EP0036585B1 - Improvements to automatic machines feeding small wire cages for sealing stoppers applied to sparkling wine bottles and the like - Google Patents

Improvements to automatic machines feeding small wire cages for sealing stoppers applied to sparkling wine bottles and the like Download PDF

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EP0036585B1
EP0036585B1 EP81101870A EP81101870A EP0036585B1 EP 0036585 B1 EP0036585 B1 EP 0036585B1 EP 81101870 A EP81101870 A EP 81101870A EP 81101870 A EP81101870 A EP 81101870A EP 0036585 B1 EP0036585 B1 EP 0036585B1
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buckets
extraction unit
cages
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Giuseppe Robino
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Nuova Robino & Galandrino SpA Costruzione Macchine Enologiche
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B5/00—Applying protective or decorative covers to closures; Devices for securing bottle closures with wire
    • B67B5/06—Devices for securing bottle closures with wire

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  • This invention relates to an automatic machine for feeding small wire cages for sealing stoppers applied to sparkling wine bottles and the like of the type defined in the pre-characterizing part of claim 1.
  • An automatic machine of the general type indicated above is known from US-A-3837141.
  • the automatic machine described therein is designed for transferring sealing capsules of light metal on the neck of bottles, which capsules are then shrinked for adapting to the bottle neck form.
  • the caps are taken up from a stack by a sucker mounted on a hand articulated to an arm which in turn is articulated to a revolving plate. Due to the extreme complexity of the mechanical elements of the machine, the latter is not only bulky very expensive and inclined to damages, but does not permit to increase its efficiency, for example by arranging more than two transporting devices on the same revolving plate.
  • a cap feed mechanism which comprises a pair of cylindrical and spaced apart feed rolls each roll having a single volute thereon so as to engage an enlarged portion of the caps and transfer them one by one to a subsequent unit.
  • the task of this invention is to improve the machines of the general type indicated above such as to simplify the construction thereof and to appreciably increase the efficiency and at the same time to improve the reliability and reduce the overall size, weight and cost thereof.
  • the reference numeral 10 generally designates the cage extraction unit, the wire cages being stacked in a supply (not shown) contained within a specially provided loader 11 overlying said extraction unit.
  • the latter comprises a pair of side-by-side drums 12, 13, each drum being formed with a screw-like volute 12a, 13a, respectively, effective to engage the wire in the bottom ring of each cage.
  • the drums or rollers are driven rotatively in the appropriate direction by a drive chain (not shown) which meshes with corresponding sprocket wheels 14, 15, respectively rigid with said rollers, the volutes being oppositely handed.
  • volute 12a of the roller 12 extends over a longer axial distance in the direction of stacking of the cages, thereby said roller is operative to engage first, with its volute, the bottom ring of each cage to start the cage to move correspondingly away from its supply stack.
  • a rocker lever 16 arranged frontally to the rollers and driven - in synchronization with the rotation of the rollers - by a mechanism 17, known perse, e.g. operated through a crank lever handle, will push the cage sideways to thus engage it with the volute 13a of the roller 13.
  • the cooperating volutes 12a, 13a separate the cage from the stack and, by moving it axially away, push the cage into the pick up members of an underlying delivery unit, generally indicated at 20.
  • the delivery unit comprises a plurality of closed-bottom buckets 21 having a magnetized insert at their bottoms.
  • the buckets 21 are cyclically brought, through a rotating disk 22, under said extraction unit to receive the cages, and then into alignment with the sockets 23 of an underlying chain 24 for depositing in said sockets the cages, which are thus fed to the stopper cage applying machine (not shown).
  • the cyclic motion of the buckets is thus coordinated with that of the rollers 12, 13 and of the chain 24.
  • the buckets are subjected to controlled oscillations, which momentarily halt each bucket under the extraction unit 10, thus compensating for the continuing forward movement of the disk 22, and respectively holding the buckets perpendicular to the chain 24 and aligned with the sockets 23 of the chain 24 over a short travel distance.
  • each bucket 21 is secured to a corresponding tiltable holder or support 25 on the disk 22.
  • Each holder is provided with an outer arm 26 having a radial seat which retains in sliding relationship a stem 27 of a related bucket; said stem being centripetally biased by a spring 28.
  • the holder further carries an inner arm 29 which is terminated with a small roller 30 adapted for engaging the profile groove 31 of a stationary frontal cam formed on a plate 32 rigid with the machine frame.
  • the profile of the cam shown in detail in Figure 3, features a negative slope segment 31a which, at the extraction unit 10, causes the bucket 21 to oscillate between limit positions 21 a, 21 b, shown in dashed lines in the Figure, with attendant temporary compensation for the advancing movement of the bucket caused by the rotation of the disk 22.
  • the bucket is held momentarily stationary below the unit 10, to receive a cage being urged into the bucket by the combined action of the drums 12, 13.
  • a further cam profile segment 31 b having a slight negative slope, is formed on the diametrically opposite cam portion, and is effective to compensate for the inclination resulting from the rotational movement of the disk 22 and allow the bucket to cover a distance adjacent the chain 24 by moving parallel to itself so as to extend in a perpendicular direction to the plane of lay of said chain and in line with a corresponding socket of the latter.
  • each bucket 21 also undergo a rapid axial displacement movement, against the bias of the springs 28, which is imparted thereto at the diametrically opposite cage pick up stations by the unit 10 of cage extraction and deposition into the sockets 23 on the conveyor chain.
  • the stem 27 of each bucket is provided with a cam following roller 33 which is engaged by the profiled web 34 of a pusher lever 35; each pusher lever being articulated to the next adjacent bucket holder.
  • the levers 35 are in turn provided with a cam following roller 36 each, whereon is active a stationary cam 37 with diametrically opposed lobes, said stationary cam being rigid with the pin 38 supporting the disk 22.
  • the inventive machine further comprises drive means including a driveshaft 39 which, through a bevel gear pair 40 and pinion gear 41, rotatively drives the disk 22, the latter being to this end formed with peripheral gear teeth.
  • the driveshaft 39 drives, through an end pinion gear 42, the mechanism 17, which in turn transmits the motion to the sprocket wheels 14, 15 of the drums 12, 13.
  • the delivery unit has been shown provided with four buckets at 90° from each other, such an arrangement is not a requisite of the invention, the number of the buckets being variable from two to twenty.
  • the extraction unit 10 may be positioned otherwise with respect to the disk 22, in particular on one side thereof.

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  • Feeding And Watering For Cattle Raising And Animal Husbandry (AREA)
  • Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
  • Specific Conveyance Elements (AREA)
  • Closing Of Containers (AREA)
  • Closures For Containers (AREA)
  • Chain Conveyers (AREA)
EP81101870A 1980-03-26 1981-03-13 Improvements to automatic machines feeding small wire cages for sealing stoppers applied to sparkling wine bottles and the like Expired EP0036585B1 (en)

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AT81101870T ATE16918T1 (de) 1980-03-26 1981-03-13 Automatische maschine zum aufbringen von drahtbuegeln zum sichern von sektflaschenverschluessen und aehnlichen flaschen.

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IT6746280 1980-03-26
IT67462/80A IT1128242B (it) 1980-03-26 1980-03-26 Perfezionamento alle macchine distributrici automatiche di gabbiette per il sigillo nei tappi delle bottiglie di vino spumante e simile

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EP0036585A3 EP0036585A3 (en) 1981-12-09
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DE (1) DE3173170D1 (es)
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DE3539932A1 (de) * 1985-11-11 1987-05-14 Sick Kg Otto Verdrahtungsmaschine fuer sektflaschen
ITTO20070019A1 (it) * 2007-01-15 2008-07-16 Me Com S R L Dispositivo di ritegno per un convogliatore per gabbiette di sicurezza per tappi di bottiglie di bevande spumanti

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US2659522A (en) * 1950-11-30 1953-11-17 Owens Illinois Glass Co Cap feeding mechanism
DE1978968U (de) * 1967-06-05 1968-02-15 Otto Sich Metallwarenfabrik Vorrichtung zum selbsttaetigen zufuehren der verdrahtungsverschluesse zu sekt laschen-verdrahtungsmaschinen.
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IT1128242B (it) 1986-05-28
EP0036585A2 (en) 1981-09-30
EP0036585A3 (en) 1981-12-09
ATE16918T1 (de) 1985-12-15
DE3173170D1 (en) 1986-01-23
IT8067462A0 (it) 1980-03-26
ES501093A0 (es) 1982-06-16

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