Block Drug Company, Inc.

Anthony Marchiano

Arthur Sternheimer

Donald Johnson

Disclosed is an automated system which collates (i.e. counts and assembles packages into stacks) and positions the stacks on a cartoner conveyor. The system includes an abort plate movable between a first position and a second position for supporting a stack of packages when in the first position and permitting packages to fall past the first position when in the second position; a pusher plate movable between a first package supporting position and a second position permitting packages to fall onto the abort plate when the abort plate is in the first position and further adapted to push the stack off the abort plate when the pusher plate is moved from the second to first position; and a gate movable between a first package separating position and a second position for permitting the packages to fall onto the pusher plate.

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E. Stroudsburg, PA, United States of America

Anthony Marchiano