Frank W Macintosh

US Patent:

40760596, Feb 28, 1978

Filed:

Mar 7, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/774592

Inventors:

Frank W. MacIntosh - Mount Holly NC

Assignee:

Gas-Fired Products, Inc. - Charlotte NC

International Classification:

B65B 104

US Classification:

141390

Abstract:

Apparatus for loading tobacco into containers and for loading containers of tobacco into barns having a guide for facilitating evenly distributed loading of tobacco in containers and structure for rotating the container from a first loading position to a second curing position. The container can be rotated 90 degrees and positioned on wheeled tracks within a loading fixture and which align with corresponding wheeled tracks within a tobacco barn adapted to receive filled containers of tobacco for curing.