Patent ID: 11905126
Assignee: GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system for conveying articles, comprising:
a first plurality of articles comprising a first article;
a second plurality of articles comprising a second article, each article of the first plurality of articles in an inverted orientation relative to a respective article of the second plurality of articles;
a first input lane;
a second input lane, the second article received in the second input lane at an upstream end of the system, the first article is received in the first input lane at an upstream end of the system in an inverted orientation relative to the second article; and
a lane combiner positioned downstream from the first input lane and the second input lane and comprising a first combiner wheel that is out of phase with a second combiner wheel,
the first combiner wheel is positioned to engage the first article from the first plurality of articles in the first input lane and the second combiner wheel is positioned to engage the second article from the second plurality of articles in the second input lane,
upon out of phase rotation of the first combiner wheel and the second combiner wheel, the first article is moved into the output lane and the second article is moved into the output lane after the first article to form a combined plurality of articles that comprises the first article and second article in sequence.