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7617658 Sealing device for producing sealed packages of a pourable food product  
A sealing device producing sealed packages filled with pourable food product from sheet packaging material comprises a supporting frame, a forming mechanism movable with respect to the frame along...
7559184 Packaging machine for tubular bags  
When viewing in the direction of material flow of a flat film web of a packaging machine for tubular bags, a film conveying device is situated behind a shaping shoulder of a packaging machine for...
7552574 Variable tension gusseting system  
A vertical stand-up pouch, flat bottom bag, or flexible package, and method for manufacturing same, constructed by modification to existing vertical form and fill packaging machines. The invention...
7526906 Apparatus and method for automated forming of sleeves for sliced products  
A forming apparatus is provided for forming a film into a sleeve around a filling tube. The forming apparatus has contact surface geometry that is contacted by the film as it travels thereacross...
7523597 Apparatus and method for mounting a bag former  
A self-aligning former assembly has a single-point mount for attachment to an automated form/fill/seal packaging machine. Substantially rectangular apertures in a plurality of mounting brackets are...
7516596 Bandolier format packaging  
A product and method for producing a string of individual sealed, filled packages separated by perforations. A string of separate packages optionally may be enclosed in a cardboard or other...
7500340 Quick change module with adjustable former attachments  
A quick change module operable for being removably attached to and extending below a forming tube of a conventional vertical form, fill, and seal machine to produce a wide assortment of differently...
7490451 Method and apparatus for making block bottom pillow top bags  
Methods and apparatus for automated manufacture of block bottom pillow top bags. One method includes the following steps: (a) forming a web of bag making material into a tube; (b) joining...
7484341 Packaging and filling apparatus and packaging material cutting device  
A packaging and filling apparatus fills a tube of a web of a packaging material with a fluid product, forms lateral seal bands, cuts each seal band of a series of pillow-like preformed bodies with...
7472528 Vacuum belt assembly to drive tubular bag material  
A vacuum belt assembly ( 10 ) to drive tubular bag material ( 11 ) through a packaging machine. The assembly ( 10 ) includes three belts ( 19, 20, 21 ) with the belts ( 19, 20, 21 ) being driven by...
7464518 Package heat seal quality indicator using UV visible thermochromic ink  
A method of verifying seal quality of a packaging material includes providing packaging material, and applying a thermochromic ink to at least one portion of the packaging material. The method also...
7415810 Methods of manufacturing hooded slider-operated zippered bags  
A method of manufacturing a reclosable package having a hooded slider-operated zipper, comprising the following steps: (a) interlocking profiled closure members of first and second flanged zipper...
7409810 Vertical pouch making machine and method of making pouches  
A vertical form fill and seal continuous pouch machine includes a forming tube having a cross section area of CA is disclosed. A film tube is continuously formed about the forming tube and fed...
7406810 Reclosable packaging  
A method of fabricating reclosable bags comprising: disposing a releasably engaged closure between a first and a second bag film portions, the closure including a loop-engageable fastener strip...
7396321 Pouch packaging machine having adjustable operating orientations  
A pouch packaging machine and method of selectively changing the orientation of a pouch packaging machine. The pouch packaging machine has at least one spool for holding at least one roll of...
7395642 Method of manufacturing packages incorporating easy-open strips  
A method of manufacture comprising the following steps: (a) guiding a web material in a machine direction through a vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine with a portion of the web material being...
7356979 Method and apparatus for manufacturing a bag package, and bag package  
A method for manufacturing bag packages, in which netting material of bags to be formed is connected to at least two foil strips which are each provided with a printing repeating in the...
7344671 Optical sealing clamp and a method for sealing and cutting polymeric sheets with a laser  
The invention is specially directed towards intermittent motion packaging machines where the packages are momentarily immobilized at a forming station for the time duration of the package sealing...
7325386 Double action vertical form-fill-seal apparatus  
This is a double acting, multi-lane machine and method for the forming, filling and sealing of plastic or paper film pouches of various sizes commonly used to hold liquid viscous, dry, particulated...
7325383 Bag making and filling method using double film  
A tubular film is flattened to form a continuous two-ply film in which the two side edges are continuously connected in the longitudinal direction. This two-ply film is curved into a tubular form,...
7325379 Pleat adjustment in vertical, form, film and seal packaging system and method  
A method and apparatus for continuously or intermittently and vertically forming, filling and sealing packaging includes an infeed section, a pleating assembly, a forming tube and a sealing...
7325378 Vertical form fill and seal method for producing reclosable packages from two sheets of web  
Various embodiments and alternatives for vertical form fill and seal methods and apparatus are disclosed. In particular, two sheets of web are fed by forming collars to a fill tube (or in some...
7322169 Vertical, form, fill and seal packaging system  
A method and apparatus for continuously or intermittently and vertically forming, filling and sealing packaging includes an infeed section, a pleating assembly, a forming tube and a sealing...
7313901 Packaging apparatus, packaging method, packaging system  
The present invention provides a packaging apparatus ( 1 ) capable of adjusting the thickness of a package with a simple configuration. The packaging apparatus ( 1 ) is a packaging apparatus that...
7305808 Packaging machine  
A packaging machine moves its heater unit for longitudinal sealing of a tubularly formed film between a sealing position at which the heater unit contacts the film and a retracted position at which...
7305805 Method for making a flexible reclosable package  
A flexible package having an integrated reclose strip, and method for manufacturing same, constructed by modification to existing vertical form and fill packaging machines. The reclose strip...
7299604 Method and apparatus for moving a welding jaw  
To be able to weld different items, in particular films of different thickness and composition, in an optimized way in each case, it is proposed in the case of a welding jaw circulating along a...
7275354 Vertical form, fill and seal packaging system  
A method and apparatus for continuously or intermittently and vertically forming, filling and sealing packaging includes an infeed section, a pleating assembly, a forming tube and a sealing...
7266934 Reclosable bag production  
The bags are produced on a form-fill seal machine operating horizontally or vertically. Zipper strips ( 16 ) are initially attached to a continuous web ( 12 ) which is subsequently formed into a...
7254930 Stationary tucker bar mechanism  
A stationary tucker bar mechanism attached to a vertical form, fill, and seal packaging machine used to construct a vertical stand-up pouch and a gusseted flat bottom bag. The invention involves...
7234285 Apparatus for manufacturing flexible packages having slide closures  
Vertical form fill seal apparatus for making flexible packages with slider fastener closures is provided. A fastener track is applied in-line with a plastic web and is bonded thereto at the same...
7219483 Heat seal die and system and method for portion control sized packaging  
This invention encompasses a heat seal die incorporating heat tube technology for controlling the variation of temperature across a heat seal die. The invention also encompasses a system and method...
7197859 Vertical stand-up pouch with zipper seal quick change module  
A vertical stand-up pouch, or flexible package having a zipper seal mechanism incorporated therein, and method for manufacturing same, constructed with a quick change module modification to...
7191575 Vertical pouch machine  
A vertical form fill and seal continuous pouch machine includes a forming tube having a cross section area of CA is disclosed. A film tube is continuously formed about the forming tube and fed...
7178313 Method for making a package having at least two items  
A method for making a vertical stand up package having one or more open or closed compartments within the package, and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same, constructed by modification...
7171795 Transverse sealing mechanism for bag-manufacturing and packaging machine and bag-packaging machine equipped therewith  
The bag-manufacturing and packaging machine transverse sealing mechanism is for a bag-manufacturing and packaging machine that makes bags by sealing a tubular packaging material longitudinally and...
7144358 Method and apparatus for manufacturing tube-shaped packages made of flexible material  
Method for manufacturing a tube-shaped package having longitudinal sides and a bottom and made of flexible material, wherein the longitudinal sides of the package are sealed prior to forming the...
7076931 Method for manufacturing container with inherently stable base  
A container made of flexible material with an inherently stable base and a method for manufacturing the container, the container being obtained in the shape of a pouch which has, in the region that...
7069707 Vertical tubular bagging machine  
In order to be able to easily exchange the fill pipe in a vertical tubular bagging machine, where a flat foil web is reshaped on a forming shoulder into a foil tube running over a fill pipe, a...
7065937 Method of manufacturing and filling stand-up bags  
A standup bag for granular products or the like and a method of manufacturing the bag. The standup bag is manufactured from an extruded heat scalable material and includes both an integral handle...
7059102 Method for producing a casing  
In a process for the manufacture of packs, for a product in portions, with a paste-like product that is to be packaged, especially sausages, in a foil tube ( 15 ), starting from a band-shaped flat...
7055295 Annular sustained release pheromone-dispenser and its installation tool  
Herein disclosed is an annular sustained release pheromone-dispenser which has a shape favorable for packaging and transportation, can easily be installed, can maintain its installed condition over...
7051494 Filling method, filling machine and packaging material therefor  
When using web-shaped packaging material in which the rear end of a packaging material is spliced to the front end of a next web-shaped packaging material, in order to continuously operate the...
7032362 Vertical stand-up pouch with integrated reclose strip  
A vertical stand-up pouch or flexible package having an integrated reclose strip, and method for manufacturing same, constructed by modification to existing vertical form and fill packaging...
7028448 Dispensing apparatus and method of dispensing  
A dispensing apparatus is provided suitable for dispensing at least first and second components in desired ratios especially for multi-component packaged food products. The apparatus comprises a...
7013622 System and method for handling and polywrapping articles  
The present invention relates to a system and method for extracting and polywrapping articles stored in a pocket of a container. The container may be part of a DPP machine. In operation, a...
7000366 Decoration correction method and system for a form-and-seal unit  
A decoration correction method for a form-and-seal unit for producing sealed packages of a pourable food product from a tube of packaging material fed along a feed path, and having two pairs of...
6978585 Flexible packaging film pouch with internal stiffener to create an anti-pilfering package  
A product packaging method utilizing a form-fill-seal packaging apparatus is disclosed. The method includes providing a backing member upon which a product is adhereingly attached, providing an...
6966166 High-speed continuous action form-fill-seal machine and methods  
This is a high-speed, multi-lane machine and method for the continuous forming, filling and sealing of plastic or film pouches of various sizes commonly used to hold fluids, liquids, and viscous...
6957523 System to form, fill and seal flexible bags  
A system to form, fill and seal (FFS) flexible bags including the steps of: a total printing of the film as it winds off the supply reel; a dry cleaning; a gimballed aligning for the folding of the...