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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2017
Applicant:
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Inventor:
Collin Heinz, Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Assignee:
Curt G. Joa, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 20/12 (2006.01); B65G 47/84 (2006.01); A61F 13/15 (2006.01); B65H 39/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 13/15699 (2013.01); B65G 47/843 (2013.01); B65G 47/848 (2013.01); B65H 20/12 (2013.01); B65H 39/14 (2013.01); B65H 2801/57 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a transporting a discrete element, by activating a discrete vacuum zone on a puck at or before an acquisition, rotating the puck about an axis (and optionally twisting the puck), and deactivating the discrete vacuum zone at a deposition point, through tightly controlled piecewise vacuum porting particularly in applications where vacuum commutation length changes in radial direction.