US Patent Issued to R.A Jones & Co. on June 23 for "Rotary carton feeder" (Kentucky, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,340, issued on June 23, was assigned to R.A Jones & Co. (Covington, Ky.).

"Rotary carton feeder" was invented by Robert M. Kalany (Florence, Ky.), Andrew James Nelson (Davenport, Iowa) and Robert Todd Gatman (Burlington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary carton feeder includes a planetary drive having two sun rings with angular phase, cam surfaces on each ring about a common axis. Planetary members rotate about the common axis with a number of said planet members in operative engagement with one of the cams and another number of planet members in operative engagement with a second one of said sun rings. Spindles are selecti...