Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – Successive deposits of articles
Reexamination Certificate
2009-05-20
2011-10-11
Harmon, Christopher (Department: 3721)
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
Successive deposits of articles
C053S235000, C053S244000, C053S247000, C053S250000, C053S534000, C053S539000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08033082
ABSTRACT:
A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further includes disappearing lugs that pivot into the lanes via a cam surface provided in the lanes. The product rides upon a raised surface of the cam surface as the lug pushes the product set together down the lane, thus ensuring that no gaps are provided between product set members. A gripper/grid section of the packaging machine includes a bars that travel about a carousel with a gripper head assembly and a grid assembly pair moving up and down the bars as defined by cam surfaces within the gripper/grid section. The grid section is presented below the product set such that the product set is fed through the grid section in a one-way trip into a case. The gripper head assembly cam device and the case feed section both include height adjustment assemblies.
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Cassarino Vincent M.
Dolce Rick
Johnson Lloyd
Raudat John L.
Reilly Jeffrey
Cantor & Colburn LLP
Harmon Christopher
Standard Knapp Inc.
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