A method and apparatus for automatically opening a seed packet and dispensing the contents of the same for planting is disclosed.

A sealing element for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages comprises a heating element arranged to heat-seal the packaging material so as to form the sealed packages and a groove arranged to be engaged by a cutting element carried by a counter-sealing element interacting with the sealing element during a cutting operation in which a sealed package is separated from a portion of the packaging material, wherein the sealing element further comprises a resilient element received within the groove so as to prevent clogging particles from entering into the groove.

The invention relates to a device (100) for testing a connection of a guarantee strip (3.1) of a security seal of a closure lid (1.1) having a lid main body (2.1), which device comprises a driver element (180) for gripping the guarantee strip (3.1) and a stop element (780) for the lid main body (2.1). The driver element (180) and the stop element (170) are movable relative to each other such that a tear-off force can be exerted on the guarantee strip (3.1). The device (100) also comprises a force-measuring device (171), for measuring the tear-off force during the relative movement of the guarantee strip (3.1) and the lid main body (2.1), and a separating device (191, 192) for severing the guarantee strip (3.1) after it has been tom off from the lid main body (2.1). This allows the guarantee strip (3.1) to be severed and thereby results in a considerable simplification of the removal of the guarantee strip (3.1) from the testing device, in particular if the testing device is designed such that the tom-off guarantee strips (3.1) are slid onto the stop element (170). The device (100) can be operated in a fully automatic manner and can be integrated in a system for producing closure lids having guarantee strips.

A cutting head for cutting a film wrapping from palletized stacks of products, having a cutting element for cutting through the film, where the cutting element is disposed between at least two opposing contact elements and is set back with respect to the film contact plane formed by the opposing contact elements in order to form a cutting recess, and having a vacuum unit to suck the region of the film wrapping to be cut locally into the cutting recess for interaction with the cutting element. A device having a corresponding cutting head further includes a pallet place for the arrangement of the pallet correspondingly wrapped with film, where the cutting head is disposed on a support arm that is configured to travel such that the cutting head remains in contact with the film via the two opposing contact elements during cutting.

A system for preparing recipes with components coming from closed containers (S1-S5) provides for using one or more robotic units (1), each of which withdraws a selected container, arranging a plurality of hoppers (7.1-7.5), in each of which the withdrawn selected container is inserted by the robotic unit (1), and in each of which the container is automatically opened for loading the component into the hopper (7), discharging a preset component dose from each hopper (7), and collecting the dosed components for preparing the required recipe; a driving and control unit (15) provides for driving and controlling all of these operations as a function of the required recipe. Thereby, an automatic system for preparing recipes is achieved, which is fast, with a low processing cost, and free from risks related to the processing.

A package opening knife has a body part, a blade part, a gripping part that extends in an elongated shape in a prescribed first direction, and a guide part provided with a guide surface that slides in a surface direction of the package in a state of contacting the package to guide movement of the blade part. When a surface direction of the guide is defined as a second direction, the first direction and the second direction become substantially parallel to each other.

An unpacking system having a folding-out device for folding outwards an initially folded-in packaging portion of an item of packaging for an object, and having a stretching device for stretching an item of packaging for an object. The item of packaging herein is in particular a pouch, and the object is in particular a pharmaceutical or cosmetic object. The unpacking system furthermore has a transportation installation for transporting the object in a transportation direction. The packaging portion in the stretching device is stretched parallel with the transportation direction. A filling system is disclosed having such an unpacking system, and methods are disclosed for folding outwards, for stretching, and for unpacking.

A system includes a cutting sub-system arranged for cutting a box into a first half and a second half and including at least one pair of cutting elements, a dunnage gripper sub-system arranged downstream of the cutting sub-system and including a dunnage gripper configured to selectively grip and release a portion of the box, and a robotic system including at least a first robotic arm and a second robotic arm. The first robotic arm includes a plurality of grippers configured to selectively grip and release items contained in the box. The second robotic arm includes a plurality of grippers configured to selectively position the items into a tote positioned at a second predetermined location.

A computerized dispensary management system and method enhances dispensary product management and are supported by a blister pack separation apparatus. The system and method operate according to a computer-implementable application and at least one computer. A scanner system further cooperates with the application and computer for scan-inputting product- and person-identifying machine-readable code information to the application for processing. The person-identifying code is scannable to identify a person and a product regimen for the person. The application provides a series of sequential screenshots based upon basic filler and dispenser screenshots for filler and dispenser side product management, guiding the user through a regimen-filling and administration. The processes are characterized by screenshot re-arrangements occurring thereto as each successive code is scanned. The blister pack separation apparatus operates to simultaneously sever individual blister pack units therefrom, which units are then outfitted with machine-readable code and thus made scannable by the system.

A device for inserting an aperture in a film wrapping of a goods stack arranged on a pallet, where the film wrapping is a film hood drawn over the goods stack or as a film sleeve surrounding the goods stack is disclosed.

A piercing element has a rotatably attached actuation arm. The piercing element exhibits first and second part-regions. The first part-region is mounted rotatably on the actuation arm and the second part-region includes the piercing region. The second part-region is pivotable relative to the first part-region from an original position against a restoring force. A corresponding system and a method for inserting an aperture in a part-region of a film wrapping of a goods stack arranged on a pallet is disclosed, where the film wrapping is configured as a film hood drawn over the goods stack or as a film sleeve surrounding the goods stack.