Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – Simultaneous deposit of plural articles
Patent
1994-02-24
1995-10-17
Larson, Lowell A.
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
Simultaneous deposit of plural articles
53448, 53475, 53255, 53261, B65B 304, B65B 3900
Patent
active
054579333
ABSTRACT:
An improved actuating system for a plurality of tucker plates used to compress and tuck arrays of fruit placed by an automated fruit handler into shipping cartons is described. The timing and motive force used for operation of the tucker plate is derived from motion of the fruit handler. Contact of the fruit and the fruit handler with an inclined tucker plate on each of four side is sufficient to cause tucker plates to rotate about a hinge assembly which couples the tucker plate to the packer table through which the fruit handler disposes the layers of fruit into the shipping cartons positioned on a conveyor underneath the packer table. Each tucker plate is provided with an upper finger which contacts the fruit handler as the fruit handler move upwardly thereby causing a torque to be applied to the tucker plate to reorient the tucker plate from the vertical packing position to an open tilted receiving position.
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Affeldt Henry A.
LaVars Everett
Butler Rodney
Larson Lowell A.
Sunkist Growers Inc.
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