Patent ID: 7607545

Claim:
A method of inspecting and sorting molded containers, including the steps of: a) inspecting molded containers for commercial variations outside of acceptable limits, which commercial variations are associated with mold cavities that produced the containers; b) setting a cavity reject-at threshold in a controller for at least one unacceptable commercial variation and setting a cavity pack-at threshold in the controller that is less than said reject-at threshold; c) correlating a container that is determined to have at least one unacceptable commercial variation with the mold cavity that produced the container; d) segregating with a diverter all containers produced by the mold cavity after the mold cavity is determined to have produced a number of containers having said unacceptable commercial variation at or in excess of said reject-at threshold set forth in step b); and (e) allowing containers produced by a previously segregated mold cavity to proceed for further processing when a number of containers from said previously segregated mold cavity falls below said pack-at threshold set forth in step b).