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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
Anheuser-busch Inbev S.a., Brussels, BE;
Philippe Jean Marie Duperray, Châteauroux, FR;
Wim DeKocker, Leuven, BE;
Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Brussels, BE;
Abstract
The present invention provides a packaging apparatus for in-line packaging wrapping of a foldable blank around a receiving load that is simultaneously dropped onto the loading space of the foldable blank. The packaging apparatus includes a support means adapted to receive a supply of one or more foldable blanks. The support means includes a support frame supported onto two or more parallel longitudinal rails positioned generally transversal to a direction of supply of foldable blanks. The apparatus further includes an article loading mechanism to load a group of articles onto a loading space defined onto the foldable blank received onto the support means. The apparatus furthermore includes an erecting mechanism having a plurality of generally spaced apart vertical lugs, positioned onto one or more sides of the support frame, and at a height lower than the height of longitudinal rails such that a vertically upward movement of the lugs engages and erects at least one side of the foldable blank around the articles already loaded onto the foldable blank.