Apparatus for placing folded boxes or the like in shipping cartons

Abstract

A method for filling a shipping carton with flat-folded boxes supplied in substantially horizontal shingled array from a processing machine, comprising positioning an empty carton in displaceable manner on a support below the supply from said processing machine, supporting said boxes in shingled array while advancing them along a curved path to substantially vertical shingled array, discharging said vertically shingled boxes successively into said carton, and supporting said discharged boxes on one flat surface thereof within said carton, whereby the force of said boxes as discharged causes said carton to be displaced on its support. The apparatus includes a pair of cooperating curved conveyors extending from said manufacturing machine conveyor to said carton, whereby said boxes are transferred from horizontal shingled array to vertical shingled array and are successively discharged into said carton in vertical disposition. A pulley about which one of the curved conveyors is trained, in operative position is disposed within said carton so that successively discharged boxes, with said pulley as a back stop, cause said carton to advance on its support. When the carton is filled, the pulley and its conveyor are raised, the carton is removed and replaced by an empty carton and the process is repeated.

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