Richard W Maskell

US Patent:

6715264, Apr 6, 2004

Filed:

Jan 28, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/056235

Inventors:

Thomas W. Liakopoulos - Algonquin IL
Richard N. Maskell - Hampshire IL

Assignee:

M-Tek, Inc. - Elgin IL

International Classification:

B65B 3104

US Classification:

53434, 53447, 2062131

Abstract:

A method and apparatus described to stabilize and secure individual component items in an array during gas flushing and packaging, without obstructing or preventing the free flow of the gas-flush throughout the component. In accordance with the present invention, when the array has been composed, it is over-wrapped with a loop of thin, inexpensive, gas-permeable film applied under pressure or shrunk around the array, leaving two opposite faces of the array free of the over-wrapping loop.

US Patent:

40277070, Jun 7, 1977

Filed:

May 14, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/686285

Inventors:

Richard N. Maskell - Bloomingdale IL

Assignee:

Container Corporation of America - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B65B 3102

US Classification:

141 66

Abstract:

A system for evacuating selectively two side-by-side chambers having a common wall with a pressure passageway therein includes a closure slidable between two positions where one chamber is connected to sub-atmospheric pressure with the common pressure passageway while the other is connected to ambient, and including circuit means for controlling the application of pressure and the release of same.