Package handling mechanism

Claim 1

A COMBINATION OF PACKAGE WRAPPING, WEIGHING AND LABELLING STRUCTURE COMPRISING A PACKAGE WRAPPING MACHINE HAVING AN EXIST END, A SCALE WITH A SCALE PLATFORM FOR RECEIVING A PACKAGE FROM THE WRAPPING MACHINE AND DETERMINING THE PACKAGE WEIGHT, A PACKAGE LABELLER FOR RECEIVING A PACKAGE FROM THE SCALE PLATFORM AND PLACING A LABEL ON THE PACKAGE, A PACKAGE CONVEYING MECHANISM FOR RECEIVING PACKAGES FROM THE WRAPPING MACHINE AND SEQUENTIALLY MOVING PACKAGES ONTO THE SCALE PLATFORM AND THEREAFTER REMOVING THE PACKAGE FROM THE PLATFORM AFTER MAKING WEIGHT INCLUDING A FIRST CONTINUOUS CONVEYOR IN ADVANCE OF SAID PLATFORM FOR RECEIVING A PACKAGE FROM THE WRAPPING MACHINE, A CYCLICALLY MOVABLE STOP BETWEEN THE FIRST CONVEYOR AND SCALE PLATFORM FOR HOLDING A PACKAGE ADVANCED BY THE FIRST CONVEYOR, MEANS FOR ADVANCING A PACKAGE FROM THE STOP AND ONTO THE SCALE PLATFORM AND SUBSEQUENTLY FROM THE PLATFORM INCLUDING A PAIR OF SPACED APART PACKAGE PUSHERS, MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID PUSHERS TO HAVE ONE PUSHER MOVE BETWEEN THE FIRST CONVEYOR AND THE SCALE PLATFORM AND THE SECOND PUSHER MOVE BETWEEN THE PLATFORM AND THE PACKAGE LABELLER, AND A RELEASABLE CLUTCH IN THE DRIVE FOR SAID PUSHERS, AND MEANS FOR DISENGAGING SAID CLUTCH WHEN THE PUSHERS ARE IN UNOBSTRUCTING RELATION WITH SAID PLATFORM.