Package making – Multiple bottle or can carrier type package – Wrap
Patent
1977-06-13
1978-07-18
McGehee, Travis S.
Package making
Multiple bottle or can carrier type package
Wrap
53 49, B65B 2124
Patent
active
041007158
ABSTRACT:
A machine is disclosed for packaging a group of beverage bottles, or similar articles, in a wrap-around type blank of foldable sheet material which machine is characterized by a traveling conveyor onto which successive cut and scored blanks are fed and advanced through successive work areas where there are mechanisms for partially folding handle and wall forming panels into which the blanks are divided, which mechanisms include continuously traveling pairs of forming die members which are arranged to move into mating relation against opposite faces of successive blanks so as to fold certain of the panels while the blanks are advanced to a transporting conveyor which carries the partially folded blanks to an assembly area and deposits them on a group of bottles advancing on a bottle conveyor traveling beneath the blank transporting conveyor, mechanism at the assembly area which is operative to seat the partially folded blanks in telescoping relation on the bottles with the handle panels depending between pairs of the bottles and mechanism to hold the blanks in properly seated position on the groups of bottles while they are advanced through a further work area where mechanism is provided for folding end panels of the blanks into wall forming position beneath the bottles and fastening the same together.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3085377 (1963-04-01), Ganz
patent: 3940907 (1976-03-01), Ganz
Federal Paper Board Co., Inc.
Greenawalt Guy A.
McGehee Travis S.
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