US Patent Issued to R.A Jones & Co. on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus and method for orienting pouches head-to-toe" (Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,455, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to R.A Jones & Co. (Covington, Ky.).

"Apparatus and method for orienting pouches head-to-toe" was invented by Jeffrey D. Wintring (Florence, Ky.), Robert M. Kalany (Florence, Ky.), Andrew J. Nelson (Davenport, Iowa) and Jeffrey E. Farmer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product transfer apparatus for transferring product between a horizontal form, fill, and seal machine and a cartoner machine is provided. The product transfer apparatus includes an electromagnetic motor table configured to define a plurality of pre-selected zones and a plurality of moving elements configured to float ov...