Package making – With means responsive to a sensed condition – Of package and filled receptacle closing or opening
Patent
1979-06-06
1981-04-21
McGehee, Travis S.
Package making
With means responsive to a sensed condition
Of package and filled receptacle closing or opening
53 77, 53137, 53374, B65B 5700, B65B 720
Patent
active
042624690
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for closing boxes comprising a conveyor for bringing a box in centralized position between two vertically arranged transport belts which can be moved toward each other to engage the side walls of the box the four top flaps of which are open, whereafter the said transport belts move the box to a bridge the height of which is adjustable and which is provided with a sensing member, which on the engagement thereof with the fore wall of the box when the bridge is in its lowest position operates means to cause raising of the said bridge until the said sensing member comes into engagement with the fore wall flap of the box, which flap is closed by further movement of the box, the bridge being provided with a pivotably mounted arm carrying a rotatable wing for closing the rear flap of the box, with fixed arms for raising the side flaps and with pivotable arms carrying closing members which can be moved downwardly at an oblique angle toward the center of the upper surface of the box for closing the side flaps.
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Ooms Hans
Smidt Joseph J. M.
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