Patent ID: 6964149
Filing Date: 2005-11-15
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A method of packaging products automatically with packaging members, said products having at least different product lengths or different side dimensions, comprising the steps of: feeding a product manufactured in a preceding process along said first feed direction, said bar-code information being representative of a dimension of said product, measuring a 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; if the measured dimension and the dimension represented by the bar-code information match, feeding correct or wrong; if said product is judged as being correct, feeding said product in a second feed direction transverse to said first feed direction; and feeding said product fed in said second feed direction along a third feed direction parallel to said first feed direction, and automatically packaging said product with a packaging member.