Abstract: A method of forming a carton from a blank. The method comprises obtaining a blank. The blank comprising a first top panel comprising a first handle portion, a handle feature located adjacent to the first handle portion, and a reinforcing handle portion located adjacent to the first handle portion, a first side panel, a bottom panel, a second side panel foldably connected to the second top panel, and a second top panel comprising a second handle portion. The method comprises folding the reinforcing handle portion of the first top panel about the first fold line, adhering the reinforcing handle portion to the first handle portion, folding the blank so that the second top panel overlaps the first top panel, and adhering the second top panel to the first top panel.

Abstract: A lead coupling device adapted for coupling to a lead and methods for using the coupling devices are provided. The coupling device includes a housing assembly having a proximal opening and a distal opening. The coupling device also has a lead receiving channel that is disposed between the two openings to receive a lead therethrough. Various electronics components may also included in the coupling device that enable operations such as sensing, delivery of electrical energy and wireless communication between the coupling device and an external device.

Abstract: A device for making it possible to apply to a pack, moved along a conveyor, a handle (n) of nominal length L situated at the end of a tape. The tape includes a succession of handles (n+i), each handle comprising two adhesive ends and a central part. The device includes a feeder to move the tape as far as a rotary application arm having a length which is equal to the nominal length L. This arm is able to deposit one adhesive end of the handle n on one face of the pack and then the second end of the handle n on a second face of the pack. The device further includes an optical cell for detecting an offset in the position of a handle n+i, an actuator for elongating the length of the rotary arm beyond the nominal length L, making it possible during a rotation of this arm to draw a portion of tape having a length greater than the nominal length, and a control unit.

Abstract: Device and method for mounting ends of a handle into slits of a package. The device includes guide rails which guide and orient the ends of the handle from a first position to a second position, wherein, in the second position, the ends of the handle are oriented in a direction that is perpendicular to the slits of the package. The method includes moving the handle towards the guide rails, guiding the handle with the guide rails until the handle assumes the second position, and inserting the ends of the handle into the slits of the package. This abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: A tote box is comprised of a box structure having a bottom and upstanding side walls, each of the side walls having upper edges which form a top edge of the box structure. A top rail extends around the top edge of the box structure, the top rail having an open channel formed between a pair of channel walls, with the channel positioned over the top edge. An aperture is formed in at least one of said side walls of the box structure. A handle is positioned to engage the aperture in the side wall to form a handle for the box structure. The handle includes a flange extending along the side wall proximate the top edge, and a portion of the flange is positioned within the open channel of the top rail. A protruding structure extends from the flange and is configured to engage the top rail and secure the handle in the top rail and box structure.

Abstract: A folding carton is described that includes a hang tab that is slidable between a first position in which the hang tab is tucked behind a first carton panel, and a second position in which the hang tab extends out of the carton for hanging the carton on a display. The carton further includes a hang tab restraint for preventing the hang tab from being pulled entirely out of the carton. The hang tab is initially held in its first position by breakaway nicks that attach the hang tab to the carton. According to further aspects of the invention, the hang tab restraint comprises a yoke flap folded over the hang tab or, alternatively, a tongue member that fits into a central slot of the hang tab.

Abstract: A parallelepiped cardboard package for a group of containers with a precut lateral handle integrated into one of the end surfaces of the package. The cardboard package is either pre-glued or wrapped around the contents formed from a flat sheet. The package consists of a base (2), lateral walls (4, 5), two end surfaces (6, 7) consisting of at least two panels folded over each other, and an upper surface (3) providing access to the bottles. The package comprises a handle that is integrated within the package body for grasping and carrying the package. The handle is lateral and integrated within one of the end surfaces. The handle is formed by the central portion of one of the closing panels of the end surface. The handle extremities consist of extensions of the adjacent lateral surfaces (4, 5) of the package body.

Abstract: An improved horizontally-oriented machine capable of forming a trays or other similar fiberboard containers from single blanks. The improved machine includes three distinct sections: (1) a loading bay which includes a vertical lift, a sheet feeders and a unique set of gates for pre-positioning the end flaps of container blanks for later folding; (2) an adhesion and flap-folding section which includes adhesive applicators, a series of folding plows and a compression area for pre-folding the end flaps of the container to be formed; and (3) a final forming section including an adjustable vertically mounted mandrel surrounded by adjustable forming plows for making the final container.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a carton, a blank and a process for manufacturing a carton of sheet material. The carton includes a cover formed by inner and outer flaps, and two sinkable corner regions situated respectively on either side of the carton or of the cover, straddling the fold lines corresponding to two walls and two opposing flaps. It includes an elongate handle comprising a lower band made of a sheet material formed at least in part by a detachable part belonging to at least one outer flap and a reinforcing upper band secured to the lower band having ends fixed on each side to opposing lateral walls, underneath the sinkable corner regions with respect to the upper face of the cover. The handle encompasses or extends opposite the sinkable corner regions so that, when the handle is pulled substantially perpendicularly to the upper face of the cover, handle portions situated opposite the sinkable corner regions sink into the regions.

Abstract: A container, such as a cardboard carton, has a carrying handle secured by a fixing element at an attachment zone adjacent each end of the handle to opposite side walls of the container. The fixing elements each have a shaft portion transverse to the plane of respective attachment zones extending through the container wall, the shaft portion having a barb extending outwardly on the shaft and engaging with the container to retain the fixing element in position. The handle is attached to the container side wails by forcing the fixing elements through the side walls at the respective attachment zones.

Abstract: The process for manufacturing an integrally-formed handle for a bag includes the steps of turning an edge of a sheet of bag stock on itself a predetermined number of times to form a multiple-thickness handle on the sheet stock, while leaving an adjacent portion of the sheet stock unfolded. The opposed side edge portions of the handle are then folded onto and overlying the unfolded portion of the sheet stock. The folded side edge portions are then glued onto the unfolded portion of the sheet stock. The central portion of the handle is then severed from the unfolded portion of the sheet stock. The unfolded portion of the sheet stock is then folded and glued into a bag enclosure with the handle residing adjacent a side of the bag defining a top opening.

Abstract: A single piece container and method for making the same are presented. The container has an opening and a body and includes first and second pairs of opposing covering flaps and a pair of opposing handles. The covering flaps cover the container body opening so as to keep the container contents in place.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for the attachment of a bayonet handle having a barb head defining each end thereof to a carton blank. The apparatus comprises releasable clamping means for horizontally gripping the handles. Below the clamping means are support means for flatly maintaining carton blanks. A pair of blades, situated juxtaposed opposite sides of the clamping means, are retractable between an upward retracted position and a downward extended position near the support means. The clamping means are movable between an upper handle receiving position and a lower position near the support means by descending means.The process comprises first providing a bayonet handle. The handle is next bent in two places so that the barb heads are perpendicular to an interior section of the handle and are projecting toward respective apertures in the carton blank. Then, the handle is moved such that the barb heads are inserted into the respective apertures.

Abstract: An automatic pail box machine is disclosed which makes folded boxes from pre-made blanks of paper and attached handles from a flexible strip of blank handles retained in a removable spool. The machine includes a conveyor and clinching mechanisms for utilizing both a flexible strip a strip of straight blank handles and with blank handles the ends of which are pre-bent. Feeding blank handles into position for fastening may be provided by a feeder having electrical solenoids which are energized in timed relationship. A simple anti-retraction device is provided to insure that the flexible strip does not retract.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for the assembly of a bayonet handle package are provided. The apparatus comprises at least one handle gripping and insertion wheel mounted on a horizontal rotatable shaft and further comprises means for driving the shaft. The wheel carries a plurality of evenly-spaced, circumferentially mounted handle clamping and insertion assemblages. The assemblages operate cyclically--that is, depending upon the assemblage position in the 360 degree rotational cycle of the wheel--to grip, bend and release the handles.The process of the invention contemplates first providing an apparatus as described. Second, the wheel begins continuous rotation to effectuate the cyclical operation of the gripping and bending assemblages. A handle is then positioned at a first location near the wheel where it is gripped by one of the rotating assemblages.

Abstract: A handle for use with an object. The handle is attached to the object in a generally flush manner, but may be expanded to a position for manual engagement to manipulate the object.

Abstract: The invention concerns itself with a process for providing a package, especially a parallelepiped form like a carton with a holding device or handle which is attached to the wall of the package so that it can be transported. According to the invention a handle is provided which is integrated into package wall, the shape of the handle being defined by a perforated tear line in the wall. The handle is attached to the wall by means of a carrying tape attached to the inner surface of the wall and the inner surface of the handle, the carrying tape being such that free-moving, strap-type, foldable tape sections are formed between the end section attached to the inner surface of the wall and the middle section of the carrying tape attached to the handle. The strap-type tape sections have a layer which covers their adhesive coating or their adhesive has been neutralized and they form, in conjunction with the handle and when the handle is separated from the package, a freely-moving carrying loop on the package.

Abstract: A container and blank for a container comprising folded planar material wherein the planar material is provided with fold lines during manufacture, the planar material adapted to be folded along the fold lines so as to form the container, the container when so folded having a plurality of sides, a top and a bottom, selected portions of the planar material comprising tabs adapted for fastening the planar material together to form the container after folding, the planar material further comprising preferably at least two crease lines formed in a selected portion of the planar material forming a side of the container, the crease lines each delimiting an area for facilitating gripping by a user, the areas each having a maximum width, the crease lines allowing the container formed of the planar material to constrict in width adjacent the areas by substantially the sum of the maximum widths of the areas, thereby facilitating gripping by the user.

Abstract: Filled and top-sealed cartons are fed in a line to a chamber supplied with dehumidified warm air and short rows, each of two or three cartons, are pushed consecutively and laterally at a grouping station by a vertical plate onto a carrier, which advances the rows in turn through a side-taping station. At the grouping station, a tape-gripping device draws off consecutively from a roll of non-adhesive tape predetermined lengths of the tape, which are gripped at their middle sections in turn and are cut off from the roll, the cut-off end zones falling down to respective opposite sides of the row. The cut-off lengths are advanced with the respective rows through the side-taping station, which has a pair of adhesive-tape-applying rolls at those respective opposite sides and at which respective side tapes are applied to adhere together the cartons of the row and the handle of the row.

Abstract: A machine for receiving a handle strip from a dispenser, rotating the strip to align it with a predetermined location on a moving carton blank, and applying the strip to the blank. A vacuum head for gripping the strips is carried by an arm mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis extending transversely of the moving blanks. The vacuum head is rotated through rotation of a pinion, which itself is rotated by a reciprocating rack. A cam follower mounted in a stationary cam causes the rack to reciprocate, thereby postively moving the rack in both directions.

Abstract: In a device according to the invention, a roll of relatively narrow strip is unwound, measured into discrete lengths in which two C-shaped incisions are punched, then indexed through a cutting station and conveyed forward singly above the level of the sheet of wrapping film, at right angles to the direction in which it is run through the machine. The two ends of each discrete strip are picked up by suckers that draw together through a plane parallel with the path through which the strip is conveyed, while the strip itself is lifted from the middle; the strip is thus made to assume an upturned `T` profile, with the two incisions sandwiched together, before being offered and heat-sealed to the sheet film from which single wrappings are ultimately formed.

Abstract: A machine (10) for erecting article carriers (C) of the basket type comprises feeder assembly (34; 62) for withdrawing from a supply (20) and depositing the carriers in flat, folded condition one after the other in a feed path (F), flight bars for feeding (22) each carrier to an erecting station (E) at which means suction cups (96) are provided for moving apart opposite side walls of the carrier to bring it into set-up condition and locking arms (100) operable on a base panel (b) of the carrier to move the base panel into engagement with panel retaining elements (h) provided by the carrier, thereby to locate the base panel in a position in which it discourages collapse of the set-up carrier.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of boxes, wherein a sheet material, such as cardboard, is punched to produce a box element with at least five sections limited by parallel score lines; the ends of at least three sections are inserted and fastened in U-grooves recessed in side walls formed by synthetic material, a fourth section forms a lowerable and liftable cover and a fifth terminal section forms a closing flap, for which each side wall of synthetic material has an insertion groove. The fastening of the punched element to the side walls may be carried out without adhesives by means of the engagement of the punched element edges, and of cuts thereof, in the U-grooves of the side walls, and with some teeth of them. Some side flaps defined in the closing flap can co-operate with inwardly and outwardly directed teeth of the insertion grooves, by providing for the cover in closed position a releasable catch and, respectively, a sealed closing.

Abstract: The invention describes a machine which folds blanks of cut and creased material to define folded tabs which have tongues. The tongues have flaps which are folded over onto the tongues and the thus held tabs are transported by a revolving drum and the tongues and flaps are inserted in an aperture or apertures of a holding device holding groups of containers together. The machine operates continuously and the drum is provided with pairs of plates the opening and closing of which are controlled by cams to enable the insertion of the folded blanks within the pairs of plates by an insertion knife which reciprocates radially of the drum.

Abstract: A thermoplastic bag structure comprising a front and rear bag wall, a bottom and an open mouth top portion, said open mouth portion being characterized by having two pairs of single film handle loops each of which are located at opposite ends of said open mouth portion, the handles of each pair being side-by-side and each handle is an integral single film loop extension of said front and rear bag walls. The bag structures can be unitized by providing a detachable tab at the bag mouth opening and unitizing the bag structures through this tab. The method of forming said bags involves providing an end sealed collapsed thermoplastic film tube and removing plastic to form a bag mouth opening and handles at one end thereof. The resulting bag is an ungussetted bag which can be unitized into a pack by providing a detachable, unitizing tab at the bag mouth opening.

Abstract: A box assembly comprising a series of three corner connected boxes is formed from a unitary blank of sheet material. The unitary blank is suitably cut and scored to include along the length thereof twelve body panels, two pairs of tabs, each pair spaced apart by an even number of body panels, and a flap on the end of the blank. In addition, closing flaps are suitably cut and scored on the tops and bottoms of selected ones of the body panels for use in closing off the openings on the tops and bottoms of the individual boxes of the assembly. To fabricate the box assembly from the blank, the tabs of each pair of tabs are folded and glued back on themselves to form a joining flap. An adhesive is then placed on the surfaces of each of the joining flaps and the end flap. The blank is then folded over on itself such that six of the body panels on the blank are superimposed over the remaining six.

Abstract: Carriers of the top gripping type and having downwardly depending side and end walls and stacked in collapsed condition in a hopper are fed in sequence by oscillatable feeder means which engages a lower planar element of the lowermost carton in the stack of cartons and draws that element outwardly from its associated face contacting element by means of inwardly extending projections fixedly mounted on the hopper and arranged to engage parts of the upper planar elements which coincide with edge notches formed on the lower planar element so that movement of the lower planar element away from the upper planar element initiates setting up of the carrier and also effects withdrawal of the lowermost carrier from the hopper.

Abstract: Method for fixing a handle to a package. The closing flap of a package is provided with the ears is attached, which strip rises to form a handle when the foldable ears bearing the strip are folded towards the strip.