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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1974
Robert C Kellogg, Milford, MI (US);
Ex-Cell-O Corporation, Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
Carton feeding and erecting apparatus for transferring flattened cartons from one location to another while simultaneously unfolding the cartons to an erect, or partially erect, condition. The apparatus is particularly useful in high speed packaging operations such as operations wherein thermoplastic coated paperboard cartons are to be sequentially unfolded or erected from a flattened condition, closed and sealed at their bottom ends, filled with milk or other contents, and closed and sealed at their top ends. The apparatus includes a carton receiving station at one location, a carton delivery station at another location, carton carrying means operable to engage a flattened carton at the receiving station and carry the carton to the delivery station, and carton unfolding means operatively associated with the carrying means and operable to unfold a carton to its erect condition as the carton is carried by the carrying means from the receiving station to the delivery station.