B - Operations – Transporting – 31 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
31
B
93/67
B31B 5/00 (2006.01) B31B 5/80 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1227079
ABSTRACT A carton erector apparatus for setting up folding carton blanks and unfolding their bottom flaps. The apparatus includes a carton blank storage section, a carton blank set-up section and bottom flap folding section. The carton blank storage section includes a magazine assembly for storing and urging knocked-down carton blanks towards the carton set-up section. The carton set-up section includes a carton opening assembly mounted on a substantially horizontal carriage plate movable in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the carton blanks in the magazine assembly. A pivot arm assembly is pivotally secured to the folding arms assembly and is movable between first and second position respectively parallel and perpendicular to the folding arm assembly. A grasping means is secured to the pivot arm assembly to grasp the side panel of the forward carton in the magazine assembly when the pivot arm assembly and the folding arm assembly into their second positions is effective to set-up the carton blank into a tubular form. Bottom flap folding means are provided to infold the bottom flaps of the set-up carton.
476632
Ulrich Lawrence W.
Walker Connie W.
Durable Packaging Corporation
Meredith & Finlayson
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