Packaging machine
AssigneeBooth Manufacturing Company
InventorsJohn L. Booth, Peter A. Rittmaster
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Abstract
A packaging machine for automatically packaging articles in a honeycomb structure which includes mechanisms for providing a honeycomb structure in an expanded condition in a loading station. The articles to be packaged are directed into the loading station, dropped into the expanded honeycomb structure, and the articles and honeycomb are subsequently dropped into the container. This is automatically done on a repeated basis until the container is filled, after which the container is automatically moved out of the loading station and a new container is moved into place.
Claims14
A machine for automatically packaging articles into expanded honeycomb and into a container comprising means for locating a container at a loading station of the packaging machine to be filled and moving the container out of the loading station after it has been filled, means for providing a separator sheet into the container at the loading station, means for disposing a prescribed number of articles to be packaged as a layer in the container in a nested relationship in an article loading position, an article controlling housing assembly, means for automatically providing above said loading station a honeycomb expander tray on which is located an open honeycomb section for receiving articles and for removing the tray after the honeycomb section has been removed therefrom, means for moving the housing assembly and for lifting said articles from their article loading position, depositing them in said open honeycomb and subsequently lifting the filled honeycomb from said tray and then depositing the same in a container.
Method of automatically packaging articles in a shipping box including the steps of disposing articles in a nested relationship, providing in a loading station an expanded honeycomb section, raising the articles while maintaining the nested relationship, depositing the articles in the expanded honeycomb, raising the filled honeycomb, providing a separator sheet and depositing the filled honeycomb into a box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.