Ronald K Porter

US Patent:

39789730, Sep 7, 1976

Filed:

Dec 12, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/531860

Inventors:

Allen H. Lloyd - Terrace Park OH
Edwin A. Molitor - Miami Township, Clermont County OH
Quentin E. Honnert - Cincinnati OH
Ronald H. Porter - Milford OH
Norman P. Crowe - Miami Township, Clermont County OH

Assignee:

Multifold-International, Inc. - Milford OH

International Classification:

B65G 4718
B65H 522

US Classification:

198401

Abstract:

A machine that receives four rows of completely separated but closely spaced cartons from a customer printing and cutting press, and spaces each carton laterally and longitudinally from its neighbors for non-interference therewith. The machine aligns each independent stream of cartons with the longitudinal dimension of the overall machine and directs the streams of cartons to a switching device intended to control carton traffic to a primary automated stacking process or to an essentially secondary manual stacking process. The primary automated process passes the streams of cartons through an underlapping process, over an inspection table, through an inverting process, into a rate controlling hopper. From the rate controlling hopper, the cartons of each stream pass over a set of laterally disposed conveyors and into a discrete stack of cartons formed within a vertical hopper system that is the output receiver of this machine. The secondary manual stacking process is initiated when the streams of cartons are deflected from the primary process into a scrap chute.