Joseph E Terminella

US Patent:

6553744, Apr 29, 2003

Filed:

Aug 21, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/643196

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR

Assignee:

Pacmac, Inc. - Fayetteville AR

International Classification:

B65B 920

US Classification:

53551, 53552

Abstract:

A packaging machine for making a variety of types and styles of bags and seals, durable, substantially air-tight bags at high speed, different size and make of bags, and different amounts and types of product in the bags. The machine includes a film drive and pinch roll pair, a pair of film pull belts, and a pair of zipper drive rollers for pulling plastic film and zipper strip through the machine. The machine is convertible from one for producing reclosable edge fin seal bags to another for producing nonreclosable midline seal pillow type bags. Conversion from one to another is facilitated by having the pinch seal assembly mounted so that it can be pulled out of the machine, indexed 90Â, and pushed back into the machine. The film pull belts are part of a self-contained pull belt unit which can be adjusted or removed from the machine, inverted and placed back into the machine. Different formers, fill tubes, and/or vertical sealing units are used to produce different types and styles of bags.

US Patent:

6691491, Feb 17, 2004

Filed:

Aug 17, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/932315

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR

Assignee:

Pacmac, Inc. - Fayetteville AR

International Classification:

B65B 906

US Classification:

531334, 531392, 53551

Abstract:

A packaging machine for making substantially air-tight bags at high speed. The machine includes a film drive and pinch roll pair, a pair of film pull belts, and a pair of zipper drive rollers for pulling plastic film and zippered strip through the machine. The machine can produce recloseable bags with zipperlocks by including zippered strips and a zipperlock applicator and feed and apparatus selectively releasing the tension from the zippered drive rollers.

US Patent:

7410176, Aug 12, 2008

Filed:

Aug 19, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/208397

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US

Assignee:

Pacmac, Inc. - Fayetteville AR

International Classification:

B23B 31/00

US Classification:

279158, 279 83, 242570

Abstract:

There is disclosed chuck configurations for internally engaging the hollow core element of a roll of packaging or printing sheet or other web material in which a generally cylindrical chuck body insertable in a web core has at least one hole through the chuck body at an acute angle with the tangent to the chuck body at the outer entrance point of the hole and at an acute angle with the plane perpendicular to the chuck cylindrical axis. At least one elongated element is configured to engage rotatably in each of the holes and having on a distal end thereof one or more pointed or toothed extensions for engagement with the interior of a hollow web whereby chuck engagement with a hollow core may be made by manipulating such elongated elements to extend outside the periphery of said chuck body. The chuck may also be provided with means for securing it on a spindle or shaft for rotation therewith which is separate and independent of the holes and elongated elements for engaging the hollow core.

US Patent:

7516594, Apr 14, 2009

Filed:

Oct 21, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/255786

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US

International Classification:

B65B 31/02

US Classification:

53 86, 53512

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for vacuum sealing a food item package. Compressed air forces air out of a food item package such that there is substantially no air within the package after it is sealed.

US Patent:

7568326, Aug 4, 2009

Filed:

Jan 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/651331

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR, US

International Classification:

B65B 31/02

US Classification:

53432, 53512, 53 86

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for vacuum sealing a food item package. Compressed air forces air out of a food item package such that there is substantially no air within the package after it is sealed.

US Patent:

55050379, Apr 9, 1996

Filed:

Dec 14, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/355933

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR

Assignee:

Pacmac, Inc. - Fayetteville AR

International Classification:

B65B 920

US Classification:

531334

Abstract:

A vertical form, fill and seal machine is disclosed which makes recloseable bags having a safety seal exterior to a recloseable seal and also produces durable, substantially air-tight bags at high speed and provides for the production of different size bags and different amounts of product in the bags. The disclosed machine includes a drive and pinch roll pair for pulling plastic film off of a plastic film supply roll, a pair of film pull belts biased against the plastic film wrapped around the fill tube and driven to pull the plastic film down along the side of the fill tube, and a pair of drive rollers for pulling the zipper strip through the machine. The production of different size bags is facilitated by having the plastic film drive roll, endless film pull belts, and zipper strip drive rollers all driven by a common drive source which is operated in bag length increments. Also, to accommodate the production of different size bags, a vertically adjustable ejector paddlewheel is located at the base of the machine. Further, the vertical form, fill and seal machine of the present invention insures reliable seals along the edges of each product-filled bag by having the zipper drive rollers elongate or stretch the bag material prior to cross-sealing the bag material.

US Patent:

51671077, Dec 1, 1992

Filed:

Nov 25, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/797224

Inventors:

Emanuele Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Frank Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Joseph Terminella - Fayetteville AR
William Stroud - Farmington AR
Joe M. Maynard - Farmington AR

Assignee:

Pacmac, Inc. - Fayetteville AR

International Classification:

B65B 5130
B65B 5114
B65B 920

US Classification:

53551

Abstract:

There is disclosed a pinch sealer drive mechanism for a form fill and seal machine, or the like, wherein a bi-directional rotary actuator is employed to rotate a crank with two oppositely disposed levers, each of which is linked to a slide. Thus, there are two substantially identical symmetrically disposed linkages consisting of a lever, a link and a slide, whereby the slide is caused to have a relatively low velocity at the extremes of its motion, thereby producing a smooth vibration free operating mechanism to which the heat seal bars or other pinch sealing apparatus may be attached. A preferred embodiment of the apparatus has a duplicate of the above described crank, lever, and link mechanism for the distant end of the slide, and the second mechanism is driven from and synchronized with the first by an endless belt drive to one of two sprockets fixed on a rotatable shaft and then from the second sprocket on such shaft to a sprocket connected to rotate the crank of the second mechanism. The actuator for the mechanism is preferably an independently operated pneumatic bi-directional rotary actuator.

US Patent:

47304413, Mar 15, 1988

Filed:

May 8, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/860950

Inventors:

Joseph E. Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Frank J. Terminella - Fayetteville AR
Emanuele J. Terminella - Fayetteville AR

Assignee:

Pacmac, Incorporated - Fayetteville AR

International Classification:

B65B 1118

US Classification:

53556

Abstract:

There is disclosed an improved form of folding arms in a tray packaging wrapping machine that elevates a tray of meat or other product causing it to be wrapped on top and sides by a sheet of stretchable PVC film after which arms fold the edges of the film underneath the tray; wherein the improved folding arms move with nonrotational motion from opposing edges of the tray toward the center of the tray. Said arms have a film-engaging edge portion with a length substantially less than the width of the film sheet being folded, this edge portion being defined by an indentation in the outline of the arm at each end of the edge portion; the depth of the indentations are about 10% to about 50% of the length of the film-engaging edge portion and the transition between the film-engaging edge portion and the indentations is curved with a radius of curvature of about one-half inch. Preferably the linear motion of the opposing folding arms in opposite directions is effected by a rack and pinion mechanism with a rack associated with each arm engaging an opposing side of a fixed, freely-rotatable pinion. The conventional cam operating mechanism for the machine operates through a linkage to move one or the other of the racks and its associated arm.