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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Ranpak Corp., Concord Township, OH (US);
Steven M. Toneff, Willoughby, OH (US);
Robert C. Cheich, Independence, OH (US);
Dennis J. Wagner, Painesville, OH (US);
Brian J. Stinard, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Stanislau Yakubouski, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Ranpak Corp., Concord Township, OH (US);
Abstract
An automated pouch package-making apparatus includes a dunnage conversion apparatus and an enveloping apparatus. The dunnage conversion apparatus includes a layering device to layer an upper cover sheet material upon a lower cover sheet material with an expanded slit-sheet material therebetween, and a cross pressure applicator to apply a pressure to the layered product to bond via an adhesive a lower surface of the upper cover sheet material to an upper surface of the lower cover sheet material, thereby forming a strip of expanded dunnage. The enveloping apparatus includes a folding device to fold the strip upon itself, at a cross-wise extending crease, such that an upper surface of a first strip portion overlays an upper surface of a second strip portion, and to compress the opposite longitudinal sides of the strip along respective locations of longitudinally extending adhesive to bond the opposite longitudinal sides of the strip.