A commodity dryer for removing or providing moisture and controlling atmosphere which surrounds stored commodities such as grain is provided which reduces the growth of bacteria, fungus and minimizes other deleterious conditions encountered such as in the storage of moist commodities which generally render them unfit for subsequent consumption. The commodity dryer maintains the integrity of stored commodities by creating a controlled atmosphere conducive to the removal or the addition of water b...

A commodity container is provided that includes a cylindrical body that is preferably open substantially the full diameter at the top with an outwardly extending flange and an inner sealing band extending to a height above the top of the flange. On the body sits a removable lid having a cylindrical side wall depending down and terminating with an outwardly extending, wherein the lid is adapted to sit on the open end of the body with the lid flange above the body flange and the sealing band overl...

A method and apparatus for commodity packaging in which commodities are fed to the interior of a tube of flexible packaging material using a hollow feed arrangement, the tube being closed at intervals on discharge from the feed arrangement to produce discrete packages. The tubular packaging material is passed in rope form to the interior of a mandrel incorporating the feed arrangement, the material is passed along the mandrel interior to an upstream end thereof, opened out at the upstream end an...

A partition (10) installable in a container (X) for dividing its interior into a plurality of cells (C1-C12), more or less. The partition includes a first panel (12) having at least one score, crease or fold (14) therein by which the panel can be folded. The first panel may include a pair of panels having contiguous edges about which they pivot with respect to each other, in a manner similar to said folded first panel. The partition also includes second and third panels (20, 22) which are attach...

A method and apparatus for packaging commodities in tubular flexible packaging material in which the packaging material is drawn from a reel over a mandrel structure, the material is continuously axially slit as it passes over the surface of the mandrel, the severed edges of the material are taken in charge and guided around a product opening in the surface of the mandrel, and brought into sealing juxtaposition and sealed together downstream of the mandrel so that the material reverts to a tube ...

The present invention relates to a commodity package, comprising a hanging member that has a hole for hanging, and a holding body for holding an article. The holding body has a first cutting portion for separating a first recess and the upper part of a first brim portion from each other, and a second cutting portion for separating a second recess and the upper part of a second brim portion from each other. The hanging member has a third cutting portion for separating the upper part and the lower...

Apparatus for recovering a commodity e.g. tea, from faulty bags containing the commodity has a conveyor to transport the bags to a cutting station having opposed pairs of slitting wheels and orbiting rollers, between neighboring pairs of slitting wheels, which engage and feed the bags steadily between the slitting wheels so as to be sliced thereby. A screening device is provided to receive the sliced bags from the conveyor and separate the commodity from the bag remnants.

Apparatus for the storage of commodities which includes a plurality of shelves arranged to provide storage positions in the vertical and horizontal direction and a commodity carriage, containing a commodity to be stored, designed to move up and down and left and right along a front face of the shelves. The commodity carriage is positioned at a point facing a predetermined storage location in the shelves and apparatus "pushes-aside" the commodities contained in adjacent storage location so that t...

An anti-theft commodity vendor apparatus for dispensing items from a vending machine which is capable of dispensing soft as well as hard commodity items without damage or misfunction. The vendor apparatus, which converts reciprocating motion to intermittent uni-directional motion, comprises, in combination: a tray; first and second track members disposed in the tray bottom and adapted to engage each other when the first member moves a predetermined distance forward or backward; a movable driving...

A combined weighing scale and label printer for weighing a packaged commodity (15) includes a scale (10), a keyboard (60), a display (70), a controller (40) and a label printer (30). Memory means (170) within the controller contains a commodity name and other relevant product information. The operator may interrogate the memory means by a keyboard entry at any time to obtain a human-readable verification of the commodity name prior to printing a label (80). Since the commodity name may be longer...