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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jerry L McComas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Donald C Crawford, Green Bay, WI (US);
Assignee:
FMC Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198341 ; 198572 ; 198577 ; 53494 ;
Abstract
An article backlog control system for a processing machine such as a wrapper maintains a backlog count within a preselected range. Articles being randomly supplied to the backlog are continuously counted as are articles being removed from the backlog for processing, the difference between article counts is continuously determined and the speed of the processing machine is controlled by the system on the basis of the count difference in order to maintain the backlog within the preselected range.