Patent ID: 7093408
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: B31B,B65B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for sequentially manipulating out of a hopper and initiating set up of collapsed cartons having oppositely disposed side and end panels and a first base panel and a second base panel, said apparatus comprising a carton pick up device for sequentially engaging one of said opposed panels and for withdrawing from the hopper a collapsed carton oriented in a substantially vertical plane, a feeder for translating the carton from the substantially vertical plane to a substantially horizontal plane and transferring said carton from said hopper to an in-feed end of a packaging machine, a separator to misalign the first base panel from the carton to a substantially vertical plane to separate the base panels so that the second base panel is engaged by a conveyor and held in a substantially horizontal plane and the first base panel remains unengaged by a conveyor, a guide to manipulate or to guide the side and end panels from said substantially horizontal plane into a substantially vertical plane and said first base panel from said vertical plane to a substantially horizontal plane while said second base panel is held by said conveyor, and a carton erecting device to pull the opposing side and end panels away from the base panel held in the conveyor to erect the carton.