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US 2006/0231210 A1Published application
Device for making containers
AssigneeFort James Corporation
InventorsDavid Brown, Alois Schmidtner
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Abstract
A device for making containers, comprising a paper feeding system configured to feed side blanks, a sleeve-forming unit receiving the slide blanks and forming them into sleeves, a bottom forming unit configured to form bottoms, an indexed container-forming turret for receiving the sleeves and the bottoms and adhering a bottom to each sleeve, and a continuously running mechanism to remove sleeves from the sleeve-forming unit and transfer them to the container-forming turret.
Claims14
A device for making containers, comprising:
- a paper feeding system configured to feed side blanks;
- a sealing activation system configured to receive the side blanks and activate sealing of opposing edges of each side blank so that the opposing edges of the side blank can adhere to each other;
- a sleeve-forming unit comprising a continuously rotating turret with a plurality of radially disposed mandrels, each side blank being wrapped around a respective mandrel so that activated opposing edges of the side blank contact each other and adhere to each other to form a sleeve;
- an indexed container-forming turret comprising mandrels and being configured to rotate;
- a continuously running mechanism to remove sleeves from the mandrels of the sleeve-forming unit and transfer them to the mandrels of the container-forming turret;
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- a bottom forming unit configured to form bottoms that are fed to the indexed container-forming turret;
- wherein the indexed container-forming turret adheres the bottoms to the sleeves.
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