| 摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/AU87/00329 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 13, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 13, 1989 PCT Filed Sep. 25, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO88/03501 PCT Pub. Date May 19, 1988.A machine for forming cardboard blanks into crates (open top containers) for transporting and storing goods, particularly plastic containers of milk. The machine has folding apparatus for folding opposed extended end flaps of the blank back on themselves to form a reinforcing structure including a ledge which, in a formed crate extends inwardly across each of two opposed ends of the crate towards the upper edges of the opposed ends. A first carriage member with suction means lifts a blank from a stack and places it at said folding apparatus. A second carriage member progresses the blank through the folding apparatus to forming apparatus where the goods are loaded onto the blank to form a mandrel and the carton is formed into a crate around the goods. |
