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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:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co), Verden, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C / ; B25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294 641 ; 53529 ;
Abstract
Process and apparatus for handling flexible film packs (10), namely transporting them and introducing them into a folding box (12), having a lifting head (17) which grips a group of packs (13) on the top side by suction. The lifting head (17) is part of a lifting conveyer (16) and is connected, via a suction line (28), to a vacuum suction fan (31) which, with high delivery capacity, produces a slight suction action, such that the group of packs (13) is deformed in a wedge-shaped manner, that is to say such that it converges in the downward direction, and is thus introduced into the open folding box (12).