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Machine for packaging dispensing spoons and method

  • US 4,091,915 A
  • Filed: 08/16/1976
  • Issued: 05/30/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for use in packaging dispensing spoons which comprises the steps of:

  • (a) successively moving spoons on a conveyor, the spoons each having a shank portion joining a spoon bowl at one end and at the opposite end having a protuberance disposed in the direction of the hollow side of the spoon bowl and substantially normal to the shank, said spoons being aligned on said conveyor in a longitudinal direction substantially in the direction of travel;

    (b) passing said aligned spoons under a wire-like transport means disposed near the horizontal termination location of the conveyor;

    (c) hooking the protuberances of certain spoons which are properly positioned in an upward direction on the conveyor with the wire-like transport means while tilting the spoons upwardly as the spoons exit from the conveyor; and

    (d) transporting spoons hooked by means of the protuberances on the wire-like transport means to a discharge outlet, said spoons being transferred from the wire-like transport means to the discharge outlet while in a uniformly aligned direction.

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