Package making – Methods – Filling preformed receptacle
Patent
1996-10-24
1998-08-25
Coan, James F.
Package making
Methods
Filling preformed receptacle
53248, 53251, 53497, 53539, B65B 508, B65B 2106, B65B 2118
Patent
active
057972494
ABSTRACT:
A continuous motion apparatus and method are disclosed where slugs of articles are picked up by pick-up heads revolving in a vertical plane path, and are transferred to a case packing station. A vertical motion mechanism lowers the pick-up heads at the case packing station to gently place the slugs into indexed cases in a reliable manner. The slugs, pick-up heads, and indexed cases are fed in continuous, synchronous motions. The pick-up heads are carried on the transfer arms in alignment with grid heads which reciprocate relative to the pick-up heads. The grid heads include grid fingers which define grid chutes arranged in a matrix corresponding to the array of articles in a slug. The grid chutes are lowered over the slug to receive the articles, and thereafter to transfer the slug to the case packing station. In this manner, the grid heads may be used in connection with the pick-up heads to provde a placement packer. The pick-up heads positively hold the ends of the articles so that when the grid chutes penetrate the cases and are opened, the grippers may be independently lowered to gently release the articles as a placement packer, all in a continuous motion.
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Coan James F.
Flint Cort
Hartness International, Inc.
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