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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1981
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1979
Eric W Scarpa, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Wesley J Rece, California, KY (US);
R. A. Jones & Co. Inc., Covington, KY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for transferring tubes such as metallic tooth paste tubes from a tube filler to product buckets of a cartoner. Tubes are delivered by a conveyor to a tube filler onto the circumferential surface of a rotary drum which has at least one pocket in its surface. The pocket picks up the tube deposited on the surface of the drum and drops the tube into continuously-moving product buckets below the drum. Three gates are spaced along the conveyor to maintain a proper spacing of the tubes so that the tubes do not bang into one another and so that only one at a time is deposited onto the circumferential surface of the drum.