Bottle manufacturing hopper system

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1999-05-24

2001-06-05

Ellis, Christopher P. (Department: 3651)

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items...

Auxiliary section has the same entrance and exit

C198S406000, C198S416000, C198S524000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06241072

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to bottle manufacturing systems, and more particularly to, bottle manufacturing hopper systems.
Bottle manufacturers strive to use bottles in their system that are substantially free of defects. However, present bottle manufacturing systems typically experience defects in their bottles that arise due to how the bottles are loaded into the system. For example, a present bottle loading system is a silo bottle loading system as depicted in
FIG. 1. A
silo system, similar to grain elevators, feeds bottles at the top of silo
20
and removes the bottles at the bottom of silo
20
via a belt conveyor
22
. Reference numeral
24
depicts the potential fill point for silo
20
. Such a system experiences the disadvantage of defects arising from bottles at the bottom of the silo being crushed from the weight of the bottles above. Moreover, bottles occasionally experience dents due to the fall from the top of the silo to the bottom of the silo.
FIG. 2
depicts another present approach to loading bottles in a bottle manufacturing process. This present approach loads bottles from bulk storage
30
into a belt conveyor
32
via a loader belt
34
. Bottles are fed into a bottle manufacturing application via conveyor system
36
. In this approach, bottles are loaded at the upstream end
38
of belt conveyor
32
. One disadvantage with this approach is that with respect to loading efficiency, bottles typically do not form a pile at the downstream end
40
of belt conveyer
32
. The bottles are in a substantially flat non-pile arrangement which diminishes the storage advantages of a pile arrangement. The present invention overcomes the aforementioned disadvantages as well as other disadvantages.
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, an object loader system is provided for loading objects from storage into an object processing application. A first conveyor receives the objects from storage, and a second conveyor receives the objects from the first conveyor system at a predetermined location. A sensor determines detection of objects approximately relative to the first conveyor. The first conveyor conveys the objects to the second conveyor based upon the determined detection by the sensor.
For a more complete understanding of the invention, its objects and advantages, reference should be made to the following specification and the accompanying drawings.


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