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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2019
Applicant:
Humana Inc., Louisville, KY (US);
Inventor:
Atin Kapadia, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Humana Inc., Louisville, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/70 (2006.01); B65G 47/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/70 (2013.01); B65G 47/682 (2013.01);
Abstract
An automated method and system for transporting vials from multiple upstream locations to a downstream location and for combining N number of conveyor lanes from N number of upstream location (e.g., capping stations) down to one conveyor lane. The system is adapted to transport vials from a more-distant upstream location faster than vials from a closer upstream location so that they reach the downstream location at approximately the same time. Guide members placed at an angle to the traveling axis of the conveyor lanes divert the vials onto a single conveyor lane for transporting the vials to a downstream location.