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Maintaining perforation phasing
Assignee: Bank One Corp
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Filing: 1993-02-26
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Granted: 1994-03-08
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Expires: 2013-02-26
Abstract
Abstract In an apparatus for making plastic bags or the like from a continuous film of material comprising a sealing drum having at least one seal bar for imparting transverse seals to the film at regularly spaced intervals and a perforator having a rotatable perforator blade for imparting transverse perforations to the film at regularly spaced intervals, the film comprising print marks appearing thereon at regularly spaced intervals, an apparatus and method are disclosed for tracking the positions of each print mark and each perforation and comparing the difference between these positions to a desired difference and thereafter adjusting the angular position of the perforator blade until the difference between the positions of each print mark and each perforation is equal to the desired difference to thereby maintain a desired spacing between each print mark and each perforation.
Inventors
- 👤 Danford C. Anderson
- 👤 Peter J. Hatchell
- 👤 Emiel Lambrecht
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 18:29
CPC Classifications
B; B65; B65H; B65H45/00; B65H45/12; B65H45/28; B26; B26D; B26D5/00; B26D5/20; B65H23/00; B65H23/04; B65H23/046; B65H35/00; B65H35/04; B65H35/08; B65H37/00; B65H37/02; B31; B31B; B31B2155/00; B31B2155/003; B31B2160/00; B31B2160/10; B31B70/00; B31B70/006; B31B70/02; B31B70/022; B31B70/024; B31B70/10; B31B70/14; B31B70/60; B31B70/64; B31B70/645; B31B70/649; B31B70/74; B31B70/92; B31B70/94; B31B70/946; B65H2511/00; B65H2511/50; B65H2511/51; B65H2511/512
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
196 words
In an apparatus for making plastic bags from a continuous film of material comprising a sealing drum having at least one seal bar for imparting transverse seals to the film at regularly spaced intervals and a perforator having a rotatable perforator blade for imparting transverse perforations to the film at regularly spaced intervals, the film comprising print marks appearing at regularly spaced intervals, the improvement comprising: means for generating a signal representative of the position of each print mark; means for generating a signal representative of the position of each perforation; means for generating a positional reference signal against which each print mark signal can be compared with each perforation signal; means for providing a signal representative of a desired distance between each print mark and each perforation; means for comparing the positional difference between each print mark signal and each perforation signal with the desired distance between each print mark and each perforation; means responsive to the comparing means for adjusting the position of the perforator blade when the positional difference between each print mark signal and each perforation signal is greater or less than the desired distance between each print mark and each perforation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
196 words
In an apparatus for making plastic bags from a continuous film of material comprising a sealing drum having at least one seal bar for imparting transverse seals to the film at regularly spaced intervals and a perforator having a rotatable perforator blade for imparting transverse perforations to the film at regularly spaced intervals, the film comprising print marks appearing at regularly spaced intervals, the improvement comprising: means for generating a signal representative of the position of each print mark; means for generating a signal representative of the position of each perforation; means for generating a positional reference signal against which each print mark signal can be compared with each perforation signal; means for providing a signal representative of a desired distance between each print mark and each perforation; means for comparing the positional difference between each print mark signal and each perforation signal with the desired distance between each print mark and each perforation; means responsive to the comparing means for adjusting the position of the perforator blade when the positional difference between each print mark signal and each perforation signal is greater or less than the desired distance between each print mark and each perforation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
15 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the positional reference signal generating means comprises an encoder.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
15 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the positional reference signal generating means comprises a resolver.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
68 words
A method of producing plastic bags from a continuous film of material having printed matter appearing thereon at regularly spaced intervals, comprising the steps of: imparting transverse seals to the film at regularly spaced intervals; imparting transverse perforations to the film at regularly spaced intervals; maintaining a desired spacing between the seals and the printed matter; simultaneously maintaining a desired spacing between the printed matter and the perforations.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
68 words
A method of producing plastic bags from a continuous film of material having printed matter appearing thereon at regularly spaced intervals, comprising the steps of: imparting transverse seals to the film at regularly spaced intervals; imparting transverse perforations to the film at regularly spaced intervals; maintaining a desired spacing between the seals and the printed matter; simultaneously maintaining a desired spacing between the printed matter and the perforations.
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