US3456420A - Method of and apparatus for forming a package - Google Patents

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US3456420A
US3456420A US609086A US3456420DA US3456420A US 3456420 A US3456420 A US 3456420A US 609086 A US609086 A US 609086A US 3456420D A US3456420D A US 3456420DA US 3456420 A US3456420 A US 3456420A
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  • This invention relates in general to new and useful improvements in cartons of the wrap-around type and more particularly to the provision of apparatus for tightly applying a carton of the wrap-around type about a plurality of containers.
  • This invention particularly relates to cartons of the type having at at least one corner thereof container receiving openings and tabs.
  • a pressure blade or bar is engaged with the carton corner adjacent the tabs in a manner wherein interlocking of the pressure bar with the carton tabs will occur so that pressure may be exerted on the carton to tightly draw the corner of the same around the containers without danger of slippage.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide a novel method of snugly securing a carton around a plurality of containers, particularly at the corners of the carton, the method including the forming of an oversize corner having tabs projecting outwardly therefrom, engaging the corner of the carton with a pressure bar which, as it slides along the corner, will become interlocked with the tabs whereby the pressure bar may be utilized to tightly draw the corner of the carton about the containers.
  • a still further object of this invention is to provide a novel carton blank wherein the corner forming portion of the blank is enhanced by the provision of an additional fold line in a panel of the carton adjacent the corner along which the carton may be folded in the application thereof to initially and temporarily increase the size of the corner panel and thereby facilitate the engagement thereof by suitable means for drawing the corner of the carton tightly around containers.
  • FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a blank for a carton formed in accordance with this invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a schematic horizontal sectional view of a portion of a carton applying machine and shows specifically the details of and the position of a side pressure bar added to the machine in accordance with this invention.
  • FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary side elevational view of that portion of the machine shown in FIGURE 2.
  • FIGURES 4, 5, 6, and 7 are enlarged fragmentary transverse sectional views taken along the lines 4-4, 5-5, 6-6 and 7-7, respectively of FIGURE 3 and show the specific sequence in the tight inter-fitting of a carton corner about containers.
  • FIGURE 8 is a fragmentary bottom view of that portion of a carton shown in FIGURE 7 and shows the engagement of the pressure bar with the carton.
  • FIGURE 9 is a transverse sectional view on a small scale taken along the line 7-7 of FIGURE 3 and shows the cooperation of two side pressure bars with carton latching mechanisms of the machine.
  • FIGURE 10 is a fragmentary plan view of one end of another form of carton blank.
  • FIGURE 11 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view taken through a portion of a package forming machine which has incorporated therein a pressure bar formed in accordance with this invention and shows specifically the details and position of the pressure bar.
  • FIGURES 12, 13, 14, and 15 are enlarged fragmentary transverse vertical sectional views taken along the lines 12-12, 13-13, 14-14, and 15-15, respectively, of FIGURE 11 and shows specifically the sequence of folding a carton blank around containers and forming a tight corner construction.
  • FIGURE 16 is an enlarged fragmentary bottom view of that portion of the carton shown in FIGURE 15 and more specifically illustrates the details thereof.
  • FIGURE 17 is a transverse sectional view on a small scale taken along the line 15-15 of FIGURE 11 and shows the cooperation of two side pressure bars with carton latching mechanisms of the machine.
  • FIGURE 1 a blank which is particularly adapted for use in accordance with this invention, the carton blank being generally referred to by the numeral 20.
  • the specific carton blank 20 illustrated in FIGURE 1 includes a top central panel 21 and outer top panels 22 which have formed therein openings 23 for the necks of bottles.
  • corner panels 25 Next adjacent the side panels 24 are corner panels 25 which are connected to the side panels 24 along interrupted fold lines 26.
  • Each corner panel 25 is further defined by an interrupted fold line 27.
  • Botton closure panels 28 and 29 are hingedly connected to the corner panels 25 along the interrupted fold lines 27 thereof.
  • the closure panel 29 has latch openings 30 formed therein in alignment with the bottle neck receiving openings 23.
  • the closure panel 28 has hingedly connected thereto along a fold line 31 a plurality of latching flaps 33 which are centered relative to respective ones of the bottle neck receiving openings 23 and which have projecting from the opposite edges thereof pivotal catches 34 and tongues 39.
  • the catches 34 and the tongues 39 interlock with the closure panel 29 through the latch openings 30 to interlock the closure panels 28 and 29 in a customary manner.
  • the carton blank 20 is dimensioned to snugly wrap-around six bottles B and form therewith a readily handleable package.
  • the carton blank 20 is dropped over the necks of the bottles B and then folded down alongside the bottles with the outer top panels 22 sloping downwardly from the central top panel 21 and engaging the shoulders of the bottles.
  • the side panels 24 extend down along the sides of the bottles. It is then necessary to tightly draw the corner panels 25 around the lower portions of the bottles in a manner so as to both draw the side panels 24 down and interlock the corner panels with the bottles. While the side panels and the corner panels are held in such a tight bottle engaging relation, the closure panels 28 and 29 must be secured together by means of the latch construction.
  • each corner panel 25 there is formed in each corner panel 25 a plurality of bottle receiving openings which are aligned with the openings 23.
  • Each opening 35 eX- tends across the efiective portion of its respective corner panel 25 and across the respective fold line 27 into the respective one of the closure panels 28 and 29, and is of a configuration so as to define along the edge of each closure panel 28 a tab 36 for each opening 35.
  • each tab 36 has sloping side edges so as .to provide relatively deep and sharp notches 37 on each side of each tab 36.
  • the carton blank 20 is provided between the interrupted portions of each fold line 26 with generally arcuate cuts 38 which, in cooperation with the fold lines 26, extend entirely across the carton blank 20 and form boundaries of the openings 35.
  • each cut 38 there is a cut 40 extending generally normal to the cut 38 to permit the lower portion of each side panel 24 to expand outwardly when the corner panel 25 is drawn tightly around bottles.
  • the carton blank 20 has been modified as compared to previous somewhat similar carton blanks to include an interrupted fold line 41 in each of the closure panels 28 and 29.
  • the interrupted fold lines 41 are disposed adjacent to and in parallel relation to respective ones of the interrupted fold lines 27. It is to be noted that the fold lines 41 are interrupted by the openings 35. It is also to be noted that the openings 35 extend deeper into the closure panels 28 and 29 than in prior carton blank constructions.
  • the interrupted fold lines 41 are provided for an initial and temporary folding of the closure panels 28 and 29 relative to the corner panels 25 to provide for temporarily and initially greater width corner panels from which the tabs 36 predominantly project.
  • an upstanding blade 42 which is generally identified as a sabre.
  • the sabre 42 extends down below the plane of the bottom of the bottles B and has the lower edge thereof initially aligned with the respective one of the fold lines 41.
  • the carton forming machine includes a conventional panel folding blade 43 which gradually slopes up towards the plane of the bottoms of the bottles B It will be seen that as the bottles B, with the carton blank 20 engaged thereover, move down the predetermined path of bottles or like containers along the package forming machine, the folding blade 43 functions to fold the closure panel 29 along the fold line 41 substantially at right angles to the respective corner panel 25 about the sabre 42 and along the interrupted fold line 41.
  • This arrangement as is clearly shown in FIGURE 5, provides for an oversize corner construction.
  • the package forming machine also includes a side pressure bar or blade 44.
  • the side pressure bar 44 in the simplest form of the invention, is disposed along only that side of the machine where the closure panel 29 passes and is at an elevation just above the path of the fold line 27 adjacent the closure panel 29.
  • the side pressure bar 44 has a starting ramp portion 45, an inoperative intermediate portion 46, a pressure applying ramp portion 47 and a pressure holding portion 48.
  • FIGURE 5 it will be seen that after the closure panel 29 has been folded to a position generally parallel to the bottoms of the bottles B, the side pressure bar or blade 44 comes into engagement with the corner panel 25 just above the interrupted fold line 27.
  • the corner panel 25 adjacent the closure panel 29 engages the pressure applying portion or ramp 47 of the side pressure bar 44 and the corner panel 25 will be folded relative to its respective side panel 24 along the interrupted fold line 26. This is best shown in FIGURE 6.
  • the folding blade 27 is progressively moving the closure panel 29 upwardly towards the bottoms of the bottles.
  • the tabs 36 come into engagement with the underside of the side pressure bar 44 and the side pressure bar. 44 becomes interlocked in the notches 37 of the openings and firmly interlocks behind the tabs 36.
  • the pressure applying edge of the side pressure bar 44 more firmly forces the corner panel 25 around and below the bottles B, slippage of the carton blank with respect to the side pressure bar 44 is prevented.
  • adjacent portions of the closure panel 29 and the respective corner panel 25 prevent engagement of the side pressure bar 44 with the bottles.
  • FIGURE 7 there is illustrated the relationship of the carton blank with respect to the bottles B and the side pressure bar 44 when the corner panel 25 is engaged with the holding portion 48 of the carton engaging edge of the side pressure bar 44. It will be obvious that the carton blank is tightly engaged about the bottles B and that the folding of the closure panel 29 along the fold line 41 no longer occurs. The folding of the corner panel rezlative to the closure panel 29 is now along the fold ine 7.
  • closure panel 29 With the closure panel 29 in the position illustrated in FIGURE 7, the closure panel 28 may be latched thereto in a manner clearly disclosed in US. Patent No. 2,986,857 to Henry Ganz and entitled Machine and Method for Packaging Articles.
  • a second side pressure bar may be provided on the opposite side of the machine for use in tightly drawing the corner panel 25 associated with the closure panel 28 around the bottles.
  • This additional side pressure bar is shown in FIGURE 9 and is identified by the numeral 49.
  • a portion of the latching mechanism of the machine which includes a vertical plate 50 and a folding blade 51.
  • FIGURE 10 wherein there is illustrated a portion of a modified form of carton blank which is generally referred to by the numeral 60.
  • the carton blank 60 with the exception of the specific corner constructions of the carton blank 20, is very similar to the carton blank 20. It is to be noted from the end portion of the carton blank 60 which has been illustrated in FIGURE 10 that a side panel 61 thereof is directly hingedly connected to the closure panel 62 along an interrupted fold line 63.
  • the fold line 63 is interrupted by container receiving openings 64 formed primarily in the side panel 61.
  • Each container receiving opening 64 is formed by a pair of arcuate cut lines 65 and 66 which are in partially nested relation and with the cut lines 66 defining a rounded edge of a tab 67 which projects from the closure panel 62. It is to be noted that the cut lines 65 and 66 intersect one another at relatively sharp angles to define notches 68 on opposite sides of the tabs 67.
  • the carton blank 60 will have a closure panel which corresponds to the closure panel 28 at the opposite end thereof and such closure panel will be identified by the numeral 69, as is best shown in FIGURE 17.
  • the closure panel 69 has hingedly connected thereto latching flaps 70 each of which has a catch 71 and a tongue 72 projecting from opposite sides thereof.
  • the catches 71 and the tongues 72 are interlocked with the closure panel 62 through latch openings 73 formed therein.
  • the carton blank 60 is applied over a plurality of hottles in the same manner as the carton blank 20.
  • the closure panel 62 is engaged by a rotating folding blade 75 disposed at one side of the path of movement of the bottles and carton blanks through the machine and the closure panel 62 is folded into underlying relation with respect to the bottles, as is shown in FIGURES 12 and 13.
  • the closure panel 62 hinges relative to the side panel 61 along the fold lines 63 and as a result, the tabs 67 swing from upstanding positions (FIGURE 12) to outwardly projecting horizontal positions (FIGURE 13).
  • the package forming machine also includes a side pressure bar or blade 76 which extends along one side of the machine.
  • the side pressure bar 76 has an upstanding nose 77 at the starting end thereof and has a carton engaging edge which includes a pressure applying ramp portion 78 that converges inwardly towards the center of the machine in the direction of container travel.
  • the underside of the side pressure bar 76 is spaced above the plane of the folding blade 75 a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the carton blank.
  • the outwardly projecting tabs 67 pass under the side pressure bar 76 in the manner clearly shown in FIG- URE 13.
  • the continued movement of the carton blank along the side pressure bar 76 results in the ramp portion 78 engaging the lower part of the side panels 61 with the result that the lower part of the side panel 61 is forced inwardly towards the center of the path of movement of the bottles B in the manner shown in FIGURE 14.
  • closure panel 69 is folded beneath the closure panel 62 and latched thereto in the general manner described in FIGURE 9. If desired, the closure panel 69 may also be tightly drawn beneath the bottles 68 by means of a second side pressure bar 81.
  • closure flaps or panels can be disposed along the sides or tops of the cartons.
  • corner tightening function of the pressure bars may be utilized independently of the drawing together of the closure panels.
  • folder means is disposed immediately in advance of said pressure bar for folding a partial panel to form the carton corner and holding the carton corner and tabs in a predetermined position for engagement by said pressure bar.
  • cooperating folder means are provided in advance of said pressure bar for temporarily folding one of the corner defining panels to form an oversize corner with a maximum projection of the tabs to assure engagement of said pressure bar behind said tabs, and wherein the relation of said pressure bar to the container path of movement assures the re-forming of the carton corner around containers.
  • folder means is disposed immediately in advance of said pressure bar for folding a partial panel to form the carton corner and holding the carton corner and tabs in a predetermined position for engagement by said pressure bar.
  • cooperating folder means are provided in advance of said pressure bar for temporarily folding one of the corner defining panels to form an oversize corner with a maximum projection of the tabs to assure engagement of said pressure bar behind said tabs, and wherein the relation of said pressure bar to the container path of movement assures the re-forming of the carton corner around containers.
  • a method of forming a tight corner in a package of the type including a plurality of containers enclosed in a wrap-around carton and wherein the corner is disposed between two adjacent carton panels of which at least one panel has tabs projecting generally towards the plane of the other panel; the method comprising the steps of folding the adjacent carton panels generally around containers to form a corner, and thereafter engaging the carton corner and utilizing the tabs as stop elements drawing the carton corner tightly around the containers.

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