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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heinz F. Odenthal, Zülpich, DE;
Bruno Baumeister, Heimbach, DE;
Assignee:
Nor-Reg AS, Honefoss, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 3/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 3/02 ;
Abstract
Flat box blanks are set up into boxes by feeding a succession of the blanks one at a time to a setup station and gripping the blanks and pulling them one after another by grippers in a direction without stopping through the station. A plurality of setup tools are moved through the station in the direction synchronously with the grippers and the blanks and are engaged with the continuously moving setup tools transversely with the blanks in the setup station to shape the blanks into boxes while the blanks are held out of contact in the station with any structure other than the synchronously moving tools and grippers.