Maxie J. Fowler
Engineering in North Hodge, LA

5795280, Aug 18, 1998

Mar 20, 1996

8/618927

Maxie Joe Fowler - Hodge LA
William Belmont Osteen - Hodge LA

Stone Container Corporation - Chicago IL

B65H 4300, B31B 102

493 22

An apparatus for facilitating the registration of printed matter during the manufacture of bags on fixed-size bag formation equipment, from a continuous web of a substantially non-stretchable material. Printed matter, printed upon the continuous web at regularly-spaced intervals, includes a plurality of periodically spaced reference markers. While a finishing drum propels the continuous web in a direction of flow emanating from a supply of web material, at a substantially constant speed, feed rollers, positioned upstream from the finishing drum, propel the continuous web at a variable speed, relative to the substantially constant speed. As a cutting roller severs a substantially fixed length of web material from a leading edge of the web, at a substantially fixed position relative to an associated reference marker, downstream from the feed rollers, a programmable controller senses the passage of the reference marker past a predetermined position, and further senses the rotational positioning of the cutting roller, comparing these inputs to determine whether the web is being severed at a proper location. Subject to this sensing, a differential transmission adjusts the speed of the feed rollers, to, in turn, vary the position along the continuous web where the cutting roller severs the web in relation to the associated markers.

5816993, Oct 6, 1998

Jan 22, 1996

8/589775

Maxie Joe Fowler - Hodge LA
William Belmont Osteen - Hodge LA

Stone Container Corporation - Chicago IL

B31B 186, B65D 2528

493226

An apparatus and a method for attaching at least one carrying handle to a bag, such as a shopping bag, grocery bag, or the like. Individual handles are severed from a continuous web of handle material. Bags are conveyed at a predetermined velocity, with a longitudinal axis of each bag substantially perpendicular to the bag's direction of travel. Each carrying handle is transported proximate a front or back surface of an associated bag, and in a direction of travel wherein a longitudinal axis of the carrying handle is substantially parallel to the direction of travel of the bag, and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bag. The handle is transported at a velocity substantially equal to the predetermined velocity of the bag. The handle is applied to the bag when a handle accepting region of the bag contacts an attachment panel portion of the carrying handle.

5860646, Jan 19, 1999

Jun 9, 1997

8/871774

Maxie Joe Fowler - Hodge LA
William Belmont Osteen - Hodge LA

Stone Container Corporation - Chicago IL

B65H 2900

271185

An apparatus for rotating substantially flat articles being transported along a production line is provided. The apparatus is configured so as to rotate the articles, about an axis extending substantially perpendicular to the direction of transport of the articles, through a desired number of degrees of rotation, while permitting the articles to be transported along the production line in a substantially uninterrupted and unimpeded manner.

5857672, Jan 12, 1999

Oct 20, 1995

8/546082

Maxie Joe Fowler - Hodge LA
William Belmont Osteen - Hodge LA

Stone Container Corporation - Chicago IL

B65H 2900

271185

An apparatus for rotating substantially flat articles being transported along a production line is provided. The apparatus is configured so as to rotate the articles, about an axis extending substantially perpendicular to the direction of transport of the articles, through a desired number of degrees of rotation, while permitting the articles to be transported along the production line in a substantially uninterrupted and unimpeded manner.