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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore John Scypinski, Savannah, GA (US);
Roger Kent Jacobson, Savannah, GA (US);
Assignee:
Union Camp Corporation, , US;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B31C / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
493302 ; 493248 ; 53201 ;
Abstract
A tube-forming machine has a tube forming section for receiving webs of material and forming it into a tube. The tube-forming section has multiple sets of tube formers for forming different types of tubes, and the tube formers are supported on opposite sides of a former bed that is rotatable to bring one or the other of the sets of tube formers into operative position to form a tube.