Claims
- 1. Apparatus for forming a plurality of handles in a container comprising:
- an upper mandrel having walls which define a generally semi-toroidal cavity extending upwardly from a bottom surface thereof,
- a lower mandrel adapted to mate within the interior of a container blank tube with said upper mandrel, said lower mandrel including walls which define
- a generally semi-toroidal shaped cavity extending downwardly from the upper surface thereof, and
- a pair of dies hinged to each other and rotatable with respect to each other about a vertical axis,
- each of said dies having a surface shaped complementary to the toroidal-shaped cavities in said abutted mandrels so as to deform separated portions of the carton tube into said mandrel cavities to form a pair of handle portions on said container blank.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of said dies have a semi-ovoid surface.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 1 including
- a fluid cylinder rotatably connected to each of said dies to rotate each die about said vertical axis.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of said mandrels is substantially rectangular in cross-section.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 178,525 filed Aug. 15, 1980, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,334,942.
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