US 12,459,759 B2
Packaging system for assembling a package
Wim Dekocker, Leuven (BE); Annalisa Narducci, Leuven (BE); Keenan Thompson, Leuven (BE); Glenn Ferreira, Leuven (BE); and Philippe Jean Marie Duperray, Châteauroux (FR)
Assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A., Brussels (BE)
Appl. No. 18/000,733
Filed by Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A, Brussels (BE)
PCT Filed Jun. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/065010
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 5, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/245235, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/034,922, filed on Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2020/5398 (BE), filed on Jun. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0211965 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 54/02 (2006.01); B65B 43/00 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01); B65B 65/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 54/02 (2013.01) [B65B 43/00 (2013.01); B65B 59/003 (2019.05); B65B 59/005 (2013.01); B65B 65/003 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising three moveable closed loop transportation units and a main transportation unit,
wherein the three moveable closed loop transportation units envelop the main transportation unit from three sides,
wherein the three moveable closed loop transportation units are adapted for providing one or more packaging material components to a main transportation unit and/or performing packaging process operations to a given package in assembly present at the main transportation unit, wherein the three moveable closed loop transportation units are independently and 3-dimensionally moveable relative to the main transportation unit, and
wherein a control system enables the control of 3-dimensional movement of the three moveable closed loop transportation units for simultaneously providing one or more packaging material components to the given package in assembly and/or simultaneously providing packaging process operations to the given packaging in assembly.