US Patent Issued to AFA SYSTEMS on July 14 for "Loading cases with items" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,585, issued on July 14, was assigned to AFA SYSTEMS LTD. (Brampton, Canada).

"Loading cases with items" was invented by H. J. Paul Langen (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for loading cases with items. An item delivery apparatus delivers a plurality of items to a location for collating the items on a collation platform. A transfer apparatus transfers a plurality of items from the collation platform to a pedestal, where the plurality of items are surrounded, on three sides, by a fence. A case movement apparatus, such as a cartesian robot moves an erected case blank in a path that sheaths, with the ...