Frito-lay North America, Inc.

Mark T Maldonado

Kevin Lauren Cote

Darin James Baylor

Cory Burns

Gregory William Hoell

Nathan R Huntoon

John Robert Eberle

Timothy Jackson

An apparatus and method for maintaining a pattern of non-rigid objects in a desired position and orientation. The first surface, second surface, and third surface are mutually orthogonal and meet at a point to form a lowest corner. The second and third surfaces are supported by, attached to and extend at least somewhat vertically from the apparatus. The first surface is oriented at an angle to a plane running through a bottom of the apparatus and thereby provides the lowest corner.

Apparatus and method for maintaining a pattern of non-rigid objects in a desired position and orientation

An apparatus and method for measuring a dimension of a non-rigid object and using the dimension to pick and place the object. A first input device conveys the object into contact with a feed forward unit, which contact conditions the object. A distance sensor is positioned over a gap in the feed forward unit to measure a distance to a surface of the conditioned object. The distance measures a dimension of the conditioned object. The measured dimension is transmitted via at least one line of communication.

Apparatus and method for universal, flexible pillow bag pattern creation

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Allen, TX, United States of America

Mark T Maldonado