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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 05, 1979
Ralph H Livingston, Excelsior, MN (US);
Philip G Rawlins, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Bemis Company, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Case blank magazine and feeder apparatus for picking up a case blank from a stack of case blanks on the magazine and feeding the blank into the case opening part of the machine, a pickup carriage mounted on a frame for reciprocal movement from a blank pickup position to a blank transfer position, vacuum cups mounted on pickup carriage for movement between a lowered pickup position and an elevated position, a belt conveyor assembly on the frame for advancing the picked up blank from the transfer position to a discharge position that the blank falls onto slide rails, a carriage mounted on the frame for reciprocal movement for advancing the blank to a blank opening station and control mechanism for vacuum cups and the pickup carriage.