Automated system for the integration of a liner and envelope
AssigneeCreate Technologies, Inc.
InventorNicholas P. De Luca
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Abstract
A system and method for continuously forming an envelope. The method includes providing a substrate including a liner, where the substrate has a side edge; plunging the substrate into a cartridge with a pusher to a desired depth to form a U having two opposing walls, two side openings and a flap opening; squeezing the two opposing walls along the two side openings, while keeping the flap opening open; sealing the two opposing walls along the two side openings to form the envelope; retracting the pusher; and filling the envelope disposed in the cartridge via the flap opening, where the substrate is disposed on a roll.
Claims21
A method for continuously forming an envelope, the method comprising:
- providing a substrate comprising a liner, wherein the substrate has a side edge;
- plunging the substrate into a cartridge with a pusher to a desired depth to form a U having two opposing walls, two side openings and a flap opening;
- squeezing the two opposing walls along the two side openings, while keeping the flap opening open;
- sealing the two opposing walls along the two side openings to form the envelope;
- retracting, after the sealing, the pusher;
- and
- filling the envelope disposed in the cartridge via the flap opening,
- wherein the substrate is disposed on a roll.
A machine system to continuously form an envelope, the machine system comprising:
- a substrate comprising a liner, wherein the substrate has a side edge;
- a cartridge;
- a pusher to plunge the substrate into the cartridge to a desired depth to form a U having two opposing walls, two side openings and a flap opening;
- holders to squeeze the two opposing walls along the two side openings, while keeping the flap opening open;
- and
- a sealer to seal the two opposing walls along the two side openings to form the envelope,
- where the pusher is retracted, the envelope disposed in the cartridge is filled via the flap opening after the two opposing walls have been sealed by the sealer, and the substrate is disposed on a roll.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.