Package making – With means responsive to a sensed condition – Concurrent control of contents and receptacle feeds
Patent
1977-01-31
1978-04-25
McGehee, Travis S.
Package making
With means responsive to a sensed condition
Concurrent control of contents and receptacle feeds
53164, 53240, 53250, 198415, 198461, B65B 5710, B65B 3544
Patent
active
040855635
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for automatically dispensing stacks of cookies into the pockets of cookie packaging trays. A succession of multi-pocket cookie trays are intermittently advanced along a horizontal tray conveyor. Cookie delivery assemblies located in spaced relation along said tray conveyor each include a cookie delivery line and a cookie dispenser assembly which deposits stacks of cookies in the tray pockets during the dwell phase of the intermittent tray conveyor.
Each said cookie delivery line includes a shingler assembly and a separator assembly. The shingler assembly comprises a pair of spaced parallel horizontal feed belts onto which the cookies are manually loaded in edge-supported face-abutting relation and an underlying shingling belt traveling at a faster speed than said feed belts. The feed belts serve to advance the array of cookies toward the separator assembly while the shingling belt engages the lower edges of the cookies and tilts the cookies into an inclined attitude.
The separator assembly comprises a pair of spaced separating wheels which grip the lower side edges of each inclined cookie to separate the cookie from the array and transfer it into a horizontal disposition on a separating conveyor. The separator assembly further includes an accelerating conveyor onto which the cookies drop from the separating conveyor and which produces a substantial spacing between the conveyed cookies.
The dispenser assembly includes a stacking chamber into which the cookies are fed by the accelerating conveyor. The bottom of the stacking chamber is normally closed by a rotatable gate controlled by a gate actuating means which on receipt of an appropriate signal rotates the gate to drop the accumulated stack of cookies in the stacking chamber into the cookie tray pocket located therebelow. Cookie detector and counter means prevent actuation of the dispenser gate until a predetermined number of cookies have been deposited in the stacking chamber and then only when the tray conveyor has stopped to locate a tray pocket therebeneath. Control means are provided to stop the operation of the shingler and separator assemblies momentarily whenever the stacking chamber contains the predetermined number of cookies and an additional excess cookie is about to be added to the chamber.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2764274 (1956-09-01), Griswold et al.
patent: 3927508 (1975-12-01), Campbell
Cramer Clarence W.
Egee Walter W.
Campbell Soup Company
McGehee Travis S.
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