Recipe controlled process for making packaging materials
AssigneePregis Innovative Packaging LLC
InventorsThomas D. Wetsch, Keith Maranto
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to an inflation and sealing machine and in particular to a method for modifying one or more parameters of the machine. The method includes identifying a configuration of a supply material to be used with the inflation and sealing machine, such as by receiving a user input, automatically detecting characteristics of the material, and/or receiving data such as from a sensor regarding the characteristics of the material. Once the configuration of the supply material is identified, the method includes receiving a selection of a prestored recipe according to a configuration of the supply material, where the recipe determines or sets the value for one or more operating parameters of the machine.
Claims14
A method for modifying one or more parameters of a film inflation and sealing machine by a control system that includes a controller and a memory component and that is configured to control operating parameters of the film inflation and sealing machine, the method comprising:
- providing a film inflation and sealing machine in communication with the control system, wherein the memory component of the control system stores a plurality of prestored recipes, wherein each of the plurality of prestored recipes includes settings for a plurality of operating parameters of the film inflation and sealing machine, and wherein different ones of the plurality of prestored recipes correspond to different supply material configurations;
- providing a supply of film material of a first supply material configuration to the inflation and sealing machine;
- selecting, by the controller, a first one of the prestored recipes corresponding to the first supply material configuration from the plurality of prestored recipes stored in the memory component;
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- modifying, by the controller, one or more settings for corresponding one or more operating parameters of the film inflation and sealing machine according to the first prestored recipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.