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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:
Nov. 27, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Karl L Hamson, Pender Island, CA;
Assignee:
Western Packaging Systems, Ltd., Richmond, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53458 ; 53468 ; 53473 ; 53491 ;
Abstract
A method of constraining a product while packaging and an apparatus to carry out the method. The product is positioned in a constraint cage having constraining fingers or plates on all four sides of the product in a first position. The constraint cage is then moved from the first position to a second position where packaging is performed by lowering a case over the product while the product is continuously constrained by either the cage or the case or both. Thereafter, the case is conveyed with the enclosed product while closing the major and minor flaps of the case.