Carton storage, feeding and opening apparatus
AssigneeAB Akerlund & Rausing
InventorHans Rolf Ingemar Linner
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Abstract
A packaging machine is disclosed in which the carton storage, feeding and opening station is adjustable for different size cartons. The storage area has an adjustable bottom and walls and the opening mechanism has an adjustable path of travel, dependent upon the carton size.
Claims4
Carton storage, feeding and opening apparatus for use in a packaging machine in which plane folding box blanks are fed to a conveyor with simultaneous opening of the folding box blanks which are subsequently fed one after another in a predetermined direction with substantially constant center-to-center distances to processing stations along the conveyor, said apparatus comprising:
- a substantially horizontal storage bottom member, said bottom member being vertically adjustable;
- a pair of side guiding means for folding box blanks substantially vertically carried by the storage bottom member, said side guiding means being adjustable independently of each other and of the storage bottom in longitudinal and latitudinal direction in relation to said storage bottom member;
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- stop means mounted on said side guiding means at the discharge end of said apparatus adjacent said conveyor, said stop means adapted to fix the position of folding box blanks in a predetermined angular orientation with respect to the longitudinal direction of the storage bottom member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.