| 摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/GB95/01876 Sec. 371 Date May 27, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date May 27, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 9, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/05120 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 22, 1996A divider panel for stacked cans is disclosed. The divider panel has an elongate paperboard strip (10) which includes a plurality of divider pads (12), each divider pad providing two rows of can seats (11) defined therein for being disposed between two layers of vertically stacked cans. The divider pads are connected along their ends to adjacent ones of the divider pads along perforated lines (13) to assist in separating the divider pads from one another as desired. The use of the elongate divider panel of this invention allows for lower operating speeds in placing the divider panel on a generally continuous lower layer of cans prior to placing the upper layer of cans thereon as the divider panel and the cans move along a path of travel on a packaging machine when compared to sequentially placing one of a series of separate divider pads between the pairs of cans otherwise being moved along the path of travel on the packaging machine at a relatively faster rate of speed. The divider panel of this invention can be used with a variety of arrays of cans. |
