摘要 |
<p>Filled and top-sealed cartons C are fed in a line to a chamber supplied with dehumidified warm air and short rows R, each of two or three cartons, are pushed consecutively and laterally at a grouping station G by a vertical plate 1 onto a carrier 5, which advances the rows R in turn through a side-taping station. At the grouping station G, a tape-gripping device 8 draws off consecutively from a roll of non-adhesive tape predetermined lengths of the tape, which are gripped at their middle sections in turn and are cut off from the roll, the cut-off end zones falling down to respective opposite sides of the row R. The cut-off lengths H are advanced with the respective rows R through the side-taping station, which has a pair of adhesive-tape-applying rolls 25 at those respective opposite sides and at which respective side tapes T2 are applied to adhere together the cartons C of the row R and the handle H of the row R.</p> |