AIDS TO MANUAL PACKING

A refuse collector and bagging device comprising a frame means configured to support at least one hopper means and a corresponding closure means in operative relation thereto, the hopper means retains a disposable refuse receptacle to receive refuse deposited therein. The closure means includes closure...     

This apparatus provides a means of sealing a plastic film cover over the open end of a plastic food container to render the container airtight and suitable for storage in a dispensing machine. The apparatus is self-contained and includes a base which carries a resiliently mounted support frame for the...     

A box upholstered to serve as a hassock has a hinged top and a false floor. Beneath the floor a spool of cord is mounted, and cord is strung through a hole in the floor and a diagonal channel in the front wall to the top wall and about a peg in the front corner, and diagonally down through a channel...     

Bag holding and opening apparatus that comprises a container adapted to hold a stack of folded paper bags on a platform which is spring supported and by which the stack of bags are pressed against an abrasive faced roller that engages the top bag at a point adjacent the thumb hole at the open end thereof...     

Apparatus for disposing rubber bands around a movable fixture in preparation for banding of a produce bunch, including vertically articulated pins disposed around the periphery of a produce receiving opening, the pins being connected at their bottom ends to a vertically articulated spring-supported platform....     

A device for supporting and holding open the mouth end of a bag during the filling thereof including an elongated, relatively thin, flexible, plastic sheet having hand openings and a series of spaced slots therein and depending locking tabs on one end thereof. Thus, the sheet may be bent into cylindrical...     

To support the trash bag for filling, a conical frustum trash bag support having an open circular top and bottom is placed on the ground in inverted position with its top, which is the smaller of the top and bottom, down and the trash bag is pulled over its larger side and draped downwardly, after which,...     

Wrapping apparatus including a film cutoff element. The cutoff element being an internally heated rod-type heating unit having an external periphery designing a corner edge. The element is maintained at a temperature below the melting point of the plastic film to be severed by a thermostat which energizes...     

Apparatus for dispensing a packaging material and for packaging articles which includes a support for a roll of packaging material and a concave table for receiving articles to be packaged. The material is drawn over the table and by reason of the concavity, the articles are automatically centered on...     

This device for removing animal droppings, consists primarily of a folding handle, to which is secured an open rim, which will support the open edge portion of a disposable bag, which is held in place by means of a hinged bag clamp, and the bag has a lip portion which extends outwards and away from the...     

Apparatus, including a vacuum head assembly, connected with a source of vacuum, for lifting a predetermined number of small articles from a supply location and individually depositing them on a sheet-like receptacle, containing a like number of cup-like sockets, supported by a base.

A device is provided for conveniently holding a flexible bag open and extended so as to be filled and which is particularly designed to enable a user to quickly and easily form a tightly twisted closure for removal of a loaded bag. The device features a base upon which a support platform and stand are...     

An internal support for holding limp plastic refuse bags in an upright, free-standing, open condition is in the nature of a smooth liner sheet having interconnected panels that are freely swingable, without substantial inward or outward bias, toward and away from one another. The panels are initially...     

A machine for sealing packages comprising a frame which includes a base, a pair of generally parallel columns extending upwardly therefrom, and a member spanning between the columns for maintaining the columns generally parallel. An upper die is mounted between the pair of columns for traveling along...     

An apparatus for dispensing individual plastic handle bearing bags from a stack of bags and holding the dispensed bag in an open position for loading. The apparatus comprises a bottom support member and two spaced-apart, oppositely disposed upwardly projecting tab members such that the apparatus has...     

A device for serially opening a plurality of paper bags in rapid succession and placing them in a predetermined location for manual loading. The device is particularly useful at checkout counters at supermarkets and similar locations, and includes means for moving successive bags from a horizontal orientation...     

A work table designed to be used to facilitate the removal of objects, preferably tobacco stalks, supported on sticks or other elongated elements by single or by several workers.

An improved broccoli bunching apparatus for expediting the bunching, tying and trimming of broccoli and including a plurality of buckets, which are driven around a first endless loop, each bucket having a head supporting portion for supporting the heads of a bunch of broccoli and a U-shaped stalk support...     

A dispenser for wrapping a roll of plastic stretch film under tension about an object has a reel assembly provided with an adjustable drag arrangement to set and adjust the tension on the film during the wrapping operation by the manipulation of a hand grip. Two hand grips are connected to and arranged...     

A bag dispenser and holder comprising a brace member having distending from its ends a pair of spaced-apart wicket and support members from which outwardly and oppositely opposed deformable curved members extend to define a substantial hoop-type configuration and having at least one U-shaped hook-wicket...     

A bag dispenser and holder comprising a pair of spaced-apart wicket and support members from which outwardly and oppositely opposed deformable arcuate members distend to define a substantial hoop configuration for supporting and maintaining a bag having wicket holes in an open position.

A manual ice bagging device comprises a hopper having an inlet end for receiving aggregate ice therethrough, and an outlet end for directing the ice into a commensurately shaped bag. A stand is connected with the hopper and supports the same above a floor surface, and a bag support member is operably...     

An apparatus for an envelope processing machine in which opened envelopes are serially presented by the machine to a work station in the machine for manual removal of the contents of each serially presented envelope. The apparatus comprises means operating responsive to the hand of a person being moved...     

A hand-held device for dispensing plastic film for wrapping stacked items including a hand-actuated braking mechanism to permit the holder to stretch the film as he winds it around a stack. The braking mechanism is actuated by rotation of one of the handles so that the stability of the roll is not affected...     

A method for packaging an object, in particular a root ball of a tree, shrub or plant. The object to be packaged is placed in a socket which is surrounded by an elastic reticulate hose, whereupon the object is removed from the socket, during which operation the hose is carried along, this hose subsequently...     

A cut-off mechanism operated by an electric switch and comprising a fixed blade and a movable shear operated by a rotary solenoid.

A severing device for use in a semiautomatic machine for facilitating the wrapping of an article with thermoplastic film material. The device is designed as an adapter to fit into a presently known machine to permit the removal of the hot wire presently used in such machines for severing the film and...     

An apparatus for collection of liquid waste solvents into a container, including convenient means for opening and closing the container and for positioning a funnel. Both functions of opening the container and positioning of the funnel are accomplished by a single handed one step operation of a lever,...     

A bag support and dispensing apparatus including a sleeve that is passed through aligned apertures in a stack of bags to support the bags. A collar at the back end of the sleeve is detachably engaged with a support member. The forward end of the sleeve has a flange that is dimensioned to readily pass...     

A coin counter and wrapper filler comprising a body having a hollow shank receiving coins, the lower end of the shank being tapered inwardly for reception in the upper end of a cylindrical paper coin wrapper, said body having a funnel attached at its upper end, said body having visibility means so that...     

A trash bag filling device comprises a container having a base provided with air passages therethrough and an integral handle and further comprises a rigid frustoconical sidewall structure upstanding from the base. Alternatively, the air passages may be provided in the sidewall adjacent the base. Trash...     

A tray for counting a discrete number of pills or capsules from a bulk supply including a housing having a bottom wall, two vertical opposed sidewalls and a pair of arcuate-shaped end walls that are arranged to turn upwardly and inwardly from the bottom wall. A divider extends between the two sidewalls...     

A checkout counter for use in a retail merchant store or the like comprises a frame having a bagging station in which goods are deposited in bags, a bag making machine is located in the frame for making self supporting open bags from a web of self supporting bag making stock and a transfer mechanism...     

A device for encasing coins in protective envelopes embodying a generally rectangularly contoured housing elevated at one end and stepped down intermediate its ends to provide a flat work surface offsetedly spaced below the elevated end, with insulation flatly superposed on the work surface thereof and...     

A device for packaging elongated articles, such as plants and cut flowers, in a protective bag. The device includes a tubular frame having a generally horizontal section and a vertical section which is connected to one end of the horizontal section. A support is carried by the upper end of the vertical...     

Disclosed is an improved apparatus for facilitating the filling of flexible containers. The apparatus consists of a substantially rigid, frustoconical tubular structure, somewhat smaller, in transverse dimension, than the transverse dimension of the flexible container to be filled. Means are provided...     

A hoop mountable around a mouth of a large plastic bag to hold it open; such as when lawn clippings, fallen leaves and also other refuse such as garbage, old papers, etc., are placed therein. The hoop including two axially spaced apart circular rings connected together by a series of flat metal strips...     

A unitary package rest member for use on a wrap station is comprised of a central section (42) which can be mounted in at least two different positions to the wrap station, and first and second shelves (44, 45) extending from the central section parallel to each other, spaced apart, and of substantially...     

An improved system for supporting a bundle of bags for easy access and loading adjacent the checkout area of a store which includes a first support member adapted to support a bundle of bags that is composed of an elongated substantially horizontally disposed member mounted beneath the countertop of...     

A transfer mechanism which is particularly suitable for use in a checkout counter as described herein. The mechanism includes a bag supporting receptacle and a mount for mounting the bag supporting receptacle for pivotal movement between a first position in which it is generally horizontally oriented...     

A bag support and dispensing apparatus having a support shaft for supporting a plurality of stacked bags by engaging each bag in the stack through aligned apertures in the front and rear walls of the bag. A pivotally mounted, extending hanger is positioned opposite the support shaft to engage a front...     

A roller chute apparatus for packaging a flexible plastic bag filled with liquid in a box has four stacks of rotatably supported vertically spaced rollers. The four stacks extend a substantial depth into the box around the inside of the box sidewalls forming two pair of mutually opposing stacks. A first...     

An apparatus for wrapping a load carried on a floor-mounted pallet. The apparatus includes a carriage having a wheeled base for rolling movement about the pallet-carried load. The carriage is provded with an upright upstanding from the base and vertically movably supporting a carrier for a roll of wrapping...     

The present invention relates to a cork mounting apparatus for bottles which comprises two head parts, one lower part, and one upper part. The invention stands out from earlier well-known apparatus in that the upper part which includes a piston has an outer tube which is arranged around an outer wall...     

Disclosed herein is a packing apparatus which comprises a container opening at its upper end and at least one film suction chamber positioned under the container and is connected to an appropriate absorbing device. The container defines a packing chamber for holding a part of a packing film in a baggy...     

Bundles of vegetables such as broccoli, and the like, are banded by apparatus (10) comprising an expander assembly (18) having a plurality of arms (86, 86', 86") which swing toward and away from one another about axes perpendicular to a phase of an associated segment in order to expand and contract an...     

A sterile cover for an instrument comprising, a tray having an upright post, with the post having an upper end and a lower end. The cover has a sleeve of flexible material having an open end and a closed end. The sleeve is placed on the post with the closed end being located adjacent the upper end of...     

A system for the packaging, shipment, storage, and reconstitution of dry pharmaceuticals includes a flexible bag manufactured from two layers of plastic laminated film and a rigid port-forming member. In the system, the package is used for shipment and storage of dry pharmaceuticals and for their reconstitution...     

A clamping mechanism for an impulse sealer includes a pair of drive arms pivoted on a flat base member and a pressure arm pivoted about the same pivot between the drive arms. Complimentary pressure members are located at the free ends of the drive arms and pressure arm for clamping a member to be heat...     

A semi-automatic, poly-sleeve labeler has a banding station to which containers are conveyed, there being a roll supply of flat, tubular, poly-sleeve labels above the station. A fixed, upstanding, flat, holder and an inclined, spring-biased, pivoted, flat, holder are mounted at a predetermined distance...     

A tap attachable to a spout of a container for decanting a liquid such as wine into bottles has a rotary valve housing and a valve body provided with a detachable handle, part of that valve body being a tubular spigot fitting into a transverse bore of the valve housing to fill a bottle aligned with that...     

The invention is an improved packaging system that may be located in satellite-like locations in a large area where packaging operations are being performed. The system combines the use of load carrying structures, such as pallets, load transporting equipment, such as pallet transporters, a turntable...     

A leaf collecting and bagging assembly is made up of a plastic bag having an open end and sheet means of plastic material integral with the bag and attached thereto around its opening, the integral sheet means being capable of being spread out on the ground to serve as a leaf collecting surface.

Stretch wrap film is wound on a mandrel or core which is longer than the roll of film to extend out of both ends. A rotatable handle is mounted on the core outboard of the film. Relative braking between the handle and core is adjusted by means of a screwthread which tightens a friction brake. The dispenser...     

A method and means for vacuum sealing perishable materials in bags fabricated of vacuum gas impermeable material. A method according to the present invention includes: partially filling a bag fabricated of gas impermeable material with perishable product, loosely positioning clamping means about the...     

The broccoli bunching apparatus is wholly pneumatically operated. In response to a first operation on a manual pneumatic control switch, a rubber band is pneumatically expanded in front of a central opening in a housing. Broccoli stems can then be inserted through the rubber band and the opening. A second...     

A cotton module is one type of a stack of agricultural produce. A tarp is specially folded and mounted on the back gate of a cotton module builder. As the module builder is moved off a completed module, the tarp is unrolled onto the top of the module. The tarp is tied down using ground cords, which extend...     

The mechanism disclosed comprises a semi-automatic insertion machine for facilitating the insertion of contents into envelopes of the type utilizing exposed self-sealing adhesive. The envelopes, with the seal flaps in open position and the adhesive exposed, are arranged in superposed relation within...     

An apparatus for transferring beads employed in a radioimmunoassay is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a receptacle tray 30, test tube rack 48 and plurality of test tubes 42. The receptacle tray 30 contains an array of wells 32, which may be marked individually with indicia such as numerals and colors,...     

A rack for a plastic bag has its back adjustably mounted by a pair of attachment devices on the undersurface of a hinged panel which normally covers a well provided on the table top of a checkstand in a supermarket. When a checkout clerk at the checkstand starts to work without a bagboy assisting her,...     

A shipping carton erecting and holding device comprising: a support structure for supporting a carton in an upright position during loading; and a discharge means for discharging a filled carton from the device which includes a U-shaped engaging member to engage one end of, and to extend at least partially...     

A hand wrapping apparatus for manually wrapping products such as a food-laden tray by a web-like package film emanated from a film roll. The apparatus comprises a film roll, a film withdrawal slot to introduce the film into exterior therethrough in response to the unrolling action of the film roll, a...     

A food sealing device for shrink-wrapping foods such as pizza includes a heat source surrounded by an inner shroud to create an updraft for heating the film. A second outer shroud is positioned around the inner shroud to prevent the film from contacting the hot inner shroud to prevent melting of the...     

A stretch film wrapping device for rotatably supporting a roll of plastic film having a tubular rigid central core includes a pair of opposed core holders interconnected by a length adjustable axle member to effect clamping of the film roll between the core holders. The bottom core holder is mounted...     

Stretch wrapping apparatus comprising a puckering device and an expandible rectangular frame demountably supported on the puckering device. Belts on the puckering device are provided to feed a length of plastic film tube onto pillars on the expandible frame to form a puckered band as a sub-base supporting...     

A novel weighing and packing apparatus is provided by which an article is weighed, and weighed article is manually packed with film. The apparatus may be provided at its working table with a packing device for manual packing and a weighing mechanism in an integral manner, or further with a label printer....     

A device is provided for enclosing fish bait in a permeable mesh bag using a base with a well therein into which the central portion of such mesh may be depressed and wherein the bait may be placed in the mesh. A pair of metal plates are provided which act to close over the bait the mesh protruding from...     

A wrapping device comprises a free wheeling film roll mounted on a frame, a film withdrawal slot to guide the film exterior of the frame, a detector to detect the withdrawn film length, a comparator which produces a locker signal each time when the film withdrawn accords with a predetermined length of...     

An apparatus for placing an elastic band (22A) around a vegetable bunch (19) comprising a band stretcher assembly (26) for receiving the band, a plurality of fingers (46) for stretching the band, and means (37) for moving the band stretcher towards a top plate assembly 21 along a central axis. The band...     

A tree ball tying apparatus is disclosed comprising a tripartile inverted, truncated conically shaped holder whose included angle is less than 60.degree. and is made of sheet metal attached to a stand by its rearmost part. The two forward parts are hinged, latchable doors which swing open or may be closed...     

An item is placed into a relatively close fitting pliant bag by first turning the bag inside out over a horizontal ring mounted over a work surface on at least one upright support leg. Desirably, at least half of the peripheral extent of the ring is unsupported to facilitate pulling the bag over the...     

A method for supporting a bundle of two-handle bags so as to better insure that only one bag at a time will be removed.

Portable sealing apparatus for the sealing of plastic coated paperboard cartons includes a frame and a fixed jaw mounted thereto. A single movable jaw is utilized to seal top portions of the carton by fusing of a polyethylene coating thereon. Guide means enable manual placement of the carton with the...     

A receiving cradle for the pre-packaging of items (e.g., stamp booklets) to be oriented in and then dispensed from a criss-cross stack. Initially, pairs of rubber bands are placed on the fixture in a preferred sequence, followed by the loading of alternately stacked booklets forming the criss-cross stack...     

A device for packaging plants including a base, and a vertical column is mounted on the base and carries a generally conical sleeve support. A multiplicity of nested paper or plastic sleeves are carried by the sleeve support. A pedestal extends upwardly from the base through the conical support, as well...     

A device for manually and simultaneously forcing four, contoured, flexible, six pack type holders over the necks of twenty-four bottles. The device includes a pair of parallel, spaced apart pipes to which a plurality of parallel, spaced apart cross bars are perpendicularly attached, with the cross bars...     

Apparatus for use in hand wrapping articles, for example trays of meat, with thermoplastic wrapping sheet material (plastic film) that includes a frame which mounts a wrapping platform, a heated device for severing the wrapping material, a heat sealing platform for sealing the wrapped article, a pair...     

A manual coin counting and packaging apparatus for quickly measuring the predetermined number of coins necessary to fill a paper coin roll wrapper of any denomination and for inserting the coins into the coin roll wrapper. The apparatus includes a transparent counting sleeve with indicia marking the...     

A bag pack formed of multiple stacked handle bags having aligned mounting apertures defined through the handles thereof for reception of mounting rods therethrough. The apertures are formed by partially severed flaps which are in turn bonded together to maintain aperture alignment. The flaps are integral...     

Apparatus and method for folding cohesive coated material like corrugated paper and coated film about three dimensional solids like paper products, toys, machinery and books for transport is accomplished by a framework supporting a roll or other supply of the cohesive coated material, a guide for the...     

A bundling device is disclosed for providing bundle units of waste paper or other articles. The device comprises (a) a quantity of serially dispensable, flexible, elongated ties of a length sufficient to encompass a stack of articles to be bundled, (b) means for maintaining the ties in a predetermined...     

A packaging and dispensing system for pills and like objects includes a rectangular, box-like housing preferably made of metal or other durable material. On the floor of the housing is a sliding template which is equipped with three or more spaced-apart parallel rails to receive between them the rows...     

A stretch film wrapping device for rotatably supporting a roll of film and dispensing the film at a selected tension includes a base member, a hub member having a device for mounting a roll of stretchable film, a shaft, a means for joining the shaft to the base and hub members to permit rotation of the...     

A wrapping film severing apparatus is disclosed for use in severing sheets of film from a roll of plastic film. The roll of film is supported so that it may rotate about its axis of rotation while film is being withdrawn from the roll. A braking force is applied to the roll so that the film is under...     

A dispenser suited for applying plastic packing film under tension about an object of large volume and comprising a base with a handle and a roll support structure at opposite ends. The roll support structure comprises a tube that is adjustable relative to the base to accommodate different widths of...     

A cover forming apparatus for forming a sheet of material about an object to produce a decorative cover for the object. The cover forming apparatus includes a cover former having an object opening formed through a portion thereof which is adapted to receive the object. The cover former includes portions...     

A mandrel for use in winding a web around an article, the mandrel including a support for a roll of the web, a handle rotatably attached at each end of the support and a brake which retards rotation of the support relative to at least one handle by an amount depending on the relative rotation between...     

A countertop wrapping machine for weighing and wrapping merchandise is disclosed. A single roll of film is supported by columns which extend upwardly from the back end of the machine. A shelf for supporting a weighing device is disposed near the bottom of the machine but high enough so that a web of...     

A device for use with a flexible bag in order to hold the bag open for facilitating access to the interior thereof, and comprising a body having a normal substantially flat planar configuration and sufficiently flexible for responding to pressure thereagainst for deforming into a substantially cylindrical...     

Apparatus for and a method of inserting sheet materials, such as old newspapers, into paper bags, such as used grocery sacks, for storage, which includes a plurality of thin rigid dividers inserted into and repositionable in the sack so that material being inserted slides along the dividers, instead...     

An apparatus for sealing medication blister cards including a unit dose of medication in at least one, if not all, of the blisters comprising card. More particularly, the apparatus includes a card holder for receiving the filled medication card and a heated sealing head movable into juxtaposition with...     

A fixture for loading and unloading of a PGA chip package (12) into and out of a chip carrier (10) includes a substantially rectangular-shaped solid body member (56) having a central cavity (58). The body member is formed of a left side member (60), a right side member (62), a top side member (64), and...     

A balloon stuffing system (25, 25') including a tubular member (26) open at one end (28) thereof and defining a chamber (31) capable of receiving the object (34) to be stuffed into a balloon (35); a hollow, tubular, piston-like ejector rod (29) passing through the opposite end (30) of the tubular member...     

A balloon stuffing system (25, 25', 25", 25'") including a tubular member (26) open at one end (28) thereof and defining a chamber (31) capable of receiving the object (49) to be stuffed into a balloon (50); an ejector rod (29) passing through the opposite end (30) of the tubular member (26); a flexible,...     

The invention is a method and apparatus, powered solely by the muscles of a single male adult during a working day; for bundling cut firewood, or the like. The apparatus is located under and over the top of a rugged rectangular work bench. The frame is constructed of welded metal rods, about an inch...     

A sliced bread stacking apparatus (10) comprising a base unit (11) a vertical support unit (12) and an inclined loaf support unit (13) adapted to suspend and support a loaf of bread (100) at an elevated location during the process of slicing, stacking, and bagging of the individual slices (101) of the...     

A bag assembly which includes a sealable bag and an insert slidably positioned therein, which assembly inlcudes a mechanism for restraining the complete withdrawal of the insert from out of the bag. The insert is formed to be at least lengthwise arcuately flexed in a manner to substantially open the...     

The hermetic packaging apparatus comprises a nozzle for reducing pressure in a thermoplastic packaging bag containing certain contents, the nozzle reduces pressure in the packaging bag by the pressure control of the air pump and the water sucked from the contents is directed to a strainer tank. Thereafter,...     

An apparatus and method by which a single operator, at a single station, can pack pre-counted slugs of flat folded cartons, or trays, in one or more layers, in corrugated cases for discharge to a case taper several times faster than with manual packing by several operators. The "flats" are advanced in...     

A lettuce packing machine for the packing of heads of lettuce in corrugated, carboard cartons is disclosed. A lettuce head holding tray is loaded with lettuce. Thereafter, the tray is utilized to pack cartons. The lettuce head holding trays has discrete lettuce receiving cells upwardly exposed. Each...