US 12,006,083 B2
Pouch containment and carton loading
William E. Engelhardt, Morning View, KY (US); Steven C. Hamilton, Felicity, OH (US); and Eric M. Schaefer, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Assigned to R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US)
Filed by R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/536,329.
Application 17/536,329 is a division of application No. 16/377,487, filed on Apr. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,214,390.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/661,184, filed on Apr. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0081136 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B65B 35/50 (2006.01); B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65B 7/20 (2006.01); B65B 35/40 (2006.01); B65B 35/44 (2006.01); B65B 39/00 (2006.01); B65B 63/02 (2006.01); B65B 39/14 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 5/061 (2013.01) [B65B 7/20 (2013.01); B65B 35/40 (2013.01); B65B 35/405 (2013.01); B65B 35/44 (2013.01); B65B 35/50 (2013.01); B65B 63/022 (2013.01); B65B 39/007 (2013.01); B65B 39/145 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for loading stacks of product into cartons, comprising:
a product bucket having a discharge end;
an elongated static stack guide having a terminal end;
a product stack guide bucket;
said static stack guide being operably disposed between said discharge end of said product bucket and said stack guide bucket upstream from the terminal end of said static stack guide;
a reciprocally and vertically operable tamp foot oriented to tamp down a product stack in said product bucket and said product stack guide bucket;
a stack pusher oriented to push a product stack from said product bucket into said stack guide bucket, past said terminal end of said static stack guide and into a carton;
a reciprocally and vertically operable stack containment blade extending in a vertical direction of a reciprocal motion of the stack containment blade and being configured to directly confront and confine a rearward end of said pushed stack within said carton; and
at least one flap closer configured to close at least one flap of said carton against a loaded product stack.