US 11,938,698 B2
Container forming apparatus and method
Amer Aganovic, Orlando, FL (US); and Thomas Dean Graham, Winter Garden, FL (US)
Assigned to WestRock Shared Services, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Westrock Shared Services, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Sep. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/903,643.
Application 17/903,643 is a division of application No. 13/827,263, filed on Mar. 14, 2013, granted, now 11,433,634.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/716,272, filed on Oct. 19, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2023/0075478 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B31B 50/00 (2017.01); B31B 50/28 (2017.01); B31B 50/44 (2017.01); B31B 50/62 (2017.01); B31B 50/81 (2017.01); B31B 100/00 (2017.01); B31B 110/30 (2017.01); B31B 120/00 (2017.01)
CPC B31B 50/00 (2017.08) [B31B 50/28 (2017.08); B31B 50/44 (2017.08); B31B 50/624 (2017.08); B31B 50/81 (2017.08); B31B 2100/00 (2017.08); B31B 2100/0024 (2017.08); B31B 2110/30 (2017.08); B31B 2120/002 (2017.08); B31B 2120/502 (2017.08)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of forming a container, said method comprising:
positioning a blank in a blank feeder assembly;
feeding the blank to a compression assembly; and
forming the container from the blank within the compression assembly, wherein the compression assembly includes a mandrel assembly, an upper folding arm assembly including a plurality of folding arms moveable between a first position and a second position, a compression plate, and a rollover arm assembly, wherein forming the container comprises:
driving the mandrel assembly downwardly against a bottom panel of the blank;
rotating a first folding arm of the plurality of folding arms from the first position to the second position, said rotating comprising folding a first portion of the blank towards the mandrel assembly and into a perpendicular orientation relative to the bottom panel;
folding, with the compression plate, a second portion of the blank into contact with the first portion of the blank and into a perpendicular orientation relative to the bottom panel; and
folding, with the rollover arm assembly, a third portion of the blank coupled to the second portion of the blank, said folding comprising rotating the third portion of the blank from a perpendicular orientation relative to the bottom panel into a parallel orientation relative the bottom panel.