Patent ID: 8948907
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A method of loading by the use of a manipulator one or more objects into empty housings of containers located on a packaging machine, the method comprising: providing the one or more objects in a work area of the manipulator; intermittently shifting the position of the empty housings by use of the packaging machine between rest positions during an advance time, each of the empty housings residing at the rest positions during a rest time, a rest position located in the work area of the manipulator corresponding with a loading position; upon detecting an initiation of the empty housings being intermittently shifted between the rest positions, calculating positioning times necessary for the manipulator to load at least one of the one or more objects into the empty housings that are located at the loading positions at the completion of the intermittent shifting of the empty housings; determining a difference in time between the advance time and the calculated positioning times for the at least one of the one or more objects and the loading positions; and causing the manipulator to deliver the at least one of the one or more objects to the loading position whose positioning time is equal to the advance time or is otherwise the closest to and longer than the advance time.