Package making – Methods – Applying a partial cover
Patent
1987-01-20
1988-07-12
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Methods
Applying a partial cover
53 48, 53443, 53543, B65B 2106, B65B 2105, B65B 2124
Patent
active
047561394
ABSTRACT:
An article grouping technique is embodied in a machine which continuously end-loads groups of bottles into open-ended carton sleeves. The machine includes a fixed base plate 10 along which a line of bottles (B) move, a series of parallel metering bars (12) spaced apart to receive the open-ended carton sleeves which are mounted for movement together along the base plate. Fixed guides defining infeed conveyors (22, 24) are provided along which bottles to be loaded are fed into the machine. Each of the infeed conveyors converges towards the path of movement of the carton sleeves and each metering bar has a free end section which is movable obliquely across the path of movement of the bottles on the respective infeed conveyors so that a predetermined number of bottles are formed into a sub-group on each of the infeed conveyors between adjacent metering bars. An extra infeed conveyor (38) extends alongside the path of movement of the bottles on opposite sides of the base plate along which the bottle groups can move. A bottle loading mechanism (56, 56a) transversely displaces the sub-groups into the open ends of the carton sleeves during movement of the carton sleeves and the bottle sub-groups through the machine.
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Culver Horace M.
Doerr Erwin
The Mead Corporation
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