Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-16
2005-08-16
Lillis, Eileen D. (Department: 3651)
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
C198S426000, C053S252000, C053S473000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06929111
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for collating and cartonning product units comprising: product infeed means adapted to dispense a succession of discrete product units; one or more servo-trains, the or each servo-train comprising a plurality of buckets in which each bucket is adapted to receive a predetermined number of product units from the product infeed means to form a product group; first conveying means for conveying said one or more servo-trains between a loading station juxtaposed said product infeed means and a dispensing station; cartonning means comprising second conveying means adapted for transporting a succession of cartons juxtaposed said dispensing station; driving means associated with said first conveying means; controlling means for controlling operation of the driving means such that when a servo-train is positioned at the loading station, said servo-train is moved intermittently in synchronisation with the product infeed means for collating product units into the buckets, and after loading of the servo-train is completed by the servo-train is moved in synchronization with the second conveying means; product pushing means at the dispensing station for pushing product groups from the buckets into respective cartons on the second conveying means.
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Copy of International Search Report for PCT/IB01/00923, completed Sep. 4, 2001.
Alston & Bird LLP
Deuble Mark A.
Langenpac NV
Lillis Eileen D.
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