Conveyors – chutes – skids – guides – and ways – Chutes
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-23
2011-08-23
Crawford, Gene (Department: 3651)
Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways
Chutes
C198S367000, C198S442000, C198S368000, C198S418600
Reexamination Certificate
active
08002102
ABSTRACT:
A thermoformed article stack guiding apparatus is provided with a frame, a guide ramp and an array of juxtaposed article guide channels. The guide ramp receives and guides individual stacks of inter-nested articles exiting a female die of a thermoforming trim press from multiple rows and multiple levels. A first set of article guide channels is inter-nested with a second set of article guide channels in an alternating array. Each of the first set and the second set is spread out laterally in a direction from an entrance end of the guide ramp to an exit end of the guide ramp to accept respective stacks of inter-nested articles from an upper row and a lower row of a trim press and transfer the stacks into a common exit row. A method is also provided.
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Crawford Gene
Cumbess Yolanda
Wells St. John P.S.
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