B65H 45/22
Longitudinal folders, i.e. for folding moving sheet material parallel to the direction
Official title: Longitudinal folders, i.e. for folding moving sheet material parallel to the direction of movement
B65H45/22 (Longitudinal folders, i.e. for folding moving sheet material parallel to the direction) appears on 288 US grants and 230 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 288
- Published applications
- 230
- Assignees
- 151
- Inventors
- 520
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Interfolding machine8 Sep 2026US 12,729,092 B2Ot Lucca S.R.L.
- Folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press and offset web-fed printing press23 Sep 2025US 12,420,544 B2manroland Goss web systems GmbH
- Bagger with padding expansion23 Sep 2025US 12,421,001 B2Pregis LLC
- Wipes processing12 Aug 2025US 12,384,578 B2Kenvue Brands LLC
- Folding wedge device for a bag packaging machine20 May 2025US 12,304,169 B2SN Maschinenbau GmbH
- Device for folding a packaging strip of a batch of containers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225339 A1Sidel Participations
- Device for banding products23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208898 A1Dutch Banding Company B.V.
- Vertical bagger using web-alignment score11 Jun 2026US 2026/0159260 A1Pregis LLC
- Supply device of supplying sheet material11 Jun 2026US 2026/0159348 A1Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
- Device for Z-Shaped Folding of a Separator and Method for Producing an Electrode Separator Arrangement11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163048 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pouch machine for making maximum volume pouch127US 5,699,653 ACloud Corporation · 1997
- Web folding apparatus125US 4,421,501 A1983
- Sheet folding machine67US 4,614,512 AS. A. Martin · 1986
- High speed quarterfolder65US 6,551,228 B1Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 2003
- Individually wrapped absorbent article and method and apparatus for its production59US 6,015,934 AKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · 2000