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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2017
Applicant:
R.a Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Inventors:
Robert M. Kalany, Florence, KY (US);
Anthony B. Salvato, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Mark Roland Godon, Midlothian, VA (US);
Michael Andre Lemay, Midlothian, VA (US);
Aleksandr Shneyder, Midlothian, VA (US);
Assignee:
R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/32 (2006.01); B65G 47/244 (2006.01); B65G 47/84 (2006.01); B65G 47/52 (2006.01); B65G 47/91 (2006.01); B65G 47/252 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/244 (2013.01); B65G 47/252 (2013.01); B65G 47/32 (2013.01); B65G 47/52 (2013.01); B65G 47/848 (2013.01); B65G 47/914 (2013.01); B65G 47/918 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0235 (2013.01);
Abstract
Articles are transferred from an article supply conveyor to an article receiving conveyor while the transferring articles are selectively reoriented. When the conveyors are in parallel, a travelling article reorienting turret seeks articles following an article absence or hole on the supply conveyor and transfers the following article to a next-in-line position on the receiving conveyor to cure or avoid holes of articles on the receiving conveyor.