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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:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2020
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jef Jonckers, Hamme, BE;
Manu Peelman, Hamme, BE;
Tom Van Moer, Hamme, BE;
Philip Corens, Hamme, BE;
Hilde Cloostermans, Hamme, BE;
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/60 (2006.01); B65H 29/24 (2006.01); B65H 45/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/60 (2013.01); B65H 45/04 (2013.01); B65H 2301/17 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4461 (2013.01); B65H 2406/1222 (2013.01); B65H 2511/13 (2013.01); B65H 2511/214 (2013.01); B65H 2513/10 (2013.01); B65H 2515/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for diverting and/or folding articles includes an infeed conveyor, an outfeed conveyor, and a diverter. The diverter is a non-contact, fluid emitting diverter, configured to emit a fluid jet to exhibit the diverting force on the impact zone of the article at a side of the article facing away from the outfeed entry. An angle of the average direction of the diverting force of the fluid jet with the outfeed path at the outfeed entry is in the range of 5° to 85°.