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German Inventors Develop Small Objects Distribution Apparatus
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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June 26, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 26 -- Martin Seiffert of Schelklingen, Germany, Harald Litke of Achstetten, Germany, Diana Zugenmaier of Laupheim, Germany, and Roland Koch of Orsenhausen, Germany, have developed an apparatus for distributing objects in a fill station.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Small objects are loaded into blisters of a passing packaging film in a fill station of a packaging machine. An apparatus for distributing the objects to the blisters has a pair of generally parallel rods extending along respective axes and having inner and outer ends. Respective guides support the rods for movement parallel to their axes, and a bar extends transversely between the ...