Packaging machine

摘要

A packaging machine for enclosing in a cut and scored wraparound type blank of foldable sheet material a group of bottles arranged in double line with pairs thereof transversely aligned, which bottles are characterized by a body configuration having a larger cross sectional dimension in one direction than in the direction transverse thereto, the machine comprising an infeed conveyor on which a double line of the bottles are advanced in a path extending between a pair of parallel screw members which receive the bottles with the longer body dimension extending in the direction of advance of the bottles and which position the bottles in uniformly spaced relation and advance them beneath an overhead blank feeding mechanism which deposits blanks on successive groups of the bottles, the bottle and blank assemblies being then advanced to mechanism for partially folding the blanks about the bottles and finally to a forwarding conveyor mechanism which advances the assemblies through a mechanism for securing the ends of the blanks so that the blanks are in tight engagement with the bottles.