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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1983
Thomas S Hartness, Greenville, SC (US);
Thomas P Hartness, Greenville, SC (US);
Hartness International, Inc., Greenville, SC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for feeding cartons in succession from a stack of cartons carried in an elongated chute onto a receiving chute. The apparatus includes a support member which has a plurality of picker fingers carried thereon. The support member is moved from a carton grasping position to a carton release position. When the support member is moved to the carton grasping position, picker fingers including power-operated cylinders having enlarged gripping heads provided on the end of the piston thereof are activated for retracting the heads for grasping the edge of the last carton in the stack for lifting said carton above an abutment and allowing the carton to drop into the receiving chute when said support member is moved back to the depositing position.