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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1996
Russell James Edwards, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Hirokazu Kitagawa, Chiba, JP;
Kiyoshi Imai, Saitama, JP;
Masao Funo, Saitama, JP;
William Edward Holley, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Charles R Hood, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Richard Wayne Abrams, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
A packaging arrangement for packaging products such as contact lenses in packages such as blister packs. The packaging arrangement includes an intermittently indexed, linearly driven endless conveyor which includes a plurality of identical support pallets, equally spaced apart along the endless conveyor. Each support pallet is designed to support and align an array of individual package bases. The arrangement is such that each support pallet with an array of individual package bases thereon is sequentially stopped at a plurality of spaced work stations along the endless conveyor.