B65G 47/08
Spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
Official title: spacing or grouping the articles during feeding (during transit by conveyor B65G47/28)
B65G47/08 (Spacing or grouping the articles during feeding) appears on 712 US grants and 583 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Orientation module11 Aug 2026US 12,703,529 B2WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC
- Article-transfer apparatus11 Aug 2026US 12,703,578 B2Ishida Co., Ltd.
- Device and method for sorting individual units of conveyed material while simultaneously transporting the units of conveyed material7 Jul 2026US 12,673,831 B2Cellumation GmbH
- Bare bottle pre-grouping and stacking device, stacking method and packaging apparatus21 Apr 2026US 12,606,334 B2Guangzhou Tech-Long Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd
- Apparatus and method for moving objects14 Apr 2026US 12,600,511 B2Aetna Group S.P.A.
- Apparatus for the controlled movement of containers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225825 A1
- Device for adjusting a spacing between containers30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217405 A1Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Feeding apparatus, feeding method, and battery assembly line30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217476 A1Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
- Buffer device configured to buffer containers in a pre-grouped arrangement on a buffer surface of the buffer device, and method for buffering containers in a pre-grouped arrangement using the buffer device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208975 A1
- Integrated packaging box storage device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208983 A1Suzhou Cai Machine Group Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multiple conveyors with overlapping material handling device paths85US 4,768,642 AKimberly-Clark Corporation · 1988
- High speed variable count mechanical stacker78US 5,176,244 ACurt G. Joa, Inc. · 1993
- Stacker with a yoke-type stripping device76US 4,802,570 ACurt G. Joa, Inc. · 1989
- Stack stripper for a stacking machine74US 4,927,322 ACurt G. Joa, Inc. · 1990
- Process of loading rolls of roofing material onto a pallet66US 6,547,511 B1Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc. · 2003