Container handling system
CA 2095451 C · Owner: Campbell Soup Company · Inventors: Baranowski, John
Overview
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A system for handling cylindrical cans or the like and conveying them from filler and closure equipment to and into hydrostatic sterilizer carriers. After the cans have been filled and closed, they are conveyed upright to a receiving area.A screw assembly is periodically actuated taking cans from the receiving area, grasping their cylindrical sidewalls and laying them down and forward into a metered can stick. This can stick is rolled laterally by a clamp-kicker assembly into the hydrostatic sterilizer carriers as they are conveyed past it. The screw assembly includes a pair of horizontally disposed screws both rotatable downwar-, dly and inwardly and with the axis of one spaced above that …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 4, 1993 and granted April 29, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 4, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 4, 2015.
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