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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:
Apr. 12, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mario Spatafora, Bologna, IT;
Giulio Strazzari, Bologna, IT;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198408 ; 1984634 ; 1984811 ; 198624 ;
Abstract
A unit for transferring food products such as chocolates, whereby a conveyor feeds a compact sequence of mutually contacting products in a given direction to a transfer device by which the products are fed one by one, still in one direction, into respective peripheral seats on a conveyor wheel rotating about an axis perpendicular to the aforementioned direction; the transfer device being defined by a counter-rotating lobed wheel located on either side of the conveyor and defining a movable pocket for conveying each product.