| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 493003000 | CONTROL MEANS ENERGIZED IN RESPONSE TO ACTIVATOR STIMULATED BY CONDITION SENSOR | 27 |
| 493004000 | Cigarette filter making | 3 |
| 20130029821 | METHOD OF COMPENSATION OF MOMENTARY LACK OF FILTER SEGMENTS IN MULTI-SEGMENT FILTER MANUFACTURING LINE, AND DEVICE ENABLING COMPENSATION OF MOMENTARY LACK OF FILTER SEGMENTS IN MULTI-SEGMENT FILTER MANUFACTURING LINE - The method consists in that in case of occurrence of a gap ( | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130123085 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MULTI-SEGMENT FILTER RODS - Before the start of manufacturing of filter rods ( | 05-16-2013 |
| 20120010059 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE FILTERS - In a machine and a method for manufacturing composite filters (F | 01-12-2012 |
| 493005000 | Responsive to temperature | 1 |
| 20090264268 | Method and arrangement for controlling the temperature of two cylinders - Method and arrangement for controlling the temperature of two cylinders forming a nip. The temperature of at least one point on each cylinder is sensed by sensors, forming a point of measuring, wherein the highest sensed temperature is used as set point and wherein the cylinders are heated in areas where the sensed temperature is below the set point. | 10-22-2009 |
| 493006000 | Responsive to assembling or coating operation | 1 |
| 20110218088 | PRESSURE SEALING SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a sealing system for sealing together at least a pair of flexible pouch material layers. The sealing station can have a first sealing bar, a second sealing bar and a drive system that is in contact with the first sealing bar. The drive system is operable to move the first sealing bar between an open position and a closed position such that the first sealing bar can apply a predefined pressure on the flexible pouch material layers when positioned or located between the sealing bars. A pressure sensor is also included and in communication with the drive system, the pressure sensor operable to detect if the drive system applies less or too much pressure than the predefined pressure on the flexible pouch material layers located between the first and second sealing bars. | 09-08-2011 |
| 493008000 | Responsive to work material, the product or means engaging the work material or the product | 20 |
| 20120202664 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MINIMIZING WASTE AND IMPROVING QUALITY AND PRODUCTION IN WEB PROCESSING OPERATIONS BY AUTOMATIC CUFF DEFECT CORRECTION - Apparatus and methods are provided to minimize waste and improve quality and production in web processing operations. The apparatus and methods provide defect detection both before and after application of component patches to a traveling web to create a product. Web defect detection may be provided by way of at least one visual inspection station located upstream from the patch applicator. Patch defect detection may be accomplished by way of a visual inspection station located proximate the patch applicator. If defects are detected in either the traveling web or the component patch prior to patch application, patch application may be prevented until both a satisfactory web and patch are provided. If defects are detected after patch application, the resulting product may be culled. Furthermore, the apparatus may be provided with diagnostic software to warn against extant or imminent machine complications. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20110245055 | Creasing device and image forming system - A creasing device includes a creasing unit that creases sheets on a one-by-one basis, which is conveyed to a folding device of a subsequent stage, a sheet detection unit that detects a position of a sheet delivered to the creasing device and a control unit that obtains reference information of a fold-position for the folding device and performs control of a stop position of the sheet according to reference information of the fold position, thereby adjusting a crease position. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110256996 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE RELATIVE POSITION BETWEEN PRINTED PATTERNS AND NON-PRINTED PATTERNS ON A WEB-SHAPED MATERIAL AND A SYSTEM USED IN THE METHOD - A method and a system for controlling the relative position between a printed pattern and a non-printed pattern, such as for example a pattern of creasing lines or holes, on a running web-shaped material, involves providing the material web with at least one impressed indentation mark with a three-dimensional topographic configuration, at a pre-determined distance from a printed register mark and detecting the marks with a same sensor control system. The controlling method and system is used for the manufacturing of a laminated packaging material, having a printed décor and creased folding lines in register. | 10-20-2011 |
| 493010000 | By use of photocell condition sensor | 4 |
| 20090291814 | CREASING MACHINE - A creasing machine ( | 11-26-2009 |
| 493011000 | Responsive to mark or indicia on work | 3 |
| 20100120593 | Device for processing a flat material web, and method for processing a flat material web - A device for processing a flat material web including a sensor for detecting processing marks of the material web is provided. A control unit assigns a first location information to each detected processing mark. Furthermore, the control unit and a processing unit assign a second location information to the time of processing of the processing mark. Both pieces of location information are calculated together by the control unit to determine a correcting value. A processing position of the material web is corrected by the correcting value. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100197473 | Rotary Bag Machine - A rotary bag machine and method for making bags from a film are disclosed. They include a rotary drum, an accumulation nip, a blanket that positions the film against the drum, and a blanket tensioner located away from the accumulation nip. The drum includes at least one seal bar mounted thereon, and the accumulation nip provides the film to the drum. Various aspects include the accumulation nip being in a fixed position independent of changes of the drum diameter, and/or the path from the accumulation nip to the drum being fixed in length, independent of changes of the drum diameter. An accumulation sensor and a controller that controls the accumulation nip speed and the drum speed in response to the sensor are provided in one embodiment. The speed control is in response to the speed of the film, the rate of change of a function of the input, response history, and/or a setpoint, in various alternatives. A drawtape module and a powered unwind are disposed in a single module with the rotary drum, in another embodiment. A registration mark sensor is located upstream of the accumulation nip, along a path having a fixed length to the drum, in another embodiment. The sensor may be a print sensor. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20090197750 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING TOBACCO BAGS - For the continuous production of tobacco bags from a sheet-material web ( | 08-06-2009 |
| 493017000 | By use of plural sensors | 2 |
| 493018000 | Plural interrelated sensors | 2 |
| 20120035032 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A LONGITUDINAL FOLDING MACHINE COMPRISING A FOLDING BLADE AND FOLDING TABLE AS WLL AS SUCH A LONGITUDINAL FOLDING MACHINE - A longitudinal folding machine comprises a folding blade and a folding table. The folding blade is driven with a cyclical frequency, in a synchronized manner relative to one or more elements of a web-processing machine, which is located upstream of the longitudinal folding machine, or relative to a flow of incoming products. The entry of a leading edge of products is detected at a first measurement point on the delivery route of the folding table. A relative phase position between the movement of the folding blade and the phase position of the elements mounted upstream and/or the phase position of the flow of products is deliberately modified by the use of one of a control and a regulation device in order to adjust a contact point of the folding blade with the products to be folded. The relative phase position is modified such that, at least in one operating mode or phase of production, the leading edges of the products to be folded, and which were transported on the folding table, are maintained at a distance from the measurement point on the delivery route by varying the relative phase position so that due to the detection of the leading edges of one or of a certain number of successive products at this measurement point, the relative phase position varies either for the first contact of the product and the folding blades and/or for the contact point having a placement nearer to the entry side of the incoming products. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120238422 | KNIFE FOLDING MACHINE - In the knife folding machine of the present invention it is possible to easily adjust the stroke of the reciprocal movement of the knife blade | 09-20-2012 |
| 493021000 | To actuate timer | 1 |
| 20120302415 | KNIFE FOLDING MACHINE - A knife folding machine comprises: a support surface ( | 11-29-2012 |
| 493023000 | To actuate folder | 3 |
| 20110301005 | Image forming system, sheet finisher, and folding method - An image forming system includes: a folding unit that folds a sheet of paper to form a fold in the sheet; a creasing unit that, before the sheet is folded, produces a crease in the sheet at a fold position where the fold is to be formed; a crease-position adjusting unit that adjusts a crease position where the crease is to be produced; a fold-position adjusting unit that adjusts the fold position; a first input unit that receives an input specifying an amount, by which the crease position is to be adjusted; and a second input unit that receives an input specifying an amount, by which the fold position is to be adjusted, wherein when the fold position is adjusted by the second input unit, the crease position is also adjusted in synchronization with the adjustment of the fold position. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110294637 | FOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FOLDING-GLUING MACHINE - Folding device for folding paper, cardboard, plastic, corrugated cardboard or similar material blanks running in a folding-gluing machine: a tool ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20080234118 | Sheet folding apparatus | 09-25-2008 |
| 493025000 | Responsive to size of work or product | 2 |
| 20110160027 | FOLDER FOR VARIABLE THICKNESS COLLATIONS - A folder includes a plurality of rotatable fold rollers and a plurality of rotatable nip rollers. Each nip roller forms a nip having a nip spacing with an adjacent fold roller. The nips may include an input nip for receiving collations, a plurality of intermediate nips for delivering the collations to one of a buckle chute and a deflector to form folded collations, and an output nip for discharging the folded collations. The folder may further include an adjustment system associated with each nip roller for selectively moving the nip roller with respect to the adjacent fold roller based on predetermined collation thickness data to change the nip spacing for sequential collations. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20100167891 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - An apparatus compares, when executing a job using sheets of a first size and sheets of a second size having a greater width in a sheet conveyance direction than the first size, the width in the conveyance direction of the sheets of the first size with the folding width of the sheets of the second size. The apparatus controls execution of a job based on a comparison result between the width in the conveyance direction of the sheets of the first size and the folding width of the sheets of the second size. | 07-01-2010 |
| 493027000 | To stop machine | 2 |
| 20100197474 | MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BAGS - The present invention relates to a machine ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110053742 | VARIABLE DUNNAGE ACCUMULATOR - A dunnage handler for controlling the outfeed of dunnage from a dunnage machine is disclosed and can include a dunnage accumulator with first and second holding portions configured and associated with each other to define a dunnage accumulation space therebetween and for receiving and removably retaining the dunnage in the accumulation space from a dunnage machine and an articulation associating the first and second holding portions such that the holding portions are movable with respect to each other to vary the accumulation space to accommodate a varying amount of dunnage held therein, where a sensor and controller can be included to stop dunnage production when the accumulator is full. | 03-03-2011 |
| 493029000 | To actuate material advancing means | 3 |
| 20100210436 | NONCONFORMING PRODUCT REMOVING APPARATUS FOR USE WITH BOX MAKING MACHINE, AND BOX MAKING MACHINE - A nonconforming product removing unit is disposed between a folding unit and a counter ejector of a box making machine, and includes a sort-out unit that conveys a corrugated board box whose joint is judged to be good by a judging unit to the counter ejector, and on the other hand discharges a corrugated board box whose joint is judged to be bad by the judging unit. Accordingly, only the conforming corrugated board box can be conveyed to the counter ejector. Therefore, the nonconforming board box can be removed easily, without requiring complicated work of taking out the nonconforming corrugated board box from among corrugated board boxes sorted into a predetermined number of batches by the counter ejector, and re-sorting only the conforming corrugated board boxes into a predetermined number of batches. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110053743 | CRUMPLING MECHANISM FOR CREATING DUNNAGE - A dunnage crumpling apparatus is provided having first and second entry-side crumpling members and first and second exit-side crumpling members. The first and second entry-side crumpling members define an entry therebetween. The first and second exit-side crumpling members define an exit therebetween that is disposed along the longitudinal path downstream of the entry. A crumpling zone being defined between the entry and exit. The first entry-side crumpling member is configured for moving at an first rate and is associated with the second entry-side crumpling member for moving sheet material through the entry in a first direction along a longitudinal path at an entry rate. The first exit-side crumpling member is configured for moving at an second rate and is associated with the second exit-side crumpling member for moving the sheet material through the exit in the first direction along the path at a exit rate that is slower than the entry rate to crumple the sheet material for producing dunnage. The entry and exit-side crumpling members are displaced laterally along the path with respect to each other to cause shearing of the sheet within the crumpling zone. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20120289389 | APPARATUS FOR FORMING A PLURALITY OF FLEXIBLE POUCHES FROM A CONTINUOUS WEB OF FILM - An apparatus for forming a plurality of flexible pouches from a continuous web of film having a plurality of registration marks spaced a predetermined distance apart. The apparatus includes a film displacement mechanism, a registration mark sensor, and a controller. The film displacement mechanism includes at least one vertically oriented roller that rollingly engages with the continuous web of film. The film displacement mechanism adjusts the tension in the film by horizontally displacing the vertically oriented roller. The registration mark sensor is positioned upstream of the film displacement mechanism and is configured to detect the registration marks. The controller controls the film displacement mechanism to horizontally displace the film upon receipt of a signal from the registration mark sensor. | 11-15-2012 |
| 493030000 | Responsive to machine element | 2 |
| 20110053744 | DUNNAGE DEVICE AND HANDLER DISENGAGEMENT - A dunnage device is disclosed and can include a dunnage mechanism comprising first and second dunnage converting portions that have an engaged condition, in which the converting portions are associated and configured for converting stock material into dunnage and a disengaged condition in which the converting portions are disabled from converting the stock into dunnage and a dunnage handler configured for receiving the dunnage from the dunnage mechanism and including a first handler portion that has a handling position in which the dunnage handler is configured for controlling the dunnage and a release position, wherein the first handler portion is associated with the dunnage mechanism such that movement of the first handler portion from the handling position to the release position causes the dunnage mechanism to change from the engaged condition to the disengaged position. | 03-03-2011 |
| 493031000 | Malfunctioning machine element | 1 |
| 20130095990 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a carnage, a sheet cutting device, a cutter position detecting device, and a controller. The cutting device includes a cutter and a cutter unit holding the cutter. A movement area of the carriage overlaps a movement area of the cutter unit in a thickness direction of a sheet. The detecting device detects a position of the cutter unit. The controller performs initial operation upon power on of the apparatus to move the cutter unit to a cutter home position located at one end of the movement area of the cutter unit. The cutter unit, after cutting the sheet, is movable in a width direction of the sheet with the cutter unit retracted from a sheet feed path in the thickness direction. The controller determines whether or not to perform the initial operation based on detection results of the detecting device. | 04-18-2013 |
