Patents Assigned to Graphic West Packaging Machinery, LLC
  • Transporting system for packaging machine
    Patent number: 7624855
    Abstract: A transporting system in a packaging machine automatically merges and accumulates, usually as a shingled stream, generally flat articles having substantially continuous and discontinuous opposite sides, and includes a portion, of one of two main conveyor mechanisms, that is constructed to invert the articles, from side-to-side about endwise axes so that all of the cartons face upwardly, even though the articles of alternating groups have been inverted, during transport by that main conveyor mechanism, about their lateral axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Graphic West Packaging Machinery, LLC
    Inventors: Carmen V. Martocchio, John R. Rice