US Patent Issued to R.A Jones & Co. on June 16 for "Pouch containment and carton loading" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,890, issued on June 16, was assigned to R.A Jones & Co. (Covington, Ky.).

"Pouch containment and carton loading" was invented by William E. Engelhardt (Morning View, Ky.), Steven C. Hamilton (Felicity, Ohio) and Eric M. Schaefer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stack of products such as pouches is formed in a product bucket, pushed into a stack guide bucket and from there into a carton. A stack tamp descends over the stack, engages and confines it downwardly during stack pushing from product bucket and through stack guide bucket into a carton. Multiple product buckets, stack guide buckets and cartons move downstream durin...