Automatic packing line

US4284187A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Sapal Societe Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques · CH

Inventors

• Ulrich Kramer · Bensberg, DE
• Alexis Chenevard · Morges, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: May 22, 1979
• Grant date: Aug 18, 1981
• Expiry date: May 22, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S198/954
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An automatic packing line consisting of feeder conveyor belts arranged to bring products to be packed to a series of packing machines and of automatic feeder stations located along the said belts to distribute the said products selectively to the packing machines, is equipped with a recovery device installed after the last automatic feeder station to collect the products which have not been taken charge of by the said stations, a storage device for storing temporarily the products collected by the recovery device and an ejection device which evacuates the undistributed products when the storage device becomes saturated with such products.