CARTON PACKAGING MACHINE HAVING TRAILING ARTICLE PUSHER ASSEMBLIES

摘要

An article packaging machine includes a trailing article pusher assembly for pushing the trailing articles of a packaging production run down infeed conveyer lanes and through workstations of the packaging machine so that the trailing articles can be packaged. The pusher assembly comprises a pusher chain that is flexible in one direction to allow the chain to be coiled upon itself and generally inflexible in the other direction beyond a substantially straigt configuration of the chain. A pusher block is attached to a free end of the pusher chain.