John L Raudat

7552570, Jun 30, 2009

Feb 28, 2005

11/068427

John L. Raudat - Kalispell MT, US
J. Michael Weaver - Madison CT, US
Rick Dolce - East Hampton CT, US
Jeffrey Reilly - Killingworth CT, US
Lloyd Johnson - Portland CT, US
Vincent M. Cassarino - South Meriden CT, US

Standard Knapp Inc. - Portland CT

B65B 5/06

53246, 53235, 53244, 53247, 53250, 53534, 53539

A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further includes disappearing lugs that pivot into the lanes via a cam surface provided in the lanes. The product rides upon a raised surface of the cam surface as the lug pushes the product set together down the lane, thus ensuring that no gaps are provided between product set members. A gripper/grid section of the packaging machine includes a bars that travel about a carousel with a gripper head assembly and a grid assembly pair moving up and down the bars as defined by cam surfaces within the gripper/grid section. The grid section is presented below the product set such that the product set is fed through the grid section in a one-way trip into a case. The gripper head assembly cam device and the case feed section both include height adjustment assemblies.

8033082, Oct 11, 2011

May 20, 2009

12/468934

John L. Raudat - Kalispell MT, US
J. Michael Weaver - Madison CT, US
Rick Dolce - East Hampton CT, US
Jeffrey Reilly - Killingworth CT, US
Lloyd Johnson - Portland CT, US
Vincent M. Cassarino - South Meriden CT, US

Standard Knapp Inc. - Portland CT

B65B 5/06

53246, 53235, 53244, 53247, 53250, 53534, 53539

A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further includes disappearing lugs that pivot into the lanes via a cam surface provided in the lanes. The product rides upon a raised surface of the cam surface as the lug pushes the product set together down the lane, thus ensuring that no gaps are provided between product set members. A gripper/grid section of the packaging machine includes a bars that travel about a carousel with a gripper head assembly and a grid assembly pair moving up and down the bars as defined by cam surfaces within the gripper/grid section. The grid section is presented below the product set such that the product set is fed through the grid section in a one-way trip into a case. The gripper head assembly cam device and the case feed section both include height adjustment assemblies.

20090229227, Sep 17, 2009

May 20, 2009

12/468923

John L. Raudat - Kalispell MT, US
J. Michael Weaver - Madison CT, US
Rick Dolce - East Hampton CT, US
Jeffrey Reilly - Killingworth CT, US
Lloyd Johnson - Portland CT, US
Vincent M. Cassarino - South Meriden CT, US

STANDARD KNAPP INC. - Portland CT

B65B 1/04

53473, 53235

A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further includes disappearing lugs that pivot into the lanes via a cam surface provided in the lanes. The product rides upon a raised surface of the cam surface as the lug pushes the product set together down the lane, thus ensuring that no gaps are provided between product set members. A gripper/grid section of the packaging machine includes a bars that travel about a carousel with a gripper head assembly and a grid assembly pair moving up and down the bars as defined by cam surfaces within the gripper/grid section. The grid section is presented below the product set such that the product set is fed through the grid section in a one-way trip into a case. The gripper head assembly cam device and the case feed section both include height adjustment assemblies.

20100021861, Jan 28, 2010

Apr 15, 2009

12/386230

Charles C. Maker - Carbondale CO, US
John L. Raudat - Kalispell MT, US

A61D 5/00
A61C 3/06

433125

A tooth grinding system includes an electric motor, a drive unit driven by the motor, a float arm attached to the electric motor at one end, a cutter head at the distal end of the arm including a drive assembly and a cutter element driven by the drive assembly and a flexible drive member within the arm and driven by the drive unit to drive the drive assembly and cutter element.

20110297465, Dec 8, 2011

Apr 8, 2011

13/082693

Paul N. Huntley - Cheshire CT, US
John Raudat - Kalispell MT, US

E04G 5/00
E04G 3/28
B60K 1/00

180 651

A motorized, two-wheeled retrofit assembly converts a portable, four-wheeled transport unit, such as a scaffold, to a self-propelled, power driven unit for directional movement from one location to another. The retrofit assembly is attached to the transport unit in a manner that immobilizes or replaces the front wheels of the transport unit. The retrofit assembly comprises a drive assembly and a steering assembly. The drive assembly includes a pair of freely rotating wheels that are spaced apart from each other and share a common axle. Each freely rotating wheel is disposed adjacent to and detachably engaged with a corresponding slip drive wheel that is fixed to the axle for driving the freely rotating wheels. The drive assembly further comprises a motor; a drive mechanism that operatively interconnects the motor with one of the slip drive wheels for turning the retrofit assembly axle; a power source for the motor; and a base communicating with the axle for carrying the assembly motor and power source. The steering assembly comprises a vertically adjustable steering column.

20140059976, Mar 6, 2014

Mar 15, 2013

13/843677

John L. Raudat - Kalispell MT, US
Les Dennison - Kalispell MT, US

B65B 5/06

53244

Disclosed is a product case packing system with a gripping head assembly and a packaging grid assembly linked by a coordination arm that synchronizes the delivery of the product to be packaged and with the positioning of the grid assembly into the packaging container. The system includes a gripper head assembly extension control module, capable of controlling multiple travel distances of the gripper head assembly in a single packing cycle, a product assembly detection module, and a packaging release control element for subtle separation of individual packed containers.

63180499, Nov 20, 2001

Jun 29, 2000

9/606545

John L. Raudat - Kalispell MT
Emilio N. CoFrancesco - Middletown CT
Jeffrey Reilly - Meriden CT

Standard Knapp Inc. - Portland CT

B26D 103
B65B 720

533772

A slitter machine of the type where tab lock cases of varying height, width, and length are advanced therethrough in a product flow direction on a machine bed by a main drive motor, is presented. The slitter machine includes a frame, a centerline, a leading flap lifter and a trailing flap lifter. The leading flap lifter and trailing flap lifter are mounted are mounted to the frame on opposite sides of the centerline, and extend at an incline relative to the machine bed. Each flap lifter includes a tear drop assembly attached to a drive chain and actuated by a pair of cams to rotate the leading flap and the trailing flap toward a closed position. A chain track is disposed in each of the flap lifting assemblies, with the drive chains disposed therein. Each chain track has a first section having a first distance between the drive chains and a second section having a second distance between the drive chains. The second distance is greater than the first distance.

42032717, May 20, 1980

Nov 24, 1978

5/963368

John L. Raudat - Madison CT

Standard-Knapp, Inc. - Portland CT

B65B 4348

53250

Cases are accumulated in end-to-end relationship on a continuously driven infeed conveyor and stop means is provided adjacent the downstream end to selectively advance several cases in a group onto a pusher conveyor of the endless chain type. A lift table at the downstream end of the pusher conveyor raises these cases upwardly at a packing station where they are loaded with slugs of articles appropriately segregated for being dropped into the upwardly open packing cases in accordance with conventional practice. The packer accommodates the cases in each group in indexed relationship to one another and means is provided for so indexing the end-to-end cases. The endless pusher conveyor is spaced downwardly of the level of the cases on the infeed conveyor such that the second case in a group of two cases is received in a canted configuration with its leading edge supported on the top of the pusher associated with the first case. Fixed case camming means engages the outwardly projecting top flaps of the cases to urge or strip each of the cases rearwardly into its associated pusher before these cases are advanced to position for being lifted at the packing station. A pusher backup means is associated with the pusher conveyor chains to cause the pushers to be reversed in direction as the cases are being raised at the packing station in order to prevent interference when these cases are again returned to the pusher conveyor in order to be ejected from the packing station.