Package making – Closing packages and filled receptacles – By means adapted to engage outturned seam of package cover
Patent
1984-11-30
1985-11-12
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Closing packages and filled receptacles
By means adapted to engage outturned seam of package cover
53381R, 198461, B65B 720
Patent
active
045519641
ABSTRACT:
Cardboard packing cases, which have been loaded with bottles or the like, are fed to apparatus for severing the top flap connecting tabs at diagonally opposite corners of the case. These tabs are provided to hold the top flaps of the case in place during loading, but must be severed prior to closing and/or gluing of the top flaps at a succeeding stage in the packing of the product. The apparatus includes an infeed station where the cases are separated, by slowing each case on a flight bar conveyor having its flight spaced less than the length of the case, and then accelerating the case on the infeed conveyor to match the speed of a pocket chain conveyor. The case has its forward end lifted, and opposite corners tilted, on this pocket chain conveyor to spread the top flaps at the two corners of the case without connecting tabs. Guide plates on either side of the pocket chain conveyor serve to guide the case so that fixed knives cut both tabs without necessity for turning the case through 90 degrees. The front tab is cut by dropping the front end of the case downwardly as it returns to a horizontal position on the pocket chain conveyor. Front and rear top flap tuckers follow an upwardly inclined path to cam the front and rear top flaps away from the continuously moving case, and a rotating flap closing wheel moves these front and rear top flaps inwardly onto the top of the case so that the side flaps can be subsequently plowed into place.
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Culver Horace M.
Standard-Knapp, Inc.
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