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Crimper bar set for forming hermetically sealed packages

US4807426A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 8, 1987
Grant dateFeb 28, 1989
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 8, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T156/1313
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In continuous packaging of comestibles in individual packages of thermo plastic sheet material, elongate, reciprocating crimper bars or dies simultaneously sever the packages and inpart end crimp seals to the packages but unfortunately featuring a high rate of rejects overcome by a special contour in the surface of one of the said crimper dies, according to present discovery.

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