Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-27
2006-06-27
Gerrity, Stephen F. (Department: 3721)
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
C053S247000, C053S252000, C053S258000, C053S260000, C053S517000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07065936
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is provided for filling food product drafts into packages. A supply of open top containers are arranged in rows and carried by an elongated web of film and are movable by the web into a fill station. A shuttle conveyor has a retractable and extendable conveying surface, the conveying surface arranged above the fill station and having an end region extendable to a position arranged to deposit food product drafts into the containers of the first row by circulation of the conveying surface. The conveying surface is retractable, or extendable, to reposition the end to a position arranged to deposit food product drafts carried on the conveying surface into the containers of the second row and each subsequent row. A tamping apparatus is carried by the conveyor to retract or extend with the conveying surface end. The tamping apparatus has vertically reciprocal tamping elements arranged above the respective row being filled with food product drafts, the tamping elements actuated to press the food product drafts into the containers.
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Lindee Scott A.
Pasek James E.
Sandberg Glenn
Formax, Inc.
Gerrity Stephen F.
The Law Office of Randall T. Erickson, P.C.
Truong Thanh
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