Method of and apparatus for automatically packaging encased product
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakao Otsuka, Sakae Kagawa, Rie Aoki
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Abstract
An automatic packaging apparatus has an arraying and supplying station, a sorting station and a packaging station. The arraying and supplying station forcibly arrays and supplies encased products to orient their caps in one direction. The sorting station selectively sorts the arrayed encased products to a first feed path for feeding the encased products to package the encased products in a abreast-arrayed attitude and a second feed path for feeding the encased products to package the encased products in a tandem-arrayed attitude. The packaging station automatically packages the encased products by a shrink sheet in the abreast-arrayed attitude or the tandem-arrayed attitude.
Claims15
A method of automatically packaging a plurality of encased products, each comprising a product sealed in a case barrel and a cap mounted on the case barrel, in a packaging sheet, comprising the steps of:
- forcibly arraying said encased products to orient said caps in one direction;
- selectively sorting the arrayed encased products to a first feed path for arraying the encased products to package the encased products in a first attitude and a second feed path for arraying the encased products to package the encased products in a second attitude different from said first attitude;
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- packaging a given number of said encased products arrayed in said first attitude by said first feed path or said encased products arrayed in said second attitude by said second feed path, with said packaging sheet.
An apparatus for automatically packaging a plurality of encased products, each comprising a product sealed in a case barrel and a cap mounted on the case barrel, in a packaging sheet, comprising:
- an arraying and supplying station for forcibly arraying and supplying said encased products to orient said caps in one direction;
- a sorting station for selectively sorting the arrayed encased products to a first feed path for feeding the encased products to package the encased products in a first attitude and a second feed path for feeding the encased products to package the encased products in a second attitude different from said first attitude;
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- a packaging station for packaging a given number of said encased products arrayed in said first attitude by said first feed path or said encased products arrayed in said second attitude by said second feed path, with said packaging sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.