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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2017
R.a. Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Matthew R. Lukes, Edgewood, KY (US);
Jerome Brugger, Melbourne, KY (US);
R.A. Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US);
Abstract
A column of cups guided by their rims in elongated slots is spaced into desired cup pitch by one or more linear stars from which the cups can be transferred for packaging. The linear stars have lugs engaging and spacing the cups. In another aspect of the invention, cups are manipulated into patterns for final grouping and packaging and by a plurality of cup orienting pickers engaging, inverting and re-orienting the cups. In one final packaged cup group of two or more layers, alternating cups in each layer are inverted and a top lid of a cup in an upper layer is disposed on a top lid of a cup in a bottom layer, while a bottom of a cup in an upper layer is disposed on a bottom of a cup in a lower layer, and in an alternating pattern.