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US 4,785,607 AGranted
Apparatus to facilitate hand packing of containers of different sizes
AssigneeThe Suter Company, Inc.
InventorKent G. Blackman
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Abstract
Packaging apparatus for facilitating the rapid hand packing of fragile ingredients such as used in salads. Mechanisms are provided to transport empty containers to a filling station, introducing the ingredients by a hard raking procedure into the container and then further moving the containers to a weighing station and finally passing them for sealing and packaging. Facilities are included so that containers of a number of different sizes can be accommodated.
Claims13
Apparatus to facilitate the manual filling of a plurality of containers with a product, said apparatus comprising:
- a feed-through conveyor;
- a container dispenser station periodically operated to dispense containers onto said feed-through conveyor;
- a lifting frame assembly positioned adjacent to said feedthrough conveyor;
- said conveyor operated to position a first plurality of containers adjacent to said lifting frame assembly;
- a top pan, including a replaceable filler plate, said filler plate including a plurality of openings therein said top pan and said plate supporting a quantity of said product;
- said openings in said filler plate being positioned over said conveyor, each opening positioned over a different one of said first plurality of containers;
- guide plates located adjacent to the underside of said filler plate, adapted to assist in the placement of said containers proper alignment beneath said openings in said filler plate assembly;
- said lifting frame assembly operated to raise said first plurality of containers off of said feed-through conveyor and upward against said filler plate;
- whereby said product can be manually introduced from said plate and said top pan into said plurality of containers and said containers are filled.
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