Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Processes – Battery grid pasting
Patent
1984-12-11
1986-11-04
Bell, Jr., Houston S.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Processes
Battery grid pasting
141330, 30400, 30436, B65B 304
Patent
active
046205764
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for piercing a container and draining fluid therefrom wherein a vertically movable container holder is provided with an inclined receiving portion having front and rear surfaces with the front surface being elevated with respect to the rear surface. The rear surface includes an opening for receiving a stationary piercing member having a piercing fluid receiving and fluid discharge end. The piercing end is beveled and includes a leading and a trailing edge. The rear surface of the vertically removable container holder includes an opening for receiving the piercing fluid receiving end of the stationary piercing member. The vertically movable container holder opening includes a positioning means adjacent thereto for positioning the bottom of the container with relation to the stationary piercing member. The vertically movable container holder further includes a piercing member guide tube connected at the opening and depending from the rear surface thereof. The piercing member is telescopically and movably positioned within the piercing member guide tube with the leading edge elevated with respect to the trailing edge and the leading edge when in piercing position is adjacent the container positioning means. The vertically movable container holder is moved vertically downward with respect to set stationary piercing member, causing the leading edge of the piercing member to pierce the bottom of a positioned container causing a flap to be formed in the container opening away from the bottom of the container permitting all the fluid remaining in the container to be drained therefrom.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3981322 (1976-09-01), Gebelius
patent: 4018546 (1977-04-01), Gebelius
Bell, Jr. Houston S.
Owen David R.
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