Heating Or Cooling Patents (Class 53/440)
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Patent number: 7146779Abstract: A method of packaging and shipping compressible structural panels is disclosed. Compressible structural panels are provided, typically with first and second sheets separated by compressible or collapsible dividers. The structural panels are stacked and thereafter compressed thereby causing the dividers to compress and the thickness of the panels to become substantially less. In this compressed and stacked configuration, the structural panels are packaged and shipped. At the point of installation of the structural panels, the structural panels are unpackaged, unstacked and allowed to regain the expanded configuration, either by way of natural resiliency or heat setting. The structural panels, once expanded, are ready for installation.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.Inventors: Paul G. Swiszcz, Ko Kuperus
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Patent number: 7117654Abstract: A process is provided for minimizing moisture accumulation in a product package that is sprayed with a cool water shower. The product is placed in a container, and a closure is installed on a container. The product is heated before it is placed in the container or during its placement in the container, or after it is placed in the container, or while the closure is being installed on the container, or after the closure has been installed on the container. The internal atmosphere within the closed closure is allowed to expand from the heat and to vent through a vent channel. The package is cooled with a cooling water shower, and the vent channel minimizes the transient pressure differential so as to minimize the amount of water infiltration into the closure.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2004Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Seaquist Closures Foreign, Inc.Inventor: Christopher A. Danks
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Patent number: 7062892Abstract: An apparatus and method for bagging ice. The apparatus comprises an ice maker for making ice and a hopper for receiving for receiving the ice from the ice maker. The apparatus further includes a roller drum, operatively associated with the hopper, for measuring the ice and delivering of the ice. The roller drum includes an inner rotating drum. A bag delivery mechanism for placing the ice in a bag is also included, with the bag delivery mechanism including a bag supply mechanism, a fan engaged to open the mouth of the bag to receive the product, and a heat sealer that seals the open mouth of the bag once the bag is filled with the ice. A control device is included that manages and monitors the roller drum and bag delivery mechanism and allows transmission of the collected data to the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Icex Holdings Ltd., Inc.Inventor: Mark C. Metzger
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Patent number: 7021031Abstract: A continuous line process for making a packaged cosmetic device comprising a pre-formed sheet and a coating composition in a sealed package, wherein the pre-formed sheet is produced from a sol phase composition comprising a solvent and a gelling agent having a sol-gel transition point between about the melting point of the solvent and about the boiling point of the solvent by a process comprising heating the so phase composition, forming surfaces of the sol phase composition by pressing the sol phase composition between a plurality of liners, cooling the sol phase composition into a gel phase, cutting the gel phase composition to form the pre-formed sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Akihiro Ueda, Gregory Michael McCabe, Kenneth Eugene Kyte III, Koichiro Masuda, Masahiko Ishimoto, Shin Seki
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Patent number: 6959524Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-treated plastic pressurized container that is resistant to polar liquids and impact stresses and the process for making such container.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2004Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gene Michael Altonen, Su Yon Chang, Michael Thomas Dodd
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Patent number: 6935090Abstract: The filling wedge (4) with its preferably concave wedge surfaces (12, 12?) is provided with feed channels (5) and preferably with a heating device (13) for heating up the wedge surfaces. To prevent heat-sensitive filling material from being heated up when it is passed through the filling wedge, arranged between the feed channels and the wedge surfaces is a means reducing the heat transfer, preferably in the form of a respective cooling channel (8, 8?). Consequently, a thermal separation is achieved in the filling wedge between the feed channels and the wedge surfaces, which makes it possible to work with high operating temperatures for the capsule shell material. Such high temperatures are required, for example, in the case of capsule shells of thermoplastic starch.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Swiss Caps Rechte und Lizenzen AGInventor: Leo Stolz
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Patent number: 6872341Abstract: A system and method of mass-producing a bait station of wax matrix material for pesticide or insecticide delivery is disclosed. The apparatus and method includes a water-heated vat 110 which supplies liquid wax matrix material to molds which may be of various forms in accordance with the desired bait station to be manufactured. A fluid pump 120 pumps the wax matrix material from the vat through a tube 130 into molding tubes 140. At a molding tube station 140 the molds are filled and then carried by a conveyer belt 100 to a cooling tunnel 160. The wax-containing molds may be shaken by an in-line shaker in order to reduce air bubbles in the wax matrix. After the wax-containing molds are cooled by the cooling tunnel 160 the conveyer carries them to a labeling station 170, after which the finished bait stations are removed from their molds and packaged.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2002Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Inventor: Richard David Robinson
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Patent number: 6834473Abstract: There is now provided a method and an apparatus therefor for stabilizing products in containers in a continuous container flow by stationary, sequential sections by means of overflowing liquid, whereby the sections are graduated with respect to one another in terms of their liquid temperature, and for purposes of efficient liquid recycling are organized in pairs, so that the liquid is transported by overflow among sections, and to set the desired temperature of the overflowing liquid, liquid is added to the liquid being transported, characterized by the fact that the excess liquid in the at least one zone overflows in a cascade fashion from zone to zone of increasing overflow temperature and into liquid reservoirs.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AGInventor: Ulrich Wiedemann
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Publication number: 20040255555Abstract: A method of producing a hot melt adhesive solid, the method comprising the steps of inserting a hot melt adhesive heated to higher than a flow temperature into a container having a mold-releasing internal surface and a bottom plate which is openable and closable or removably fixable to the container, cooling the hot melt adhesive at least until the surface of hot melt adhesive becomes solidified, and taking out the hot melt adhesive from the container by opening the bottom plate or displacing the same; hot melt adhesive solid; method of packaging the same; and method of transporting the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2003Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogura, Yoshio Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 6813869Abstract: A toy animal has an interior, an intermediate layer and an exterior layer of wax and a hardener within the wax. The method of fabricating the toy animal comprises the steps of melting a wax, adding a hardener to the melted wax, dipping an interior object into the wax mixture and cooling the coated object.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Inventors: Larry F. Gaylor, Gary Cross
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Patent number: 6807797Abstract: A syringe type ampoule having a) a barrel with a front end and a rear end defining an axis therebetween, the barrel having substantially constant cross-section between the front end and the rear end, at least the front end ending in an opening, b) a sealer attached to the front end and sealing the opening, c) at least one piston movably and sealingly arranged within the barrel and d) a sleeve extending along at least a part of the barrel, the sleeve having a front part and a rear part, the front part being connected to the sealer. The barrel has a front end terminating in an edge surrounding the opening, the edge having an outer circumference substantially equal to the barrel outer circumference. The invention relates to methods and means for manufacture of pre-filled such ampoules or other ampoules.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Pharmacia ABInventors: Mikael Forsberg, Birger Hjertman
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Patent number: 6802172Abstract: A particle aerosol belt has a double-seal construction. A first zip-lock container contains the dry aerosol particles, such as brass metallic flake. The zip-lock containers are then placed in an elongate tubing. The tubing is sealed between the zip-lock containers to form a plurality of cells in which the zip-lock containers are disposed. A method of forming the particle aerosol belt includes introducing the brass metallic flake or other material, in the form of a slurry into the zip-lock containers, and drying the slurry, prior to sealing the zip-lock containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: William G. Rouse, Raymond J. Malecki, Warren C. Schimpf
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Publication number: 20040112011Abstract: A system for heating and dispensing foam-in-bag packaging bags comprises a housing that rotatably supports a roll of a continuous web of interconnected foam-in-bag packaging bags, and at least one heater for heating bags to an elevated temperature prior to the bags being dispensed from the housing. A heated bag is dispensed and is detached from the web, and is then manipulated to mix foam precursor chemicals contained in separate compartments in the bag to begin a foam-forming reaction in the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2002Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: Sealed Air CorporationInventors: Laurence B. Sperry, Eric Kane, Jesse Drake, Anthony Davlin
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Patent number: 6742319Abstract: A method of manufacturing and supplying a net-moulded article of expandable syntactic material and a related shipping package are provided. The moulded article is formed at a manufacturing facility where the forming process can be controlled to ensure production of quality syntactic material articles. The moulded article is formed by dispensing the material into a mould having a cavity with a shape matching that of a desired syntactic article to be used in an assembly at a point of use. The mould and moulded article are covered with a protective film to form a mould kit which is shipped to the point of use location. At the point of use location the moulded article is removed from the mould and preferably immediately positioned in the assembly without significant cutting, trimming, forming or other labor intensive actions. Once positioned, the net-moulded article and the assembly are cured to integrate the moulded article with the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Arnold J. Lauder
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Patent number: 6739112Abstract: A system for packaging a bone allograft for use in a future medical procedure in which the bone allograft is stored in a saturated saline solution in an airtight container. The saline solution keeps the allograft hydrated and may be saturated with a combination of calcium, phosphate, or magnesium to inhibit mineral leaching out of the allograft during storage. The container may be deformable to conform to the shape of the allograft material as the container is “shrink-fitted” to the allograft. Optionally, the bone allograft may also be freeze dried prior to placement in the container.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2000Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Nu Vasive, Inc.Inventor: James F. Marino
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Publication number: 20040074211Abstract: A method of making a moisture-proof package that holds semiconductor devices and desiccant is provided. A tray that retains desiccant is prepared. Semiconductor devices are placed on the tray, and the semiconductor devices and the desiccant carried by the tray are then heat treated before being sealed in a moisture-proof bag. Once the semiconductor devices are shipped to customers, the tray and desiccant are both reused until the moisture absorbing properties of the desiccant diminish.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc.Inventor: Yukio Shibata
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Patent number: 6718735Abstract: A flexible polymeric container for holding albumin. The container is made of a sheet of flexible polymeric film formed into a bag having a cavity enclosed by a first wall, an opposing second wall, and seals about a periphery of the first and second walls. The seals join an interior portion of the opposing first and second walls and create a fluid-tight chamber within the cavity of the container for storing a concentration of the albumin. A method of packaging the albumin protein into a flexible polymeric container is also provided. Therein a flexible polymeric material is converted into bags, the bags are filled with a quantity of albumin by a filler, and a seal area of the bags is sealed to enclose the albumin within the bag.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare S.A.Inventors: James D. Lewis, Jr., William Baccia, Josef Schmidt, Johan Vandersande, John Carl Card, Theodor Langer, Georg Habison, Helmut Eder
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Publication number: 20040050020Abstract: In a web packaging machine (10) and method packaging a food product (P) between upper and lower webs (14 and 25), wherein the lower web (14) is transported through a series of stations which form the lower web (14) into a component of a package at a forming station (18), and receive the food product (P) at a loading station (20), and close the package with the upper web (25) at a closing station (26), a pasteurization station (300) is provided between the loading station (20) and the closing station (26) and pasteurizing the food product (P).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2002Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Robert E. Hanson, Craig R. Bonneville, Tou T. Vang, Vernon D. Karman, Gary Lee Hahn, Nelly Feze, John J. Jurkowski
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Publication number: 20040045260Abstract: A process for delivering a cold or heat storage medium into a carrier material, in which the carrier material is located in a container which can be at least partially evacuated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: Webasto thermosysteme international GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Kraemer, Robert Lang, Kemal-Edip Yildirim
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Publication number: 20040025475Abstract: An automated, fully programmable, and adaptable device fills straws or straw-like packages with any type of flowing, or flowable, liquid. A straw is dropped from a hopper down chutes into a capture area where it is held and filled with liquid, after which it is sealed. The straw dropping, capture, filling, and sealing actions are preferably automatically controlled by a preprogrammed electronic controller. The major elements of a typical embodiment of the invention include means for dropping a straw or other receptacle into a fixed mounting position consistently, optional means for heating fluids throughout the fill process, means for filling the receptacle, and means for sealing the receptacle. The straw hopper has a retractable slide plate at its base that slides back to allow only one straw at a time to fall through the chutes into the capture area. In the preferred embodiment, the slide plate at the bottom of the hopper moves back and forth in a predefined fully programmable sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Kathryn M. Hamilton
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Patent number: 6688081Abstract: A method and closure and container combination for packaging and sealing a commodity in a container that reduces headspace gases, in particular oxygen, allowing the packaged commodity to have a longer shelf life. The method is also useful for reducing stresses on containers that undergo filling at an elevated temperature and/or require in-container pasteurization or retort processes after fill and seal.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Schmalbach-Lubeca AGInventor: Timothy J. Boyd
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Patent number: 6681548Abstract: A method for providing a thermally stable finish in a plastic container. A finish section is reformed, which in part requires crystallizing a portion of the finish. The finish section has a finish dimension that shrinks to an intermediate finish dimension. Thereafter, the crystallized finish is annealed such that the intermediate finish dimension conforms to a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Schmalbach-Lubeca AGInventors: Kerry W. Silvers, Timothy J. Boyd, George Calendine
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Publication number: 20040000126Abstract: A method of filling a multilayer container includes providing a multilayer container that is subject to delamination, introducing product contents at an elevated temperature and a liquefied gas, and capping or otherwise sealing the container. The pressure within the container remains positive at temperatures at least as low as ambient, and preferably down to the lower range of household or commercial refrigeration temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: Frank J. Schmidt, Armen Zakarian, John M. Rost, Prasad Joshi
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Publication number: 20030205028Abstract: An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one embodiment, the system includes separate automated modules for dispensing, frying and packaging the food.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2002Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventors: Gerald A. Sus, Ron Dorsten, Henry T. Ewald, Jenny Hong, Glenn Schackmuth, David Bone, Tiffany Curry, Eddie Mann, Mario G. Ceste, Curtis Clarence Pinnow, John M. Corliss, Joseph Gerstmann, James Lozouski, Andrew Courier, Kevin Keough, Richard Terrazzano, William Day, Doug Jones, Roberto Nevarez, Keith Stanger, Jerry Sank, Douglas Christian Greening, John Meisner, John A.J. Wedel, Christopher Juneau, Steven Konold, Richard Montafi, Benny Nunley, Charles E. Rose, Ly Nguyen, Mitchell Strew
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Publication number: 20030205027Abstract: An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one embodiment, the system includes separate automated modules for dispensing, frying and packaging the food.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2002Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventors: Gerald A. Sus, Ron Dorsten, Jenny Hong, Glenn Schackmuth, Andrew Courier, Kevin Keough, Richard Terrazzano, Mario G. Ceste, Curtis Clarence Pinnow, Christopher Juneau, Steven Konold, Richard Montafi, Benny Nunley, Charles E. Rose
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Publication number: 20030177739Abstract: A flexible polymeric container for holding albumin. The container is made of a sheet of flexible polymeric film formed into a bag having a cavity enclosed by a first wall, an opposing second wall, and seals about a periphery of the first and second walls. The seals join an interior portion of the opposing first and second walls and create a fluid-tight chamber within the cavity of the container for storing a concentration of the albumin. A method of packaging the albumin protein into a flexible polymeric container is also provided. Therein a flexible polymeric material is converted into bags, the bags are filled with a quantity of albumin by a filler, and a seal area of the bags is sealed to enclose the albumin within the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: James D. Lewis, William Baccia, Josef Schmidt, Johan Vandersande, John Carl Card, Theodor Langer
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Publication number: 20030136084Abstract: A method for providing a thermally processed commodity in a plastic container. The container is exposed to elevated temperatures to form an intermediate finish section. A commodity is dispensed within the plastic container. A closure engages the intermediate finish section. The container and the commodity are thermally processed. The finish section being within a predetermined range whereby the finish section and the closure result in retaining a hermetic seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Kerry W. Silvers, Timothy J. Boyd, George Calendine
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Patent number: 6589616Abstract: Packaging containers produced from a composite shaped by cold-forming, the term “packaging containers” including base or lid parts or base or lid parts shaped by cold-forming. The base or lid parts can be shaped by cold-forming, and a lid foil or base foil, respectively, can form the corresponding closure for the packaging container. In addition, both the base and the lid part can be shaped by cold-forming, the depressions formed in the base and lid parts advantageously lying opposite one another. Examples of these packaging containers are strip packing or blister packaging for pharmaceutical products.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Alcan Technology & Management Ltd.Inventors: Olivier Yves A. Muggli, Erwin Pasbrig
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Patent number: 6588180Abstract: A blister pack which confines the movement a dosage form in order to resist damage thereto during handling and transportation while permitting removal of the intact dosage form, and apparatus and methods for the same. In particular, the invention provides a blister pack wherein the blister includes a protruding region between the opening and the base, thereby producing a constricted area or “neck” in the blister. In a preferred embodiment, the protruding region comprises an inwardly directed annulus formed in the blister wall. Accordingly, vertical movement of the dosage form is confined as a result of the protruding region, thereby reducing the likelihood of damage to the dosage form caused by agitation of the blister pack. The invention is particularly useful in packaging frangible pharmaceutical dosage forms formed in situ within the blister, such as freeze dried dosage forms and rapidly dissolving oral dosage forms.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: R. P. Scherer Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Heath, Kevin William Greaves
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Patent number: 6581359Abstract: This invention consist of the application of ionomers with high acid comonomer content and neutralisea with specific metal ions as sealant layers for multilayer for fresh meat packaging with improved meat juice or purge retention and a process to archieve this. It has been found that for this application a copolymer of ethylene and an &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acid, preferably 1-30% by weight, preferably acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, that is partly neutralized with at least one metal ion is most suitable. The copolymer may further contain an acrylate, and may be processed by e.g. extruding or casting a sheet or blowing a film.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Adrianus Theodorus Josephus van den Broek
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Publication number: 20030110736Abstract: A method and closure and container combination for packaging and sealing a commodity in a container that reduces headspace gases, in particular oxygen, allowing the packaged commodity to have a longer shelf life. The method is also useful for reducing stresses on containers that undergo filling at an elevated temperature and/or require in-container pasteurization or retort processes after fill and seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2001Publication date: June 19, 2003Inventor: Timothy J. Boyd
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Patent number: 6568156Abstract: A method for providing a thermally processed commodity in a plastic container. The container is exposed to elevated temperatures to form an—intermediate finish section. A commodity is dispensed within the plastic container. A closure engages the intermediate finish section. The container and the commodity are thermally processed. The finish section being within a predetermined range whereby the finish section and the closure result in retaining a hermetic seal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Schmalbach-Lubeca AGInventors: Kerry W. Silvers, Timothy J. Boyd, George Calendine
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Publication number: 20030079445Abstract: A method for reducing heat loss of hot pizzeria pizza shipped in corrugated box packaging. The method involves placing a recently-cooked pizzeria pizza into a corrugated box having at least one tab-like structure projecting downward from a wall structure of the box and extending beyond a bottom edge of a wall panel by a distance of at least nine millimeters when the box is in a fully-erected format, whereby the method solves the problem of a downward-warping bottom panel of a loaded corrugated pizza box coming into contact with a cool support surface underneath the box.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Inventor: John D. Correll
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Patent number: 6536189Abstract: A “safe delivery”SM system for delivering perishable groceries (120/120′), including an inexpensive, corrugated cardboard box (100); a source of cold (or heat as needed) maintaining the temperature inside the box within a desired temperature range for hours, using an all encompassing pouch of packet material (110/10), used individually (FIGS. 2 & 3) or collectively (FIGS. 5 & 6), with each packet (17) containing a super-absorbent polymer (14, FIG. 12) which is hydrated (14′, FIG. 12A) and then either frozen (e.g., in a freezer) or heated (e.g., in a microwave), without producing moisture as the polymer returns to its natural state; a protective cover (130) protecting the box and its contents from heat radiation (e.g., sunlight). Other components (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Thermal Products, Inc.Inventor: Joseph C. Murray
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Patent number: 6537491Abstract: Sterilization apparatus includes a monitoring system capable of continuously monitoring levels of a sterilant, such as hydrogen peroxide vapor. The monitoring system includes a sensor chamber joined in fluid communication with a sterilant supply conduit of the sterilization apparatus. A gas-detecting semiconductor sensing element, and associated temperature sensor, are provided within the sensor chamber to provide output signals corresponding to detected levels of sterilant. The sensor chamber isolates parametric influence, such as relative humidity, temperature and flow rate, to provide more accurate concentration level readings. A data collection circuit is operatively coupled to the sensors to provide an output corresponding to detected levels of sterilant within the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Abbott LaboratoriesInventors: Jianjun Wang, David A. Mondiek, Patrick D. Simon
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Patent number: 6533564Abstract: An apparatus for continuously forming thermoplastic adhesive cartridges. A molten thermoplastic adhesive supply provides a supply of molten adhesive to a pump downstream from the molten thermoplastic adhesive supply. The pump then provides a molten thermoplastic adhesive melt stream which passes through a screen filter downstream from the pump to prevent the discharge of impurities in the molten thermoplastic adhesive melt stream from the pump. A temperature-controlled conduit downstream from the pump then lowers the temperature of the molten plastic melt stream to closely above its softening point. A continuous molder located downstream from the melt pump for receives the molten plastic melt stream from the melt pump to form the thermoplastic adhesive cartridge continuously.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1999Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Jowat CorporationInventors: Gerhard H. Haas, Anthony Saenz, Timothy R. Sumner
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Publication number: 20030039915Abstract: The invention provides a photopolymer package for use in making a hand stamp plate, the package consisting of a sachet containing a photocurable liquid polymer, the walls of the sachet being formed of material capable of being released from the cured photopolymer. Methods for the formation of the package and the hand stamp plate are also provided. The invention eliminates the requirement for the use of a backing layer in the package and thereby offers significant advantages over the prior art in terms of cost and efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2001Publication date: February 27, 2003Inventors: Paul Mayo Holt, Maria Peneva Dincheva
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Publication number: 20020190109Abstract: The invention relates to a packing drum containing a moisture cross-linking melt adhesive (8) which is surrounded by a moisture-tight can comprising a lid (2) made of a composite material, PE- or PP-coated white sheet metal consisting of a casing (1) and a floor. The floor has the form of a moisture-tight flexible membrane (3). The packing drum can in particular be charged in a very economic manner with adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventors: Paul Mrgan, Gerald Petry, Franz-Georg Henrichs
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Publication number: 20020152725Abstract: A bias tape maker includes an outer shell including a tape entering port and a tape exiting port for introduction and exit of a main tape, respectively, and an inner core fitted in the outer shell for defining a main tape passage between the outer shell and the inner core. The main tape passage has a tape folding portion for folding longitudinal margins of the main tape toward each other. The outer shell is provided with an auxiliary tape entry window adjacent the tape exiting port for introducing an auxiliary tape into the tape folding portion of the main tape passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2001Publication date: October 24, 2002Inventor: Katsuhiko Ozeki
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Publication number: 20020134052Abstract: A process for the realization of box-shaped packagings with thermoplastic film sheets foresees the use of at least one film sheet of thermoplastic material (12, 13), bound to a flap (14, 15) of a box (11), when the same is placed in a laid down configuration, and comprises the following steps; placing the box (11) in such a way as to be able to take said film sheets (12, 13) away, leaving the bottom of the box (11) accessible; inserting the products (21) in the box (11); wrapping the products (21) into said film sheets (12, 13); heating the content of the box (11) with means for providing a concentrated ventilation from the top; and, once the shrinking of the thermoplastic material has occurred, closing the box (11) at the open side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2001Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventor: Pietro Di Bernardo
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Patent number: 6449925Abstract: An inclusion package product is produced by coating a base sheet with a solution of and inclusion article; drying the solution coated onto the base sheet; and placing an overlapping sheet onto the base sheet and sealing prescribed sections of the base sheet to the overlapping sheet to surround the area coated with the solution.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1999Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Kyoichi Otsu, Naoko Yamashita, Yoshiji Okumura, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20020116903Abstract: A process for producing an inclusion package product comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 1999Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventors: KYOICHI OTSU, NAOKO YAMASHITA, YOSHIJI OKUMURA, TOSHIO MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20020112449Abstract: The invention herein provides for a blister pack which confines the movement a dosage form in order to resist damage thereto during handling and transportation while permitting removal of the intact dosage form, and apparatus and methods for the same. In particular, the invention provides a blister pack wherein the blister includes a protruding region between the opening and the base, thereby producing a constricted area or “neck” in the blister. In a preferred embodiment, the protruding region comprises an inwardly directed annulus formed in the blister wall. Accordingly, vertical movement of the dosage form is confined as a result of the protruding region, thereby reducing the likelihood of damage to the dosage form caused by agitation of the blister pack. The invention is particularly useful in packaging frangible pharmaceutical dosage forms formed in situ within in the blister, such as freeze dried dosage forms and rapidly dissolving oral dosage forms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2001Publication date: August 22, 2002Inventors: Kenneth Heath, Kevin William Greaves
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Patent number: 6430898Abstract: The present inventors have discovered that an easily measured property, namely complex viscosity, directly relates to physical film compatibility and have further identified a class of polyolefin materials, which are particularly amenable to exhibiting such properties. It is important to note that this discovery assumes that the film material is first chemically compatible with the thermoplastic composition to be packaged. The invention is particularly useful for low viscosity thermoplastic compositions having a Brookfield viscosity of less than about 10,000 cPs at 350° F., such as pressure sensitive hot melt adhesive compositions which are typically applied by melting the packaged adhesive composition in a melt tank wherein the melt tank lacks an active mixing means.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: H.B. Fuller Licensing & Financing, Inc.Inventors: Peter Remmers, Joachim Baumung, Michelle M. Chanak, Kevin W. McKay, Thomas Wittkopf
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Patent number: 6397562Abstract: Process for producing a candle surrounded by a container in which a prefabricated candle blank which does not completely fill the interior of the container is inserted and fixed in the container. An intermediate space between the candle blank and the inside wall of the container is then filled with liquid candle material and the container which has been filled in this way is allowed to cool. In order to be able to fix the inserted candle blank stationary in the container, before insertion into the container, the candle blank is heated on its bottom and its bottom which has become sticky in this way is located on the bottom of the container. The candle blank is immediately fixed in its position by releasing the heat of the heated bottom to the container bottom.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: Spezialmaschinenbau Herrhammer GmbHInventor: Peter Herrhammer
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Patent number: 6395321Abstract: A method for packaging food items, such as processed cheese, into a plastic film package that entirely encloses the food item with peelable heat seals, such as hermetic peelable heat seals. The heat of the food item is used to activate a sealant within the plastic film. Plastic film formulations are provided for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Schreiber Foods, INCInventors: David L. Shaft, George O. Schroeder
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Patent number: 6354338Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for supplying an ice water-containing bag for use in icing. The apparatus includes an ice machine, an ice storing section for storing ice manufactured by the ice machine, ice packing means for packing the ice stored in the ice storing section in a bag having a water resistance, water supplying means for supplying water into the bag, sealing means for sealing an opening of the bag in which ice and water has been put, a belt conveyer for carrying the bag containing ice and water, a controller for controlling the respective means to be activated/suspended, and ice-water manufacturing instructing means connected with the control means, for sending an instruction for manufacturing the ice water-containing bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Inventor: Yoshinori Takemoto
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Publication number: 20020020149Abstract: A method for providing a thermally processed commodity in a plastic container. The container is exposed to elevated temperatures to form an—intermediate finish section. A commodity is dispensed within the plastic container. A closure engages the intermediate finish section. The container and the commodity are thermally processed. The finish section being within a predetermined range whereby the finish section and the closure result in retaining a hermetic seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Kerry W. Silvers, Timothy J. Boyd, George Calendine
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Patent number: 6337113Abstract: The invention concerns packaging container produced from a composite shaped by cold-forming, the term “packaging containers” including base of lid parts or base and lid parts shaped by cold-forming. The base or lid parts can be shaped by cold-forming, and a lid film or base film, respectively, can form the corresponding closure for the packaging container. In addition, both the base and the lid part can be shaped by cold-forming, the depressions formed in the base and lid parts advantageously lying opposite one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1998Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Alusuisse Technology & Management AGInventors: Olivier Yves A. Muggli, Erwin Pasbrig
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Publication number: 20010049921Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for enhancing the mixing of foam precursors in foam-in-bag precursor systems, to thereby enhance the quality of the resulting foam. The apparatus comprises a heated chamber for storing bags containing the precursors in separate compartments, an opening for dispensing the heated bags, and mechanical agitators for externally agitating the bag containing the separated foam-forming precursors to mix the precursors and form foam. Also, a foam cushion packaging precursor is disclosed and comprises such a heated bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Inventors: Laurence Burst Sperry, Anthony Orkin Davlin, Kerry Michael McKinley, George Teofilius Bertram