US2476475A - Device for gauging and bagging a group of articles - Google Patents

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July 19, 1949. N. v. BAUM DEVICE FOR GAUGING AND BAGGING A GROUP OF ARTICLES Filed July 1 o,' 194v O Q Em IIIIl/I/f/llfllllla i iiilsiilzsi N Q AS i lfi: A i--- N. v. BAUM July 19, 1949. v

v DEVICE FOR GAUGING AND BAGGING A GROUPOF ARTICLES Filed July 10. 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR, /1 Mina/77.

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Patented July 19, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT orrlca DEVICE FOR GAUGING AND BAGGING A GROUP OF ARTICLES Newton V. Baum, Baltimore, Md. Application July 10, 1947, Serial No. 759,968

Claims. 1

This invention relates to a device for gag n and bagging a group of articles.

One object of this invention is to provid a device by which arranged groups of cookies and other articles can be bagged more quickly and neatly than by any means or method previously known to me in years of experience in producing and bagging cookies or similar articles.

Other objects and important features are pointed out or implied in the following details of description in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a left-side view of the tested, practical form of the invention mounted on a table of which only a portion is shown, portions of the supporting means being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a top-plan view of the device of Fig. 1, portions broken away.

Fig. 3 is a view partly in side elevation, partly in vertical section along its median plane.

- Fig. 4 is a view partly in cross-section, showing a relatively large plate clamped on the relatively small plate that is a part of the means for pushing the groups of articles into the respective bags.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental exploded view of the invention.

Fig. 6 is a fragmental view, partly in section, showing a modified form of the combined pusherrod-guide and channel-clamp-bar.

Referring to these drawings in detail, in which similar reference numerals and letters represent similar parts throughout the several views or drawings, the invention is now described in detail as follows:

This invention relates to a device for gaging and bagging a group of articles, especially such as cookies, crackers, cracker-sandwiches, candycakes or patties and wafers, etc., whether angular or circular.

The invention includes, broadly, a channel-unit 1 comprising side-walls Iw and a floor lb and having an open front If and an open top-portion at It (Figs. 2 and 3), in combination with supporting means 8 (Fig. 1) on which said channelunit l'is normally secured and supported in an approximately horizontal position at which said articles 0 can be passed down through said open top-portion and grouped on said floor lb, said front being adapted to enter the mouth of an open bag (not shown), in receiving position at said front, and pushing means 9 operable in said channel-unit for pushing said group of articles as at 0' through said open front If and into said bag when the latter is held in said receiving position.

The channel-unit 'I is supported with the front end of said floor lb higher than other parts of The front ends of the walls 'Iw are inclined at- 12 from their tops, to said floor lb, so they are effective to widely open the mouth of a bag when said bag is caused to receive the front end of said floor and is moved rearward to said tops of the walls 1w.

The supporting means comprises a normally vertical downwardly extending pivot 8p, and a socket 8sc provided with means 8m to secure it to a table or the like in a normally vertical position, said pivot being adapted to be adjusted rotatively and vertically in said socket, and means are provided to secure said pivot in its various adjustments in said socket, such means being shown at Bss in the form of a set-screw.

Clamping means II or 101: are operable to clamp said channel-unit on said support 8 and to release the channel-unit from said support 8, so channel-units of similar construction but of different dimensions can be operatively engaged with said support and correlated with said pushing means 9 so as to bag articles and groups of various dimensions.

A combined clamping means In or like and pusher-guide ing, which latter is also a hingeelement, is hinged at ltlh. to the rear end of said supporting means 8 and comprises a, normally erect portion provided with a guide-opening I00 therethrough, a clamp-bar or pusher-guiding bar IE0 or Inca: has one end united with said hingeelement log, the opposite end of said clamp-bar being normally erect as at Nice and being the front pusher-guide-element having a pusher guide-opening lilgo therethrough, and the main intermediate portion of said clamp-bar being normally against said floor lb of said channel-unit. Manipulative means lllm, such as a wing-nut is normally engaged with said support 8 and clampbar I00 for clamping said channel-unit 1 on said supporting means 8 and releasing the channelunit from said supporting means. The pushing means comprises a rodlp that extends through.

the openings of said clamp-bar lllc or lllca: and hinge-element and is slidable therethrough, said hinge-element Illg or lflgx being effective to keep said clamp-bar andpushing means intact with said support 8 for convenience of the user while changing from one channel-unit to another channel-unit.

A bag-controlling means II is a bent plate pivotally mounted; above; the front portion of said;

4 to enter the mouth of an open bag in receiving position at said front, a combined clamping means and pusher-guide hinged to the rear end of said supporting means and comprising a hinge-element having a normally erect portion provided with a guide-opening therethru, and pushing means slidable in said pusher-guide and operable in said channel-unit for pushing said group of anticles through said opensfriont'andiinto said bag channel-unit and has a free depending lower end 10 when the latter is'held in' said receiving position.

portion in the path of the group of articles when being pushed toward said open front and is movable by pressure of said articles: to; theaupperr-i inner part of the bags mouth when the bagis-im the receiving position around said front forpre venting interference of the bags mouth with the articles being bagged. V

The pushing means comprises a relatively. small 2. The combination defined by claim 1, and 'means pivotally mounted above the front portion ofssaimchanneleunit and having a free lower portion in the said channel-unit in the path of la h i roupryof articles when being pushed toward said front and movable by pressure of said artiplate l2, the push-rod fip um'ted with the central" part of said plate, and a relatively large springy plate Ithav ing opposite edge-portions; I 3e turned toward one another and having their-free edges spaced from the main parzt'of the springy-platel3; 'sufnciently to permit opposite'edgesof said. relatively smallplate l2=to-be slid into and-out of clamping engagement-of said-free edges and said main part of the springy plate In Fig. 4 is showna second springy plate I3ac off same construction-as that in Figs. 1 andi3; but: of' a different sizeyandinterchangeable there within clamped position on the: relatively small plate 12: r

Any appropriate means may be employed for securingthe partsof this device together, for instance, screws s, nails-n; welding 10,- etc. i

In operating thisde-vice; the user first-adjusts the height and angle by manipulation of the ele ments 83s and 8:0 withrespeet to the socket 8'sc-;-

then passes cakes, cookies or crackers,- 61302;

through the openipart of: the channel- 1- to=the mm H), in the manner shown at cccc,- in-front of thepusher 9} the W-idth of the: channel-unit 'l and 'anumber; oftransverse sub-groups of the articles determining the volum -of; the entire group to be pushed into the-bag (not'shown) that rests on'the element 88 with :the partli initsmouth; then while the bag -isheld=in-receiving position by one hand of Jthe-user; his or: her other: hand pushes the handle filuforwardgv thereby causing i the pusher= 9 to push the articles against- :the plate H'solas to-.moveit-forwardly:and up Wardly: against the upperrinnernsurface of1 the bags mouthwhilethe groupofl'articles passes into. the bag without. interference ofg'anycparttof' the-bag-mouth; whereupon, theuserreturns the pusher to the rear position showndniFig. 3; and repeats theoperation above described;

I haveno intentionctolim-it my patentgprotecai tion to the precise detail"of-ithe draw-ingsior: of thefforegoingl description, for the .invention.. is susceptible of inumerou'schangesiwithin the; scope of ;.the inventive ideas as-implied and'zclaimedis My invention is claimed as follows: 1-. In'ia deviceiforggaginggand bagging a group of.;ar,ticles, a channeleunit com-prisingside-wa1ls and-a floor and having-an ;open frontzand an open top.-,p0rtion, in. combination; with; supporting means on. which said; channelrunit z issvnorm-ally secured and supportedjin amapproxirnatety horig zental v position at s which; said;, -;articles; i can lpbe passcdflowu; throu h saidnpemtopepcrtiemand ereune 0 :s o a s id Q tb inewu -t u e 01551170 the upper-inner part of a bags mouth when the bag is in the receiving position around said' open front, for preventing interference of the bags mouth with the articles being bagged. 3%;Thecombination. defined by claim- 1, said pusher-guide comprising a pusher-guidingbar: having one end united" with said. hinge-element, theiopposite end of= saidipushersguiding bar being normally. erect and having-a guide-openingthere thru in open: communication with; the first-said: guide-opening; for cooperation in.- guiding said. pushing means.

4 The combination defined by claim .1, said pusher-guide, comprising acpusher-guiding bar; having one end: united:.w-ith..said. hinge-element, the opposite end of said pusherl-guiding.barybeing; normally erect and having "a guide=opening therethI'LHfOI cooperation .with the. first. said uguide openingfor. guiding said pushing means, themain' intermediate; part 'ofisaid pusher-guiding ban bQ I gnwmaHmagainst said floor, ofc'said channelunit, and manipulative means; normally engaged Withsaid supporting meansv and pusher-guiding bar fonremov-ably, securing; saidichanneleunitin its-1normaLcooperative relation to .saidrsupporting meanssand=pushing-;means.

1 ,In;the;. combination:definedrby claim 1, said. pusher-guide. comprising; a front. apertured erect. portion; said .fpus-hing means comprising arod that extends thru said pusher-guide andhas.-amanipulative element united {therewith and extending; upward; therefrom to; a; distance above said erect portion of -said-pusher-guide and being; efZective-tmoperatesaidirod and to abut against s aid fronterect portion 'forv'limiting pushing; movements ofsaid pushing means-.4 I

' NEWTON v. BAUM.

REFERENCES v- CITED The cfollowingreferences: are' of 1 record in the file-0fv this patent:

UNITED. STATES. PATENTS I t 7 2', 3,7 2 :,547; Bryant;- -v Mar.-27', 1945

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