Blister package stacker
AssigneeRemedi Technology Holdings, LLC
InventorsBobby Owen Archer, Bruce Scott Dunn, Jan Bohlmann
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Abstract
A method for forming packages of blister packages including sealing a blister package with an item inside; moving the blister packages on a conveyor toward a blister package stacker; receiving the blister packages one at a time in a nest inlet of the blister package stacker and holding the received blister package in a nest assembly; inserting one blister package at a time into a bottom of a blister package collection tower section by upward movement of the blister; retaining the inserted package in the blister package collection tower section; and repeating the receiving, inserting, and retaining to form a stack of the blister packages in the blister package collection tower section.
Claims14
A method for forming packages of blister packages, comprising:
- sealing a blister package with an item inside;
- moving the blister packages on a conveyor toward a blister package stacker;
- receiving the blister packages one at a time in a nest inlet of the blister package stacker and holding the received blister package in a nest assembly, wherein the nest assembly is connected by a cam follower to a barrel cam and an incline:
- inserting one blister package at a time into a bottom of a blister package collection tower section by upward movement of the blister;
- retaining the inserted package in the blister package collection tower section;
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- repeating said receiving, inserting, and retaining to form a stack of the blister packages in the blister package collection tower section,
- wherein said inserting one blister package at a time comprises rotating and raising the nest assembly vertically for insertion of said one of the blister packages into the stack of the blister package collection tower section.
A method for forming packages of blister packages, each blister package containing an item, comprising:
- moving the blister packages on a conveyor toward a blister package stacker;
- receiving the blister packages one at a time in a nest inlet of the blister package stacker;
- inserting one blister package at a time into a bottom of a blister package collection tower section by upward movement of the blister;
- retaining the inserted package in the blister package collection tower section;
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- repeating said receiving, inserting, and retaining to form a stack of the blister packages in the blister package collection tower section,
- wherein said inserting one blister package at a time comprises rotating and raising a nest assembly vertically for insertion of said one of the blister packages into the stack of the blister package collection tower section, wherein the nest assembly is connected by a cam follower to a barrel cam and an incline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.