Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Unit load conveying surface means moved about an endless or...
Patent
1995-05-26
1996-08-06
Cherry, Johnny D.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Unit load conveying surface means moved about an endless or...
19880312, 294 93, B65G 4790, B66C 154
Patent
active
055425267
ABSTRACT:
A finger chuck assembly and method for holding a bottle or other hollow article having a neck opening at one end, characterized by a support member having an axis; a plurality of jaws each including a finger, an actuator arm and an intermediate portion interconnecting the finger and actuator arm; and a chuck operator member carried on the support member for movement relative to the support member. The jaws each are pivotally mounted at the intermediate portion to the support member for movement of the jaw between a contracted position for inserting the fingers into a neck opening of a hollow article and an expanded position for engaging an interior surface of the hollow article. The fingers of the jaws extend generally parallel to one another and to the axis of the support member when the jaws are in the contracted positions thereof and diverge laterally outwardly away from one another when the jaws are in the expanded positions thereof. The chuck operator operatively engages the actuator arms of the jaws for effecting movement of the jaws between the expanded and contracted positions in response to movement of the chuck operator relative to the support member. Other forms of chucks are also disclosed.
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Cherry Johnny D.
FECO Engineered Systems, Inc.
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