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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1976
David Frederick Schlueter, Hoopeston, IL (US);
Lonnie Ray Seymour, Hoopeston, IL (US);
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A container control mechanism for use in certain types of package forming machines which produce packages of a plurality of containers. The certain package forming machines are those where three or more rows of containers are continuously delivered through the machine, and in which the machine applies a strip of carrier stock circumferentially about the upper end of each of the containers. The containers in rank and file with the applied carrier stock are delivered to a cutting mechanism adjacent the output end of the machine where the stock is severed between certain predetermined ranks to form individual packages of a predetermined plurality of ranks of the containers. The container control mechanism controls the file or files of containers between the outboard files of the containers in the area of the strip stock application as the containers are carried on the horizontal machine conveyors and essentially serves to direct and to momentarily increase the speed of the moving containers relative to the moving strip stock to urge the leading edge of the containers into the leading edge of the container receiving apertures of the strip stock.