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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 02, 2024
R.a Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Jeffrey D. Wintring, Florence, KY (US);
Robert M. Kalany, Florence, KY (US);
Andrew J. Nelson, Davenport, IA (US);
Jeffrey E. Farmer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Abstract
A product transfer apparatus for transferring product between a horizontal form, fill, and seal machine and a cartoner machine is provided. The product transfer apparatus includes an electromagnetic motor table configured to define a plurality of pre-selected zones and a plurality of moving elements configured to float over a surface of the electromagnetic motor table and move between one or more of the pre-selected zones. The product transfer apparatus further includes a product delivery device configured to deposit one or more products in a pre-selected common orientation, relative to a longitudinal axis of the product transfer apparatus, onto one or more moving elements of the plurality of moving elements, respectively, at a first pre-selected zone of the plurality of pre-selected zones such that each of the one or more moving elements receives a single product from the product delivery device in the pre-selected common orientation at the first pre-selected zone. The product transfer apparatus further includes a product picking device configured to pick a group of products constituted by one or more products from a pre-selected group of the plurality of moving elements at a second pre-selected zone of the plurality of pre-selected zones, wherein the orientation of one or more products of the group of products at the second pre-selected zone is different from the pre-selected common orientation of the products received at the first pre-selected zone, and deposit the one or more products of the group of products into at least one cartoner bucket of a cartoner.