Paperboard tray forming machine
US4460349A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 26, 1982 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 26, 2002 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB31B50/624
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A paperboard tray forming machine is disclosed which is designed for forming a paperboard tray from a flat production blank. The paperboard tray has front and rear end panels hingedly attached to side panels by means of folded gusset corner panels. The tray further has folded over corner flaps hingedly attached to the gusset panels and upwardly turned top flaps hingedly attached to the front and rear end panels. The machine is formed in a plurality of stations designed to take a paperboard flat production blank from a hopper and to fold the tray into the finished shape through a series of folding and glueing stations in the machine. The path of travel through the machine is in a generally U-shape. The various folding and glueing stations are positioned around an endless traveling conveyor having a plurality of mandrels attached thereto. The carton blank advances first in one direction and then turns in a U-shaped path and advances in the opposite direction. The folded carton is then stripped from the mandrel to be passed to a filling station forming no part of the invention.
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