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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2008
Timothy W. Hendricks, Acworth, GA (US);
Jeff Disrud, Acworth, GA (US);
Frank Moncrief, Acworth, GA (US);
Timothy W. Hendricks, Acworth, GA (US);
Jeff Disrud, Acworth, GA (US);
Frank Moncrief, Acworth, GA (US);
Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Marietta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically forming stacks of cartons for feeding a magazine for supplying cartons to a packaging machine includes a primary support on which the stacks of cartons are formed, and a secondary support for temporarily receiving a series of the cartons thereon as a previously formed stack of cartons is removed from the primary support. The stack of cartons collected on the primary support is moved onto a transport conveyor for transport to a loader for the magazine for feeding into the packaging machine.