Device for attaching a straw to a carton container

• US 5,037,366 A
• Filed: 05/17/1990
• Issued: 08/06/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gilliland Industrials Corporation
• Original Assignee: Gilliland Industrials Corporation
• Inventors: Yokoyama, Yoshimitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Schmidt, Frederick R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MARLOTT, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US07/524,623
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• Field of Search: 493/84, 493/45, 493/48, 53/410, 53/128, 53/272, 53/276, 53/292, 53/293, 53/302, 53/308, 53/367
• US Class Current: 493/84
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 61/205 for adding drinking straws to a container

Abstract

A straw applicator to seal an encapsulated straw to the side of a carton container which employs a rotating drum having concave sections to pick up the straw and carry it to the severing and sealing position.

Claims

1. A device for attaching a straw to a carton container comprising:

a rotating drive having a plurality of grooves in the circumference thereof, a plurality of slots in the circumference of said drum having a depth greater than the depth of said grooves, one of said slots being located between adjacent grooves, guide roller means supplying a continuous web of straws to said drum, a guide plate closely adjacent the circumference of said drum holding said web of straws onto said drum, a first means to push a straw into one of said grooves as said web of straws is being conveyed to a cutter, a cutter means adjacent said drum to push a cutter through the web of material into said slot to separate a straw from said web of straws, means to index said drum to intermittently rotate same and a pivotally mounted arm member with a groove in the face thereof to remove a severed straw from the grooves of said drum and transfer the severed straw to a carton to which the straw is to be adhered, wherein said first means and said cutter means are activated by a cylinder means in sequence with the means to index said drum.