Patents by Inventor Carmen V. Martocchio

Carmen V. Martocchio has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20090223180
    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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Carmen V. Martocchio, John R. Rice