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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2017
Applicant:

Frito-lay Trading Company Gmbh, Berne, CH;

Inventors:

Bob Abbas, Rugby, GB;

Michael Brandt, Lahnau, DE;

Jan Christopher Fuller, Lahnau, DE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65B 7/16 (2006.01); B65B 35/32 (2006.01); B65B 35/34 (2006.01); B65B 39/00 (2006.01); B65B 39/12 (2006.01); B65B 39/14 (2006.01); B65B 43/46 (2006.01); B65B 43/60 (2006.01); B65B 57/06 (2006.01); B65B 57/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 5/064 (2013.01); B65B 7/16 (2013.01); B65B 35/32 (2013.01); B65B 35/34 (2013.01); B65B 39/007 (2013.01); B65B 39/12 (2013.01); B65B 39/14 (2013.01); B65B 43/46 (2013.01); B65B 43/60 (2013.01); B65B 57/06 (2013.01); B65B 57/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of packaging snack food chips, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of snack food chips as a shingled assembly of the snack food chips; (b) enclosing the shingled assembly within an elongate packaging container; (c) vibrating the shingled assembly supported so as to cause the snack food chips sequentially to fall from a free output end into the elongate packaging container while progressively translationally separating a closed end and the free output end to form a shingled stack extending away from the closed end; and (d) during at least a part of step (c), rotating the elongate packaging container so that the closed end is lowered while decreasing an angle of inclination such that the shingled stack is being progressively formed.


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