Automatic package loading system for bakery goods and the like

Details Automatic package loading system for bakery goods and the like Automatic package loading system for bakery goods and the like

1989-08-22

1990-12-04

Coan, James F.

Package making

With means responsive to a sensed condition

Of receptacle or cover feed or adjunct feed or application

53244, 53250, B65B 3556, B65B 4352, B65B 5702

Patent

active

049743910

ABSTRACT:
A comprehensive system is disclosed for the pattern forming and loading of packaged bakery products into pallet trays or baskets (herein collectively referred to as baskets) for delivery to stores. An arrangement of basket and product conveyors delivers product packages to a pick-up station and baskets to loading positions. A programmable robotic loader is fitted with a special gripper adapted for the pick-up of groups of the packaged goods by applying suction to the product packages and physically laterally confining the suspended bags. The programmed loader picks up product groups and places them in a programmed, optimal pattern in the shipping basket. The special gripper mechanism enables the robotic loader to execute rapid translational and rotational motions in transferring product to the shipping baskets in a desired orientation. A unique form of continuously running, free roller conveyor delivers the product packages to the pick-up station, while isolating soft, compressible products from forward pressure from the conveyor. A novel arrangement of basket conveyors enables a single primary basket infeed conveyor to reliably supply a plurality of product loading stations with empty baskets for product loading. The primary conveyor is associated with a plurality of secondary conveyor sections, to which baskets are diverted on demand without significantly holding up the forward flow of empty baskets to other stations.

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patent: 4915368 (1990-04-01), Tsunekawa et al.

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