Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed... – By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
Patent
1976-06-04
1977-09-27
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...
By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
198417, 198441, B65G 4784
Patent
active
040505707
ABSTRACT:
A device for orienting filled and seamed two piece cans, in which a single line of randomly oriented cans is divided into two lines, all of the cans in one line being oriented in an upright position and all of the cans in the other line being oriented in an inverted position. The cans in one of the lines are then inverted and the lines combined to provide a single stream of cans oriented in one direction.
The device has a rotatable turret body having a plurality of can receiving pockets around its periphery. A lever arm is pivotally mounted above each of the pockets and is adapted to engage the seamed end of the can in the pocket when the outer end of the lever arm is pivoted to a horizontal position. Cam means are provided to pivot the outer end of the lever arm from an elevated position to a horizontal position while the can is carried from a point adjacent a can inlet chute on a short arcuate path to one of a pair of can outlet chutes. Cans which are in an inverted position in the pocket are not engaged by the lever arm and pass to the other outlet chute to thereby separate cans which are in an inverted position from those which are in an upright position.
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Blunk Evon C.
Carnation Company
Kummel Robert D.
Thomson Richard K.
Ziehm Eugene C.
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