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US 9,919,834 B2Granted
Pallet construction line and assembly
AssigneeOria Collapsibles, LLC
InventorMiguel A. Linares
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Abstract
An assembly and associated method for constructing a three dimensional article, such as a pallet, including a first station for feeding a sheet material in blank form, a second a second station for receiving and incising the blank, a third station for receiving the incised blank and which successively creases and folds the blank into an assembled article, and a fourth operator station for controlling each of said first, second and third stations. Also disclosed is a conveyor for removing the assembled article from the third station and transferring to a plastic coating operation.
Claims12
An assembly for constructing a three dimensional article, comprising:
- a first station for feeding a sheet shaped blank;
- a second station for receiving and incising the blank from said first station, a support surface of said second station exhibiting first and second length edge extending incising patterns over which the blank is supported;
- a drum shaped roller knife supported above said surface of said second station, said roller knife being traversed in pressing contact with the blank, between first and second ends of the blank, in order to remove portions of material from the blank corresponding to the formation of tabs and slots along opposite side edges of the blank;
- a third station having a further support surface for receiving the blank from said second station, a plurality of widthwise extending and elongated rods being supported within said third station in communication with the further support surface and being manipulated to form a plurality of creases in the blank;
- said third station further having first and second pluralities of bending arms supported in crosswise directions relative to said elongated rods, additional pluralities of forming guides positioned at side locations of the blank in alignment with the tabs, said bending arms being manipulated to fold inwardly sections of the blank which are proximate the first and second ends and, in communication with upward displacement of said bending arms, causing the tabs and slots to be interengaged during formation of the three dimensional article;
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- an operator station for controlling each of said first, second and third stations.
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An assembly for constructing a three dimensional article, comprising:
- a first station for feeding a sheet shaped blank;
- a second station for receiving the blank from said first station;
- a drum shaped roller knife supported above a support surface of said second station, said roller knife being traversed in pressing contact with the blank, between first and second ends of the blank, a pair of length extending incising patterns defined between said roller knife and said support surface, between which the blank is supported, and remove portions of material from opposite sides of the blank corresponding to the formation of tabs and slots in the blank;
- a third station having a further support surface for receiving the blank from said second station, a plurality of widthwise extending and elongated rods being supported within said third station in communication with the further support surface and being manipulated to form a plurality of creases in the blank;
- said third station further having first and second pluralities of bending arms supported in crosswise directions relative to said elongated rods, additional pluralities of forming guides positioned at side locations of the blank in alignment with the tabs, said bending arms being manipulated to fold inwardly sections of the blank which are proximate the first and second ends and, in communication with upward displacement of said bending arms, causing the tabs and slots to be interengaged during formation of the three dimensional article;
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- an operator station for controlling each of said first, second and third stations.
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An assembly for constructing a three dimensional pallet article, comprising:
- a first station for feeding a sheet shaped blank;
- a second station for receiving and incising the blank from said first station, a support surface of said second station exhibiting first and second length edge extending incising patterns over which the blank is supported;
- a roller knife supported above said support surface of said second station, said roller knife being traversed in pressing contact with the blank, between first and second ends of the blank, and in order to remove portions of material from the blank corresponding to the formation of tabs and slots along opposite side edges of the blank;
- a third station having a further support surface for receiving the blank from said second station, first and second sub-pluralities of widthwise extending and elongated rods being supported within said third station in communication with the further support surface and being manipulated to form a plurality of creases in the blank, each of said sub-pluralities of elongated rods further comprising an underside projecting and fold-line forming blade edge creasing a width extending surface of the blank;
- said third station further having first and second pluralities of bending arms supported in crosswise directions relative to said elongated rods, additional pluralities of forming guides positioned at side locations of the blank in alignment with the tabs;
- a rectangular shaped reinforced insert placed upon a central surface area of the blank in alignment with the forming guides;
- said bending arms being manipulated to fold inwardly sections of the blank which are proximate the first and second ends over said reinforced insert and, in communication with upward displacement of said bending arms, causing the tabs and slots to be interengaged during formation of the three dimensional pallet article;
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- an operator station for controlling each of said first, second and third stations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.