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Process and machine for fastening objects into a box having a square or rectangular cross-section

US6643992B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 8, 2001
Grant dateNov 11, 2003
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Expiry dateOct 8, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65D77/26
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Process for the fastening of objects into a box made of a bottom and of at least four lateral sides including introducing, into this box, a sheet of a flexible material, for example, made of cardboard, this sheet consisting of a central part having dimensions that are approximately the same as the bottom of the box, in a manner so as to be able to be displaced in a direction to the bottom of the box and, on at least two opposing sides of this central part, at least one flexible folding panel. The flexible folding panels are folded up to the top. The fastening sheet is shaped, prepared, inserted and pushed into the box until the sheet contacts the upper surface of the objects housed in the box. The folding panels are pushed back, applied and fixed, for example, by gluing, against the internal side of the lateral walls of this box, in a manner so as to create solid fixation of the fastening sheet onto the lateral walls of the box, and, as a result, the fastening of the objects housed in it.

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