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Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1985

Filed:

Sep. 15, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:

Charles C Hughes, Villa Hills, KY (US);

Assignee:

R. A. Jones & Co. Inc., Covington, KY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B31B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
493131 ; 493142 ; 493144 ; 493166 ; 493178 ; 493183 ; 206621 ; 206624 ; 229 / ;
Abstract

Apparatus for forming a flip top carton wherein the top of the carton has a front flap and side flaps, each having a lower section folded upon the body of the carton and a middle section folded on the lower section. The apparatus has a former associated with a conventional cartoning machine which projects into an erected tubular carton spreading the front and side flaps while inwardly pressing the top portion of the carton to fold the lower section on the top portion of the carton and the middle section on the lower section to form a collar. The apparatus further includes a glue station for applying glue to the internal surfaces of the overlying middle and lower sections. The apparatus further includes compression sections for pressing the lower and middle sections to which glue has been applied together to complete the formation of the collar.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Hughes, Charles. (1985). Apparatus for forming a flip top carton (U.S. Patent No. 4514181). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4514181

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