US 12,269,629 B2
Packaging apparatus for secondary packages
Philippe Jean Marie Duperray, Châteauroux (FR); and Wim DeKocker, Leuven (BE)
Assigned to Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Brussels (BE)
Appl. No. 17/631,293
Filed by Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Brussels (BE)
PCT Filed Jul. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/071379
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/018952, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19189079 (EP), filed on Jul. 30, 2019; and application No. 19219726 (EP), filed on Dec. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258888 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B65B 11/08 (2006.01); B65B 5/02 (2006.01); B65B 11/00 (2006.01); B65B 21/24 (2006.01); B65B 35/30 (2006.01); B65B 43/10 (2006.01); B65B 43/12 (2006.01); B65B 43/14 (2006.01); B65B 49/08 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 11/004 (2013.01) [B65B 5/024 (2013.01); B65B 11/08 (2013.01); B65B 21/24 (2013.01); B65B 35/30 (2013.01); B65B 43/10 (2013.01); B65B 43/126 (2013.01); B65B 43/145 (2013.01); B65B 49/08 (2013.01); B65B 59/001 (2019.05); B65B 2210/04 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaging apparatus for in-line packaging wrapping of a foldable blank around a receiving load that is simultaneously dropped onto a loading space of the foldable blank, the apparatus comprising:
a support adapted to receive a supply of one or more foldable blanks, the support comprising a support frame supported onto two or more parallel longitudinal rails positioned generally transversal to a direction of supply of foldable blanks;
an article loading mechanism to load a group of articles onto the loading space defined onto the foldable blank received onto the support;
an erecting mechanism comprising a plurality of generally spaced apart generally vertically operating lugs, positioned onto one or more sides of the support frame, and at a height lower than the longitudinal rails, wherein said vertical lugs are adapted to perform a generally vertically upward movement engaging and erecting at least one side of the foldable blank around the articles already loaded onto the foldable blank, wherein the support frame comprises a foldable or collapsible deck supported horizontal for receiving the foldable blank; wherein the foldable or collapsible deck comprises a plurality of parallel elongated segments moveably configured transversal to the direction of supply of foldable blanks; the foldable or collapsible deck is configured to form a flush, flat, load bearing, support surface, wherein the support frame is foldable or collapsible upon moving the longitudinal rails towards each other.