Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
Patent
1996-03-01
1997-06-17
Coan, James F.
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
53244, 53249, B65B 106, B65B 3900, B65B 4350
Patent
active
056386575
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for automatically feeding, inspecting and diverting tablets for continuous filling of tablet containers includes a tablet conveyor system which divides the tablets in a plurality of tablet streams for inspection by color, size and shape. Following the tablet inspection, each tablet passes through a tablet diverter which diverts the tablets to a recycle stream, reject stream or one of two bottle filling positions based upon instruction from the inspection. A bottle conveyor system is provided which feeds empty bottles into a bottle escapement mechanism which positions the empty bottles for filling. Filled bottles are moved from the bottle escapement mechanism to an exit conveyor. The entire system is computer controlled by various control mechanisms to enable the system to be fully operational without operator assistance.
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Archer John R.
Cumpstey David E.
Gray Richard H.
Owen Stephen
Bigley Francis P.
Coan James F.
Daniel Mark R.
Korsen Elliott
Merck & Co. , Inc.
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