Heat sealing apparatuses and methods of use thereof
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsMatthew Ims, William R. Frailing, Gustav André Mellin
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Abstract
A heating block assembly including one or more configurable insulator segments and a heater block having a first surface configured to removably receive the one or more configurable insulator segments, in which each of the one or more configurable insulator segments covers only a portion of the first surface. A method for sealing at least one portion of a package using such a heating block assembly is also disclosed.
Claims21
A heating block assembly comprising:
- one or more configurable insulator segments;
- and
- a heater block comprising a longitudinal axis and a first surface that is configured to removably receive the one or more configurable insulator segments, wherein the first surface is configured to receive various configurable insulator segments comprising different longitudinal lengths;
- wherein each of the one or more configurable insulator segments covers only a portion of the first surface.
A heat sealing apparatus comprising at least a first heating block assembly and a second heating block assembly, each of which comprises:
- one or more configurable insulator segments;
- and
- a heater block comprising a longitudinal axis and a first surface that is configured to removably receive the one or more configurable insulator segments, wherein the first surface is configured to receive various configurable insulator segments comprising different longitudinal lengths;
- wherein each of the one or more configurable insulator segments covers only a portion of the first surface.
A heat sealing apparatus comprising:
- a first configurable heat sealing surface comprising one or more heating zones each defined by one or more configurable insulator segments and one or more configurable conductor segments, wherein each of the one or more configurable insulator segments covers only a portion of the configurable heat sealing surface;
- wherein the first configurable heat sealing surface comprises a first surface that defines a longitudinal axis and that is configured to removably receive various configurable insulator segments comprising different longitudinal lengths of the one or more configurable insulator segments;
- wherein the various configurable insulator segments comprising different longitudinal lengths each cover only a portion of the first surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.