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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. 17, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Applicant:
Leslie S. Marco, Bloomingdale, IL (US);
Inventor:
Leslie S. Marco, Bloomingdale, IL (US);
Assignee:
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for blocking a bar code in a package includes a carrier with a plurality of apertures and an opaque section. The carrier is engaged with a plurality of containers so that a bar code on each container is rotationally oriented toward a center of the resulting package and is blocked by adjacent containers and/or the opaque section of the carrier from a bar code scanner.