B65B 57/14
And operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material
Official title: and operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
B65B57/14 (And operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material) appears on 581 US grants and 664 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 664
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- 404
- Inventors
- 1,361
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 52 | 72 |
| 2024 | 70 | 73 |
| 2025 | 65 | 54 |
| 2026 | 48 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
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Recent patents
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- Method and system for controlling tube orientation in a food packaging system15 Sep 2026US 12,735,218 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Systems and methods for rotary blow-fill-seal (BFS) machine mold positioning8 Sep 2026US 12,728,582 B2Koska Family Limited
- Manufacturing machine and manufacturing method for the production of disposable cartridges for electronic cigarettes24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283261 A1G. D S.p.A.
- Integrated conveyor system for efficient and automated handling of particulate materials from belly dump trailers17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274479 A1Belly2Box LLC
- Battery manufacturing system and method, automated plant including the battery manufacturing system, and machine-readable medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0265001 A1LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
- Method and system for providing ophthalmic lenses in lens receptacles27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250027 A1Alcon Inc.
- Food Assembly And Packaging Robot20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242083 A1Lab 37 LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for automatically feeding, inspecting and diverting tablets for continuous filling of tablet containers110US 5,522,512 AMerck & Co., Inc. · 1996
- Medication dose underfill detection system and application in an automated syringe preparing system102US 7,343,943 B2ForHealth Technologies, Inc. · 2008
- Tablet packing machine96US 5,709,063 AKabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho · 1998
- Automated apparatus for preparing contact lenses for inspection and packaging65US 5,578,331 AVision Products, LLC · 1996
- Drug packing apparatus58US 5,678,393 AKabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho · 1997