Package making – Closing packages and filled receptacles – Separate closure applying
Patent
1985-06-07
1986-09-16
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Closing packages and filled receptacles
Separate closure applying
B65B 728, B67B 300
Patent
active
046114548
ABSTRACT:
A capping machine has a housing defining a capping station, a conveyor for transporting a longitudinally extending row of vessels through the station, and a magazine holding a supply of caps above the capping station. A gripper shaft extends along a transverse shaft axis in the station beneath the supply and carries at least one gripper that can cling to the caps in the magazine, typically by magnetic or pneumatic action. A rod fixed on and extending radially from the shaft can slide in a crosshead pivotal on the housing. A vertical guide on the housing vertically reciprocally receives the shaft. A drive connected between the shaft and the housing vertically displaces the shaft along the slot between upper and lower positions. The rod and crosshead are constructed such that on such vertical displacement the shaft is rotated between one end position corresponding to the upper shaft position with the gripper engaged upward against the cap supply and an opposite end position corresponding to the lower shaft position with the gripper beneath the shaft and holding a cap picked off the supply above a vessel on the belt in the station.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3064407 (1962-11-01), Logemann et al.
patent: 3293823 (1966-12-01), Anderson
patent: 3487622 (1970-01-01), Mueller
patent: 3509682 (1970-05-01), Logemann
Benz & Hilgers GmbH
Culver Horace M.
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