The Procter Gamble Company

Tadayoshi Ishihara

Joseph Craig Lester

Benjamin Jacob Clare

Marc Richard Bourgeois

Scott Kendyl Stanley

Lee Mathew Arent

Kenneth Stephen McGuire

Jun You

Charles John Berg, Jr

Robert Paul Cassoni

Paul Edmund Baker

Matthew Richard Allen

Andrew Paul Rapach

Richard Matthew Giachetto

Gavin John Broad

Kenneth Stephen Mcguire

Charles John Berg

Kory Adam Gunnerson

Mark Mason Hargett

Donald Joseph Cox

Michael Paul Hausfeld

Lee Matthew Arent

Marc Bourgeios

Jr Charles John Berg

Methods of making vents in containers made from flexible materials, including forming vent openings in a first flexible material, forming vent stand-offs on a second flexible material, and combining the flexible materials to form a vent passage for the flexible container.

Methods of making vented flexible containers

A non-durable flexible container can include a first film wall including a first portion comprising at least one first structural support member defined in the first film wall, and a second portion that is free of a structural support member. The container can further include a second film wall including at least one second structural support member defined in the second film wall, wherein at least a portion of the first structural support member is adjacent to at least a portion of the second structural support member to define a seam region, and a side of the seam region defines an edge of the non-durable flexible container. The container can also include a closed produce volume defined between first and second film walls; and a seam projecting outwardly from the seam region at an intersection of the first and second film walls.

Flexible containers having improved seam and methods of making the same

A container blank having an article handling feature for handling the container blank as well as the flexible packages made therefrom during manufacture, and method of making flexible packages using such a feature are described herein. Also described herein is an array of flexible packages containing a common article handling feature provided by such a method.

Container blanks for flexible packages and methods of making flexible packages

Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto the surface of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. In some cases, the apparatuses and methods involve providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of the surface of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the surface of the article.

Method and apparatus for applying a material onto articles with a pre-distorted transfer component

Methods of making flexible containers that include structural support frames, including methods for sealing such containers.

Methods of making flexible containers with structural support frames

Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers with easily variable sizing. Line ups of flexible containers have similar sizes, shapes, and constructions, but hold differing amounts of fluent product at unexpected fill heights.

Flexible containers with easily variable sizing

Method and apparatus for applying a material onto articles using a transfer component that deflects on both sides

Method for transferring material with adhesive onto articles with a difference in degree of curing between the material and adhesive

A method of forming a flexible container can include folding a web or sheet to define one or more gussets in one or more regions of the flexible container. The gusset can be a continuous gusset or can be an interrupted gusset, having a seal disposed in the gusset.

Flexible containers and methods of forming the same

A method of expanding a structural support volume of a flexible container can include dispensing a cryogenic fluid into at least one structural support volume and sealing the at least one structural support volume such that it has a closed volume prior to complete conversion of the cryogenic fluid into a gas and expansion of the structural support volume to a pressurized state. The flexible container includes a product volume and at least a portion of the structural support volume extends into the product volume when the structural support volume is expanded.

Flexible containers and methods of making the same

A method for sealing and cutting of a flexible material for forming a flexible container comprising a product volume and at least one structural support volume can include feeding at least two flexible material into a sealing apparatus comprising a sealing surface and an opposed anvil surface; contacting a seam region of the at least two flexible material with the sealing surface to form a seal in the seam region and cut the seal to form a seam in a single unit operation. The seal defines one or both of at least a portion of a boundary of the product volume and at least a portion of a boundary of the at least one structural support volume.

A method of filling a product volume of a flexible container that includes a product volume and a structural support volume that at least partially extends into the product volume can include filling the product volume with product and applying an external force to the product volume and sealing the product volume to reduce a product receiving volume of the product volume.

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Tadayoshi Ishihara