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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2001
Applicants:
Philippe Duperray, Chateauroux, FR;
Joel Mennetrat, Chateauroux, FR;
Pierre Genty, Chateauroux, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for regulating the flow of articles from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine which apparatus comprises a plurality of article feed lanes for supplying a row of articles converging at a predetermined position, each feed lane having a regulator to control article flow, one of said regulators providing a reference position by which the relative positions of the articles may be controlled such that as the lanes converge one row of articles is offset from the or each other rows of articles.