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 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 and the substrate is disposed on a roll.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.