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AssigneeB+ Equipment
InventorsBernard DOMINICI, Robert CASANOVA, Joris PETERS, Claude DURAND
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Method and machine for reducing the height of a box without removing a section of the material of the box and without the use of any cutting tool whatsoever, but by folding high sections of side walls towards the centre of the box. The method includes: breaking the connections between the side walls along the upper section of the vertical ridges of the box, from the height of the vertical walls of the box to the level of the top of the stack of objects previously positioned in the box, by exerting a force, directed towards the exterior of the box, on the high section of at least two of the side walls; simultaneously folding towards the exterior the high sections on which force is exerted; then folding all the high sections towards the interior of the box, in order to bring the side walls into a substantially horizontal plane.
Method to reduce the height of a box made of a foldable material, composed of a base and at least four side walls inter-connected at a right angle by forming ridges, up to the top of the stack of objects previously placed into said box, without removal of a part of the material of said box nor utilization of any cutting tool whatsoever, but by folding towards the center of said box the upper sections of said side walls, characterized in that:
Machine for the cushioning and confinement of objects inside a box made of foldable material, for example of carton and composed of a base of square or rectangular, or approximately square or rectangular shape, and of four side walls inter-connected at right angles forming ridges, this machine featuring tooling for adapting the height of the useful volume of the box to the height of the stack of objects placed into it and for ensuring the closure of said box, and of means for moving said box in order to position it under said tooling, characterized in that this tooling comprises, on the one hand, gripping elements for seizing the upper portion of at least two side walls of the box, and to apply a force directed towards the exterior, on said two upper sections so as to break the connections between said upper sections, and to ensure the tilting towards the exterior of said separated upper sections and, on the other hand, pushing elements for folding the separated upper sections of the side walls back in the direction of the center of the box.
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