Package making – With contents treating – Reshaping
Patent
1974-08-29
1976-06-29
McGehee, Travis S.
Package making
With contents treating
Reshaping
53118, 53215, 223 37, 270 78, B65B 6304
Patent
active
039656470
ABSTRACT:
A packaged man's brief, or similar article, comprising a brief folded and rolled into a substantially cylindrical configuration, and a bag enclosing the folded and rolled brief. A method and apparatus for packaging a brief, comprising making transverse and spaced, parallel longitudinal folds in the brief around a card, then rolling the brief into a substantially cylindrical configuration with the waistband of the brief at one end, and finally inserting the folded and rolled brief into a bag with the waistband end first. A folding unit for a brief comprising pivotable and swingable folding blades for folding opposite longitudinal edges of the brief laterally inwardly toward each other in sequence along longitudinal fold lines, one longitudinal edge portion being folded inwardly, and the other then being folded inwardly under the first. Pivotable and swingable rods carrying the respective folding blades and having longitudinal spring clips bearing thereagainst, the brief being insertable between such spring clips and the rods. A Ferris-wheel-like structure having circumferentially spaced, radially extending folding units of the foregoing nature each movable through a card receiving station to receive a card around which a brief may be folded, a brief receiving station, a brief folding zone in which a transverse fold is made, a second brief folding zone wherein longitudinal folds are made in the brief, and a folded brief discharge or extraction station. Rolling means adjacent the extraction station for rolling the transversely and longitudinally folded brief substantially into a cylinder, and for extracting it from the corresponding folding unit. An apparatus for rolling a folded brief into a substantially cylindrical configuration, comprising: two laterally spaced, substantially parallel shafts which are rotatable and which are movable laterally toward and away from each other; a flexible web extending between the shafts and having lateral edges respectively secured to the shafts, the web being adapted to receive thereon an article to be rolled; means for rotating the shafts in opposite directions, with the article on the web, so as to wind the lateral edge portions of the web on the shafts; means for simultaneously moving the shafts toward each other; and whereby the article is rolled into the desired substantially cylindrical configuration by the web as the lateral edge portions are wound onto the shafts and as the shafts are moved toward each other.
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McGehee Travis S.
Team Industries
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