Feeding device of chocolates and similar products

Details Feeding device of chocolates and similar products Feeding device of chocolates and similar products

2007-04-24

2007-04-24

Hess, Douglas A. (Department: 3651)

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream

C198S464100, C198S470100, C198S577000, C198S689100

Reexamination Certificate

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10509446

ABSTRACT:
A feeding device of chocolates and similar products for a wrapping machine includes: a first belt means which has a continuous advance motion, supports and moves a plurality of products, aligned and arranged in a single line at mutual contact; a second belt means aligned downstream the first belt means, having an alternate advance motion and associated to holding means of the product; a positioning wheel rotating, facing the second belt means immediately downstream the holding means and having a plurality of angularly equidistant pliers means for gripping the product. The second belt means moves the products, reciprocally spaced, from a picking condition, in which the second belt means receives the product from the first belt means, through moving conditions, in which the holding means keep each product fixed to the second belt means, to a transfer condition, in which the second belt means is motionless and the product, not constrained thereto anymore, is grasped by a pliers means of the positioning wheel, which moves the product with a circular motion from the transfer condition to a release condition in which the wheel is motionless and the pliers means is opened for transferring the product to the wrapping machine.

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