Sheet sets packaging system
AssigneePhoenix Automation, Inc.
InventorsMichael R. Samborn, Parks C. Stewart, John Shoupp
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Abstract
A product packaging system for organizing and packing a number of different items into a set. The system may include a number of staging conveyors. Each of the staging conveyors may carry a stack of items from the number of different items. The system further may include a positioning conveyor positioned adjacent to the staging conveyors and a number of removal devices positioned adjacent to the positioning conveyor. The removal devices may remove one item from the stack of items on each of the staging conveyors and place the item on the positioning conveyor. The system also may include one or more rotation devices positioned about the positioning conveyor so as to rotate the one items on the positioning conveyor.
Claims24
A product packaging system for organizing and packing a plurality of different items into a set, comprising:
- a plurality of staging conveyors, each of said plurality of staging conveyors carrying a stack of items from said plurality of different items;
- a positioning conveyor positioned adjacent to said plurality of staging conveyors;
- a plurality of removal devices positioned adjacent to said positioning conveyor so as to remove one item from said stack of items on each of said plurality of staging conveyors and place said one item on said positioning conveyor;
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- one or more rotation devices positioned about said positioning conveyor so as to rotate said one items on said positioning conveyor.
A product packaging system for organizing and packaging a plurality of sheets and pillowcases, comprising:
- a plurality of staging conveyors, a first one of said plurality of staging conveyors carrying a stack of said plurality of sheets and a second one of said plurality of staging conveyors carrying a stack of said plurality of pillowcases;
- a positioning conveyor positioned adjacent to said plurality of staging conveyors;
- a plurality of removal devices positioned adjacent to said positioning conveyor, a first one of said plurality of removal devices to remove one sheet from said stack of sheets and to place said one sheet on said positioning conveyor and a second one of said plurality of removal devices to remove one pillowcase from said stack of pillowcases and to place said one pillowcase on said one sheet on said positioning conveyor;
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- one or more rotation devices positioned about said positioning conveyor so as to rotate said one sheet and/or said one pillowcase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.