Title: Tamper and confiner for product bucket

Abstract: In a cartoning machine, a series of L-shaped product buckets mounted on a chain conveyor and a series of inverted L-shaped tamper-confiner elements mounted on a conveyor chain overlying the product buckets, the tamper-confiner elements being cammed to form, with the product buckets, a gradually closing, generally rectangular compartment whose inside dimensions are substantially the same as the carton into which the product is to be inserted. The structure permits the gradual shaping of a pouch to the size necessary for insertion into a carton.

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Inventors: Hughes, Charles C. (Ludlow, KY, US)

Application Number: 509416
Filing Date: 1974-09-26
Publication_date: 1976-01-20
Assignee: R. A. Jones & Co. Inc. (Covington, KY)
Primary Class(es): 53/252 53/526, 53/529
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US Patent Ref:

2180349	Nov, 1939	DeBack	53/252.
3269091	Aug, 1966	Martin	53/252.

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Primary Examiner: McGehee, Travis S.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Wood, Herron & Evans