Packaging apparatus

Claim 1

AN APPARATUS FOR FILLING AND CLOSING CARTONS OF THE TYPE HAVING A PLURALITY OF FLANGS ARTICULATED TO THE WALLS OF THE CARTON AT EACH END AND ADAPTED WHEN CLOSED TO FROM END WALLS, A FIRST OF SAID FLAPS ON ONE END WALL BEING ADAPTED TO OVERLAP A SECOND OF SAID FLAPS, CONVEYOR MEANS FOR INTERMITTENTLY ADVANCING THE CARTONS ALONG A PATH PARALLELING SAID ONE END WALL PAST A FILLING STATION, A GLUD APPLICATOR POSITIONED AT THE OUTLER END OF SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, SAID GLUE APPLICATOR INCLUDING A POST HAVING AN ARM PIVOTALLY ATTACHED THERETO AND MOVABLE INTO AND OUT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TOP OF A CARTON AT THE END OF SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, MEANS ON SAID POST DEFINING A FLUE RESERVOIR, SAID ARM HAVING A DISPENSING OPENING THEREIN SPACED FROM SAID POST, SAID POST AND ARM HAVING INTERCONNECTED PASSAGES THEREIN COMMUNICATING SAID RESERVOIR AND SAID DISPENSING OPENING IN SAID ARM, TRANSFER MEANS ENGAGEABLE WITH A CARTON AT THE END OF THE CONVEYOR MEANS FOR MOVING THE SAME CROSSWISE OF THE CONVEYOR MEANS, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID ARM INTO AND OUT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CARTONS IN TIMED RELATION WITH THE OPERATION OF SAID TRANSFER MEANS, AND MEANS ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID FIRST FLAP FOR PRESSING SAID FIRST FLAP DOWN ONTO SAID SECOND FLAP AS THE CARTON IS MOVED BY SAID TRANSFER MEANS.