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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 1979
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1977
Lloyd Kovacs, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Charles G Hart, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Hayssen Manufacturing Company, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Abstract
Methods of and apparatus for feeding items (or groupings of items) one after the other to apparatus, such as a flight conveyor, which cycles continuously at a steady cycling rate are disclosed with an item being fed to the apparatus during a portion of each cycle thereof and with the items being randomly delivered to the means feeding the items at an average rate. The method and apparatus of this invention involve feeding a selected number of items one at a time from each of the backlogs of accumulated items and conveying them forward for placement on the apparatus in timed relation to the cycling rate of the apparatus.