Abstract: In a carton erecting, loading and sealing machine for packaging a plurality of articles in a sleeve type carton, the gluing and sealing station of the machine is provided with a pair of upper folding plates and a pair of lower folding plates on either side of the carton conveyor for folding the upper and lower end panels of the cartons against the dust flaps of the cartons after glue has been applied to seal the cartons. Each folding plate is mounted through rotatable mountings to a pair of cranks which move the folding plates downstream as the plates fold and seal the end panels to the dust flaps.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 1985
Date of Patent:
June 3, 1986
Assignees:
Johns-Manville Corporation, Southern Tool Company, Inc.
Inventors:
Earle C. Sherman, James B. P. Green, Jr.
Abstract: A machine for segregating and packaging a plurality of articles in a wrap-around carton first separates a selected number of articles from those on an infeed conveyor, brings the selected articles together with an opened carton blank, and wraps and secures the carton blank about the articles.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 5, 1983
Date of Patent:
February 25, 1986
Assignee:
Southern Tool Company
Inventors:
Michael S. Meuwly, James A. Roberts, James F. Gilbert, Daniel V. Clavert, James B. P. Green, Jr.
Abstract: In a machine for erecting tray cartons about one or more articles such as pairs of twelve pack beverage cartons, an end panel folding and sealing assembly is provided with folding plates that move with the tray carton in the downstream direction as the plates fold and hold the tray end panels against the tray end flaps while the glue sets to adhesively bond the end panels and flaps together.
Abstract: In a carton erecting, loading and sealing machine for packaging a plurality of articles in a sleeve type carton, the gluing and sealing station of the machine is provided with a pair of upper folding plates and a pair of lower folding plates on either side of the carton conveyor for folding the upper and lower end panels of the cartons against the dust flaps of the cartons after glue has been applied to seal the cartons. Each folding plate is mounted through rotatable mountings to a pair of cranks which move the folding plates downstream as the plates fold and seal the end panels to the dust flaps.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 1983
Date of Patent:
May 28, 1985
Assignees:
Johns-Manville Corporation, Southern Tool Company, Inc.
Inventors:
Earle C. Sherman, James B. P. Green, Jr.