| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for making and stacking bundles of corrugated folded boxes into accurate loads. The method comprises advancing a squared bundle of flattened folded glued corrugated boxes along a conveyor while applying a compressing force to the bundle in a direction that bears against the glued portions of the boxes in the bundle, lowering the squared first discrete bundle from the conveyor onto the upper surface of the lift while maintaining the bundle in its squared orientation, squaring a succeeding discrete bundle of folded glued boxes while the first bundle is on the conveyor or the lift, advancing a succeeding squared bundle along the conveyor to the position above the lift while applying the compressing force to the bundle, lowering the succeeding bundle onto the top of the first bundle while maintaining the succeeding bundle in its squared orientation and while orienting the succeeding bundle to match the first bundle while the first bundle is on the lift to form an aligned stack of both bundles, and discharging the aligned stack from the lift. The apparatus includes a squaring station for receiving individual folded corrugated boxes and squaring the boxes into a bundle, a conveyor for advancing a squared bundle of folded boxes from the squaring station, a lift adjacent the conveyor for successively receiving squared bundles from the conveyor, means for delivering a squared bundle from the conveyor to the lift positioned below the plane of the conveyor, and an exit conveyor for discharging a stack of bundles from the lift.
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