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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Flexibility Engineering, Llc, Loveland, CO (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Pawelski, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Thomas Ingraham, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Steven Walker, Loveland, CO (US);
Assignee:
Flexibility Engineering, LLC, Loveland, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 51/03 (2006.01); B65G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 51/035 (2013.01); B65G 21/2072 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0247 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the inventive technology disclosed herein may improve efficiency of conveyed bottle apparatus by providing bottle jam prevention guides that may be rotatable, whether freely or in response to a motorized force. Such guides may force downward a bottle that undergone excessive swing in a forward and/or rearward direction, and thus has jammed or is in an incipient jam condition. Advantages may include not only increased efficiency of a conveyed bottle process, but also reduction or even elimination of chatter.