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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heinz Odenthal, Zülpich, DE;
Herbert Schulte, Euskirchen, DE;
Assignee:
Nor-Reg A/S, Honefoss, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 2/106 ; B65B 3/544 ; B65B 3/550 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 2/106 ; B65B 3/544 ; B65B 3/550 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a facility and method for filling product receptacles ( ), especially cartons, with a predetermined amount of products ( ), especially flexible bag packaging, which are individually fed at regular or irregular intervals and assembled to form a group of products ( ) and which are subsequently fed to an available product receptacle ( ). The products ( ) in the group of products ( ) can be selectively placed on or under the preceding product. The group of products ( ) can be selectively fed to the product receptacles ( ) vertically or horizontally.