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Gpcp IP Holdings LLC

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Yum Connect, LLC

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Ino Therapeutics Gmbh

Verifi LLC

Miller Electric Manufacturing Company

Illinois Took Works Inc.

A-t Controls, Inc.

Solexy Usa, LLC

Volley Boast, LLC

Mark Edwin Peters

Antonio Michael Cittadino

Roy J Rozek

Lenox Gregory Wilson

Erik Lips

Robert B Fitzpatrick

Ross Neal Renner

David Edwin Radtke

Kevin Michael Swanson

Michael J Trinkner

Jacob Charles Dahl

Alan Joseph Johnson

Roy Cooley

Paul James Ruthven

Benjamin Gene Peotter

Ryan Anthony Goltz

Ryan Joseph Schuh

Justin Matthew Oliphant

Kyle Andrew Pfeifer

Brian Scott Borke

John Patrick Laitala

Nickolas Everett Madsen

Karl Daniel Kissinger

David Warren Murphy

Ted Allen Casper

Roy J Cooley

John I Compton

Aaron Lee Sinclair

Steve Verdino

Michael Topputo

John William Grosz, Jr

Adam P Laabs

Michael G Diedrick

Gregory C Baeten

Jerold Brickler

Vincent W Rohrig, Iii

Gregory W Popp

R Mitchel Edwards

Tammy Lynn Miller

Chris Willoughby

Gregg Popp

Daniel E Myers

Robert A De La O

Michael Aaron Barger

Tim E Malinak

Robert Paul Stuedemann

Steven Hacker

John William Grosz

An apparatus may include a film support roller supporting a film roll and a housing that may include a sealing portion having an aperture sized to receive a top portion of a container. The housing may define a film path leading from the film roll to the sealing portion. A guide support assembly may have a ramp and at least one guide truss positioned along the film path. The ramp and the guide truss may guide the film across the aperture within the sealing portion, covering the aperture. The motor may advance the film along the film path. The heating element may emanate energy. The controller may cause the motor to advance the film onto the ramp and cause the heating element to emanate energy to cause the film to seal the top portion of the container.

Film securing apparatus and method

Systems, apparatuses, and methods to seal a container are provided. An apparatus for securing a film to a container includes a body portion to house film and a sealing portion. The sealing portion includes a loading zone to receive a portion of film from the body portion and an aperture to receive a top portion of the container and the portion of the film therethrough to enable positioning within a sealing volume. A plurality of near-infrared light emitting diodes (NIR LEDs) face toward and at least partially surround the top portion of the container when positioned within the sealing volume. A controller is configured to receive sensor input from a sensor indicating that the top portion of the container is within the sealing volume and cause, in response thereto, activation of the plurality of NIR LEDs to secure the portion of the film to the top portion of the container.

Systems and methods for sealing a container

Systems, apparatuses, and methods to secure a film to a container are provided. An example sealing device utilizes film from a supply of film to seal a lid onto a container. Various sizes of containers are usable with some example sealing devices. Additional features, such as printing on the film and piercing the film for ventilation and/or insertion of a straw are contemplated. One or more markings along the film may be utilized for confirming that an approved film has been loaded into the sealing device. In response, various components or features of the sealing device may be appropriately enabled or disabled. The one or more markings may also be utilized to convey data to the sealing device regarding the installed film, such as for improved operation thereof.

A new and improved intrinsically safe barrier ('ISB') provides advantages in connection with installation of field equipment in hazardous areas including Division 2/Zone 2 areas. In one embodiment the new ISB provides a pluggable/unpluggable ISB for use with a receiving terminal base adapted for individual field mounting and alternatively for use with a circuit mount terminal base to permit direct mounting of ISB on circuit boards. A highly effective heat sink design and potting material allows for heat dissipation to allow the ISB to serve a wider range of applications.

Pluggable intrinsically safe barrier

Some example sheet product dispensers that accommodate one or more sheet product rolls are provided herein. An example sheet product dispenser includes a dispensing mechanism with a drive roller and nip roller. A motor is configured to rotate the drive roller to cause a portion of the sheet product to dispense from the sheet product dispenser. A controller is configured to determine a sheet length for dispensing and cause the motor to operate to cause sheet product to be dispensed from the sheet product dispenser. The controller is further configured to monitor an amount of rotation of the motor as the motor operates and cause, in an instance in which the amount of rotation of the motor corresponds to the determined sheet length, the motor to cease operation so as to cause the determined sheet length of sheet product to be dispensed from the sheet product dispenser.

Sheet product dispenser with motor operation sensing

Some example product dispensers that accommodate two full paper towel rolls are provided herein. The product dispenser may employ separate dispensing mechanisms for each product roll and may include roll holders that articulate out from the housing to facilitate easy loading and access to replacement and loading of the other product roll. A roll partition may be utilized to separate the web paths of the two product rolls and enable rotation of front roll holders. Example funnel covers and nip covers can aid with intuitive installation. Example roll holders with retention mechanisms help prevent unintentional dropping of the installed product roll. Other beneficial features include utilizing motor operation sensing to dispense a desired sheet length, automatic/assisted loading into the dispensing mechanism, automatic switching between dispensing of product rolls, and always dispensing from the smaller product roll first. Many other features/structures of example product dispensers are also described herein.

Sheet product dispenser

Provided herein are systems that enable proportional air flow delivery control for an air compressor. One system includes a pneumatic air compression system having a flow control member and being adapted to receive inlet air and to compress the inlet air to produce compressed air. The system also includes a pneumatic flow control system including a proportional control valve having a proportionally variable activation state. Varying the activation state of the proportional control valve regulates a pressure acting on the flow control member to regulate the flow of the compressed air produced by the pneumatic air compression system in a variable manner, and further regulates a power demand placed on the engine by the pneumatic air compression system in a variable manner.

Service pack comprising an engine driving a pneumatic air compression system with a flow control system to adjust a position of a proportional control valve, regulate a variable pressure acting on a flow control member, and regulate a power demand placed on the engine

An automated product dispenser for dispensing a product from a supply of product is provided. The automated product dispenser includes a chassis assembly, a drive assembly, and an isolation member. The chassis assembly includes a chassis frame, and the drive assembly includes a motor, a drivetrain, and a drivetrain housing. The isolation member mounts the drive assembly to the chassis assembly such that the drive assembly is substantially spaced apart from the chassis frame. A related method of inhibiting vibration transmission in an automated product dispenser also is provided.

Automated product dispensers and related methods for isolating a drive assembly to inhibit vibration transmission

A sheet product dispenser for dispensing sheet product from a roll of sheet product having a sealed tail is provided. The sheet product dispenser includes a roll interface configured to engage and at least partially support the roll of sheet product, the roll interface including a separating member configured to engage and unseal the sealed tail; a feed roller assembly configured to dispense sheet product from the roll of sheet product, the feed roller assembly including a feed roller configured to engage and at least partially support the roll of sheet product; and a controller operable to initiate driving of the feed roller and rotation of the roll of sheet product such that the sealed tail is unsealed by engaging the separating member. A related method of automatically loading a roll of sheet product having a sealed tail in a sheet product dispenser also is provided.

Sheet product dispensers and related methods for automatically loading a roll of sheet product in a dispenser

Proportional air flow delivery control for a compressor

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New London, WI, United States of America

Mark Edwin Peters