Device for erecting a folded carton
AssigneeNorden Machinery AB
InventorPär Fridolfsson
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Abstract
In a carton feeding device for feeding cartons to a conveyor track, comprising a replaceable pick-up head attached to the carton feeding device at an attachment, where a pick-up head comprises a plurality of vacuum cups and an erecting means pivotally suspended at the pick-up head, where the attachment for the pick-up head is arranged on a rotor arm, where the attachment is adapted to receive different pick-up heads, and that the carton feeding device comprises an actuator means comprising a first interface adapted to actuate a leading edge erecting arm and a second interface adapted to actuate a trailing edge erecting arm. The advantage of the invention is that a carton feeding device that can easily be switched between leading edge erection or trailing edge erection of flat-folded cartons blanks is provided.
Claims8
A carton feeding device for feeding cartons to a conveyor track from a magazine, comprising:
- a pick-up head releasably attached to the carton feeding device at an attachment,
- where the pick-up head comprises a plurality of vacuum cups and an erecting arm pivotally suspended at the pick-up head,
- where the attachment for the pick-up head is arranged on a rotor arm, wherein the attachment is adapted to receive the pick-up head provided with the erecting arm where the erecting arm is adapted for leading edge erection of a carton or to receive the pick-up head provided with the erecting arm where the erecting arm is adapted for trailing edge erection of a carton,
- where the carton feeding device comprises an actuator,
- where the actuator comprises a first interface adapted to interact with the erecting arm adapted for leading edge erection of a carton and a second interface adapted to interact with the erecting arm adapted for trailing edge erection of a carton.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.