Package making – Means to open or erect receptacle
Patent
1996-05-09
1997-09-09
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Means to open or erect receptacle
53565, 271 94, 493313, 493316, B65B 4328, B65B 4106
Patent
active
056644000
ABSTRACT:
A feeding and loading mechanism for use in pulling carton side-seam-sealed blanks from a magazine, opening same into tubes, and loading the latter onto mandrels of an indexing turret on a liquid-carrying container forming, filling, and sealing machine. The feeding and loading mechanism includes a slidably mounted carrier having at least one vacuum cup mounted at each end thereof aligned with oppositely disposed magazines, a forming shoe fixedly secured between each magazine and adjacent mandrel for opening each tubular flat side-seam-sealed blank into a tube as the blank moves therepast, a loading finger for loading each tube onto the respective mandrel, and a drive assembly operatively connected to the carrier for reciprocally moving same to alternately remove blanks from the oppositely disposed magazines to alternately process same.
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Drury Timothy H.
Owen Barry C.
Culver Horace M.
Elopak Systems A.G.
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