Article dispensing – With orienting – By manipulation of successive individual articles
Patent
1982-06-01
1985-02-19
Tollberg, Stanley H.
Article dispensing
With orienting
By manipulation of successive individual articles
221266, B65H 908
Patent
active
045000123
ABSTRACT:
Capsule handling apparatus having a specially configured capsule carrier (50) which permits faster operation, ejection of misoriented capsules, and sizing of capsules having telescoping cap and body portions. A capsule is received in an elongated recess (50a) in a face of the carrier. A passage (50f), leading from an outside surface of the carrier into the recess, facilitates loading a capsule into the recess. In one form, the carrier recess has two compartments (50c, 50d). When a force (90) is imparted to a capsule tending to push the capsule through the passage, a properly oriented capsule hangs up on a wall (50e) between the compartments, while a misoriented capsule freely passes through the passage and is ejected. An oversized capsule having an end projecting from the passage is engaged by a guide (98) which pushes the projecting end of the capsule into the recess to size the capsule. The sizing operation may be accomplished with a second form of the carrier which has a single compartment recess rather than a two-compartment recess.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1023061 (1912-04-01), Archer
patent: 2772811 (1956-12-01), Schaef
patent: 4154329 (1979-05-01), Hildenbrand
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