On-line package stacking apparatus and method

Details On-line package stacking apparatus and method On-line package stacking apparatus and method

1998-10-13

1999-12-07

Krizek, Janice L.

Material or article handling

Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...

Stack forming apparatus

198431, 4147907, 4147944, 414802, B65G 5706

Patent

active

059972386

ABSTRACT:
A product stacking apparatus, and a method of using it, is provided, where the apparatus is located inline with a product conveyor, and includes a frame having at least one spanner connecting plates which together straddle the product conveyor, a drive roller, an infeed system driven by the drive roller, having carriers which move upstream to downstream relative to motion of the product conveyor, a hopper which receives a product from the infeed system, an automatic detainer which automatically opens the hopper so that a predetermined number of the products exits the hopper on the conveyor, an automatic dropgate mechanism, located between the infeed system and the hopper, which automatically releases the product into the hopper, and sensors which count products, allows for their accumulation and release, and prevents jamming of the product on the apparatus.

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