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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Slobodan Milohanic, Aengelholm, SE;
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23P / ; A21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426231 ; 994501 ; 994502 ; 425374 ; 426501 ; 426512 ;
Abstract
A material sheet is conveyed to a hollowed pipe member which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis and which has one or more circumferential openings and which is positioned for, by vacuum suction via the pipe hollow and circumferential openings and by rotation, sucking up and rolling up the sheet. The pipe member is mounted so that it reciprocates transversely to the direction of sheet travel for positioning for sucking up and rolling up the sheet and for retracting from a rolled sheet on the conveyor.