Patent ID: 6922970
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for packaging products automatically with packaging members, said products having at least different product lengths or different side dimensions, comprising: a first feed mechanism for feeding a product manufactured in a preceding process along a first feed direction; an inspection mechanism for reading bar-code information from said product fed along said first feed direction, wherein the bar-code information is representative of a dimension of said product, measuring the dimension of said product, and comparing the measured dimension with the bar-code information to determine whether the measured dimension and the dimension represented by the bar-code information match; a second feed mechanism for, if the measured dimension and the dimension represented by the bar-code information match, feeding said product in a second feed direction transverse to said first feed direction; and a third feed mechanism for feeding said product fed in said second feed direction along a third feed direction parallel to said first feed direction.