A spacing support (11) and a spacing kit (10) for packets (100) of smoking articles configured to support in an orderly manner a plurality of packets arranged on two adjacent rows. The spacing support (11) comprises two containing drawers (12) arranged adjacent to each other and each defining a respective housing (13) for a corresponding row of packets, which extends in a longitudinal direction (X), and an access aperture (17) through which the packets (100) can be introduced and extracted from the housing (13). Each containing drawer (12) comprises a bottom wall (14) from which a pair of side walls (15) extends, each of these walls (14, 15) being configured to come into contact with a respective wall (101, 102) of the packet (100), wherein at least one of the side walls (15) comprises a plurality of positioning elements (18) projecting toward the inside of said housing (13), made as pre-cut fins (19) integrated into the side wall (15), and configured to delimit positioning compartments (26), in which each of said packets (100) is stably arranged and held in a static manner, in said longitudinal direction (X), with respect to said housing (13).

I disclose a packaging article, comprising a wall having an outer surface configured to be visible to consumers and an inner surface configured to secure a product; wherein the wall comprises one or more regions configured to be extracted from the wall, wherein all borders of the region or regions are identified on the inner surface and the region or regions are configured to form an article or articles other than the packaging article. I also disclose methods of forming the packaging article.

I disclose a packaging article, comprising a wall having an outer surface configured to be visible to consumers and an inner surface configured to secure a product; wherein the wall comprises one or more regions configured to be extracted from the wall, wherein all borders of the region or regions are identified on the inner surface and the region or regions are configured to form an article or articles other than the packaging article. I also disclose methods of forming the packaging article.

Disclosed herein are nutritional substance labels that communicate in a format allowing retrieval of adaptive conditioning instructions unique to an individual nutritional product at the time of conditioning and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer.

Disclosed herein are nutritional substance labels that communicate in a format allowing retrieval of adaptive conditioning instructions unique to an individual nutritional product at the time of conditioning and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer.

A tag printer apparatus for printing, severing and feeding non-curled labels to sewing machines. The tag printer apparatus includes a base; a control assembly including a central processing unit mounted to the base and adapted to be energized by a power source, and also including a monitor in communication with the central processing unit; a dispensing assembly mounted upon the base for dispensing print material; a support assembly mounted upon the base and including a support member; a printer assembly slidably mounted upon the support member and in operable communication with the central processing unit; and a tag feeder assembly connected to the support member and in communication with the central processing unit.

A food processing system is disclosed. The food processing system includes a food scaling portion, a food bagging portion and a chute portion connecting the food scaling portion to the food bagging portion. The food processing system also includes a foreign object sensor arranged about the chute portion. The foreign object sensor and the chute portion cooperatively form a foreign object sensing zone within a passage formed by the chute portion that extends along a portion of a length of the chute portion. The food processing system also includes at least one sensor testing conduit extending through one or both of the food scaling portion and the chute portion. An exit opening of the at least one sensor testing conduit is arranged in an opposing relationship with respect to the foreign object sensing zone. A foreign object sensor apparatus for detecting non-foodstuff material is also disclosed. A method is also disclosed.

A food processing system is disclosed. The food processing system includes a food scaling portion, a food bagging portion and a chute portion connecting the food scaling portion to the food bagging portion. The food processing system also includes a foreign object sensor arranged about the chute portion. The foreign object sensor and the chute portion cooperatively form a foreign object sensing zone within a passage formed by the chute portion that extends along a portion of a length of the chute portion. The food processing system also includes at least one sensor testing conduit extending through one or both of the food scaling portion and the chute portion. An exit opening of the at least one sensor testing conduit is arranged in an opposing relationship with respect to the foreign object sensing zone. A foreign object sensor apparatus for detecting non-foodstuff material is also disclosed. A method is also disclosed.

A packaging machine includes an imager that images a packaging pack punched by a punching device, and a control device. The control device includes a position shift amount calculator that calculates, on the basis of a packaging pack image of the packaging pack captured by the imager, a punching position shift amount of a punching position of a pack film, a punching position correction amount calculator that calculates, from the punching position shift amount, a punching position correction amount with respect to the punching position of the pack film, a slit position controller that adjusts, on the basis of the punching position correction amount, a rotation angle of a film feeding roller, and a film guide position controller that adjusts, on the basis of the punching position correction amount, the position of a film guide.

Provided is a filling apparatus including: a conveyor line configured to intermittently convey spout-equipped bags, which are suspended so that spouts protruding from one side of the spout-equipped bags, the bags being flat, are located on an upper side and the bags are located on a lower side, in a width direction of the suspended spout-equipped bags on a movement straight line; a printing apparatus disposed in the middle of the conveyor line and configured to print manufacturing information on the suspended spout-equipped bags; and nozzles configured to fill the suspended spout-equipped bags with a liquid material through the spouts. The conveyor line is further configured to convey the spout-equipped bags so that fronts of the spout-equipped bags directly face the printing apparatus.