutting tool and bundler are both mounted to a two-axis carriage system and share a common controller with the take-off means. The controller guides the cutting tool around the pattern piece peripheries in response to control data and the bundler inserts fasteners into locations in the layup determined from the same control data. The controller then provides the exact locations of the inserted fasteners to the automatic take-off device which thereafter removes the cut stacks of pieces from the layup. In one embodiment of the invention, identifying information is printed upon the fastener by a printer associated with the bundler to aid in identifying the stacks of pattern pieces.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1989Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: Gerber Garment Technology, Inc.Inventor: Heinz J. Gerber
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Patent number: 5024643Abstract: A stapleless stapler has a reciprocating punch and chisel, the punch of hollow U-shaped form for cutting tongue shaped sections from sheets. A pivoting bending member bends the tongue shaped sections down and up, the free ends of the sections extending into a slot in the paper sheets cut by the chisel.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1989Date of Patent: June 18, 1991Inventor: Arnold Kastner
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Patent number: 4850947Abstract: Apparatus for processing multisheet or manifold business forms assemblies comprises at least one pair of rotary slitters, a male crimping die or punch associated with one of the slitting blades of the pair for rotation therewith, and a female crimping die or punch receptacle associated with the other of the slitting blades for rotation therewith. Upon rotation of the slitters and their associated crimping dies, the manifold assembly is concurrently slit and crimped to produce locks or paper staples in the body of the assembly. These paper staples effectively hold the various sheets of the assembly in registration or alignment during subsequent processing, but readily permit separation of the various sheets of the assembly when desired.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1988Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.Inventors: Peter E. Brown, Robert A. Perry, Raymond S. Kubicki