公开(公告)号：US12129059B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US18407028

申请日：2024-01-08

Applicant: Weber Food Technology GmbH

Inventor： Marvin Schäfer ,  Thorsten Schneider ,  Markus Gerhardt ,  Florian Reitz ,  Julian Nolte ,  Heiko Knöppel

IPC: B65B25/08 ,  B26D7/32 ,  B65B41/16 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B65/00 ,  B65H16/02 ,  B65H29/20 ,  B65H35/00 ,  B65H35/08

CPC classification number: B65B25/08 ,  B26D7/32 ,  B26D7/325 ,  B65B41/16 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B65/006 ,  B65H16/02 ,  B65H29/20 ,  B65H35/0086 ,  B65H35/08 ,  B65H2553/30

Abstract: The invention relates to an output unit for a provision individually per track of sheet material for placing beneath products fed on two or multiple tracks, in particular beneath food portions, said output unit comprising a draw-in device that is configured to draw in individually per track a respective one material web of the sheet material per track and that in particular has at least one driven draw-in shaft and at least one draw-in pressure unit; a separation device that is configured to separate the sheet material from the material webs; and an ejection device that is configured to discharge sheet material on two or multiple tracks and that comprises a driven ejection roller and an ejection counter-unit that forms an ejection gap for the sheet material together with the ejection roller, wherein the ejection roller is jointly associated with at least two tracks.

公开(公告)号：US12017810B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US17629113

申请日：2020-07-13

Applicant: KHS GmbH

Inventor： Bernd Cox ,  Michael Jörissen ,  Thomas Lelie

IPC: B65B11/10 ,  B65B21/24 ,  B65B57/08

CPC classification number: B65B11/10 ,  B65B21/245 ,  B65B57/08

Abstract: A bundling machine includes a wrapper that wraps the combination while it rests on a forward end of a paper cutout and a rear end of the paper cutout overlaps the forward end of the paper cutout while the combination moves in a transport direction, a transporter having a wrapping belt and a removal belt that follows the wrapping belt along the transport direction for conveying the combination of packages along a transport plane in the transport direction through the wrapper, and a controller that controls the relative speed of the belts so that, while the combination contacts both belts, the wrapping belt moves faster than the removal belt, thereby causing the rear end to sustain a tension in the direction of the forward end.

公开(公告)号：US20240025139A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18476563

申请日：2023-09-28

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Thien NGUYEN ,  Sean SUNDBERG ,  Jeremy STRAIGHT ,  Berina YERKIC-HUSEJNOVIC ,  Jarrod W. CHALKLEY ,  James D. EVANS ,  Christopher R. NEWCOMB ,  Robert V. POWELL, JR. ,  Gregory L. NELSON

IPC: B30B12/00 ,  B30B15/00 ,  B30B15/02 ,  B30B15/30 ,  B65B1/04 ,  B65B1/24 ,  B29C31/04 ,  B29C33/00 ,  B29C33/46 ,  B29C43/02 ,  B29C43/40 ,  B65B1/16 ,  B65B1/26 ,  B65B9/02 ,  B65B1/36 ,  B65B37/20 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B61/28

CPC classification number: B30B12/00 ,  B30B15/0052 ,  B30B15/028 ,  B30B15/30 ,  B65B1/04 ,  B65B1/24 ,  B29C31/04 ,  B29C33/0022 ,  B29C33/46 ,  B29C43/02 ,  B29C43/40 ,  B65B1/16 ,  B65B1/26 ,  B65B9/023 ,  B65B1/36 ,  B65B37/20 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B61/28 ,  B29C2043/3222

Abstract: An apparatus includes a fixed assembly and a reciprocating assembly. The fixed assembly includes a hopper, a first gas manifold, and a dispensing chamber, and the reciprocating assembly includes a channel assembly defining a channel conduit, a shield plate vertically aligned therewith, and a second gas manifold. The reciprocating assembly may move, in relation to the fixed assembly, to a first position to enable the channel conduit to be filled with bulk compressible material from the hopper, a second position to enable compressible material to be pushed from the channel conduit to the dispensing conduit and to be compressed in the dispensing chamber according to a first gas directed through the channel conduit by the first gas manifold, and a third position to enable the compressed material to be pushed out of the dispensing conduit according to a second gas directed through the dispensing conduit by the second gas manifold.

公开(公告)号：US20230257141A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-17

申请号：US18107697

申请日：2023-02-09

Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company

Inventor： Henri Theo Leonie RUERS ,  Andrea ZIANTONI LIBERATORI

IPC: B65B7/28 ,  B65B57/08

CPC classification number: B65B7/2842 ,  B65B57/08

Abstract: A process for packaging a product in which a hood is fitted to a tray. The hood top is oriented at an angle relative to the machine direction in which the tray is being conveyed. The hood is engaged with the tray by initiating contact between a leading panel of the hood with the tray while the leading panel is moving before engaging the trailing panel with the tray. As the tray is conveyed in the machine direction, the tray captures a hood by the leading panel of the hood and the remainder of the hood is subsequently fitted to the tray.

公开(公告)号：US20220212826A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-07

申请号：US17611686

申请日：2020-06-05

Applicant: G.D SOCIETA' PER AZIONI

Inventor： Maria Eleonora Cesarini ,  Eura Trivisonno ,  Luca Federici

IPC: B65B57/08 ,  B65B19/22 ,  B65B57/16 ,  B65B65/00 ,  A24D3/02 ,  A24F40/70 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G01J3/28

Abstract: An automatic machine for the production or the packaging of consumer products, in particular of the tobacco industry has at least one processing line provided with a plurality of operating members and feeds at least one material used to manufacture the consumer products. A control and/or identification method includes carrying out, inside a volume containing at least part of the automatic machine, a three-dimensional detection using at least one hyperspectral detection unit for detecting alterations of the electromagnetic field produced by all the objects inside the volume, the hyperspectral detection unit outputs raw data concerning the dimensions, position, shape, physical structure, and/or the chemical composition of all the objects present inside the volume. The raw data is filtered using an artificial intelligence algorithm to isolate and extract information concerning at least one single object inside the volume; and the information is used to carry out a control and/or identification operation.

公开(公告)号：US20210380297A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-09

申请号：US17285216

申请日：2019-11-07

Applicant: Kwik Lok Corporation

Inventor： Roger Keith Hart ,  Jose Victor Mora, Jr.

IPC: B65B51/10 ,  B65B57/00 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B25/16 ,  B65B51/04 ,  B65B43/46

Abstract: A system for manufacturing tamper evident packaging, for example a bag with a tamper evident seal, includes a noncontact sealing device, a manufacturing conveyor, and in some implementations, a tensioning device and a closure device. The manufacturing conveyor conveys the bag to opposing pairs of in-feed belts of the non-contact sealing device, wherein the belts hold opposing sides of the bag together and a laser with an outlet positioned between a first pair of the belts spot welds the bag along a specified line to fuse the opposing sides of the bag together proximate an opening of the bag. In implementations including the tensioning device and the closure device, the tensioning device draws the opposing sides of the bag together prior to the bag entering the noncontact sealing device, and the closure device applies a removably coupleable closure to the bag after the bag exits the non-contact sealing device.

公开(公告)号：US11186388B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16788232

申请日：2020-02-11

Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.

Inventor： Keiji Taga ,  Ryuichi Kurosawa ,  Makoto Ichikawa

IPC: B65B1/32 ,  B65B43/04 ,  B65B57/18 ,  B65B57/06 ,  B65B57/10 ,  B65B57/02 ,  B65B57/14 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B57/16

Abstract: A weighing and packaging system includes a plurality of weighing machines, a plurality of packaging machines, and a control unit. The plurality of weighing machines are configured to weigh articles supplied thereto. The plurality of packaging machines, each of which forms a weighing and packaging unit with a corresponding weighing machine among the plurality of weighing machines, are configured to receive a supply of the articles weighed and discharged by the corresponding weighing machine, and package the articles supplied thereto. The control unit is configured to, in a case where a problem occurs in at least one of weighing by the weighing machine and packaging by the packaging machine in any of the weighing and packaging units, change processing capacities of the weighing machine and the packaging machine of at least some of the weighing and packaging units other than the weighing and packaging units in which the problem occurs.

公开(公告)号：US11148844B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-19

申请号：US15787776

申请日：2017-10-19

Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Inventor： Juan C. Guzman ,  Robert S. Davis

IPC: B65B11/02 ,  B65B11/08 ,  B65B11/54 ,  B65B25/06 ,  B65B35/10 ,  B65B35/24 ,  B65B41/12 ,  B65B41/16 ,  B65B57/00 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B57/12 ,  B65B57/18 ,  B65B59/00 ,  B65B61/26

Abstract: A wrapping machine for wrapping trayed food products includes a wrap station at which trayed food products are wrapped, a film dispensing station for drawing out film over trayed food products at the wrap station and a conveying system for moving trayed food products along a defined path from an input station to the wrap station. A controller is operatively connected to operate the conveying system, components of the film dispensing station and components of the wrap station. The controller is configured as a state machine with sequential wrap stages, where each wrap stage must successfully complete before the controller initiates a next wrap stage.

公开(公告)号：US11084609B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16478642

申请日：2018-01-29

Applicant: Signode Industrial Group LLC

Inventor： Samuel Hochstrasser ,  Benjamin Hubschmid

IPC: B65B13/02 ,  B65B13/04 ,  B65B13/22 ,  B65B13/32 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B57/18 ,  B65B13/18

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a strapping apparatus for strapping articles to be packaged with a strapping band. The strapping apparatus includes a band detection device configured to indicate that the band is in a non-positionally correct and/or a positionally correct position, depending on the embodiment.

公开(公告)号：US10934033B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-02

申请号：US16168830

申请日：2018-10-24

Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.

Inventor： Makoto Ichikawa ,  Toru Morihira

IPC: B65B9/207 ,  B65B57/08 ,  B65B57/18 ,  B65B57/10 ,  B65B57/16 ,  B65B51/30 ,  B65B61/06 ,  B65B9/20 ,  B65B1/32 ,  B65B9/213

Abstract: A bag-making and packaging apparatus creates one product per cycle by packaging articles in a bag made from a film. The bag-making and packaging apparatus includes a longitudinal sealing mechanism, a guide, an article sensor, a transverse sealing mechanism, a cutting mechanism, and a prediction unit. The guide guides the articles which fall from above into a film tube. The transverse sealing mechanism forms a transversely sealed part in the film tube with each cycle. The cutting mechanism cuts the film tube in the transversely sealed part with each cycle. The prediction unit predicts whether or not jamming of the articles could occur in the transverse sealing mechanism on the basis of an output of the article sensor with each cycle. When the prediction unit has predicted that the jamming could occur in a certain cycle, the cutting mechanism does not cut the film tube in the certain cycle.