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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1977
Walter W Egee, Wallingford, PA (US);
Clarence W Cramer, Burlington, NJ (US);
Campbell Soup Company, Camden, NJ (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for automatically dispensing stacks of cookies into the pockets of cookie packaging trays. The cookies are stacked edgewise on a delivery line which includes a cookie shingler and a cookie separator feeding the cookies one by one onto an accelerating conveyor, in a horizontal spaced-apart disposition. The dispenser assembly includes a stacking chamber into which the cookies are fed by the accelerating conveyor. The bottom of the stacking chamber is normally closed by a rotatable gate controlld by a gate actuating means which on receipt of an appropriate signal rotates the gate to drop the accumulated stack of cookies in the stacking chamber into the cookie tray pocket located therebelow. Cookie detector and counter means prevent actuation of the dispenser gate until a predetermined number of cookies have been deposited in the stacking chamber and then only when the tray conveyor has stopped to locate a tray pocket therebeneath. Control means are provided to stop the operation of the shingler and separator assemblies momentarily whenever the stacking chamber contains the predetermined number of cookies and an additional excess cookie is about to be added to the chamber.