Package making – Methods – Group forming of contents into a unit
Patent
1984-12-03
1986-05-27
Coan, James F.
Package making
Methods
Group forming of contents into a unit
53447, 53532, 53542, B65B 3544, B65B 3550
Patent
active
045907439
ABSTRACT:
Cookies (18) and the like are moved in a horizontal, as-baked attitude from an oven and are automatically loaded in edge standing attitude in the semicylindrical cavities of a tray (146). The cookies are received in series from the cooling belt (19) that leads away from the oven onto a slick top belt, then moved in sequence to a backlog belt conveyor (22), to a timing belt conveyor (24), to a pin conveyor (12), to a loading wheel (13) and into a loading cell (106) of a turret. The slick top belt operates at approximately the same speed as the cooling belt leading away from the oven, and the backlog belt operates at a slower speed as necessary than the slick top belt so as to accumulate the cookies in edge-to-edge relationship. When the supply of cookies on the backlog belt has accumulated to the point where they are backing up on the slick top belt, the operational speed of the system is increased so that the speed of operation matches the operation of the oven. The timing belt accelerates the cookies received from the backlog belt and delivers each cookie in spaced relationship to the pin conveyor, and the pin conveyor delivers each cookie to a loading wheel that tilts each cookie from a horizontal attitude to an edge standing attitude and delivers each cookie to the cell of the turret. After a predetermined number of cookies has been moved by the timing belt to the pin conveyor, the movement of cookies to the pin conveyor is temporarily interrupted to form a gap in the series of cookies, and when the gap reaches the turret the turret rotates to dump the accumulated cookies to a tray positioned below the turret and to position an empty cell in alignment with the next series of cookies.
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Coan James F.
Food Machinery Sales, Inc.
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