B65B 43/42
Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or
Official title: Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position (by means of filling-nozzles B65B39/00); Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation (by filling-nozzles B65B39/00)
B65B43/42 (Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or) appears on 1,851 US grants and 1,871 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 1,851
- Published applications
- 1,871
- Assignees
- 1,022
- Inventors
- 3,588
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 25 | 0 |
| 1977 | 20 | 0 |
| 1978 | 14 | 0 |
| 1979 | 16 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 18 | 0 |
| 1982 | 13 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 10 | 0 |
| 1985 | 15 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 10 | 0 |
| 1988 | 13 | 0 |
| 1989 | 11 | 0 |
| 1990 | 18 | 0 |
| 1991 | 17 | 0 |
| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 18 | 0 |
| 1995 | 21 | 0 |
| 1996 | 25 | 0 |
| 1997 | 17 | 0 |
| 1998 | 36 | 0 |
| 1999 | 34 | 0 |
| 2000 | 26 | 0 |
| 2001 | 25 | 15 |
| 2002 | 31 | 33 |
| 2003 | 35 | 28 |
| 2004 | 38 | 35 |
| 2005 | 13 | 30 |
| 2006 | 20 | 22 |
| 2007 | 14 | 35 |
| 2008 | 16 | 35 |
| 2009 | 18 | 41 |
| 2010 | 24 | 41 |
| 2011 | 17 | 42 |
| 2012 | 27 | 54 |
| 2013 | 35 | 56 |
| 2014 | 41 | 60 |
| 2015 | 40 | 79 |
| 2016 | 45 | 85 |
| 2017 | 59 | 98 |
| 2018 | 64 | 103 |
| 2019 | 87 | 134 |
| 2020 | 104 | 135 |
| 2021 | 118 | 111 |
| 2022 | 117 | 126 |
| 2023 | 90 | 134 |
| 2024 | 117 | 144 |
| 2025 | 128 | 119 |
| 2026 | 99 | 76 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus for products packaging6 Oct 2026US 12,752,942 B2Heat and Control, Inc.
- Machine for making capsules6 Oct 2026US 12,752,949 B2I.M.A. Industria Macchine
- Condiment packaging apparatus, systems, and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,752,950 B2H. J. Heinz Company Brands LLC
- Conveying mechanism for packaging machinery and packaging machinery6 Oct 2026US 12,752,951 B2Chengdu Meijindi Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus for packaging articles22 Sep 2026US 12,741,770 B2Pulsar S.R.L.
- Dispenser unit for aerosol precursor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305730 A1RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
- Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Producing and Packaging Medical Fluids8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307835 A1
- Packaging machine and method for feeding a packaging bag to a conveying device of a packaging machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296702 A1HDG-Verpackungsmaschinen GMBH
- Portion optimized dispensing system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296703 A1Pinto Inc.
- A container rotating unit and a machine for handling containers including such unit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285524 A1Tirelli S.r.l.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for holding article221US 5,687,874 AKao Corporation · 1997
- Method of forming and inserting filter elements in cup-shaped containers213US 6,440,256 B1Keurig, Incorporated · 2002
- Calibratable automatic fluid dispenser153US 4,331,262 ANew Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. · 1982
- Precise portion packaging machine137US 4,703,765 AUnited States Tobacco Company · 1987
- Carrier puck110US 5,484,052 ADowbrands L.P. · 1996