Mark J Burk, 651029 Jay St, Griffith, IN 46319

2014002, Jan 30, 2014

Jul 27, 2012

13/560068

Nick Wilson - Chicago IL, US
James Higley - Dyer IN, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc. - Glenwood IL

B65B 21/06
F16B 2/06
B65D 19/44

53443, 108 551, 108 5011, 2483161

A packaging system and method forms a bundled group of articles in an oriented arrangement, by applying a wrapping material to the articles via the bottoms of the articles while the oriented arrangement of articles is inverted and retained by a pallet. The wrapping material may be a sleeve of shrinkable material applied to the inverted end of the articles and shrunk to conform to the articles and form a base enclosing the bottoms of the articles. The articles are retained by the pallet in the oriented arrangement during the inverting, sleeving and bundling of the group of articles, to provide a bundled group including the articles securely contained by the shrunk wrapping in the oriented arrangement. The bundled group may include more than one type of article. The pallet may be configured to retain a top portion of the article, which may have an irregular or asymmetrical shape.

2020025, Aug 13, 2020

Apr 27, 2020

16/859451

- Glenwood IL, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

Morrison Timing Screw Co., dba Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc. - Glenwood IL

B65G 47/68
B65G 33/06
B65G 47/30
B65G 47/28
B65G 47/71

A divider system for diverting objects from an infeed lane into one or more discharge lanes includes a dividing screw set, a discharge screw set, and a diverting mechanism. The dividing screw set conveys a sequence of objects to an output end of the screw set where the objects are divided by rotation of the dividing screw set and outputted alternately to first and second discharge screws of the discharge screw set to form a first series of objects conveyed by the first discharge screw and a second series of objects conveyed by the second discharge screw. The divider system includes a diverting mechanism which can be selectively actuated to divert objects from one discharge screw to the other discharge screw to form a diverted group.

2019004, Feb 14, 2019

Aug 9, 2018

16/059604

- Glenwood IL, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

Morrison Timing Screw Co., dba Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc. - Glenwood IL

B65G 47/68
B65G 47/71
B65G 47/28

A divider system for diverting objects from an infeed lane into one or more discharge lanes includes a dividing screw set, a discharge screw set, and a diverting mechanism. The dividing screw set conveys a sequence of objects to an output end of the screw set where the objects are divided by rotation of the dividing screw set and outputted alternately to first and second discharge screws of the discharge screw set to form a first series of objects conveyed by the first discharge screw and a second series of objects conveyed by the second discharge screw. The divider system includes a diverting mechanism which can be selectively actuated to divert objects from one discharge screw to the other discharge screw to form a diverted group.

2018034, Dec 6, 2018

Aug 10, 2018

16/100826

- Glenwood IL, US
James Higley - Dyer IN, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

Morrison Timing Screw Co., dba Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc. - Glenwood IL

B65B 21/06
B65B 53/00
B65B 13/18

A packaging system and method forms a bundled group of articles in an oriented arrangement, by applying a wrapping material to the articles via the bottoms of the articles while the oriented arrangement of articles is inverted and retained by a pallet. The wrapping material may be a sleeve of shrinkable material applied to the inverted end of the articles and shrunk to conform to the articles and form a base enclosing the bottoms of the articles. The articles are retained by the pallet in the oriented arrangement during the inverting, sleeving and bundling of the group of articles, to provide a bundled group including the articles securely contained by the shrunk wrapping in the oriented arrangement. The bundled group may include more than one type of article. The pallet may be operable to retain a top portion of the article, which may have an irregular or asymmetrical shape.

2016013, May 19, 2016

Jan 21, 2016

15/002796

- Glenwood IL, US
James Higley - Dyer IN, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc. - Glenwood IL

B65B 21/06
B65B 11/00
B65B 53/00
B65B 13/18

A packaging system and method forms a bundled group of articles in an oriented arrangement, by applying a wrapping material to the articles via the bottoms of the articles while the oriented arrangement of articles is inverted and retained by a pallet. The wrapping material may be a sleeve of shrinkable material applied to the inverted end of the articles and shrunk to conform to the articles and form a base enclosing the bottoms of the articles. The articles are retained by the pallet in the oriented arrangement during the inverting, sleeving and bundling of the group of articles, to provide a bundled group including the articles securely contained by the shrunk wrapping in the oriented arrangement. The bundled group may include more than one type of article. The pallet may be configured to retain a top portion of the article, which may have an irregular or asymmetrical shape.

2015008, Mar 26, 2015

Sep 19, 2014

14/491329

- Glenwood IL, US
Ryan Finke - Chicago IL, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

B65G 47/244

198376, 19837701

A rotary orienter includes a turret rotatable about a central axis and at least one rotation pad rotatably mounted to the turret and selectively rotatable about a pad axis. The turret rotates to index the rotation pad to a receiving station, a discharge station and at least one actuating station distributed radially about the central axis. The actuating station is intermediate the receiving station and discharge station. The rotation pad indexes from the receiving station in a locked condition such that rotation of the rotation pad is prevented, and is selectively unlocked by the actuating station such that the unlocked rotation pad rotates during indexing of the turret from the actuating station to the discharge station to reorient an object received onto the rotation pad at the receiving station in a received orientation to a predetermined orientation for discharge of the object in the predetermined orientation at the discharge station.

2014017, Jun 26, 2014

Feb 28, 2014

14/193678

- Glenwood IL, US
Lee Kuipers - Lansing IL, US
Mark Burk - Highland IN, US

Morrison Container Handling Solutions, Inc. - Glenwood IL

B25J 15/00

294198, 294106

A gripper formed as a single component includes a hoop portion connecting facing arms. Each arm may have a tang end, a jaw end and a pivot intermediate the tang and jaw ends and be attached to the hoop portion at the pivot to be pivotable to change the size of a jaw opening defined by the jaw ends. The hoop portion is cyclically loaded in use and configured to act as a stress concentrator for the gripper and provide a failure point for consistently initiating a failure crack in the hoop portion at time of failure of the gripper. Each of the facing arms is attachable to a base such that at failure, the fractured portions of the gripper are retained to the base.