Magnetic can sorter

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1976-08-20

1978-09-12

Knowles, Allen N.

Classifying, separating, and assorting solids

Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...

Separating means

209562, 324261, 324251, B07C 534

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041136098

ABSTRACT:
Sidewalls of cans from one filling and closing line are magnetized to provide each with a north pole oriented toward the can top. Sidewalls of cans from another filling and closing line are magnetized to provide each with a south pole oriented toward the can top. These tagged cans are randomly merged into one line for further processing without mixing up can top orientations, for instance, for cooking in a conveyor-fed continuous cooker in order to keep the cooker operating nearer full capacity. Then, each can passes a magnetic sensing station where one (top) end of each can is investigated by a probe which senses whether that end is a north pole or a south pole. The sensing station commands a diverter downstream which shunts the cans sensed as having north pole ends into a different line from the cans sensed as having south pole ends.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3033367 (1962-05-01), Gumpertz
patent: 3120891 (1964-02-01), Cmiel
patent: 3525041 (1970-08-01), Velsink

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