A carton flap hold down apparatus (25) for use in seating an open-ended sleeve-type carton (40) on a carton transport conveyor (27) is disclosed.

If the sensor does not indicate to the second conveyor that the queued box has not received the goods, the intermittent second conveyor will not move the box.

A pusher bar (122) then operates to move the cut blank (26) to an outfeed conveyer (146).

After the box (30) has received the goods (26), the intermittent conveyor moves the box away and queues another box (30) to receive goods (26).

The assembly includes a magazine and conveyor for moving stacks of carton blanks toward a carton feeder assembly.

The box (30) is positioned underneath the waterfall (17) to receive the goods by the action of an intermittent conveyor (70).

This transport conveyor comprises an upstream conveyor section (13) and a downstream conveyor section (14).

A conveyor drive is connected to on of the conveyor rollers.

The full cardboard boxes that arrive from the pallets are also inserted on this conveyor.

A descrambling conveyor is disposed downstream of the merging conveyor.

It includes a first conveyor belt (301) adjacent to the in-feed conveyor belt (321) and a second conveyor belt (302) adjacent to the first conveyor belt (301).

A carton flap hold down apparatus (25) for use in seating an open-ended sleeve-type carton (40) on a carton transport conveyor (27) is disclosed.

The conveyor (12) includes frame (21) supporting top-hat sections (22), the flanges (23) of which define a carton-supporting rest surface.

A conveyor assembly (10) including a conveyor (16) defining a conveying direction and a carrier assembly (22) operably coupled to the conveyor (16).

The supplying (11, 11a, 11b) or feeding conveyor (12) may comprise a belt conveyor, and the main conveyor (13) may comprise a cross-belt or tilt-tray conveyor.