Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed... – With pressurized fluid causing change in attitude
Patent
1978-06-26
1980-07-29
Nase, Jeffrey V.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...
With pressurized fluid causing change in attitude
198396, 198400, 193 46, B65G 4724
Patent
active
042146569
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for accepting an initially presented population of randomly oriented container caps and providing an output in-line stream of said caps wherein the open ends of the caps face in an upward direction to facilitate further processing of the caps. The apparatus comprises a feeder bowl for accepting the randomly oriented caps, and feeding from an output port thereof, an in-line stream of caps oriented in a substantially horizontal plane. An inclined twisting chute extends from the output of the feeder bowl. This chute receives the in-line stream of caps and twists the plane of advance of same through 90.degree., whereby the caps are reoriented to a stream wherein their diameters are substantially in a vertical plane. A guide chute extends at an incline from the output of the twisting chute, and include an input section for receiving the caps at their vertical orientation, an output section whereat the caps are oriented with their diameters parallel to the support surface, and a transition zone between the input and output sections whereat the caps may gravitationally tip and fall from the vertical plane to the reoriented, more nearly horizontal positions. A biasing device is provided for biasing the tipping of the caps, so that they fall with the open ends thereof facing in an upward direction.
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patent: 845415 (1907-02-01), Hicks
patent: 1053634 (1913-02-01), Nagy
patent: 1446591 (1923-02-01), Small
patent: 3189220 (1965-06-01), Mullaney
patent: 3710924 (1973-01-01), Schultz
McDonald Walter
Seitel Norbert F.
Nase Jeffrey V.
Norwalt Design Inc.
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