Cryovac, Inc.

Furukawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Maschinenfabrik Rieter Ag

Peter Schmalz

Gregory E McDonald

Joel Caillier

Gregory H Grossman

Shuichi Nakamoto

Joe A Price

Rod Hodgson

John L King, Jr

Yoshitaka Nii

Silvio Rohrer

Karl Papp

Erwin Brun

John L King

Gregory E Mcdonald

An apparatus for vacuumizing and sealing a package includes a plurality of platens and vacuum chambers, each chamber adapted to mate with a dedicated one of the platens; a conveying system for conveying the platens and chambers along a generally angular path having a single axis of rotation; an automated loading assembly having a linear component and configured to load a package onto each of the platens; an automated unloading assembly having a linear portion and configured to unload a vacuumized, sealed package from each loaded platen onto an outfeed conveyor; and a vacuumizing/sealing system configured to cause relative movement of each chamber/platen pair, along a portion of the angular path, to form therebetween an air-tight enclosure accommodating the package and effect vacuumization and sealing of the package.

Apparatus and method for vacuumizing and sealing a package

An apparatus () for vacuumizing and sealing a package () includes a plurality of platens () and vacuum chambers (), each chamber () adapted to mate with a dedicated one of the platens (); a conveying system () for conveying the platens () and chambers () along a generally angular path having a single axis of rotation (); an automated loading assembly () having a linear component () and configured to load a package () onto each of the platens (); an automated unloading assembly () having a linear portion and configured to unload a vacuumized, sealed package () from each loaded platen () onto an outfeed conveyor (); and a vacuumizing/sealing system configured to cause relative movement of each chamber ()/platen () pair, along a portion of the angular path, to form therebetween an air-tight enclosure accommodating the package () and effect vacuumization and sealing of the package ().

A lubricating device for the revolving flat arrangement of a carding machine having two chains arranged at the sides of the card and engaging ends of the revolving flats. The chains move in a loop and are guided by stationary guides at least in the area of the card cylinder and slide surfaces of the flats slide along these guides. At least one lubricant container is provided at each side of the revolving flat arrangement and is responsible for the dosed lubrication of the sliding surfaces. A rotatable transfer element associated with the appropriate lubricant container comes into contact with the lubricant and the sliding surfaces and is driven from the appropriate chain via a gear wheel.

Lubricating device for the revolving flat arrangement of a carding

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Hochdorf, Switzerland

Peter Schmalz