Patents by Inventor Ronald George Garwood

Ronald George Garwood 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: 6497083
    Abstract: Apparatus for feeding items of pharmaceutical product to pockets in a continuously travelling web for the production of blister packs has a plurality of product delivery chutes mounted on a moving carriage having delivery gates for releasing product from the delivery chutes. The carriage cycles the delivery chutes from a stationary position under stationary metering chutes, where product is transferred into the delivery chutes, accelerating and lowering them into alignment with pockets in the travelling web, where product is released, and raising and returning the delivery chutes to the stationary position to repeat the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Electro-mec (Reading) Ltd
    Inventors: Ronald George Garwood, Michael William Ellis, Brian Keith Hansford