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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1977
Rodney K Calvert, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Dale K Scott, Jonesboro, GA (US);
The Mead Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
Articles to be packaged are fed through a packaging machine on conveyor means and are arranged in groups which are controlled by suitable spacer elements movably mounted on an endless feed element and each including an article engaging pusher projection for imparting movement to a group of preceding articles together with an article engaging restraining projection movable into the path of movement of the articles so as to restrain the movement of the immediately succeeding group thereby to control and precisely to determine the position of the group of articles in order to insure cooperative and synchronous cooperation with other machine operations.