Patent ID: 6793064
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: B65B,B65G

Abstract:
Method for loading product comprising:guiding product in a conveying direction in a grid pattern with at least two parallel columns and multiple parallel rows, with the columns in the grid pattern abutting and with the rows in the grid pattern abutting, with the columns being parallel to the conveying direction; conveying product in the grid pattern until a pack pattern is transferred onto an unloader platform, with the pack pattern being maintained by product being conveyed from upstream of the pack pattern, with the pack pattern including the at least two parallel columns and at least two parallel rows; guiding product in the grid pattern being conveyed onto the unloader platform so that the columns in the pack pattern abut and the rows in the pack pattern abut; pushing the pack pattern from the unloader platform; and guiding product in the pack pattern being pushed from the unloader platform so that the columns in the pack pattern abut and the rows in the pack pattern abut.