The Procter Gamble Company

Mark Levandoski

Michael Joseph Lamping

Brian Christopher Schwamberger

David Stuart Howell, Ii

Joseph Craig Lester

Jun You

Benjamin Jacob Clare

Jason Matthew Orndorff

Marc Richard Bourgeois

Christopher Robert Lyman

Michael Granitz

In methods of making disposable, flexible containers for fluent products, methods of sealing the flexible containers when such containers include expansion materials, are disclosed. The methods include forming a partially completed container blank that has layers of flexible materials. The layered structure includes a first space for a fluent product, and a second space for an expansion material. The methods of sealing the flexible containers include adding an expansion material into the second space and pressing parts of at least some of the layers together to close off the second space.

Methods of sealing flexible containers with expansion materials

A vacuum holder for articles, a combination of a vacuum holder and an article, a system for holding and conveying articles, and a method for holding and conveying articles are disclosed. The vacuum holder includes a main body having a surface and an air passageway leading to the surface, and a valve joined to the main body and in fluid communication with the air passageway. An article can be placed adjacent to the surface of the main body, and a vacuum can be drawn through the air passageway to hold the article to the vacuum holder. The valve maintains the vacuum between the article and the vacuum holder without being connected to a vacuum source, until it is desired to release the article from the vacuum holder.

Vacuum holder and carrier with autonomous vacuum

Processes for initiating a web winding process, more particularly a processes for initiating a web winding process that doesn't require the use of a threading rope or manually threading a tail of the web like known processes are provided.

Process for initiating a web winding process

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Kings Mills, OH, United States of America

Mark Levandoski