Abstract: Container erection apparatus is provided which automatically erects a blank of cardboard or the like to form a container which can be changed from a transit state to a display state, even when containing its intended contents, by folding two parts of the container about a crease, the folding crease in a surface (the folding surface) thereof which is planar while the container is in the transit state so that the parts of said surface on either side of the crease come together. The apparatus erects the blank in such a manner that it leaves the apparatus in the display state, entirely ready for filling in a later piece of apparatus or manually. To this end, the apparatus is arranged to cause the said parts of the folding surface to pivot towards one another about the folding crease in such a manner that the crease moves upwardly and that end surface portions of the blank move inwardly towards one another and remain substantially horizontal during such movement.

Abstract: A forming-die-less packaging machine makes packages, consisting of an array of articles in a carton, preferably one of tray-like form, by receiving a carton blank and, upon it, the requisite array of articles upon a platform forming a first positioning arrangement in the machine; this platform then descends past an opposed pair of adjustable but stationary members which erect wall portions of the carton on two opposed sides, one or both of the opposed members then moving to move the partly-formed package to a second positioning arrangement where another opposed pair of walls are erected.