Package making – With contents treating – Reshaping
Patent
1977-11-08
1979-07-17
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
With contents treating
Reshaping
53542, 53250, 53244, B65B 508, B65B 510
Patent
active
041610954
ABSTRACT:
A system for stacking flat articles into containers having essentially imperforate end walls with the flat articles disposed essentially normal to the bottoms; a stacking conveyor having cooperating pinch belts with an input end for receiving flat articles in a shingled stream, one of the pinch belts at the other end terminating before the other pinch belt to provide a delivery end, a conveyor for moving containers past the delivery end, the delivery end being oriented normal to the bottom of a container and terminating a short distance above the upper edge of the container, stack support structure extending into the associated container and terminating a short distance from the bottom thereof, means for generating a gap in the shingled stream that arrives at the delivery end at the completion of the filling of one container and ends when the next empty container is in position, a following roller disposed adjacent to the delivery end and urging the shingled stream thereagainst, a mechanism for lifting the stacking support structure out of the associated container upon the filling thereof; there also is disclosed a stacking system for use with containers having aligned slots in the ends thereof wherein the delivery end extends downwardly into the associated container and moves through the aligned slots in going from one container to another.
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Culver Horace M.
Gard, Inc.
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