B65G 47/084
Grouping articles in a predetermined 2-dimensional pattern
Official title: {grouping articles in a predetermined 2-dimensional pattern}
B65G47/084 (Grouping articles in a predetermined 2-dimensional pattern) appears on 362 US grants and 305 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
- Bare bottle pre-grouping and stacking device, stacking method and packaging apparatus21 Apr 2026US 12,606,334 B2Guangzhou Tech-Long Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd
- High-speed array former and methods thereof7 Apr 2026US 12,595,139 B1Dyco, Inc.
- Method for forming pairs of packs24 Mar 2026US 12,583,642 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Aerosol-generating article collation forming with increased number of hoppers6 Jan 2026US 12,515,835 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Device for adjusting a spacing between containers30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217405 A1Syntegon Technology GmbH
- 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
- Method for forming pairs of packs9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192958 A1Philip Morris Products S. A.
- System and method of grouping of containers16 Apr 2026US 2026/0103350 A1
- High-speed array former and methods thereof9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097908 A1Dyco, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hybrid palletizer54US 8,074,431 B1Top Tier, LLC · 2011
- Pattern forming conveyor51US 5,145,049 A1992
- Palletizer and palletizing methods47US 5,372,472 AKinetic Robotics Inc. · 1994
- Article grouper for case packer44US 4,552,261 AStandard-Knapp, Inc. · 1985
- Device for aligning and spacing up groups of objects, such as cans, bottles and the like41US 5,667,055 ABaumer S.R.L. · 1997