Package making – Gas filling and/or evacuating of receptacle and closing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-13
2006-06-13
Gerrity, Stephen E. (Department: 3721)
Package making
Gas filling and/or evacuating of receptacle and closing
C053S403000, C053S512000, C053S558000, C053S568000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07059097
ABSTRACT:
A machine which inflates and seals pillows in packaging is compact in overall size, can be conveniently operated to produce varied lengths of strips of inflated pillow-type packaging as needed, can begin production of inflated pillow-type strip packaging immediately after being held out of a production cycle for some period of time, and applies a heated sealing element directly to and in sliding contact with a web of film to securely seal the inlet port of an inflated pillow while the pillow is under pressure and as the web of film is continuously and uninterruptedly advanced through the machine.
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Exhibit
Borchard Philipp
De Luca Nicholas P.
Perkins Andrew
Reyes Oliver M.
Banner & Witcoff , Ltd.
Free-Flow Packaging International Inc.
Gerrity Stephen E.
Truong Thanh
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