Patent ID: 8490252
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: B65B,B65G,D01B,D01G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A module handling device, adjacent a disperser adapted to reduce the contents of the module to clumps, comprising equipment for unwrapping cylindrical modules having ends and a round side, the modules being wrapped with a cover at least a plurality of times around the round side of the module where adjacent wraps are adhered to each other, the cover including an interior tail unattached to an adjacent wrap along an area between the module ends and a machine readable tag on the cover, the equipment includes a device for picking the cylindrical module up off an underlying surface, a mechanism for rotating the module when it is off the underlying surface, sensor means, operative during rotation of the module, for detecting the machine readable tag on the wrapper and thereby determining a radial location of the tail on the round side of the module and control means for energizing the rotating mechanism for rotating the module after the sensor means locates the tail so the wrapper can be slit at a location where the tail remains adhered to the wrapper.