| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus of applying carriers to arrays of containers, in particular cans, comprising providing a web of interconnected plastic carriers, each carrier having an array of openings for receiving the upper ends of the containers, the configuration of the openings being slightly less than the cross section of the upper ends of the containers, providing a plurality of containers, each container having a bead, a neck and a body portion, moving the cans in a predetermined path, moving the web in a downward converging path with respect to the direction of movement of the containers, engaging the trailing edges of the beads of each transverse row of containers with the trailing edges of a corresponding row of openings in the carrier. While converging occurs, each row of cans is moved relative to its respective row of openings in the carrier to cause the side edges and the leading edge of the row of openings of a carrier to pass over the side edges and the leading edges of the beads of the cans, and successively engaging the trailing edges of succeeding rows of containers with the trailing edges of succeeding rows of openings in the carrier, and thereafter severing the web from the remainder of the web after application to a predetermined number of rows to provide a package having a predetermined array of containers. This invention relatesto a method and apparatus for a applying carries to containers and a preferably cans.
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