Apparatus and method for expanding and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard packagings to standing arranged compartments and/or outer packagings

An apparatus (01) for expanding and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard packagings (02) to standing compartments and/or outer packagings (03), comprising:

• a cardboard packaging supply (04) comprising at least one stack (41) of flatly collapsed cardboard packagings (02) arranged lying on top of each other,
• an erecting device (05) arranged next to the cardboard packaging supply (04) as seen in the direction of a horizontal axis (11), and
• a gripping device (06) for the simultaneous seizing one topmost cardboard packaging (02) from each stack (41) of the cardboard packaging supply (04), wherein:
• the cardboard packagings (02) comprise a plurality of cardboard packaging walls (22) interconnected with each other, one forming a top flat side (23) and one forming a bottom flat side (24) of a flatly collapsed cardboard packaging (02),
• the gripping device (06) has at least one tool (61) for holding the top flat side (23) of the cardboard packaging wall (22),
• the gripping device (06) has at least one manipulator (62) with a manipulator head (63) that is at least movable along a horizontal axis (11), wherein the at least one tool (61) is arranged at the manipulator head (63) so that the at least one tool (61) is movable at least horizontally between the cardboard packaging supply (04) and the erecting device (05),
• the erecting device (05) has at least one carrier (51), that is rotatable about a horizontal pivoting axis (13) from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa, and
• the erecting device (05) has at least one tool (52), arranged at its at least one carrier (51), for each cardboard packaging (02) that is simultaneously seizable by the gripping device (06),wherein the at least one tool (52), in its horizontal position, seizes the cardboard packaging (02), at its bottom flat side (24), that has been brought to the erecting device (05) by the gripping device (06) and wherein the at least one tool (52) holds the cardboard packaging (02) at least until the at least one carrier (51) has rotated from its horizontal position into its vertical position, said rotating taking place after the subsequently carried out expanding of the cardboard packaging (02) to a set of compartments and/or to an outer packaging (03) by an increase of the distance between the gripping device (06) tools (61) and the erecting device (05) tools (52) along a vertical axis (12), and the release of the gripping device (06) tools (61) after the expanding.