Transfer of cartridges containing flat articles
CA 2250163 A1 · Owner: Rotenberry, Joseph C. · Inventors: Hickey, Richard C.; Harres, Luiz C.; Mckee, Kenneth A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method and apparatus for automatically transferring and handling cartridges (25) containing flat articles. The method and apparatus robotically transfers filled cartridges from the output compartments (20) of a sorting machine (15) to a buffer shelf (40) and from the buffer shelf to a docking station (55) of a cartridge unloader and automatic feeder (50) to the input (70) of the sorting machine, and for transferring empty cartridges from the docking station to either the buffer or the output compartments (20) of the sorter is , provided.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 28, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 28, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 28, 2019.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.