Package making – Methods – Applying a partial cover
Patent
1993-02-26
1994-02-22
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Methods
Applying a partial cover
53 481, 53 483, B65B 2704
Patent
active
052876772
ABSTRACT:
Capped bottles filled with a composition are loaded into pack carriers therefor in apparatus in which the bottles are conveyed in a continuous series in two spaced apart lines to respective metering starwheels, each with an associated application starwheel, and each starwheel with an associated retentive curved guide means along an arc thereof, at a loading zone while a continuous series of the pack carriers or clips are advanced on a conveyor between the bottle lines to the loading zone. At the loading zone the respective metering starwheels each move the bottles consecutively past the guide means to the associated application starwheel and the application starwheels are mutually spaced sufficiently close on either side of each pack carrier passing in between them to force successive bottles simultaneously from each line into the respective back to back pockets. The arms of the application starwheels during rotation act upon the pair of bottles just inserted to advance the pack carrier on a flat surface and index the pack carrier for the insertion of each successive back to back pair of bottles and then to move the loaded pack carrier to a discharge point or to another conveyor for further handling. The bottles during transport by the starwheels are carried thereby, the bottle rims just below the caps or other upper enlargements of the bottles resting on the upper edges of the starwheels. The apparatus and method are capable of loading up to 1000 bottles per minute, depending on bottle size.
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Abbott Laboratories
Culver Horace M.
Drayer Lonnie R.
Nickey Donald O.
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