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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1984
Charles E Ackley, Sr, Sarasota, FL (US);
Charles E Ackley, Jr, Tuckerton, NJ (US);
R. W. Hartnett Company, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided to arrange individual ones of a plurality of substantially similar articles in a regularly spaced moving array, to position those individual articles substantially uniformly in the array and to transport the array to a work station by storing a plurality of the articles, removing the articles from the storage area, positioning the articles uniformly with respect to one another at positions in an arrangement corresponding to the array, removing improperly positioned articles from the positions within the arrangement corresponding to the array and receiving the arranged articles after the improperly positioned articles have been removed for transporting the articles in the spaced arrangement defining the array to a work station.