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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1995
Daryl R Konzal, Colgate, WI (US);
Paper Machinery Corporation, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A machine for making paper cups wherein each cup includes a side wall blank and a bottom wall blank, the machine including a frame and a vertical shaft mounted on the frame with a turret rotatably mounted on the shaft, a number of work stations mounted on the frame in an equally spaced relation around the turret with a number of tapered mandrels mounted on the turret in alignment with each of the work stations for forming the cup, the turret being intermittently rotated to move the mandrels sequentially into alignment with each of the work stations and a tubular assembly mounted for axial movement in each of the mandrels for initially releasing the cup from the mandrel.