Abstract: A pressure pad is provided for bottom sealing of a gable carton. The pressure pad cooperates with a mandrel which is urged into an opened-top gable carton for sealing the carton bottom. The pressure pad is provided with a sealing bar matrix which is disposed thereon to register with at least selected raw edges of paperboard material on the carton bottom. Each sealing bar functions to compress the fibrous paperboard material from which the carton is formed to render the raw edges less likely to absorb liquids that may be wicked from the raw edges to other locations in the carton. The carton formed by the pressure pad is characterized by reduced thickness raw edges adjacent the bottom.

Abstract: In a method and a multiple-spindle automatic lathe for machining both sides of workpieces, in order to increase the number of spindle positions available for machining the workpieces, it is suggested that the spindle drum be indexed in single steps, that the feeding of raw workpieces, the removal of finished workpieces and the changeover of half-finished workpieces be carried out in a single spindle position of the spindle drum and that the feeding of raw workpieces and the removal of finished workpieces occur alternately after each drum indexing.