The Procter Gamble Company

Henri Theo Leonie Ruers

Andrea Ziantoni Liberatori

Lori J Toman

Stephen Edward McKee

Michael Joseph Sonny

Craig Lynn Hailey

A process for packaging a product. The product is dispensed into a tray by a dispensing system while the tray is moving beneath the dispensing system. The dispensing system includes a hopper that releases products that are funneled in the tray. The dispensing system includes two legs that each rotate about a respective pivot that constrain the product as the product is transported from the hopper into the tray.

High speed filling of a tray

A process for packaging a product in which a hood is fitted to a tray. The hood is erected by a process that includes a step of providing a flat blank. The flat blank includes a leading panel and a trailing panel. A flat insert is provided and adhered to a panel selected from the group of the leading panel, the trailing panel of the hood, and combinations thereof. The die used to erect the hood includes a die recess. When the die is positioned within the mold, the central portion of the flat insert becomes spaced apart from the hood top. The die recess provides for space to accommodate the central portion of the flat insert becoming spaced apart from the hood top.

Process for forming a hood for a tray

A process for packaging a product in which a hood is fitted to a tray. The hood top is oriented at an angle relative to the machine direction in which the tray is being conveyed. The hood is engaged with the tray by initiating contact between a leading panel of the hood with the tray while the leading panel is moving before engaging the trailing panel with the tray. As the tray is conveyed in the machine direction, the tray captures a hood by the leading panel of the hood and the remainder of the hood is subsequently fitted to the tray.

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Antwerp, Belgium

Henri Theo Leonie Ruers