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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1980
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Markus Gasser, Gachlingen, CH;
Assignee:
SIG-Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198358 ; 198360 ; 198367 ; 198444 ;
Abstract
A system for feeding spaced, serially arranged articles to a plurality of article processing machines operatively connected to the system and including a plurality of normally, simultaneously operating article processing machines and a standby article processing machine for assuming the operation of a non-operating normal machine. Upstream of each normal article processing machine there is arranged an article aligning (row aligning) apparatus each provided with a deflector which directs, via conveyors, the articles either to the associated, normally operating machine or to the standby machine.