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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2011
Thomas David Reid Ford, Royston, GB;
James Robert Stirling Howarth, Cambridge, GB;
Adrian Michael Woodward, Bury St Edmonds, GB;
Thomas David Reid Ford, Royston, GB;
James Robert Stirling Howarth, Cambridge, GB;
Adrian Michael Woodward, Bury St Edmonds, GB;
Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Abstract
A process for sequentially forming a plurality of enclosed containers () comprising a product, the process involving passing a continuous web (), comprising a strip of container material having two opposing edges (), to a folding station (), whereupon each open container is sequentially formed by folding the web, to bring into contact two contiguous edge portions () from only one edge of the web, then sealing the two edges together to form a portion of the web into an open container, depositing the product onto the web so that it is held within the open containers, and then sealing the open containers to form the enclosed containers.