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US 2025/0065587 A1Published application
Case-handling system with independently movable flap-suppressing devices
AssigneeSignode Industrial Group LLC
InventorsBryce J. Fox, Robert Thane Rickard
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Abstract
Various embodiments provide a case-handling system including multiple flap-suppressing devices that can be vertically moved independently of one another to, when processing a case, enable the case-handling system to prepare for and receive the next case to-be-processed while the case-handling system is still folding the upper major flaps of the current case, which increases throughput.
Claims4
A method of operating a case-handling system, said method comprising:
- while causing, under control of a controller, a first flap-suppressing device at a first flap-suppressing position to engage closed upper minor flaps of a first case,
- causing, under control of the controller, a second flap-suppressing device to vertically move to a second flap-suppressing position different from the first flap-suppressing position in preparation for processing a second case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.