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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1976
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1975
Alton J Fishback, Austell, GA (US);
The Mead Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A packaging machine having spaced parallel flight bars movable in such manner as to engage and push groups of articles through the machine is provided with guide means for diverting the direction of movement of the articles in a direction transverse to the path of movement thereof and is also provided with cam controlled pusher blocks slidably mounted on the flight bars and arranged to engage the rearmost article in one row of articles so as to push that row of articles ahead relative to the other row of articles and by this means to maintain the group of articles in a substantially rectilinear arrangement thereby to prevent inadvertent dislodgment of partitioning inserts disposed within the article group such as might be caused by undue racking of the articles from a rectilinear arrangement to the configuration of a rhomboid.