公开(公告)号：US20180117870A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15785814

申请日：2017-10-17

Applicant: Neopost Technologies

Inventor： Joost ZEILSTRA ,  Fokke DE BOER ,  Muhamber EGLENCE ,  Olaf DE JONG

IPC: B31B50/00 ,  B31F1/20 ,  B31B50/81 ,  B31B50/88 ,  B31B50/62

CPC classification number: B31B50/006 ,  B31B50/005 ,  B31B50/62 ,  B31B50/814 ,  B31B50/88 ,  B31F1/20 ,  B31F1/2822 ,  B65B2210/04

Abstract: An apparatus to create corrugated cardboard on the site of a system for automatically forming packaging boxes for packaging an arrangement of one or more item(s) to be shipped, said corrugated cardboard having at least one corrugated layer between two flat layers, comprising at least two supply stations for supplying two different single-faced corrugated cardboards, each single-faced corrugated cardboard comprising a corrugated layer (having a closed side with an attached flat layer and an open side opposite to said closed side, a supply station for supplying a closing layer, a microprocessor communicatively coupled to obtain information on the arrangement to be shipped, the information relating to at least one of overall dimensions, weight, shape, shipping conditions, fragility, sensitivity to moisture, value, shipping destination, and the obtained information allowing selection, based on the obtained information, of at least one of said at least two different single-faced corrugated cardboards, and an attaching station that attaches the closing layer to the selected first single-faced cardboard to sandwich the corrugated layer between the flat layer and the closing layer.