R. A. Jones Co., Inc.

Wesley J Rece

Eric W Scarpa

Joseph D Greenwell

Martin M Wildmoser

William A Huening

A tube holder is adapted to be positioned in a ring on the conveyor of the tube filling machine. The tube holder is cup-shaped and has a central, generally cylindrical, tube gripper consisting of eight upwardly extending fingers. The fingers have radially inwardly directed pads on their upper ends. The fingers lean radially inwardly. When a tube is placed in them, they flex outwardly and provide a friction grip to the tube.

Tube holder for tube filling machines

A magazine for conveying cartons to a metering wheel. The magazine has a stack conveyor holding the bulk of the cartons in the magazine and a feed conveyor downstream from the stack conveyor. The two conveyors are separated by an upper inclined stop and lower ramp that keeps the cartons on the stack conveyor from applying pressure to the cartons on the feed conveyor.

Apparatus for feeding cartons

An auxiliary flap sealer for a cartoning machine. A conveyor carries cartons past a gluer and then to a normally stationary plow to press together flaps to which glue has been applied. When the conveyor stops, with glue applied to open flaps, the stationary plow and glue nozzles are shifted upstream to complete the glue application if necessary and to close the flaps.

Auxiliary flap sealer for a cartoning machine

Method and apparatus for transferring tubes such as metallic tooth paste tubes from a tube filler to product buckets of a cartoner. Tubes are delivered by a conveyor to a tube filler onto the circumferential surface of a rotary drum which has at least one pocket in its surface. The pocket picks up the tube deposited on the surface of the drum and drops the tube into continuously-moving product buckets below the drum. Three gates are spaced along the conveyor to maintain a proper spacing of the tubes so that the tubes do not bang into one another and so that only one at a time is deposited onto the circumferential surface of the drum.

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California, KY, United States of America

Wesley J Rece