Machine for forming cartons and packaging goods therein

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A machine for forming cardboard blanks into crates (open top containers) for transporting and storing goods particularly plastic containers of milk. The machine has folding apparatus (54, 57, 67) for folding opposed extended end flaps (14a) of the blank back on themselves to form a reinforcing structure including a ledge (12) which in a, formed crate extends inwardly across each of two opposed ends (14) of the crate towards the upper edges of the opposed ends. A first carriage member (33) with suction means (38) lifts a blank from a stack and places it at said folding apparatus. A second carriage member (42) progresses the blank through the folding apparatus to forming apparatus (23) where …