Article metering device and method of metering articles
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Oct 17, 2000
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Dec 14, 1998
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Dec 14, 1998
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An article metering device, and a method of metering articles, is disclosed. The article metering device is positioned along a path of travel at a downstream end of a feed conveyor, and at an upstream end of a take-away conveyor of an article handling and packaging system. The article metering device is constructed and arranged to accumulate a first queue of articles on the feed conveyor, to accumulate a second queue of articles on the take-away conveyor, to space the respective articles within the second queue of articles from one another, and to then selectively advance selected ones of the articles within the second queue of articles along the path of travel for being carried on the take-away conveyor toward an infeed conveyor of a downstream packaging machine. The metering device is constructed and arranged to selectively release rows of articles along the path of travel in timed relationship to the operation of the downstream packaging machine
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