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Apparatus for making plastic carrier bags

CA 1237009 A · Owner: Windmoller & Holscher · Inventors: Ebmeyer, Wilfried; Mundus, Friedhelm; Achelophl, Fritz

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In an apparatus for making plastics carrier bags from a web of tubular film of thermoplastic material a feeding mecha-, nism intermittently conveys the web by one bag width and a severing mechanism cuts the web into half tubes along an undulating curve. A carriage displaceable in the machine frame transversely to the feeding direction of the web is reciprocated by a drive derived from a first rotating control cam through gearing. A cutting knife pivotable in the carriage about its longitudinal axis passes through the plane of the tube about an axis perpendicular thereto and is so controlled by an oscillating drive derived from a second rotating control cam that its edge is substantially …

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  • Granted May 24, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 24, 2005.
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FiledOctober 4, 1984
GrantedMay 24, 1988
Term endedMay 24, 2005
Patent numberCA 1237009 A
Classification (IPC)B31B70/18 +1 more

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