Can packaging machine

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR ENCLOSING A GROUP OF CYLINDRICAL ARTICLES ARRANGED IN DOUBLE ROW FORMATION IN A FOLDABLE PAPERBOARD WRAPPER WHICH WRAPPER IS CUT AND CREASED TO PROVIDE TOP, BOTTOM AND SIDE WALL AND INTEGRAL LONGITUDINAL PARTITION FORMING AND ARTICLE SEPARATING PANELS, WITH THE PARTITIN FORMING PANELS BEING TAKEN FROM THE CENTER PORTION OF THE TOP AND BOTTOM WALL PANELS OF THE WRAPPER AND BEING FOLDABLE INWARDLY BETWEEN THE ROWS OF ARTICLES, SAID MACHINE COMPRISING AN ELONGATE SUPPORTING FRAME HAVING A CONVEYOR MOUNTED THEREON WITH AN UPPER HORIZONTAL RUN, MEANS FOR FEEDING SUCCESSIVE WRAPPER BLANKS IN OPENED OUT RELATION ONTO SAID UPPER CONVEYOR RUN FOR ADVANCE TO ARTICLE RECEIVING POSITION BENEATH AN ARTICLE ASSEMBLING STATION, MEANS FOR ADVANCING SINGLE LINES OF ARTICLES INTO LATERALLY SEPARATED ROWS OF SAID ARTICLE ASSEMBLING STATION, MEANS FOR SEPARATING A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF THE ARTICLES FROM EACH OF THE ARTICLE ADVANCING LINES AND DEPOSITING THE SAME ON THE TOP WALL FORMING PANEL OF AN ONCOMING WRAPPER BLANK ON SAID CONVEYOR, A SEPARATOR BAR EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID CONVEYOR ABOVE THE UPPER RUN THEREOF AND BETWEEN THE ARTICLES SO AS TO MAINTAIN THEM IS SEPARATED ROWS, MEANS FOR FOLDING THE SIDE WALL AND BOTTOM WALL FORMING PANELS OF THE WRAPPER BLANK ABOUT THE SIDES AND TOPS OF THE TWO ROWS OF ARTICLES, MEANS FOR CONNECTING OVERLAPPED MARGINAL PORTIONS OF THE BOTTOM WALL FORMING A PANELS OF THE WRAPPER BLANK, CONVEYOR MEANS FOR ENGAGING TRAILING EDGES OF THE SIDE WALLS OF EACH SUCCESSIVE WRAPPER AND ARTICLE ASSEMBLY AND FOR ADVANCING THE SAME TO A COMPACTING STATION AT THE END OF SAID SPACER BAR, MEANS AT SAID COMPACTING STATION FOR ENGAGING THE WRAPPER SIDE WALLS AND FOR PROGRESSIVELY MOVING THE WRAPPER SIDE WALL AND THE ROWS OF ARTICLES TOWARD THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER OF THE ARTICLE ASSEMBLY AND INTO COMPACT RELATION AND MEANS AT SAID COMPACTING STATION FOR FOLDING THE LONGITUDINAL PARTITION PANELS IN THE TOP AND BOTTOM WALL FORMING PANELS INWARDLY BETWEEN THE ROWS OF ARTICLES AS THE ROWS OF ARTICLES ARE MOVED TOWARD EACH OTHER AND THE WRAPPER AND ARTICLE ASSEMBLY IS ADVANCED BEYOND THE END OF THE SPACER BAR.