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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nicholas Paola De Luca, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Assignee:
Novus Packaging Corporation, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53472 ; 53449 ; 53172 ; 53574 ;
Abstract
A method of and apparatus for automatically feeding from a roll successive pairs of inflatable packaging bags each having a common intermediate inflation channel to present the end bag upon a base platform for receiving an item-to-be-packaged, and then to fold the other bag of the pair thereover to envelope the same; and then sealing the enveloping bags to provide a package of appropriate item size, inflating the bags through the inflation channel, and finally severing the inflated package from the roll.