79 patents
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Utility
Bound Pad of Expandable Slit-sheet Stock Material
3 Feb 22
Abound pad presents a compact and convenient form of providing a two-ply construction that includes a slit-sheet stock material that may be positioned on or hung from a flat surface at the end-user's site.
Lawrence B. THOMAS
Filed: 18 Feb 20
Utility
Machine and Method for Producing Dunnage Having an X-shaped Cross-section Profile
6 Jan 22
A dunnage conversion machine includes a bunching assembly that randomly crumples at least two plies of sheet stock material into modified plies having a relatively thicker three-dimensional shape, and a feeding assembly that advances and connects together longitudinally-extending portions of the modified plies to form a dunnage strip.
Robert C. Cheich, Steven Toneff
Filed: 20 Sep 21
Utility
Packaging Product and Methods of Making and Using for Box-lining
6 Jan 22
A dunnage product has a length dimension with a first end and a second end opposite the first end.
Lawrence B. THOMAS, Michael Dane WARHOLIC
Filed: 15 Nov 19
Utility
Supply of Sheet Stock Material for a Dunnage Conversion Machine and a Method of Converting Same into a Dunnage Product
6 Jan 22
A supply (22) of sheet stock material (24, 34) for a dunnage conversion machine (26) that is readily spliced to another supply includes (a) one or more plies of sheet material (24, 34) having (i) multiple longitudinally-extending sections, including a center section (42) bounded by lateral sections (40), where the lateral sections (40) are folded over a common face of the center section (42) along longitudinal fold lines (44) at lateral edges of the folded sheet material, and (ii) a leading end (60) and a trailing end (62) at respective longitudinally-opposite ends of the sheet material, where the lateral sections (40) are separated from the center section (42) adjacent the leading end (60) and adjacent the trailing end (62) along respective lines of separation; and (b) a splicing adhesive (76) applied to the sheet material adjacent the leading end (60) or the trailing end (62) on both the center section (42) and each of the lateral WO 2020/092578 A1 sections (40) to facilitate splicing each section to respective sections of two supplies.
Robert C. CHEICH, Dennis J. WAGNER, Brian STINARD, Hugo VAN OOL, Leon HANSSEN, Mike TIMMERS
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Dunnage conversion system and method for expanding pre-slit sheet stock material
28 Dec 21
A dunnage conversion system (20) for expanding an unexpanded slit sheet stock material (23) to form an expanded dunnage product (26).
Robert C. Cheich
Filed: 9 Feb 16
Utility
Dunnage System with Coiler, Automated Taping and Ejecting Apparatus and Method
28 Oct 21
A dunnage conversion system includes a machine for converting a stock material into a strip of relatively lower-density dunnage, a coiling mechanism for winding the strip into a coil, a taping mechanism for automatically securing a trailing end of the strip to the coil, and a coil ejecting mechanism for automatically removing the coil from the coiling mechanism.
Pedro E. Winkens, Ad H. Veldt
Filed: 7 Jul 21
Utility
Machine and method for producing dunnage having an x-shaped cross-sectional profile
21 Sep 21
A dunnage conversion machine includes a bunching assembly that randomly crumples at least two plies of sheet stock material into modified plies having a relatively thicker three-dimensional shape, and a feeding assembly that advances and connects together longitudinally-extending portions of the modified plies to form a dunnage strip.
Robert C. Cheich, Steven Toneff
Filed: 1 May 15
Utility
Dunnage system with coiler, automated taping and ejecting apparatus and method
10 Aug 21
A dunnage conversion system includes a machine for converting a stock material into a strip of relatively lower-density dunnage, a coiling mechanism for winding the strip into a coil, a taping mechanism for automatically securing a trailing end of the strip to the coil, and a coil ejecting mechanism for automatically removing the coil from the coiling mechanism.
Pedro E Winkens, Ad H Veldt
Filed: 20 Feb 19
Utility
Packaging Product and Methods of Making and Using
5 Aug 21
A bundle of packing material includes at least two strips of packing material folded into a compact configuration.
Craig L. Lenart, Shawn M. Baiers, Robert C. Cheich, Dennis J. Wagner
Filed: 11 Jul 18
Utility
Stand for self contained cartridge and method for manually dispensing an expandable cushioning wrap
3 Aug 21
An unpowered, manually operable apparatus for dispensing cushioning wrap material drawn concurrently from a roll of separator material and a self-contained cartridge that includes a roll of expandable sheet material.
Brandon Page, Marcelo Passos
Filed: 25 Jan 19
Utility
Apparatus and method for expanding a slit sheet material to form an expanded packaging product
13 Jul 21
An apparatus (10) for converting a slit-sheet stock material (16) into an expanded dunnage product (12) includes a housing (20), a pair of rollers (22, 24) within the housing extending widthwise across a path of the sheet material, and a plurality of guide strips (90) extending from an upstream side of the pair of rollers to a downstream side of the pair of rollers at a plurality of locations spaced across the width of the path.
Robert Cheich, Raimond Demers, Cals Hubertus, Peter Urban
Filed: 13 Nov 15
Utility
CorrectedStand for Self Contained Cartridge and Method for Manually Dispensing an Expandable Cushioning Wrap
8 Jul 21
An unpowered, manually operable apparatus for dispensing cushioning wrap material drawn concurrently from a roll of separator material and a self-contained cartridge that includes a roll of expandable sheet material.
Brandon Page, Marcelo Passos
Filed: 25 Jan 19
Utility
Compact Manual Dunnage Conversion Apparatus
6 May 21
A manually-operated dunnage conversion apparatus includes a housing, a support mounted in the housing and configured to support a supply of sheet material for dispensing from the dunnage conversion apparatus, and one or both of (a) a guide member mounted in the housing downstream of the support and providing a resilient surface across which the sheet material may be drawn to restrict tearing of the sheet material as it is drawn from the dunnage conversion apparatus, and (b) a tensioning assembly mounted in the housing and configured to apply a compressive force between opposite axial sides of the housing to control the force necessary to dispense the supply of sheet material.
Dennis J. Wagner, Robert C. Cheich
Filed: 6 Aug 18
Utility
Expandable Slit-sheet Stock Material, Dunnage Conversion System and Method for Expanding
8 Apr 21
An improved expandable slit-sheet stock material is configured to aid in temporarily restricting opening of a plurality of slits of the slit-sheet stock material, such as during winding of the unexpanded stock material or during expansion of the stock material.
Robert C. Cheich, Dennis J. Wagner
Filed: 28 Mar 18
Utility
Packaging system and method with controlled dunnage dispensing
6 Apr 21
A packaging method includes the steps of (a) detecting whether a height (104) of contents (105) in a container (106) exceeds a predetermined height (112), and (b) indicating how much dunnage to dispense based on predetermined criteria, including whether a detected height exceeds a predetermined height that is less than a height of the container.
Daniel L. Carlson, Paul F. Deimling, Kevin W. Park, Derek M. Gabrielsen
Filed: 11 Jun 18
Utility
Method of Loading a Dunnage Conversion Machine and Sheet Stock Material Useful Therein
18 Mar 21
A supply of stock material for a dunnage conversion machine includes two plies of sheet stock material wound into a roll or fan-folded into a stack.
Stephen Louis Dominak, Alexandra Snijders
Filed: 25 Nov 20
Utility
Cutting mechanism for a dunnage conversion machine and method
9 Mar 21
A cutting mechanism is provided for a dunnage conversion machine 10 that selectively cuts dunnage sheet stock drawable through the cutting mechanism.
Peter L. C. Lemmens
Filed: 6 Apr 17
Utility
Stock supply assembly and method for loading a dunnage conversion machine
23 Feb 21
A stock supply assembly for a dunnage conversion machine includes a stock material support having a support structure, such as a shelf for a stack of fan-folded sheet stock material.
Ron Hendrix
Filed: 14 Jul 17
Utility
Stock supply assembly and method for loading a dunnage conversion machine
23 Feb 21
A stock supply assembly for a dunnage conversion machine includes a stock material support having a support structure, such as a shelf for a stack of fan-folded sheet stock material.
William D. Bruck, William Toth, Shawnasee E. Burns
Filed: 13 May 16
Utility
Automatic Dunnage Conforming Apparatus and Method
11 Feb 21
An apparatus for conforming a dunnage element about contents in a container includes an array of pushers having biased end portions that are movable relative to one another and having end faces for engaging the dunnage element.
Jean-Yves Sia, Uwe Klärner, Rémi Parisse
Filed: 6 Feb 19