Method for manufacturing a strip of film packages

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EP 1 449 776 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	03.11.2004 Bulletin 2004/45

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	25.08.2004 Bulletin 2004/35

(21)	Application number: 04250730.1

(22)	Date of filing: 11.02.2004

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: B65B 61/18

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK

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Priority:

19.02.2003 US 369964

(71)	Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
	Glenview, Illinois 60025-5811 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Matthews, David J Gilman, IL 60938 (US)

(74)	Representative: Rackham, Stephen Neil
	GILL JENNINGS & EVERY, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH London EC2M 7LH (GB)

(54)	Method for manufacturing a strip of film packages

(57) Various methods for making package strips (100) having a number of individual packages of a consumer product (63) and separable from one another by perforations are disclosed. The individual packages have reclosable plastic zippers (60), which are applied during the manufacture of the package strips either transversely or lengthwise onto the sheet of polymeric film material (16) from which the packages are fashioned.

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