Method and apparatus for placing an insert in a container

Package making – Methods – Filling preformed receptacle and closing

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53474, 53239, B65B 3100, B65B 6120

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053436733

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This invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for placing an insert in a container having a neck where the insert is of greater longitudinal extent than the cross-section of the neck of the container. The invention relates particularly, but not exclusively, to a method of, and an apparatus for, packaging food, beverages or other commodities which are required to be stored within the container having an insert provided therein. The insert may be provided for any desired purpose, for example, to aid nucleation of bubbles when a container containing liquid under a gaseous pressure above atmospheric pressure is opened.
According to one aspect of the invention we provide a method of placing an insert in a container having a neck wherein the insert is of greater longitudinal extent than the cross-section of the neck, comprising the steps of holding the insert in a first orientation whilst causing relative movement between the insert and the container to introduce the insert into the container through the neck and subsequently permitting the insert to move under the influence of gravity into a second, different, orientation relative to the first orientation within the container.
The step of holding the insert in said first orientation whilst causing relative movement between the insert and the container to introduce the insert into the container through the neck may comprise a step of causing the insert to fall under gravity through a guideway which extends through the neck.
The method may include the step of introducing a holding member, which is provided with said guideway, through said neck into the container prior to causing said fall of the insert under gravity through the guideway.
The holding member may be positioned so that a bottom end of the guideway is at or adjacent a base part of the container.
The insert may be permitted to move under the influence of gravity into said second position by virtue of displacing the bottom end of the guideway away from the base part of the container whereby the insert can leave the bottom end of the guideway and be free to fall under the influence of gravity into said second position.
The method may include the step of subjecting the insert to a positioning force whereby after being subjected to said force the insert is disposed in a desired orientation in the container.
Said last mentioned step may be performed by engaging the insert with a lower surface of the holding member.
In said desired orientation the insert may engage the wall of the container to retain the insert in said desired orientation.
The neck may be circular in cross-section and the insert may be elongate having a greater longitudinal extent than transverse extent and in the first orientation the insert may be tilted about a transversely extending axis so as to present a projected longitudinal extent in the direction of introduction which is less than the cross-section of the neck.
The method may include the step of introducing a commodity to be stored into the container after insertion of the insert. Thereafter, the container may be sealed. The sealing may be performed so that the contents of the container are under a pressure above atmospheric pressure.
The method may include the step of moving the insert from a preorientation to said first orientation prior to insertion into the container.
Said last mentioned step may release the insert into said guideway for said fall therethrough under gravity.
The insert may have a centre of gravity disposed in relation to an abutment part of the insert which engages the base part of the container such that the insert rotates in a predetermined direction into said second position.
According to another aspect of the invention we provide an apparatus for placing an insert in the container having a neck wherein the insert has a longitudinal extent which is greater than the cross-section of the neck, the apparatus comprising a holding means to hold the insert in a first orientation whilst the insert is introduced into the container through the neck and means

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patent: 3981119 (1976-09-01), Schultz
patent: 4383399 (1983-05-01), Stoody
patent: 4510734 (1985-04-01), Banks et al.

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