Printing – Special article machines – Rotating object
Patent
1976-03-30
1978-08-08
Crowder, Clifford D.
Printing
Special article machines
Rotating object
101426, 198380, 198384, 198393, 221173, B41F 1736, B65G 4724
Patent
active
041049667
ABSTRACT:
Capsule orienting and turning apparatus and method for use in a wrap-around capsule printing procedure. Many capsules, randomly arranged in a hopper, are picked up in a rotary conveyor which arranges them first in an upright arrangement relative to the path of movement of the conveyor, some capsules arranged cap-up and some body-up, and novel gaging block means cooperates with air means to tilt the body portions of the bodies-up capsules in the machine direction while retaining the caps-up capsules substantially untilted so that all the cap portions can subsequently be shifted in a sidewise direction by a subsequent sideward-directed air suction means. Those capsules which are arranged caps-up are not affected by the first means because of a novel gaging block which prevents substantial tilting movement; the cap portions of these capsules are then drawn sidewise by a sidewardly-directed vacuum. In this way, the positions of the capsules are rectified, with all of the cap portions on one side of the predetermined path and all of the body portions on the other side of the predetermined path.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2785786 (1957-03-01), Bartlett
patent: 3176825 (1965-04-01), Rudszinat et al.
patent: 3871295 (1975-03-01), Ackley
Ackley, Jr. Charles E.
Ackley, Sr. Charles E.
Crowder Clifford D.
R. W. Hartnett Company
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