B67B 3/003
Pretreatment of caps
Official title: {Pretreatment of caps, e.g. cleaning, steaming, heating or sterilizing}
B67B3/003 (Pretreatment of caps) appears on 57 US grants and 63 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B67B- Granted patents
- 57
- Published applications
- 63
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 116
- Latest grant
- 23 Sep 2025
Filings by year
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| 2026 | 0 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Cap sterilization device and content filling system23 Sep 2025US 12,421,093 B2Dai Nippon Printing Co.Ltd.
- Cleaning, filling, and capping containers29 Jul 2025US 12,371,207 B2Boomerang Water, LLC
- Lid supply for a sealer and a sealer29 Jul 2025US 12,371,213 B2Ferrum Packaging AG
- Device for removing dust from closures by ionization3 Jun 2025US 12,318,821 B2Etablissements Andre Zalkin et Cie
- Sealable peelable polyester films21 Jan 2025US 12,202,227 B2Mylar Specialty Films U.S. Limited Partnership
- Aseptic apparatus and process for filling and closing cans17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274636 A1Gea Procomac S.P.A.
- Content-filling system and sterilizing method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250116 A1Dai Nippon Printing Co.Ltd.
- Cleaning, filling, and capping containers15 Jan 2026US 2026/0015114 A1Boomerang Water, LLC
- Cleaning, filling, and capping containers20 Mar 2025US 2025/0091743 A1Boomerang Water, LLC
- Sealable peelable polyester films15 Aug 2024US 2024/0269964 A1DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited Partnership
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and facility for sealing bottles with sterile sealing caps29US 6,341,472 B12002
- Apparatuses and methods for sterilising and filling components of packaging units particularly bottles and/or caps27US 7,739,859 B2Sidel · 2010
- Device for sterilizing closures for containers14US 8,834,808 B2KHS GmbH · 2014
- System for feeding caps with rotating-drum accumulation device13US 7,353,643 B2Arol S.P.A. · 2008
- Method and machine for closing bottle with sterile caps13US 7,536,839 B2SIG Technology AG · 2009