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OT-2026-000000959

Flexible pitch product metering system

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Material Handling › Package Handling
Inventors
BONNAIN JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
Assignee
WESTROCK PACKAGING SYSTEMS LLC
Original source
AU-2020278663-B2, the AU patent office, 9 April 2026
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Abstract

A product management system (100) including a first panel (102) with a first continuous track (106) including a queuing section, a product engagement section and a return section, and a first series of magnetic sources (115) disposed circumferentially along the first continuous track (106). A first series of lugs (116) are movably dispersed around the first continuous track (106) configured to react to the first series of magnetic sources in order to increase or decrease a velocity of each lug (116) of the first series of lugs along the first continuous track (116) and a product engagement member (118) attached to each lug configured and adapted to actuate to engage a product.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000000959, “Flexible pitch product metering system,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:03:39 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000000959.

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