Method for forming packages
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsShawn Christopher Pallotta, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Gavin John Broad, Adal Amine Tecleab, Cullen Joseph Breithaupt
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for formation, filling, and sealing unit dose packages for consumer products are described herein. A filling system with a filling control system is also disclosed. Although the filling system is described in conjunction with a method for forming, filling, and sealing unit dose packages, the filling system and filling control system can be used in other dispensing processes.
Claims26
A process for making a package containing a consumer product comprising the steps of:
- a) placing a first web of material having an original un-deflected configuration adjacent to an element having a cavity therein, and moving said first web of material over the element having the cavity therein;
- wherein the cavity is in the form of a continuous trough in the direction the web is moved;
- b) temporarily deflecting a portion of the first web of material downward into the cavity to form a deflected portion of said first web of material, wherein said deflected portion of said first web of material is substantially free of plastic deformation;
- c) depositing a product onto the first web of material;
- d) placing a second web of material over the first web of material and the product;
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- e) at least partially closing and sealing the first web of material having the deflected portion therein to said second web of material along one or more sealing lines.
A process for making a package containing a consumer product comprising the steps of:
- a) placing a first web of material having an original un-deflected configuration adjacent to an element having a cavity therein, and moving said first web of material over the element having the cavity therein;
- wherein the cavity is in the form of a continuous trough in the direction the web is moved and wherein the cavity comprises side walls formed by two stationary side rails and a bottom surface formed by the top surface of a moving belt;
- b) temporarily deflecting a portion of the first web of material downward into the cavity to form a deflected portion of said first web of material, wherein said deflected portion of said first web of material is substantially free of plastic deformation;
- c) depositing a product onto the first web of material;
- d) placing a second web of material over the first web of material and the product;
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- e) at least partially closing and sealing the first web of material having the deflected portion therein to said second web of material along one or more sealing lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.