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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Andrew Perkins, Berkeley, CA (US);
Oliver M. Reyes, Berkeley, CA (US);
Philipp Borchard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas P. DE Luca, Washington, DC (US);
Andrew Perkins, Berkeley, CA (US);
Oliver M. Reyes, Berkeley, CA (US);
Philipp Borchard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas P. De Luca, Washington, DC (US);
Free-Flow Packaging International, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A machine which inflates and seals pillows in packaging is compact in overall size, can be conveniently operated to produce varied lengths of strips of inflated pillow-type packaging as needed, can begin production of inflated pillow-type strip packaging immediately after being held out of a production cycle for some period of time, and applies a heated sealing element directly to and in sliding contact with a web of film to securely seal the inlet port of an inflated pillow while the pillow is under pressure and as the web of film is continuously and uninterruptedly advanced through the machine.