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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2002
Applicants:
Colin Ford, Woodstock, GA (US);
David Warner, Kennesaw, GA (US);
Cory Hawley, Austell, GA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Marietta, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G047/26 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for grouping products for packaging, including a metering station in which a line of products is engaged by a series of metering lugs. The metering lugs urge the products into off-set positions to form multiple lanes of products. Selected ones of the products are then engaged by a series of selector lugs at a selector station to urge the products together to form product groups for packaging.