B65B 67/04
Devices facilitating the insertion of articles or materials into bags
Official title: Devices facilitating the insertion of articles or materials into bags {, e.g. guides or chutes (sack holders B65B67/12)}
B65B67/04 (Devices facilitating the insertion of articles or materials into bags) appears on 87 US grants and 79 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 87
- Published applications
- 79
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 179
- Latest grant
- 10 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Patch to pouch systems16 Dec 2025US 12,497,204 B2WestRock Shared Services, LLC
- Apparatus for the manual or machine production of a tube-like packaging material and packing station5 Aug 2025US 12,378,019 B2Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co.
- Melon packaging machine20 May 2025US 12,304,681 B2Huaibei Normal University
- Oblique bread slicer8 Apr 2025US 12,269,183 B2Jac S.A.
- Vertical bagger using web-alignment score11 Jun 2026US 2026/0159260 A1Pregis LLC
- Funnel Apparatus26 Jun 2025US 2025/0206484 A1
- System and method for automatically packaging an item30 Jan 2025US 2025/0033850 A1Iow, LLC
- Melon packaging machine24 Oct 2024US 2024/0351727 A1Huaibei Normal University
- Depositor apparatus24 Oct 2024US 2024/0351800 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for packaging elongated articles399US 4,280,314 AModern Mfg. Co., Inc. · 1981
- Stand alone swage apparatus368US 6,012,216 AEthicon, Inc. · 2000
- Leaf and debris chute115US 6,708,742 B22004
- Stand alone swage method74US 6,163,948 AEthicon, Inc. · 2000
- Leaf and lawn debris collecting apparatus70US 5,593,117 A1997