High speed selective container sorter

Details High speed selective container sorter High speed selective container sorter

2007-09-21

2009-08-04

Bidwell, James R (Department: 3651)

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By distributing items from one stream into plural streams

C198S438000, C198S482100

Reexamination Certificate

active

07568573

ABSTRACT:
A container machine and method, the machine comprising: an exit track for containers; a primary starwheel holding processed containers and moving the processed containers along a pitch line path toward the exit track; a sorter starwheel positioned adjacent to the primary starwheel and driven in phase synchronization with the primary starwheel; a sorter track for providing a path for containers held by the sorter starwheel; a diverter mechanism to divert at least a selected one of the processed containers on the primary starwheel to a pocket of the sorter starwheel; and a timing device for causing the diverter mechanism to operate while the primary starwheel is rotating at least at fifty percent of production speed and preferably at production speed.

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PCT International Search Report dated Jan. 26, 2009 received in the corresponding application, PCT/US2008/010837, filed Sep. 18, 2008.

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