Apparatus for manually forming containers into portable packs
AssigneeImperial Packaging, Inc.
InventorsRichard T. Galbierz, Michael A. Galbierz
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Abstract
Manually operated apparatus for assembling a multi-container pack in a carrier wherein the apparatus has a base formed with apertures in a pattern to form a multi-container pack, a carrier supported on the base and it being formed with a pattern of container receiving apertures having bendable fingers ringing the inner circumference of the container apertures, and a container guide positioned over the carrier for steering the containers into positions with the ends thereof grasped by the fingers ringing the ends of the containers.
Claims5
Apparatus for assembling containers in a pack held together in a carrier having container receiving apertures, each aperture being surrounded by container retaining means, said apparatus comprising:
- a) a support having a surface presented to containers and formed with apertures substantially matching the carrier apertures;
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- b) guide means positioned on said support surface to surround said apertures formed therein, said guide means being adapted to position containers to assume positions aligned on the carrier apertures for manual passage through the container receiving apertures permitted by said substantially matching apertures in said support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.