Patent ID: 7922074
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A system for matching lids to cartons, comprising: a carton feed conveyor having a plurality of cartons carried at individual flight positions defined along said carton feed conveyor, each of said cartons having a mark applied thereto indicating a type of lid to be applied to said respective carton; a reader operatively disposed relative to said carton feed conveyor to read said marks; a lid feed conveyor having a plurality of individual flight positions defined therealong, each said flight position on said carton feed conveyor having an assigned flight position on said lid feed conveyor; a lid placer station supplied with different types of lids from respective separate lid magazines, said lid placer station disposed along said lid feed conveyor; said lid placer station in communication with said reader and configured to select and place lids dictated by said marks from said magazines onto said flight positions on said lid feed conveyor that are assigned to said flight positions on said carton feed conveyor containing said carton and associated said mark read by said reader; and a lid application station downstream of said lid placer station, the movement and traveling path of said lid feed conveyor and said carton feed conveyor coordinated so that said respective assigned flight positions arrive at said lid application station at generally the same time.