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US 2003/0205031 A1Published application
Method for retaining cotton in bottles
AssigneeUpsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.
InventorMark A. Haida
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for retaining cotton in a bottle using a cottoner machine which inserts cotton via a pair of rotatable cylinders alignable with a mouth of the bottle, the apparatus including a disk secured to the cylinders via a pair of collars and having a pair of apertures aligned with the cylinders, and the method including a process of positioning a planar surface of the disk closely superjacent the mouth of the bottle after insertion of the cotton.
Claims14
A method of retaining cotton in a bottle comprising the steps of:
- a. inserting cotton into a bottle located at a discharge position through an opening in the bottle having a bottle opening diameter;
- b. transversely moving a planar surface over the opening in the bottle after inserting the cotton into the bottle;
- c. moving the bottle downstream from the first position after inserting the cotton into the bottle;
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- d. maintaining the planar surface over the bottle for a downstream distance of at least one bottle opening diameter from the discharge position after inserting the cotton into the bottle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.