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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frederick W Pfleger, Maple Shade, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198345 ; 198433 ; 198451 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for handling quantities of articles, such as containers, including an input conveyor having guides for channeling the articles into rows or files longitudinally of the conveyor, a gating station operable to open the channels for passing a transverse row or rank of articles and close the channels for stopping input feed of the articles, a transverse row or rank of articles being adapted to be operated upon when stopped, and an exiting or removal station downstream of the gating station for receiving from the latter a rank of articles when the gating station is open and removing the received rank of articles when the gating station is closed.