Feeder mechanism for sleeve type cartons

A machine for sequentially manipulating out of a hopper collapsed sleeve type end loading cartons having oppositely disposed face contacting panels and for initiating set up thereof into open ended condition, said machine comprising a shaft which rotates about a fixed axis, carton pick up means for sequentially engaging one of said face contacting panels and for withdrawing from the hopper the collapsed carton which includes said one of said face contacting panels, a rotatable elongated support rod having one end thereof slidably secured on a collar structure mounted on said shaft and on the other end of which said carton pick up means is fixedly mounted, said rod and pickup means slidingly reciprocating transversely relative to said rotatable shaft and moving orbitally about said rotatable shaft, oscillatable means disposed outside the path of orbital movement of said carton pick up means for engaging the other of said face contacting panels so as to pull said other face contacting panel in a direction away from said carton pick up means thereby to initiate opening the carton.