Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – Simultaneous deposit of plural articles
Patent
1976-06-09
1977-11-01
McGehee, Travis S.
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
Simultaneous deposit of plural articles
53166, 294116, B65B 2118
Patent
active
040559432
ABSTRACT:
A machine for loading bottles into cases having a bottle conveyor for continuously conveying upstanding bottles through a bottle retriever station, and a bottle grouper for grouping together into a preselected arrangement a plurality of upstanding bottles on the conveyor. A case conveyor is provided for continually conveying open cases through a case loading station. A bottle gripper is also provided for gripping and carrying a grouped plurality of upstanding bottles as they move through the bottle retrieving station off of the bottle conveyor, and for subsequently depositing the group of bottles into an open case as it passes through the case loading station upon the case conveyor. The gripper itself includes a finger suspension member and a plurality of bottle gripping fingers pivotably suspended from the finger suspension member about an open space for mutually convergent and divergent movement towards and away from the open space, respectively. The mechanism also includes a finger locking sleeve mounted about the finger suspension member and the bottle gripping fingers and an actuator for imparting relative movement between the finger suspension member and the finger locking sleeve to effect the mutually convergent and divergent movements.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2921425 (1960-01-01), Seval
patent: 2978854 (1961-04-01), Fairest
patent: 3864890 (1975-02-01), Ullman
patent: 3944058 (1976-03-01), Strauss
A-B-C Packaging Machine Corporation
McGehee Travis S.
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