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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1997
Burleigh M Hutchins, Upton, MA (US);
Tye B Fowler, Bellingham, MA (US);
David R Friswell, Upton, MA (US);
Paul A Kearsley, Hopedale, MA (US);
Bruce A Swanson, Mansfield, MA (US);
Eugene T Tetreault, Sutton, MA (US);
Jack Elands, Oberhaslach, FR;
Zymark Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A processing system for processing a plurality of products, the system including a plurality of interchangeable units arranged to sequentially receive the products and each having a work station for effecting a specific operation on each of the products, the operation requiring a given time period; and wherein each work station accommodates simultaneously a predetermined number of the products, and the given time period and predetermined number associated with each unit are different than the given time periods and predetermined numbers of other said units. A transport system transports the products through the processing system so as to provide for each product a common occupancy time therein.