Package making – Methods – Opening only
Patent
1997-04-09
1999-02-02
Jones, Eugenia A.
Package making
Methods
Opening only
533812, 83 13, 83946, 414412, B65B 4326
Patent
active
058650148
ABSTRACT:
A pipelined system for removing the contents of sealed coin-collection boxes, wherein each box requires a set of different operations to be performed in seriatim to remove the box contents. The operations include removing a seal, opening a box lid, removing the box contents, resetting the lid and resealing the box. The pipelined system comprises a rotary surface for supporting a plurality of the boxes at spaced locations. Stationary surfaces mount a plurality of box-processing units, including pneumatic actuators and processing tools, at spaced stations to form a pipeline. The processing units each perform a different one of the processing operations during each processing cycle. A motor assembly pivots the rotary surface for stepwise positioning the boxes at different ones of the stations. A control system, including computer and pneumatic systems, causes the box-processing units to perform the different processing operations simultaneously on all boxes in the pipeline. Each time that the box-processing units complete their operations, the motor assembly pivots the rotary surface, advancing the boxes along the pipeline to the next processing station, where the processing cycle repeats so that the boxes are processed in a time staggered pattern. The box-processing units, which are serially arranged and operate in parallel, include a seal-removal tool, a lid-opener tool, a box-inverter that dumps the box contents into a coin sorter/counter system, a lid-reset tool and a seal-insert tool.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4202464 (1980-05-01), Mohs et al.
patent: 4690444 (1987-09-01), Arthur
Asano David K.
Baietto Henry R.
Chen Sullivan S.
Citron Howard M.
Costin Dinu
Jones Eugenia A.
Michaelson Peter L.
Nynex Science and Technology Inc.
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