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US 10,661,955 B2Granted
Adhesive patch and method of use in a packaging system
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsMilan Ivosevic, Noel Titus
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Abstract
An adhesive patch and method of use thereof for forming a plurality of stackable items into a vertically stacked load are described. The method may include delivering an aligned stack of items positioned on a pallet for eventual transportation while minimizing the misalignment of the stackable items.
Claims4
A method for stacking a plurality of stackable items onto a pallet comprising:
- (a) placing four boxes in stacked side-by side alignment having an intersection at the abutting four corners of the four boxes;
- (b) placing a first adhesive patch at the proximal side of the intersection of the four corners;
- (c) placing a second adhesive patch at the distal side of the intersection of the four corners to form a first unitized cube;
- (d) forming a second unitized cube by placing four additional boxes in stacked side-by side alignment forming an intersection at the abutting four corners of the four boxes;
- (e) placing a third adhesive patch at the proximal side of the intersection of the four corners of the second unitized cube;
- (f) placing a fourth adhesive patch at the distal side of the intersection of the four corners of the second unitized cube;
- and,
- (g) placing the first unitized cube on the pallet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.