Abstract: With the view to obviating or mitigating the disadvantages that in processes for the production of containers, for example, product-filled containers, in which processes a substantial proportion of scrap is produced and that the space occupied by a purality of the containers prior to the product-filling thereof is considerable even if the containers are disposed in stacked relationship, there is provided a process for manufacturing a rimmed container preparatory to the filling and closing thereof from a one piece homogeneous blank, composed entirely of heat formable material containing just the requisite amount of material for forming the rimmed container to be filled, filling rim and an apparatus for performing the process, wherein the process includes the steps of uniformly heating a substantially rigid planar preshaped homogeneous blank of thermo plastic material, out to at least immediately adjacent the portion thereof adapted to form the container rim to a formable state while leaving the outermost perip

Abstract: Automatic cartonning apparatus comprising a conveyor which is advanced at intermittent intervals a predetermined distance, the apparatus being provided with means operable following conveyor advance to withdraw a single carton blank from a stack of carton blanks and open same up to a set up condition ready to receive a plurality of articles on the conveyor at a first position, the carton in said set up condition having a closed bottom and open top end and side flaps, the apparatus further being provided with means for guiding articles into a set up carton at a second carton loading position displaced along the conveyor path a whole multiple of said predetermined distance from said first position, means operable following conveyor advance for closing the carton end flaps at a third carton flap closing position displaced along the conveyor path a whole multiple of said predetermined distance from said second loading position, means for closing the carton side flaps subsequently to the closing of the end flaps a

Abstract: With the view to obviating or mitigating the disadvantages that in processes for the production of containers, for example, product-filled containers, in which processes a substantial proportion of scrap is produced and that the space occupied by a plurality of the containers prior to the product-filling thereof is considerable even if the containers are disposed in stacked relationship, there is provided a process for manufacturing a rimmed container preparatory to the filling and closing thereof from a one piece homogeneous blank, composed entirely of heat formable material containing just the requisite amount of material for forming the rimmed container to be filled, filling rim and an apparatus for performing the process, wherein the process includes the steps of uniformly heating a substantially rigid planar preshaped homogeneous blank of thermo plastic material, out to at least immediately adjacent the portion thereof adapted to form the container rim to a formable state while leaving the outermost peri