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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1991
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 ...
53263 ; 53246 ; 53247 ; 53534 ; 53539 ;
Abstract
Upright containers of non-rectangular shape move downstream in a plurality of parallel columns and in laterally aligned rows toward a load station where the containers are deposited row-on-row into partitioned packing cases. The cases move continuously through the load station end-to-end and are indexed to the rows of containers by depending pegs that move in between the containers from above. The pegs are provided in flights of an overhead flight bar conveyor and camming means keeps these pegs oriented perpendicular to the upright containers as the legs move in between the containers to control the containers dropped at the load station.