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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
John T Bell, St. Charles, IL (US);
Assignee:
Container Corporation of America, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53 24 ; 53 26 ; 53 37 ; 5312 / ; 53154 ; 53159 ; 53284 ; 53374 ;
Abstract
Apparatus is provided for packaging of flat articles, such as paperback books or the like, in a base number or multiples thereof, and includes structure for arranging the flat articles in a plurality of stacks and imposing a known pressure on each stack whereby the number within a given dimension is a constant, removing the desired number from the stack while retaining the remainder of the stack in position, enclosing the stacks in a container, adding additional flat articles to make the base number of multiples thereof, and closing the flaps of the container.