US PATENT SUBCLASS 53 / 287
.~ Separate closure applying

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53 /   HD   PACKAGE MAKING

285  DF  CLOSING PACKAGES AND FILLED RECEPTACLES {7}
287.~ Separate closure applying {17}
288  DF  .~.~> Cover to milk can
289  DF  .~.~> With preliminary receptacle shaping
290  DF  .~.~> With preliminary closure shaping and/or treatment {2}
299  DF  .~.~> Receptacle delivery by case or row
300  DF  .~.~> With receptacle support and/or feed by shoulder engagement
301  DF  .~.~> Receptacle delivery to alternately acting headers
302  DF  .~.~> Sequentially acting plural headers {2}
305  DF  .~.~> By hand operation with magazine supply
306  DF  .~.~> Closure delivery from supply into or below bottom of header {2}
309  DF  .~.~> Closure delivery from supply through top of header
310  DF  .~.~> Closure delivery from supply laterally into header {2}
313  DF  .~.~> Closure selected by moving receptacle {2}
317  DF  .~.~> Screw or lug closure applying means {1}
319  DF  .~.~> Closure inserting means {5}
329  DF  .~.~> Closure securing means {9}
367  DF  .~.~> Orienting or aligning means
368  DF  .~.~> With height compensating means and/or package ejection means {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 53/287

(under subclass 285) Apparatus which completes the enclosure of the contents by securing a separate closure member to another cover member or receptacle.

(1) Note. Included in this and indented subclasses is the assembly of a cap, capsule, cork, cot, crown, disk; stopper or hood closure to an aperture of a bottle, container, jar, or tube.

(2) Note. Included hereunder is the application of a closure and a superimposed hood or cap at a single station in substantially a single infeed operation.

(3) Note. Included hereunder is the partial encasement of the neck end of a bottle (whether or not said bottle has been previously corked or capped) by a closure which is conformed to said neck portion.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

128.1+, for apparatus which in addition to securing or

assembling a separate closure member also applies a contents contacting sealing spot, disk, or gasket; a superimposed disk which depresses a portion of the separate closure member within the aperture of a receptacle; and/or applies a binding string or wire or a resilient band and/or a staple or clip to fasten the closure member onto the receptacle. 170+, for apparatus to apply two or more separate and distinct closures, said closures being superimposed and applied at separate stations or in substantially distinct sequential operations at the same station.

376.3, for apparatus which completes the enclosure of the contents by displacing a single projecting flap portion of the cover or a hinged lid.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

221, Article Dispensing, appropriate sub- classes particularly

236+, for devices which remove a closure from a magazine and then dispense said closure in a direction normal to the movement from said magazine. Where a claimed disclosure provides for means operated by coaction of a receiver to actuate dispensing manipulating means the patents are classified in this (287) and indented subclasses.