Alson R Harm

46642480, May 12, 1987

Mar 11, 1986

6/838898

William H. Goodman - Cincinnati OH
Alson R. Harm - Sunman IN
Ronald W. Kock - Wyoming OH
Howard N. Reiboldt - College Corner OH

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

B65G 4724

198394

Device and a method are taught for specifically orienting and conveying products in a common direction of travel. The products are individually mounted on a plurality of identical, circular, product-carrying pucks. Each circular puck has a flat conveyor-contacting bottom surface and at least one circular peripheral surface contactable by corresponding circular peripheral surfaces of other pucks when located in a random surge thereof. Each puck is surmounted by a product support. Between its bottom surface and its product support, each puck has a peripheral slide surface parallel to the desired direction of travel of the oriented puck and at least one peripheral rotation-producing surface, the slide and rotation-producing surfaces being inset from the circular peripheral surface. A conveyor is provided having in association therewith at least one external contact surface to engage the rotation-producing surface of each puck and an alignment rail having an alignment edge to contact the slide surface of each puck. Each puck is conveyed past the at least one contact surface which cooperates with the at least one rotation-producing surface to cause rotation of the puck until the alignment edge of the alignment rail contacts the puck slide surface to stop rotation of the puck in the desired orientation and to maintain this orientation of the puck as it is conveyed to the next work station.

39802892, Sep 14, 1976

Apr 7, 1975

5/565929

Alson Robert Harm - Sunman IN

The Procter & Gamble Company - Cincinnati OH

B41L 130

270 40

An apparatus for simultaneously folding and interfolding a multiplicity of webs of flexible material such as facial tissue paper in the machine direction to form an endless bundle of interfolded webs which endless bundle can be cut into discrete bundles and packaged in pop-up dispensing containers. The apparatus comprises a fan-shape, horizontally disposed folding table comprising a set of tapered elongate guides having inverted V-shape cross sections. The elongate guides are disposed in side-by-side relation and thereby form tapered V-shape troughs therebetween. The webs are directed in convergent relation onto the radially outwardly disposed edge of the fan-shape table in partially overlapped relation and are drawn radially inwardly thereacross and thence about a turning guide whereupon the folds of the webs are alternately V-folded upwardly in said troughs and downwardly about the ridges of the elongate guides so that an edge fold of each web is disposed intermediate two folds of an adjacent web. The apparatus may also include an array of unwind backstands, and ply bonding and machine-direction slitting devices so that the multiplicity of webs can be supplied from a substantially smaller number of parent rolls.