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  3. /B31 · Making articles of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous
  4. /B31B · Making containers of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous
  5. /B31B 50/00 · Making rigid or semi-rigid containers
  6. /B31B 50/26 · Folding sheets, blanks or webs
  7. /B31B 50/36 · By continuously feeding the sheets, blanks or webs to stationary members
  8. /B31B 50/38 · The members being forming-tubes
  9. /B31B 50/42
B31B 50/42

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Official title: acting externally

B31B50/42 (Acting externally) appears on 4 US grants and 4 published applications in this corpus.

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Where it sits

  1. BPerforming operations
  2. B31Making articles of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous
  3. B31BMaking containers of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous
  4. B31B 50/00Making rigid or semi-rigid containers
  5. B31B 50/26Folding sheets, blanks or webs
  6. B31B 50/36By continuously feeding the sheets, blanks or webs to stationary members
  7. B31B 50/38The members being forming-tubes
  8. B31B 50/42Acting externally
Granted patents
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Published applications
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Assignees
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Inventors
10
Latest grant
16 Jul 2024

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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Recent patents

  • Cartoning apparatus16 Jul 2024US 12,037,151 B2Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
  • Method for folding a corrugated cardboard blank intended to form a folded box7 May 2024US 11,975,502 B2Bobst Lyon
  • Pneumatic sheet material hold down conveyor system22 Feb 2000US 6,027,440 AThermoguard Equipment, Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for producing can bodies29 Oct 1991US 5,061,141 AFried. Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
  • Cartoning apparatus20 Jul 2023US 2023/0227190 A1Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
  • Method for folding a corrugated cardboard blank intended to form a folded box25 Aug 2022US 2022/0266562 A1Bobst Lyon
  • Container forming machine14 Apr 2005US 2005/0079965 A1
  • Method and apparatus for forming multi-sided containers7 Apr 2005US 2005/0075230 A1

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Pneumatic sheet material hold down conveyor system28US 6,027,440 AThermoguard Equipment, Inc. · 2000
  • Method and apparatus for producing can bodies2US 5,061,141 AFried. Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung · 1991

Top assignees

Documents
  • BLBobst Lyon2
  • KSKyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd.2
  • FKFried. Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung1
  • TEThermoguard Equipment, Inc.1

Often classified with

  • B65BMachines, apparatus or devices for, or methods of, packaging articles or materials2
  • B65DContainers for storage or transport of articles or materials2
  • B21DWorking or processing of sheet metal or metal tubes, rods or profiles1
  • B65GTransport or storage devices1
  • B65HHandling thin or filamentary material1

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