B65B 27/04
Bundling groups of cans or bottles
B65B27/04 (Bundling groups of cans or bottles) appears on 69 US grants and 99 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 99
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 160
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 9 |
| 2015 | 2 | 8 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 | 7 |
| 2023 | 1 | 7 |
| 2024 | 6 | 10 |
| 2025 | 9 | 4 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Device for folding a packaging strip of a batch of containers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225339 A1Sidel Participations
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for banding groups of palletised products26US 6,892,515 B2Aetna Group S.P.A. · 2005
- Packaging apparatus20US 4,354,333 AIllinois Tool Works Inc. · 1982
- Machine and method for forming and applying carrying straps to article cartons15US 4,357,186 AThe Mead Corporation · 1982
- Method and machine to group and join articles15US 8,448,411 B2Krones AG · 2013
- Bodies, packages of bodies, and a device and method for packaging bodies13US 8,348,077 B2Krones AG · 2013