Patent ID: 6199349
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: B29L,B31D,B65B

Abstract:
A process of forming dunnage comprising:a) feeding a chain of interconnected plastic pouches along a path of travel to an inflation station; wherein an external surfaces of the plastic pouches have greater slip resistance than inner surfaces of the pouches;b) sequentially opening each of a plurality of pouches as each such pouch is at the inflation station by directing a flow of air through a small fill opening substantially transversely centered in a face of each pouch, the width of the fill opening being no more than 25 percent of the width of the pouch, the opening step being performed as to each pouch as it is positioned in the inflation station, thereby separating the face from a back of each such pouch;c) directing a further flow of air through each such fill opening of each opened pouch to substantially completely inflate each opened pouch; and,d) sealing each such inflated pouch to close each such fill opening and thereby create hermetically closed and inflated dunnage units.