Material or article handling – Article reorienting device – Article supporting carriage moved over fixed guideway to...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-02
2007-01-02
Crawford, Gene O. (Department: 3652)
Material or article handling
Article reorienting device
Article supporting carriage moved over fixed guideway to...
C414S782000, C414S746400, C414S798900, C198S409000, C198S836100, C271S150000, C493S055000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10347129
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for transporting and marking a substrate, such as a collapsed corrugated cardboard carton. A feeder station is configured to receive a substantially vertically aligned stack of substrates. An advancement assembly of the feeder station successively moves the lower portions of the substrates in an inboard direction and a tensioner assembly applies a clamping force to the upper portions of the substrates. A transfer assembly engages the innermost substrate in the stack to rotate and remove the substrate from the rest of the stack and provide the substrate to a transport and marking station, which drives the substrate past a marking mechanism. The transport and marking station advances the substrate into a gravity discharge station which induces sufficient tilt in the substrate so that, upon exiting of the substrate from the transport, gravity induces the substrate to rotate and fall in a controlled fashion into a completed stack.
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Coding, Marking, Labelling and Control for the Packaging Industry Travtec TR-1000 Casefeeder (Bulletin); pp. 1-2; Travtec Limited; Lancashire, UK.
Coding, Marking, Labelling and Control for the Packaging Industry Travtec TR-1000 Technical Specification (Bulletin); pp. 1-2; Travtec Limited; Lancashire, UK.
Butler Michael W.
Hadley Darrell J.
Hadley Jeffrey D.
Kirk Timothy B.
Adams Greg
Crawford Gene O.
Fellers , Snider, et al.
Hadley Design, Inc.
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