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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2020
Jonathan C. Fragoso, Commerce City, CO (US);
Jacob P. Brown, Boulder, CO (US);
William G. Coon, Longmont, CO (US);
Nicholas R. Jentzsch, Lafayette, CO (US);
Michael C. Messaros, Erie, CO (US);
Shane K. Vogt, Lafayette, CO (US);
Jonathan C. Fragoso, Commerce City, CO (US);
Jacob P. Brown, Boulder, CO (US);
William G. Coon, Longmont, CO (US);
Nicholas R. Jentzsch, Lafayette, CO (US);
Michael C. Messaros, Erie, CO (US);
Shane K. Vogt, Lafayette, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A manufacturing apparatus for assembling a container including a sleeve, a bowl cover with a cavity, a closed state clamshell with a hinge having a mating protrusion, and a flexible strip having a primary and secondary end portions that are affixed with adhesive between the cover and clamshell. The manufacturing apparatus includes a base, a spindle, with primary and secondary radially extending platforms, respectively supporting primary and secondary cradles with the bowl and clamshell disposed therebetween the cradles that are rotated. The manufacturing apparatus also includes a guide slidably engaged to the base, wherein the guide directs the strip to be helically wound about the clamshell and cover with a base slide mounted adhesive nozzle that affixes the primary and secondary end portions of the strip to the cover and clamshell with a head that cuts and holds the strip with the head slidably engaged to the base.