Fiberglas Canada Inc.

Derek J Holden

William T Fletcher

Norman Kelly

James J Welsh

Apparatus for compressing and packaging articles, e.g. insulation batts, comprises a bomb bay door arrangement for receiving the articles in succession and depositing the articles in a first position in successive batches each comprising a stack of the articles, a compression chamber, a movable support for displacing the batches in succession from said first position to a second position in the compression chamber, a lifting fork for displacing a first one of the batches from the second position to a third position in the compression chamber to allow the displacement of the next succeeding batch from the first position to the second position, a vertical ram for compressing the first batch and the next succeeding batch together in the compression chamber, and a horizontal ram for discharging the compressed articles through a bagging snout for applying a bag to the compressed articles.

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Camlachie, Canada

Derek J Holden