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AssigneeMega Service Di Angelo Mastropasqua & C. S.N.C.
InventorsAngelo Mastropasqua, Mario Dallanegra, Graziano Zava
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Apparatus for forming and packing bundles (46) of boxes produced by a folding-glueing or stitching machine, in which a station (28) for conveying and possibly overturning at least one stack (24) of boxes which comprises substantially as many boxes as a half of those forming a bundle (46) of boxes, feeds a station (44) for matching the bundles (46) of boxes with a first and a second stack (24) of boxes whereby said two stacks (24) of boxes overlap to each other. In the matching station (44), the bundle (46) of boxes is moved along a plane inclined in the direction of movement by a pushing means (52) acting on the rear side of the bundle (46) of boxes while this is laterally guided by stationary walls (54).
An apparatus for forming and packing a bundle of box flats, the apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Arrangements for removing completed piles: by acting on edge of the pile for moving it along a surface, e.g. by pushing
Bundling particular articles presenting special problems using string, wire, or narrow tape or band; Baling fibrous material, e.g. peat, not…:…
Arrangements for removing completed piles: by the nip between moving belts or rollers
Delivering, advancing piles: by acting on surface of outermost articles of the pile, e.g. in nip between pair of belts or rollers
Term ended 9 Jun 2013 (estimated)
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The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming bundles of boxes produced by folding-glueing or stitching machines and packing them by a strap.
It is known that the boxes made by folding-glueing or stitching machines, i.e. the boxes not yet prepared to receive the material they will contain and which therefore are completely folded forming a substantially flat body, are packed in bundles by a strap generally made of plastics.
The above cited packing of the boxes has various problems deriving from the need to obtain a firm packing, both for transporting the bundles and storing them.
The characteristics as well as the advantages of the apparatus forming the object of the present invention will be clear from the following detailed description of one non-limiting embodiment thereof, made with reference to the attached drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of the apparatus according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a plan schematic view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
Referring particularly to FIGS. 1 and 2 the apparatus according to the present invention essentially consists of three stations arranged in series among which the entrance station or station for feeding the stacks of boxes is designated 10 and receives boxes 12 fed by a non represented folding-glueing or stitching machine of known kind.
The boxes 12 are brought to feeding station 10 by a conveyor belt 14 and are counted by a counter 16 arranged upstream of the feeding station 10. The counter, when the number of boxes 12 reaches the one preset for forming a stack, actuates a gate 18 thus stopping the feed of boxes 12 to the feeding station 10.
The feeding station 10 essentially consists in its lower part of a conveyor belt 20 above which another conveyor belt 22 is arranged, between these elements there being formed successively and one at a time, a stack of boxes one of which is shown in FIG. 1 and designated 24.