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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:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David R Miller, Golden, CO (US);
Gregory J Fischer, Wheat Ridge, CO (US);
Assignee:
Coors Brewing Company, Golden, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198624 ; 198604 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for applying a pushing force on a plurality of circular container ends to move them over a trough shape tray wherein two spaced apart rollers are each mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis and each roller has a surface contour in the longitudinal direction comprising a central arcuate section having a radius smaller than the radius of each of the circular container ends and spaced apart linearly extending sections extending from each end of the central arcuate section and cylindrical sections extending from each of the linearly extending sections.