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Individual beverage containers 16 are transported by conveyor track 14A to conveyor track 14B, along which they are advanced by parallel chains 34 and 36 carrying flight bars 44. Trays 26 to receive containers 16 are advanced by an inclined conveyor track 24B having projections 30 to engage the tray

Individual beverage containers 16 are transported by conveyor track 14A to conveyor track 14B, along which they are advanced by parallel chains 34 and 36 carrying flight bars 44. Trays 26 to receive containers 16 are advanced by an inclined conveyor track 24B having projections 30 to engage the trays. A plurality of support members 130 are disposed at the downstream end of track 14B to introduce the containers into the trays. Special trays are used having a plurality of structural members on their inner wall surfaces to define recessed regions between the structural members into which the curved surfaces of the containers fit so that they are held upright.

대표청구항 ▼

A system for pac king containers into corresponding trays, comprising: first conveyor means for transporting said containers along a first track; means for dividing said containers into selected groups, the number of containers in each group corresponding to the number of containers to be packed int

A system for pac king containers into corresponding trays, comprising: first conveyor means for transporting said containers along a first track; means for dividing said containers into selected groups, the number of containers in each group corresponding to the number of containers to be packed into each tray; second conveyor means for transporting said trays along a second track, a portion of said second track being inclined with respect to said first track so that the first and second tracks converge at a predetermined location; and a support member disposed adjacent to said predetermined location for journally supporting said containers as said containers are being packed into the corresponding tray, said support member being reciprocally moveable along an upstream-downstream axis between a first position at which said support member is substantially fully extended for introducing a corresponding group of containers into the corresponding tray and a second position at which said support member is substantially fully retracted for allowing the trailing edge of the corresponding tray to clear said support member as said tray is moved along the inclined portion of the second track after all of the containers in the corresponding group have been packed into the tray.