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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2024
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Jimmy D. Whitten, Westminster, SC (US);
John Miller, Easley, SC (US);
Charles Bryan Shiflet, Anderson, SC (US);
J. Mark Nunn, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Sam Lockaby, Easley, SC (US);
Clifford Halstead, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Brian Williams, Simpsonville, SC (US);
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for applying container carriers to unitize a plurality of containers. A supply of container carriers are provided in a stack and grouped into sticks of multiple adjacent container carriers. A magazine accommodates the stack of container carrier sticks and a carrier feed draws a single container carrier stick from the magazine. A transport section comprising two or more container carrier sticks aligned in a queue provides single container carrier sticks to an applicating drum configured to apply to a corresponding group of containers.