Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
053398000 | Partial covering of multiple cans, bottles (e.g., six-pack carrier) | 6 |
20090056276 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLE LAYERS - A system for packaging articles includes a first collection area for receiving and arranging a plurality of articles having a substantially non-uniform geometry. A transport device is included and a consolidation area for constructing an article layer, each article layer constructed from the plurality of arranged articles transported from the first collection area by the transport device. The consolidation area includes a stabilizer providing substantially continuous lateral support along the periphery of arranged articles of the article layer being constructed to substantially prevent tipping of the plurality of arranged articles. A portion of the arranged articles transported by the transport device is oriented differently from the other arranged articles. | 03-05-2009 |
20090090085 | FLEXIBLE CARRIER AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION TO A PLURALITY OF CONTAINERS - A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers includes a flexible sheet and a plurality of container receiving apertures formed in the flexible sheet together with a system and method of application including an applicating machine for applying the flexible carrier to a plurality of containers provided from an infeed includes a jaw assembly that reciprocates to apply a generally continuous string of carrier stock onto a quantity of containers. | 04-09-2009 |
20100154356 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING PACKS OF AT LEAST TWO CONTAINERS FOR BEVERAGES - An apparatus ( | 06-24-2010 |
20120144777 | Method for packing easily breakable, product filled containers in unit loads - The invented method involves the formation of bundles of easily breakable, load bearing product containers and the use of these to form layers of product in shipping industry unit loads. The invented method is intended to avoid the use of wine cases and similar boxes in unit loads. | 06-14-2012 |
20130263557 | MACHINE AND SYSTEM FOR APPLYING CONTAINER CARRIERS TO CONTAINERS - A container packaging system for containers applies an apertured plastics film carrier stock to substantially identical containers such as beverage cans having annular chimes, cylindrical side walls, and frusto-conical walls between the chimes and the side walls. The carrier stock has shaped apertures to securely retain drinks cans, food cans, bottles and similar containers, as a multi-pack unit. The carrier stock is rolled onto suitably juxtaposed containers engaging a tabbed aperture edge portion progressively from above to below the upper edge of the respective containers to be multi-packed and assumes a waveform 3D conformation to unitise the containers. The rolling method contrasts prior stretch application methods and enables cheaper and thinner carrier stock to be used. | 10-10-2013 |
20160137324 | PACKAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A packaging system and method forms a bundled group of articles in an oriented arrangement, by applying a wrapping material to the articles via the bottoms of the articles while the oriented arrangement of articles is inverted and retained by a pallet. The wrapping material may be a sleeve of shrinkable material applied to the inverted end of the articles and shrunk to conform to the articles and form a base enclosing the bottoms of the articles. The articles are retained by the pallet in the oriented arrangement during the inverting, sleeving and bundling of the group of articles, to provide a bundled group including the articles securely contained by the shrunk wrapping in the oriented arrangement. The bundled group may include more than one type of article. The pallet may be configured to retain a top portion of the article, which may have an irregular or asymmetrical shape. | 05-19-2016 |