Jeffrey L Lindberg

US Patent:

6527888, Mar 4, 2003

Filed:

May 11, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/853432

Inventors:

Edward F. Williams - Derry NH
Frank A. James - Nashua NH
Jeffrey C. Lindberg - Merrimack NH

Assignee:

Shrink Packaging Systems Corporation - Nashua NH

International Classification:

B32B 3100

US Classification:

156 64, 156361, 156363, 156566, 156567, 156DIG 28

Abstract:

A surveillance tag applicator for applying tags to articles such as box blanks, blister cards, or containers at very high rates of speed up to and greater than 1000 tags per minute. The applicator comprises a plurality of tags attached to a web fed to a rotating drum having a plurality of slots, a compression roller for pressing each of the tags into one of the plurality of slots, an ejector arm for ejecting each tag from the slots onto a selected location of an article passing by the drum, a stripper to remove the web from the tags, and a winder assembly for rewinding the web devoid of tags. A first servo motor drives the rotating drum and a second servo motor drives the ejector arm. A controller provides the timing and control for the servo motors and operation of the tag applicator.

US Patent:

7281362, Oct 16, 2007

Filed:

Nov 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/994691

Inventors:

Frank A. James - Nashua NH, US
Jeffrey C. Lindberg - Merrimack NH, US
Charles Manfredi - Manchester NH, US
Richard Davitt - Princeton NJ, US

Assignee:

Shrink Packaging Systems Corporation - Nashua NH

International Classification:

B65B 51/10
B65B 7/02

US Classification:

53479, 53460, 533743, 533737

Abstract:

A side sealing apparatus for a shrink packaging machine comprising closed loop temperature control of a heater for maintaining an optimum temperature for cutting and sealing two layers of thermoplastic film. The heater comprises a cable or cartridge heater with an internal thermocouple, and it is connected to an automatic temperature controller. The heater is mounted on the side sealer apparatus between two sets of top and bottom V-belts mounted around drive rolls and idler rolls. The V-belts provide nip pressure against the film in order to drive the film. Nip pressure is generated by nip rolls on the scrap side of the film, and by belt support plates on the package side of the film.

US Patent:

RE43033, Dec 20, 2011

Filed:

Feb 20, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/378967

Inventors:

Frank A. James - Nashua NH, US
Jeffrey C. Lindberg - Merrimack NH, US
Charles Manfredi - Manchester NH, US
Richard Davitt - Princeton NJ, US

Assignee:

Shrink Packaging Systems Corporation - Nashua NH

International Classification:

B65B 51/10
B65B 7/02

US Classification:

53479, 53460, 533743, 533737

Abstract:

A side sealing apparatus for a shrink packaging machine comprising closed loop temperature control of a heater for maintaining an optimum temperature for cutting and sealing two layers of thermoplastic film. The heater comprises a cable or cartridge heater with an internal thermocouple, and it is connected to an automatic temperature controller. The heater is mounted on the side sealer apparatus between two sets of top and bottom V-belts mounted around drive rolls and idler rolls. The V-belts provide nip pressure against the film in order to drive the film. Nip pressure is generated by nip rolls on the scrap side of the film, and by belt support plates on the package side of the film.

US Patent:

20060107622, May 25, 2006

Filed:

Sep 22, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/232672

Inventors:

Frank James - Nashua NH, US
Jeffrey Lindberg - Merrimack NH, US
John Gilbert - Lowell MA, US

International Classification:

B65B 7/02

US Classification:

053479000, 053374500

Abstract:

A side sealing apparatus for a shrink packaging machine comprising closed loop temperature control of a heater for maintaining an optimum temperature for cutting and sealing two layers of thermoplastic film. The heater comprises a cable or cartridge heater with an internal thermocouple, and it is connected to an automatic temperature controller. The heater is mounted on the side sealer apparatus between two sets of top and bottom V-belts mounted around drive rolls and idler rolls. The V-belts provide nip pressure against the film in order to drive the film. In one embodiment, nip pressure is generated by nip rollers on the scrap side of the film, and by low friction belt support guides on the package side of the film. In another embodiment, the belt support guides are replaced with a series of upper and lower nip rollers, and adjustable toggle clamps provide adjustable pressure on the series of upper and lower nip rollers.

US Patent:

52364089, Aug 17, 1993

Filed:

Jul 21, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/917574

Inventors:

Hugh A. McAdam - Hollis NH
M. Paul Burnside - West Townsend MA
Jeffrey Lindberg - Princeton MA

Assignee:

International Paper Box Machine Company, Inc. - Nashua NH

International Classification:

B65H 4528
B65H 4530
B65H 4700
B65H 4564

US Classification:

493355

Abstract:

A paper box folding and sealing machine for forming a hemmed edge. A skiving station removes a portion of a carton blank material at the area to be hemmed. A hemming station folds the skived portion onto the blank, irons it and then opens the hem to lie in a predetermined plane that intersects the plane of the blank. Superheated air directed in a laminar-like air flow, activates a thermoplastic coating adjacent the skived portion of the area to be hemmed. Folding fingers, tack rollers and presser rollers then fold the skived portion onto the activated thermoplastic coating to form a hem that is sealed against the adjacent portion of the blank.