Wrap-around packaging apparatus

Abstract

Abstract WRAP-AROUND PACKAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING AN ACCUMULATOR STATION FOR ARTICLES TO BE PACKAGED, SUCH AS CANS, A SERIES OF GRAVITY CHUTES TO SUPPLY CANS TO TIERED SHELVES IN THE ACCUMULATOR STATION. A CONVEYOR HAVING A PUSHER FLIGHT DEPENDING THEREFORM HAS A DOWNWARDLY INCLINED RUN CONFORMING TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE TIERED SHELVES AND DRIVES THE FLIGHT IN A DOWNWARDLY INCLINED DIRECTION TO STACK THE CANS ON THE REARWARDMOST SHELF ON TOP OF THOSE ON THE NEXT FORWARDLY SPACED SHELF AND PUSHES THE STACKED CANS INTO A BLANK CARRIED BY A BLANK GUIDE AT THE FRONT OF THE ACCUMULATOR STATION. A ROTATABLE PACKAGING UNIT IS DISPOSED IN FRONT OF THE BLANK GUIDE AND HAS DIMATERICALLY OPPOSED BACK-UP MEMBERS BACKING UP A BLANK AND ARTICLES TO BE STACKED AS PUSHED AGAINST SAID BACK-UP MEMBER. FOLDERS ARE CARRIED BY THE PACKAGING UNIT AND ARE ACTUATED BY THE BACK-UP MEMBER TO FOLD THE BLANK ABOUT THE ARTICLE. THE PACKAGING UNIT IS ROTATED IN STEPS OF 90* WITH A DWELL AT EACH STEP, AND POSITIONS THE PACKAGE INTO A HORIZONTAL POSITION WHERE THE LID IS FOLDED OVER THE TOP OF THE PACKAGE AND THEN INTO A VERTICAL POSITION WHERE THE BACK-UP MEMBER ACTUATED BY THE PUSHER EJECTS THE PACKAGE PAST FOLDING PLOWS, FOLDING AND SEALING THE LID TO THE SIDE AND FRONT OF THE PACKAGE.

Inventors

• 👤 Charles H Krebs

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