Kenneth L Ruehl

US Patent:

6978883, Dec 27, 2005

Filed:

Apr 4, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/406893

Inventors:

Jason Matthew Orndorff - Lawrenceburg IN, US
Jeffrey Wes Martin - Jackson TN, US
Kenneth Leonard Ruehl - Cincinnati OH, US

Assignee:

Procter & Gamble Co. - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B65G023/00

US Classification:

198792, 198334, 1984591

Abstract:

A conveyor for transporting articles is disclosed. The conveyor is for transporting articles having an initial pitch, wherein the initial pitch of the articles is subsequently decreased and/or increased. After the subsequent increase and/or decrease in pitch, the initial pitch can then be restored or a different pitch obtained.

US Patent:

7677015, Mar 16, 2010

Filed:

Jul 31, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/631400

Inventors:

Timothy Bernard William Kroese - Brussels, BE
Kenneth Ruehl - Cincinnati OH, US
Rachid Ben Moussa - La Hulpe, BE

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B65B 47/00
B65B 5/00

US Classification:

53453, 53559

Abstract:

A process for forming filled sealed pouches, comprising: supplying a thermoformable film to an upper surface of a conveyer which includes a plurality of recessed vacuum molds in its upper surface and is mounted to slide over an elongated conveyor support through holding, forming, filling and sealing stations; holding the film on the conveyer at the holding station; forming the film to form pouches at the forming station by supplying a forming under-pressure at the forming station into the mold recesses wherein the forming under-pressure is supplied through vacuum apertures leading from a vacuum supply apparatus and discharging through the conveyer support through vacuum orifices extending through the conveyer into the vacuum molds wherein under-pressure is supplied to the mold recesses at one or more subsequent processing stations through the vacuum apertures and vacuum orifices, and wherein the under pressure at the forming station is greater than the under-pressure at one or more of the subsequent processing stations; filling the pouches at the filling station; and sealing the pouches with a sealing film at the sealing station.

US Patent:

50407830, Aug 20, 1991

Filed:

Sep 10, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/580395

Inventors:

Kenneth L. Ruehl - Cincinnati OH

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B65H 3910

US Classification:

271300

Abstract:

A stacking device for forming stacks of articles of predetermined count, using a stacking wheel having a multiplicty of uniformly spaced peripheral slots. The slots are adapted to receive articles sequentially at a loading station and carry them to an unloading station having a plurality of stacking sites. The slots are divided into two or more sets, the slots in each set being equal to number to the predetermined count and adapted to deliver the articles therein to the unloading station with the leading edges of the articles at a predetermined radial offset from the axis of the stacking wheel. Each set of slots is associated with the stacking of articles at a specific stacking site and the slots of a set associated with one stacking site provide a different radial offset than those of a set associated with another stacking site. The stacking sites are arranged, in the downstream direction, in order of diminishing radial offset of their associated sets of slots. Separation of the stacks is effected by having stripping fingers for each stacking site act at the appropriate radial offset.