Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting bottles – ampoules – jars – drinking vessels – or like...
Patent
1994-07-13
1996-04-09
Bollinger, David H.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting bottles, ampoules, jars, drinking vessels, or like...
209525, 209526, 209577, 209580, 209939, B07C 500
Patent
active
055053122
ABSTRACT:
First, second and third linear conveyors are arranged in alignment with each other in the stated order. Bottles to be inspected are conveyed standing on their bottoms on the first linear conveyor through an inspection station followed by an ejector for those bottles which fail to match specified characteristics of an acceptable bottle model. The second conveyor has spaced apart parallel translating conveyor belts for frictionally gripping the bottles by their bodies between them to make their mouth ends and bottoms clear for inspection. The bottle discharge end region of the first conveyor and the bottle inlet end region overlap to achieve an overall shorter machine. The second conveyor has a bottle discharge region that overlaps the bottle inlet end region of the third conveyor to achieve a shorter machine. Bottles determined at the first conveyor inspection station to have one or more characteristics that do not match acceptable bottles are ejected and remaining bottles go on to be inspected for other characteristics at a station adjacent the second conveyor and those found to have one or more unacceptable characteristics differing from an acceptable bottle are ejected upon discharge from the second conveyor to the third conveyor.
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Griesbeck Karl
Haring Franz
Bollinger David H.
Krones AG Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik
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