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US 2016/0271825 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for producing a container carrier
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorPaul SIEWERT
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Abstract
A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers within a plurality of corresponding container receiving apertures is formed using a rotary die within a rotary die press resulting in carriers having complex configurations including close tolerance cuts and complex perforation patterns.
Claims17
An apparatus for producing container carriers comprising:
- an unwinder providing a generally continuous sheet of plastic material;
- a rotary die including a cylinder and a plate wrapped around the cylinder, the plate having at least one of a beveled edge and a nested edge, wherein the rotary die punches the plastic material into a generally continuous string of three or more rows of container carriers;
- an outfeed for transferring the generally continuous string to a collection station.
A method for manufacturing a flexible carrier comprising:
- feeding a plastic sheet of material into a converting machine;
- printing the plastic sheet of material;
- forming at least three rows of a generally continuous string of container carriers with a rotary die.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.