Package making – Methods – Forming a cover adjunct or application of a cover adjunct to...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-08
2008-07-08
Gerrity, Stephen F. (Department: 3721)
Package making
Methods
Forming a cover adjunct or application of a cover adjunct to...
C053S451000, C053S133300, C053S551000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10913719
ABSTRACT:
A method of manufacture comprising the following steps: (a) guiding a web material in a machine direction through a vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine with a portion of the web material being wrapped around a tube; (b) joining first and second portions of a closure tape to first and second fin portions of the web material that do not form part of the portion of the web material that is wrapped around the tube, the closure tape being rupturable and not reclosable; (c) cross sealing the web material at a location downstream from the tube; and (d) dropping product through the tube and onto the most recently formed cross seal.
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Hogan Robert E.
Plourde Eric Paul
Gerrity Stephen F.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Ostrager Chong & Flaherty & Broitman P.C.
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