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BULK BIN FORMER APPARATUS AND METHOD

  • US 20140073497A1
  • Filed: 09/12/2012
  • Published: 03/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of forming a ready to use bulk bin, the method comprising the steps of:

  • providing an erecting and constructing station;

    providing a collapsed body blank supply station adjacent a first side of the erecting and constructing station;

    providing a bottom blank supply station adjacent a second side of the erecting constructing station;

    picking a collapsed body blank from the collapsed body blank supply station and moving it to the erecting and constructing station, the collapsed body blank including multiple side walls that interconnect at fold lines;

    opening the collapsed body blank at the erecting and constructing station to provide an opened body blank;

    picking a bottom blank from the bottom blank supply station and moving it to the erecting and constructing station, the bottom blank including a main body and multiple flaps;

    aligning the bottom blank with the opened body blank, the multiple flaps of the bottom blank having glue thereon;

    moving a body blank support head into an open first end of the opened body blank and toward the bottom blank at a second end of the opened body blank;

    engaging the bottom blank onto the second end of the opened body blank with the flaps of the bottom blank folded into position along side walls of the opened body blank such that the flaps are pressed against the side walls while the body blank support head is positioned to maintain position of the side walls during the pressing operation; and

    disengaging the flaps when the flaps are sufficiently adhered to the side walls and moving the body blank support head outward of the first end to produce an open bulk bin structure that can be unloaded from the erecting and constructing station for use.

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