Article dispensing – With orienting – By manipulation of successive individual articles
Patent
1987-08-06
1989-05-09
Rolla, Joseph J.
Article dispensing
With orienting
By manipulation of successive individual articles
221173, 221278, B23Q 712, B65H 900
Patent
active
048281425
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for handling empty two-piece capsules includes a vertically reciprocating feeder which extracts capsules from a hopper and forms randomly ordered linear arrays. A horizontal row of capsules are fed by the feeder to key-shaped slots in a block below the feeder. A blade reciprocally positioned adjacent the wider portion of the key-shaped slots moves into the slot at about the middle of the capsule to turn the capsules so as to be partly positioned within the narrower portion of the key-shaped slot. Each capsule is then ejected by projectable pins into a channel where the capsules are pneumatically accelerated into a pair of mated receiving rings which separate the two halves of the capsule.
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Beegle Mona C.
Eli Lilly & Company
Rolla Joseph J.
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