Patents by Inventor Johnny Will Collins

Johnny Will Collins 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).

  • Transfer device for nestable container bodies
    Patent number: 4066174
    Abstract: A transfer device for seriately receiving from a forming machine frustoconical paper bucket bodies, nestably accumulating them in a horizontal column in a cylindrical front section of a rotatable drum, loosening the nested bucket bodies from each other in an enlarged cylindrical rear section of the drum, randomly separating the column of bucket bodies into small groups, intermittently conveying successive groups axially away from said drum to a lateral conveyor, conveying the groups laterally to a remote processing machine and adavancing said groups axially into said machine in a direction opposite from the first axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1978
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Johnny Will Collins, Gunars Kochmanis, Bobby Ross Lynch