Robert P Dover, 411366 Avondale Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32205

D474064, May 6, 2003

Mar 4, 1999

29/101442

Robert L. Dover - Marietta GA
Lelia Francisco - Stockbridge GA
William Max Rynor - Woodstock GA

Laminating Technologies Inc. - Canton GA

0702

D 7354

6186931, Feb 13, 2001

Mar 1, 1999

9/259618

Rodney K. Calvert - Dunwoody GA
Robert L. Dover - Marietta GA

Laminating Technologies, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B31B 100

493 8

The present invention provides an apparatus that can erect a tray from a generally flat, rectangular blank. The tray erector incorporates an inventory section, a transfer section, a construction section and an exit section. The inventory section has a hopper with flanges and tab stops, which hopper stores an inventory of stacked, flat blanks that will eventually become the trays. In the transfer section, a blank is transferred from the inventory section to the construction section of the present erector. The construction section includes a setup assembly and a locking assembly. The setup assembly folds the pre-cut and scored end and side panels of the tray blank up into approximately perpendicular planes in relation to the plane of the bottom panel of the blank. The end and side panels are folded up from the plane of the bottom panel of the blank in preparation for the locking of the corner webs. While the end and side panels are folded, the corner webs begin to extend out from the tray due to the actions of folding the end and side panels.