Robert C Roth

US Patent:

40448851, Aug 30, 1977

Filed:

Jul 2, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/702012

Inventors:

Edward Rose - Skokie IL
Robert A. Roth - Chicago IL

Assignee:

Peters Machinery Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B65G 4726

US Classification:

198419

Abstract:

In accordance with the present invention, cookies are counted and grouped and are guided and ride along support rails of a drop gate. The support rails are moved to one side during a dwell in the travel of a transfer conveyor, in a manner such that a group of cookies from one row and another group of cookies from another row drop through drop chutes of a drop chute assembly into an accumulator at the lower portion of the drop chute assembly, in longitudinal alignment along the centerline of the machine. There are actually two such drop chute assemblies, and the remaining group of cookies from each of the two rows drop in the same manner into the accumulator at the lower portion of the second drop chute assembly. After the groups of cookies have dropped into the accumulators of the drop chute assemblies, the accumulators operate respectively to longitudinally advance the one group of cookies into substantially abutting longitudinal relationship with the other group of cookies. Accordingly, at this time, there is effectively one group of cookies in each of the respective accumulators, consisting of a combined group of cookies which may be, for example, a combined group of chocolate and vanilla flavor or colored cookies.

US Patent:

42260736, Oct 7, 1980

Filed:

May 3, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/035687

Inventors:

Edward Rose - Skokie IL
Robert A. Roth - Chicago IL

Assignee:

Peters Machinery Company, Subsidiary of Katy Industries, Inc. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B65B 3530
B65B 3914

US Classification:

53532

Abstract:

An automatic tray loading apparatus for cookies or the like in which cook are divided into two rows with cookies in each row separated into groups of a given count and continuously conveyed to a loading station for loading into trays. A pair of drop chute members are aligned with the rows of cookies and each arranged to receive a discrete cookie group dropped therein by a drop gate device. The cookie group dropped into one of the drop chutes is moved laterally into close proximity to a second cookie group resting in the second drop chute to bring the cookie spacing into register with the spacing of cookie receiving compartments in the trays. Drop gate slides for each drop chute are then activated to open chute outlet openings to drop each cookie group into an appropriate compartment of a waiting cookie tray. A tray conveyor then carries away the cookie-filled tray and spots an empty tray below the drop chute outlet openings.