Apparatus for loading stacked article groups into cartons
CA 2249346 C · Owner: Riverwood International Corporation · Inventors: Ziegler, Kelly W.
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An apparatus (10) for loading stacked article groups (14) into cartons (16) in a continuous motion cartoner assembly (12). The barrel cam loading apparatus (10) or article group transport mechanism (24) is particularly suited to loading article groups that are unstable or whose articles tend to spin and kick articles out of the carton. The article group transfer mechanism (10) loads the stacked group by having the lower article group (36) lead the upper article group (40) which tends to make the articles tip backward into a stable contact with the article group transfer mechanism and by forming the upper , article group into a nested configuration which has a thinner loading …
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- Filed March 26, 1997 and granted August 13, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 26, 2017.
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