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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2019
Applicant:
R.a Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Inventors:
William E. Engelhardt, Morning View, KY (US);
Steven C. Hamilton, Felicity, OH (US);
Eric M. Schaefer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Assignee:
R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65B 35/50 (2006.01); B65B 7/20 (2006.01); B65B 35/40 (2006.01); B65B 35/44 (2006.01); B65B 63/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 5/061 (2013.01); B65B 7/20 (2013.01); B65B 35/40 (2013.01); B65B 35/405 (2013.01); B65B 35/44 (2013.01); B65B 35/50 (2013.01); B65B 63/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stack of products such as pouches are formed in a product bucket, pushed into a stack guide bucket and from there into a carton. A stack tamp descends over the stack, engages and confines it downwardly during stack pushing from product bucket and through stack guide bucket into a carton. Multiple product buckets, stack guide buckets and cartons move downstream during cartoning, and are respectively aligned in a cartoning station. Reciprocal containment blades hold the stack in respective cartons prior to flap closing.