Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Stack forming apparatus
Patent
1997-10-07
1999-04-27
Valenza, Joseph E.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Stack forming apparatus
198374, 1984184, 4147984, 4147986, B65G 5700, B65G 4724, B65G 4730
Patent
active
058972919
ABSTRACT:
A method of forming arrays of articles, comprising: (a) providing a stacker having a plurality of compartments for receiving the articles, the stacker traveling along a closed loop path; (b) transporting a plurality of the articles along a first path to the stacker in sequential fashion; (c) introducing the articles into the compartments at an inlet position; (d) removing a first array of the articles from the stacker at a first stripping position by urging the articles from the compartment in a first stripping direction; (e) transporting the first array along a second path away from the stacker in a direction substantially opposite to the first stripping direction; and (f) repeating steps (b) through (e) for subsequent articles. An apparatus for use in this method is also provided.
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Erickson Gregory J.
Gerwe Thomas K.
Bower K W
The Procter & Gamble & Company
Valenza Joseph E.
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