Patent ID: 6038831
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: B31B,B65B

Abstract:
A packaging apparatus for packaging products in an open or closed box having side walls and a top and bottom defined by respective flat paperboard sheets, said packaging apparatus comprising a bearing framework defining on a top portion thereof a product to be packaged supplying line and, at a bottom portion thereof a paperboard sheet removing assembly for successively removing individual paperboard die-cut sheets and supplying said individual sheets to a sheet supplying conveyor communicating with said product to be packaged supplying line, a product to be packaged delivery device and a product separating device receiving said products from said product delivery device, said paperboard sheets being supplied to said line in a supplying direction corresponding to a feeding direction of said products, and a box forming assembly including a flap bending device for bending said side and top and bottom flaps, wherein said product delivery device comprises side bulkhead elements delimiting a product inlet path and driven by an adjusting assembly, comprising a driving bar pivoted at a middle portion thereof and coupled, by symmetrically arranged coupling levers, to supporting blocks which support said individual bulkhead elements, said bar being pivoted at one end thereof to a driving connecting rod, coupled to a slider movable on a transversely arranged threaded bar, said slider, as it is displaced, causing said driving bar to turn with a corresponding displacement of said bulkhead elements.