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US 2013/0153366 A1Published application
Case tipping machine and method of tipping cases
AssigneeThiele Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJerome Kisch, David C. Sellner, Jamison Shelley
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Abstract
A machine and associated method for tipping a cuboidal unit onto its leading face. The machine includes a conveyor, a stop for contacting a leading face of conveyed units so as to arrest continued machine direction conveyance of the conveyed units, and a tipping means, such as a driven friction wheel spaced a vertical distance above the stop, for contacting an arrested unit and driving an upper portion of the unit forward so as to tip the unit over the stop.
Claims18
A tipping machine, comprising:
- (a) a conveyor for conveying a cuboidal unit in a machine direction along a path of conveyance,
- (b) a stop configured and arranged for contacting a leading face of a conveyed unit so as to arrest continued machine direction conveyance of the conveyed units, and
- (c) a tipping means for contacting an arrested unit and tipping the unit over the stop, whereby the unit is rotated onto the leading face of the unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.