Packaging process and apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Apparatus and process in which one plate or several ac-, curately superimposed plates (10 16) carry items (12, 18) to be, packaged. On inversion of the plates items either fall directly in-, to the voids of a partitioned box (26) or fall into individual packages held by a plate, which packaged items are then ejected by pushrods, etc. into a single box. A plate may have cut-away portions (e.g. V-shaped grooves) which receive upstanding edges or partition walls of a box to accurately register box with plate (and contents) and nest the box into the plate to achieve configuration-accurate inversion of the items to be packaged.