# US 8,770,381 B2 · Bread conveying apparatus and bread packaging system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,770,381 B2 - Document ID: US8770381B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 12/929,166 - Filed: 2011-01-05 - Published: 2012-03-22 - Granted: 2014-07-08 - Earliest claimed: 2010-09-21 - Assignees: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd. - Applicants: Nobuhiro Suzuki; Shuichi Iribe; Michinori Watanabe; Seiichi Akutsu - Inventors: Nobuhiro Suzuki; Shuichi Iribe; Michinori Watanabe; Seiichi Akutsu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8770381B2 ## CPC - B65G 47/24: orientating the articles - B65B 5/045: {in bags} - B65B 25/16: Packaging bread or like bakery products, e.g. unsliced loaves - B65G 19/02: for articles, e.g. for containers - B65G 47/66: Fixed platforms or combs, e.g. bridges between conveyors - B65G: TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable mobile or lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/00; emptying bottles, jars, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D) - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract A bread conveying apparatus includes a pair of rolling members spaced apart from each other along a loaf bread conveying path, an endless revolving member wound around the pair of rolling members and laid along the conveying path, a first flight mounted to the endless revolving member to urge the loaf bread along the conveying path and carry the loaf bread to a predetermined position, and a second flight mounted to the endless revolving member upstream of the first flight along the conveying path to urge the loaf bread so as to align the loaf bread with the predetermined position. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A bread packaging system, comprising: a bread conveying apparatus comprising: a pair of rolling members spaced apart from each other along a loaf bread conveying path; an endless revolving member wound around said pair of rolling members and laid along said conveying path; a first flight mounted to said endless revolving member to urge said loaf bread along said conveying path and carry said loaf bread to a predetermined position; and a loaf bread packaging apparatus including a scoop, the scoop receiving said loaf bread placed by said bread conveying apparatus and serving to package said loaf bread, wherein the scoop includes: a base portion on which said loaf bread is placed; an upstream flange protruding upward from an upstream end of said base portion when viewed across said conveying path, and a downstream flange protruding upward from a downstream end of said base portion when viewed across said conveying path, wherein said upstream or said downstream flange extend so as to form an acute angle with respect to said base portion, and wherein said predetermined position where said bread is carried by said first flight is located on said base portion of the scoop. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A bread packaging system according to claim 1, the bread conveying apparatus further comprising: a second flight mounted to said endless revolving member upstream of said first flight along said conveying path to urge said loaf bread so as to align said loaf bread with said predeteimined position, wherein said second flight is, during rotation around one of the rolling members located at a downstream side along the conveying path, fixed to the endless revolving member, and projected away from the one of the rolling members so as to be capable of being abutted to said loaf bread. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) A bread packaging system according to claim 2, wherein one of or both of said first flight and said second flight have a curved contact portion to be in contact with said loaf bread. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A bread packaging system according to claim 3, wherein said contact portion of the one of or both of said first flight and/or said second flight is rotatable. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) A bread packaging system according to claim 2, wherein said second flight aligns said loaf bread with said predetermined position by correcting a position of said loaf bread when said loaf bread is misplaced by said first flight. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A bread packaging system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined position extends horizontally, viewed across said conveying path. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A bread packaging system according to claim 1, wherein said first flight is, during rotation around the one of the rolling members located at the downstream side along the conveying path, fixed to the endless revolving member, and projected away from the one of the rolling members so as to be capable of being abutted to said loaf bread. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) A bread packaging system according to claim 7, wherein said first flight and a second flight are projected in a direction of a diameter of the one of the rolling members. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) A bread packaging system according to claim 1, wherein, in a direction parallel to an axial direction of said base portion, a distance between said upstream flange and said downstream flange increases as said upstream flange and said downstream flange extend from said base portion. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A bread packaging system according to claim 1, wherein each of said upstream flange and said downstream flange forms an obtuse angle with the base portion in an area above said base portion that said loaf bread is located.