GB874917A - Improvements in packaging apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

874,917. Packaging-machines. FORGROVE MACHINERY CO. Ltd. May 20, 1959 [May 9, 1958 (2)], Nos. 14938/58 and 14939/58. Class 94(1). [Also in Group XXX] Chocolates 17 loosely arranged on a corrugated sheet 15 of glassine paper located in a carrier 12 on a conveyer 11 are conveyed to a position beneath a ram 26 where further rams 23, 24 move the chocolates close together, Fig. 6, before the ram 26 forces them through the carrier 12 into a box 19 supplied by a lower conveyer 13, the carrier having flexible rubber strips 16 that support the sheet 15 and the chocolates before the ram 26 is operated. A knob 21, moved manually, controls movement of rams 23, a knob 22 controls rams 24, and a spring loaded-handle 25 controls the ram 26. A knob 49 is lifted to raise the left-hand ram when a carrier 12 and its chocolates are passing into position beneath ram 26. Both conveyers are timed to dwell when a carrier and a box are beneath the ram 26 and the manually operated knobs may be replaced by cams on. a shaft synchronised with the conveyers. The carriers are located on the conveyer by pegs on the latter engaging a recess on the underside of each carrier. Fixed guides hold-the top flaps of the boxes open as the boxes pass beneath the ram 26. Two layers of chocolates may be inserted into each box by providing the ram 26 with two inserting portions of different depth, the first inserting the lower layer and the second inserting the top layer. Specification 874,918 is referred to.