High speed partition assembling method and apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

This invention relates to methods and apparatus for assembling multi-cell partitions to be inserted in packing boxes. All attempts to speed partition assembly have been severely hampered because of the numerous start-stop operations required, i.e. intermittently moving parts to receive strips and orient them vertically move the strips, in parallel relation to the assembly station hold the, strips momentarily stationary and poised with their notches aligned, then effecting vertically reciprocal movements to form the partition and return for repeat operation and, collapsing the formed partition for removal and tying. The present invention provides a high-speed continuous assembly method and …