Patent ID: 8269125

Claim:
A device for sequencing disparate products, comprising: a first feeder mechanism feeding a stream of a first product type in a pre-sequenced order; a packet former which packetizes the first product type into packets having common product information; a second feeder mechanism feeding a separation item before or after each packet of the packets formed by the packet former; a third feeder mechanism feeding a stream of second product type though a sequencing process; a reading device reading product information of the first product type and the second product type; a controller coupled to at least the first, second and third feeder and the reading device; and a pausing device, which under control of the controller, intermittently pauses at least one of the packets formed by the packet former and the second stream of the second product type, during second pass, to intermix and sequence the packets and the second stream of the second product type having the common product information into a merged stream of first and second product type.