B65B 55/103
Sterilising flat or tubular webs
Official title: {Sterilising flat or tubular webs}
B65B55/103 (Sterilising flat or tubular webs) appears on 122 US grants and 108 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 122
- Published applications
- 108
- Assignees
- 57
- Inventors
- 252
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 4 | 8 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Device for reducing presence of microorganisms on web material25 Aug 2026US 12,715,641 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Method and manufacturing device for sterilising an interior of a packaging, and packaging with sterilised interior9 Jun 2026US 12,649,602 B2Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG
- System and method for controlling a flow regulating valve in a filling machine30 Sep 2025US 12,428,178 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Delivery unit for an aseptic packaging machine, aseptic packaging machine and sterilization method23 Sep 2025US 12,420,973 B2Universal Pack S.R.L.
- Machine and method for packaging in a sterile environment a product into flexible packages17 Jun 2025US 12,330,834 B2Universal Pack S.R.L.
- Device for reducing presence of microorganisms on web material9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192961 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Device for reduction of microorganisms on web material2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184456 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Digital printing apparatus for a packaging machine and packaging machine having a digital printing apparatus9 Oct 2025US 2025/0313370 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- System for evaluating the sealing quality of a sealing strip sealed to a packaging web in a packaging machine2 Oct 2025US 2025/0303646 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- A packaging material, and a method for producing such packaging material24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128844 A1Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of making aseptic packaging86US 4,021,283 A1977
- Sterilization method and apparatus therefor65US 4,797,255 ASnow Brand Milk Products Co., Ltd. · 1989
- Apparatus for sterilizing a succession of food containers or the like60US 4,296,068 ADai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha · 1981
- Process and machine for dividing a multi-layered web utilized in aseptic packaging into a plurality of individual webs of equal width49US 6,658,818 B2Hassia Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH · 2003
- Apparatus for the aseptic packing of high acid food43US 4,409,775 AThe Mead Corporation · 1983