Package making – Methods – Applying a partial cover
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-09
2005-08-09
Gerrity, Stephen F. (Department: 3721)
Package making
Methods
Applying a partial cover
C034S104000, C034S437000, C053S442000, C053S557000, C053S585000, C156S086000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06925777
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a method and to a machine for heat-shrinking sleeves made from a film of heat-shrink plastics material and engaged individually on articles such as bottles. In accordance with the invention, the machine comprises a fixed structure, an article support arranged to move along a vertical central axis between a low position in which articles can be put into place or removed, and a high position in which an article is fully received in a pre-heater chamber surmounting a shrinkage chamber, together with a controller governing parameters of temperature, support travel speed, and time, during the operating sequences of the method. This enables ordinary consumers themselves to cause sleeves to be shrunk onto bottles.
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Copy of French Search Report Serial No. FR 635738 dated Apr. 5, 2004.
Gerrity Stephen F.
McCormick Paulding & Huber LLP
Sleever International Company
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