Continental Can Company, Inc.

Alfred G Down

Robert L Nebeling

This disclosure relates to a machine for assembling partition pieces of corrugated board or similar material to form partitions therefrom, and includes means for feeding partition pieces toward conveying means and into guide means with means for shifting different ones of the guide means into alignment with the partition pieces whereby individual partition pieces from a single feed means are disposed in at least two different ones of the guide means. The conveying means include a plurality of spaced endless members with flight bars being united therebetween by quick disconnect coupling means and means for shifting the flight bars relative to each other to vary the spacing therebetween in the direction of conveyor travel. The machine further includes hoppers having bottom and upstanding walls at respective acute and obtuse angles to the horizontal whereby partition pieces are maintained in upright stacked relationship and are movable under gravity influence toward the upstanding walls.

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Wood Dale, IL, United States of America

Alfred G Down