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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1979
Roger H Stohlquist, Rockford, IL (US);
Leo Strombeck, Rockford, IL (US);
Anderson Bros. Mfg. Co., Rockford, IL (US);
Abstract
A packaging apparatus for erecting, filling and closing generally rectangular cartons which are supplied in an initially flattened condition. The packaging apparatus has a filling station, lateral carton guides for guiding cartons from a carton infeed station past the filling station to a delivery station. An elongated carrier member extends along the path and has rigid pusher fingers at spaced locations therealong extending crosswise of the path, and the carrier members are driven by spaced carrier drives each including four sprockets and a chain entrained around the sprockets and connected to the carrier members to move them in a generally rectangular closed loop course.