Apparatus and method for packaging articles

US9493260B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Koch · Wulfen, DE
• Thomas Wimmer · Rosenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 14, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 16, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B21/24
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for packaging articles in a box blank which has folding lines and also side flaps and/or lid flaps and/or base flaps. The apparatus includes a device for feeding a stream of articles, a device for dividing up the articles into groups and/or assemblies of articles, a device for feeding individual box blanks to the groups of articles and/or for combining the groups of articles and the box blanks, and a device for forming a box and for folding in the side flaps by folding-in elements, which rotate about an axis which is more or less perpendicular to the conveying plane and/or conveying direction of the box blanks. The folding-in elements each have at least one pair of folding-in devices, which can be moved in a common plane and which can be moved and/or controlled and regulated independently of one another.A method and a folding element is also provided.