Machine for and method of securing a lining bag at precise locations on the inner surface of a container blank

• US 7,066,869 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2004
• Issued: 06/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sabert Corporation
• Original Assignee: LBP Manufacturing Incorporated
• Inventors: Cook, Matthew R., Baba, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): TAWFIK, SAMEH
• Application Number:
  US10/895,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20050043157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 493/13, 493/33, 493/27, 493/12, 493/79, 493/69, 493/87, 493/52
• US Class Current: 493/69
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 2105/00 Rigid or semi-rigid containers made by assembling separate sheets, blanks or webs
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 2105/0024 Making boxes having all side walls attached to the bottom
• CPC Class Codes: B31B 2120/408 by folding a sheet or blank around an inner tubular liner
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/065 Spouts, pouring necks or discharging tubes fixed to or integral with the flexible container

Abstract

An automated machine for and the method of fabricating containers made from a cardboard paperboard or corrugated paperboard blank having an inner liquid holding bag secured to the inner surface of the paperboard box. The liquid holding bag includes a spout that extends through a spout opening formed in the paperboard blank. During the fabrication process the spout is utilized to precisionally locate the liquid holding bag so that when the panel of the blank with the spout opening is folded down over the spout, the spout will be properly aligned with the spout opening thus facilitating the automatic assembly of the container. In this automatic assembly process the liquid holding bag is secured to the inner surface of the container at multiple locations such that when the container is opened into its three dimensional use configuration a passage is opened for filling the bag through the spout.

Claims

1. A method of producing a container, from a flat blank having a spout receiving opening formed therein and a flat bag having a spout secured to and protruding there, that can be rapidly erected from a flat state to a three dimensional state at which three dimensional state it facilitates reception, containment and dispensing of fluid, the method comprising:

a step of feeding said flatbags by providing a first bag feeding mechanism;

a step of precisely locating the position of said flat bags on said bag feeding mechanism by providing a spout locating device

a step of feeding said flat blank in a given direction by providing a blank feeding mechanism

a step of depositing a first fugitive glue deposit on said flat blanks by providing a first glue dispensing mechanism

a step of feeding said flat bag in said given direction by providing a second bag feeding mechanism and depositing said flat bag on said flat blanks over said first fugitive glue deposit such that the bag covers a portion of said blank;

after said flat bag is deposited on said flat blank, a step of depositing a second fugitive glue deposit on a portion of said flat blank that is not covered by said bag by providing a second glue dispensing mechanism; and

a step of folding said flatblank over said flat bag by providing blank folding mechanism such that said spout is inserted through said spout receiving opening and the bag is secured to said blank by said second fugitive glue deposit.

2. The method of producing a container as set forth in claim 1, comprising the additional step of:

a step of sensing the presence or absence of a string of bays on said first bag feeding mechanism by providing a first electric eye.

3. The method of producing a container as set forth in claim 2 including the following additional step:

a step of controlling and coordinating the first and second bag feeding mechanism by providing a programmable logic controller (PLC), blank feeding mechanism, first and second glue dispensing mechanisms, the blank folding mechanism and the electric eye.

4. The method of producing a container as set forth in claim 1, comprising the additional step of:

a step of sensing the location of said flat bags along said first bag feeding mechanism by providing a second electric eye.

5. The method of producing a container as set forth in claim 4 including the following additional step:

a step of controlling and coordinating the first and second bag feeding mechanism by providing a programmable logic controller (PLC), blank feeding mechanism, first and second glue dispensing mechanisms, the blank folding mechanism and the electric eye.

6. The method of producing a container as set forth in claim 1 including the following additional step:

a step of controlling and coordinating the first and second bag feeding mechanism by providing a programmable logic controller (PLC), blank feeding mechanism, first and second glue dispensing mechanisms and the blank folding mechanism.