公开(公告)号：US20170158403A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-08

申请号：US15366941

申请日：2016-12-01

Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Inventor： Robert C. OLSEN ,  Christopher J. LUDWIG

IPC: B65D71/50 ,  B65D79/00

CPC classification number: B65D71/504 ,  B65D79/00 ,  B65D2203/06

Abstract: A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers includes a flexible sheet having two or more rows and multiple ranks of container apertures formed therein. The plurality of containers are each placed into a respective container receiving aperture and are thus unitized in a package. The flexible carrier further includes a plurality of handles corresponding with the multiple ranks, each handle formed at a periphery of the flexible sheet and a line of weakness formed between the transverse ranks. As a result of the described configuration, the flexible carrier is divisible into multiple sub-carriers, each unitizing a set of containers and each including a handle along a respective transverse edge of the resulting sub-carrier.

公开(公告)号：US20170113370A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-27

申请号：US15397512

申请日：2017-01-03

Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Inventor： Rachell SLOVIK ,  Christopher J. LUDWIG ,  Christopher J. SAMARAS ,  Jonathan GREGERSEN

IPC: B26D5/22 ,  B65B17/02 ,  B65B61/06 ,  B65B59/00

CPC classification number: B26D5/22 ,  B65B13/04 ,  B65B17/025 ,  B65B59/00 ,  B65B61/06 ,  Y10T83/04 ,  Y10T83/546

Abstract: An applicating machine for applying a flexible carrier to a plurality of containers provided from an infeed includes a jaw drum for applying a flexible carrier to a plurality of containers provided and a cutoff device for cutting the carrier into a desired size. The cutoff device includes an adjustable beam positionable into multiple angular positions relative to a flow of the plurality of containers depending on the desired size of the multipack.