Apparatus for setting up folded cartons

USRE30921E · kind E · reissue

Inventor

• James E. McDowell · Orange City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 10, 1980
• Grant date: May 4, 1982
• Expiry date: Jul 10, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

An apparatus for setting up folded cartons in which a frame has a folded carton magazine attached thereto adjacent a carton conveyor. A carton set-up station is mounted at one end of the conveyor adjacent the magazine, and the bottom carton in the magazine is grasped by suction cups and moved to the set-up station. The carton is set-up in the set-up station and fed to the conveyor as the minor flaps are folded, glued, and the major flaps folded, and finally, the major and minor flaps compressed for the glue to dry and the carton discharged.