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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2015
O&m Halyard, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Ajay Y. Houde, Johns Creek, GA (US);
David Lamar Harrington, Cumming, GA (US);
Mark Thomas Pamperin, Cumming, GA (US);
Nathan Craig Harris, Canton, GA (US);
Joseph P. Weber, Suwanee, GA (US);
O&M Halyard, Inc., Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Abstract
An automated method and system for stacking and loading wrapped facemasks into a carton in a facemask production line include conveying individual wrapped facemasks to a delivery location adjacent to a rotary wheel, the rotary wheel conveyor having individual pick-up devices spaced around a circumference thereof. Each wrapped facemask is picked-up with a respective pick-up device on the rotary wheel conveyor and transported to a first carton staging area at a first location on the circumference of the rotary wheel. At the first staging area, the facemasks are released from the rotary wheel conveyor and deposited into a carton.