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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2015
Applicant:

The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);

Inventors:

Uwe Schneider, Cincinnati, OH (US);

Clifford Theodore Papsdorf, Loveland, OH (US);

Daniel Patrick Findley, Finneytown, OH (US);

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 37/00 (2006.01); B65G 47/244 (2006.01); B65G 29/02 (2006.01); A61F 13/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/244 (2013.01); A61F 13/15764 (2013.01); B65G 29/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to a method of transferring discrete articles between a transfer assembly and an apparatus comprising a head. The transfer assembly comprises a frame defining a first rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles. The method comprises rotating the transfer member of the transfer assembly about the first rotation axis at a substantially constant angular velocity, maintaining the transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from a surface of the head at a point of discrete article transfer, and rotating the head of the apparatus about a second rotation axis at a plurality of angular velocities. A first angular velocity of the head is substantially constant at the point of discrete article transfer.


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