US 12,351,419 B2
Automatic magazine loader for supplying carton blanks to carton magazine
Joseph R. Schwab, Cincinnati, OH (US); Richard Dean Rohret, Bettendorf, IA (US); and Stephen T. Hill, Bettendorf, IA (US)
Assigned to R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US)
Appl. No. 18/246,058
Filed by R.A Jones & Co., Covington, KY (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/059411
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 21, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/104225, PCT Pub. Date May 19, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/113,355, filed on Nov. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0356968 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 5/00 (2006.01); B65H 1/02 (2006.01); B65H 1/30 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/006 (2013.01) [B65H 1/025 (2013.01); B65H 1/30 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4221 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4222 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4223 (2013.01); B65H 2301/42242 (2013.01); B65H 2555/30 (2013.01); B65H 2701/176 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1766 (2013.01); B65H 2801/81 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A carton handling system for loading a carton blank magazine with a slug of carton blanks, comprising:
a carriage assembly having a carton handling tool, the carriage assembly being capable of moving the carton handling tool in two axes of motion to receive the slug of carton blanks and to position the slug of carton blanks in the carton blank magazine; and
a finger carried on the carton handling tool, wherein the carton handling tool is movable to engage the finger with an underside of a fallen carton blank lying at an end of an advancing stack of blanks in the carton blank magazine so as to lift the fallen carton blank against a preceding blank at the end of the advancing stack of blanks, and wherein the carton handling tool is movable to position the slug of carton blanks at an endmost blank in the advancing stack of blanks.