Patent ID: 6282864
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
An overhead boom arrangement for use in a packaging machine comprising an adjustable support structure, a plurality of endless belts carried on and movable with said support structure, each endless belt being driven around a set of rollers mounted on the support structure and having an active portion of its path during which each of said belts engages products as the products move through the packaging machine, at least one of said belts being vertically adjustable relative to other belts carried on said support structure, such that said active portion of said path of said one belt is selectively vertically movable in a substantially parallel manner upwards and downwards relative to said support structure and said other belts carried on said support structure, and wherein said active portions of said belts extend parallel to each other and in use run at a speed approximately equal to the products moving through the packaging machine.