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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
John L Raudat, North Madison, CT (US);
Assignee:
Standard-Knapp, Inc., Portland, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53534 ; 53246 ; 53251 ;
Abstract
Two side-by-side columns of containers are fed between laterally spaced container conveyors that have lugs which move inwardly between the adjacent containers of each column. Some lugs are oversized to create a space between the foremost containers in one slug or array and the last containers in an adjacent array. These lugs also have bifurcated lower portions and the lug conveyors move these lugs downwardly to engage the adjacent end panels of two end-to-end packing cases so the containers can be lowered into these cases at a load station.