Patent ID: 9694926
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B65B,B65G

Claim:
1. A conveying system for conveying rolled absorbent products, the system comprising: a. a plurality of rolled absorbent products, said rolled absorbent products comprising a cardboard tube core, said rolled absorbent products also comprising a longitudinal axis being the center of the cardboard tube core; b. a conveyor for moving said rolled absorbent products, said rolled absorbent products being either partially wrapped or naked, said naked rolls being conveyed in streaming, laying down, side-by-side relationship in one or more lanes, so that the cardboard tube core is generally parallel to the conveyor, said conveyor having a centerline parallel to a direction of movement; c. a transfer device operatively coupled to said conveyor, said transfer device capable of diverting at least a portion of said partially wrapped rolled absorbent products in a direction substantially orthogonal to said centerline of said conveyor to a subsequent unit operation such that the longitudinal axes of the diverted partially wrapped rolled absorbent products are orthogonal to the centerline of the conveyor, or alternatively of maintaining an un-diverted portion of said conveyed rolled absorbent products, including at least a portion of said naked rolls, conveyed parallel to said centerline of said conveyor such that the longitudinal axes of the un-diverted rolled absorbent products are parallel to the centerline of the conveyor; and, d. wherein in operation rolled absorbent products can be conveyed in a generally straight path parallel to said centerline of said conveyor, or in a path that diverts away from said conveyor to said subsequent unit operation; e. wherein said conveyor comprises a wrapping station, said wrapping station being capable of wrapping one or more rolled absorbent products prior to said subsequent unit operation, and f. wherein said subsequent unit operation comprises a sealing station for sealing said partially wrapped rolled absorbent products.