Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus

Details Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus

1997-12-01

2001-01-30

Hess, Douglas (Department: 3652)

Material or article handling

Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...

Stack forming apparatus

C414S792200, C414S788600, C414S790000, C414S788300, C414S790600

Reexamination Certificate

active

06179548

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to apparatus for stacking flat folded cartons or container boxes of non-uniform thickness and automatically packing those stacked cartons into a shipping container.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is known in the prior art to stack folded cartons having ends of non-uniform thickness. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,264,255 to Saro et al. teaches a device for stacking folded boxes wherein each box has unequal thicknesses at its end portions. The '255 patent, however, does not disclose apparatus for automatically accumulating a plurality of stacks of folded cartons and inserting those accumulated stacks into a shipping container.
Accordingly, there is a need for an apparatus for stacking folded cartons having ends of non-uniform thickness, accumulating those stacks, and automatically packing the stacked cartons into a shipping container.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This need is met by the present invention, wherein apparatus is disclosed for receiving folded cartons of non-uniform thickness from, for example, a conventional gluing device, stacking those cartons into stacks of a predefined number, rotating successive stacks 180° from each other in order to compensate for the uneven or non-uniform thickness of each folded carton, dropping two or more stacks of the folded cartons from a rotatable hopper into a slug building area and then, once a slug of a desired size is built, tilting the slug until the plane of each folded carton is vertically oriented (i.e., the slug lies horizontally) and then automatically loading the slug into a shipping box.


REFERENCES:
patent: 1287088 (1918-12-01), Paridon
patent: 3820302 (1974-06-01), Doran et al.
patent: 3895566 (1975-07-01), Anikanov et al.
patent: 3970202 (1976-07-01), Speggiorin et al.
patent: 4068567 (1978-01-01), Allison et al.
patent: 4103785 (1978-08-01), Wiseman
patent: 4124128 (1978-11-01), Adams et al.
patent: 4183704 (1980-01-01), Steinhart
patent: 4264255 (1981-04-01), Saro et al.
patent: 4307800 (1981-12-01), Joa
patent: 4384813 (1983-05-01), Smith et al.
patent: 4547112 (1985-10-01), Steinhart
patent: 4657465 (1987-04-01), Aoki
patent: 4784558 (1988-11-01), Toriyama
patent: 4838747 (1989-06-01), Morisod
patent: 4870807 (1989-10-01), Palamides
patent: 5078260 (1992-01-01), Bensberg et al.
patent: 5081818 (1992-01-01), Poloni
patent: 5174089 (1992-12-01), Poloni
patent: 5291720 (1994-03-01), Lashyro et al.
patent: 5353576 (1994-10-01), Palamides et al.
patent: 5387077 (1995-02-01), Yatsuka et al.
patent: 5426921 (1995-06-01), Beckman
patent: 5588281 (1996-12-01), Boriani et al.
patent: 5765337 (1998-06-01), Lodewegen et al.
patent: 5842327 (1998-12-01), Schwede
patent: 4217178-A1 (1993-11-01), None
patent: WO 92/12053 (1992-07-01), None
Drawing D 9400000 considered the date of this as Dec. 1, 1997.
Drawing 94000002 considered the date of this as Dec. 1, 1997.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2550486