EP 1068947 B1 20040331 - Method and apparatus for automatically forming cardboard boxes from a flat unfinished board
Title (en)
Method and apparatus for automatically forming cardboard boxes from a flat unfinished board
Title (de)
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur automatischen Herstellung von Kartons aus flachem Material
Title (fr)
Procédé pour la fabrication automatique des cartons à partir de matériel plat
Publication
Application
Priority
EP 99830419 A 19990630
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP1068947A1] This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for automatically forming open-top parallelepipedic board containers or cartons (2) from flattened blanks (3) stacked inside a carton blank magazine (4), each blank basically comprising the sidewalls (PL,PC) of the ultimate carton, a first pair (PL,PC) of upper walls being juxtaposed to a second pair (PC,PL) of lower walls in a substantially flat configuration. The method comprises the successive steps of: picking up a carton blank (3) from the magazine (4) by individually gripping the first blank (3) with a robot (40) of the pick-and-place type having a tooling head (45) provided with a gripper means (47,48) which is applied to the first pair (PL,PC) of upper walls of the blank (3); positioning the blank (3) on a supporting deck (35) equipped with a holding means (36), and applying the means (36) to just one wall (PL) in the second pair (PC,PL) of lower walls; opening up the blank (3) by moving the tooling head (45) away from the supporting deck (35) along a predetermined blank unfolding (opening up) path to obtain a substantially box-like open-ended structure. <IMAGE>
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B31B 5/80 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B31B 50/00 (2017.08 - EP); B31B 50/006 (2017.08 - EP); B31B 50/022 (2017.08 - EP US); B31B 50/004 (2017.08 - EP); B31B 50/80 (2017.08 - EP); B31B 2100/00 (2017.08 - EP); B31B 2120/30 (2017.08 - EP)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU NL PT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1068947 A1 20010117; EP 1068947 B1 20040331; AT E263020 T1 20040415; DE 69916041 D1 20040506; DE 69916041 T2 20041021; DK 1068947 T3 20040705; ES 2217728 T3 20041101; PT 1068947 E 20040730; SI 1068947 T1 20040831
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 99830419 A 19990630; AT 99830419 T 19990630; DE 69916041 T 19990630; DK 99830419 T 19990630; ES 99830419 T 19990630; PT 99830419 T 19990630; SI 9930556 T 19990630