BUSTER CARD LOADING S5
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'UK- pres-.-nt S5)ven;ion relates particularly though πos. exclusively to a system ibϊ loading busier cards onto packaging cards, and more particularly though not exclusively to a loading swerr? ϊbai minimises damage to the surface of the blister card during a loading process, and .still πωt; particularly though not exclusively to a loading sysϊem thai comprises a gats mechanism and feeder wheel to carry oat the loading process whilst minimising dame- to the surface of the busier card.
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Current eonvrnercud blister card loading sysletos tr&naler successive. bik;er cards ftorn s ϊΩagaidϊfe. or <.>iher krsosvn sioragv systcns. into vomnet vvith a corrcsponditig packaging casd. The packaga'ψ. ;.ards often comprise an adhesive ebrrjetu with ^vhie'h the packaging: cards ard the busies card are soured so oac ϋnothtr, Th?;^e ;κihesiYf; taeroents m;xy be applied -o ihc packaging card in an activated torm, or aiκτnatj'.t!> . heated such thai preapplied adhesive becomfiti activated. "Ut>£S. the tinsc betw een the
beissg iieakd, or applied to the packaging card, and the lo^atio^ of ihc blister caϊ do upon the packaging t^al snast be kept To a jrsmhnutn so ?ui to limir the expostste of the active adhesive to the air, during which ibrse it V1-JU lose purl of it?- adhesive qualities. The nscans of transferring ihc bhster eards IVom the magazine- Io a posi tiers of contact with the pocleagiπg cάϊά ate therefore high speed ineeharnsnss ihat ofien subject the biis-ter card Lo pi ifcntiahy dan-sag ing levels ol fricttost.
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loadiug systems are those that ^eeeϊ hiister cards onto a rotating lcede? wheel that tr-tnsibri! stκx«ssive bhβter cards to a position ρro>iUYi&i<; the packaging, ready Cos -a final accurate transfer mechanism to perform the thtal loading
llo^vever. sssch systems oitcn rcsuh srt damage being caused to s.hc l:>hstcr cards as the}' ate
into contact with she oivirsg auτik:e oi the twdεt wheel . Such damage not only lowers the aesthetic appeal of the bhster card, but aSso dsks πsptursrsg the blisters and loss oh or damage to., the any -OiUerus iheseof.
There is;, sheielore, ;.i need IW a loadsrsj: ss-dem that may transfer blister cards fsorrs a nsygadno to a posh ion proximate the packaging cards, into which die.y are to be sodded., which a\ oids- bstnging the dehcaie bhsters or the bbster cards uUo contact with n rotating surface, arid ye; will quickly brartsler the bhste; cards., so a*; io o^nivi-ϋ^c the risk of the ud:tfs;ve
c^πis loshsu ihεu adix-sjve ouahiscs.
The present invcnϊion de^cs ibed herein s^eks to ovcrcojoc or M lea ^t mϋigate these prrsblems hiidύigiu^d ΪΏL the loading svsi^ms <>f ih& r>rioc ari.
Λ fnxt aspect of iht pκ.svsn ^is'tnUoπ provides a loading ss siera for loading packaging cards wiϊh cards, which syuern comprises ;:s magazine i'or holding a supply of bissfes ourds and operable comrofobhy to sequentially please busier cards onto a sunionary αu;nsτ disposed around a ponion of a tender xvhecl. at un iijpυt posirioπ υf the feeder wheel, ^bc tΛ-d^r wheel having ni«s«s io convey she blister cards in sliding eomact with said rnnncr to i* transfer po;:i'h:)i of the feeder vvhcch and nseuns sequcnύaHy to rransler conveyed bhster cards for loading onκ; packaging cards domsti synch roih/:ed ϊTϊovemcnt between vhe iransfef nieicis and the paek'sgnsg cards
Prete^ ahiy . a guide rail is provided to cooperate with said stationary runner and iheieb) to ϊvtabt the Ohsvcr card within a working teach of a feeder wheel as they cue. com eved by hhe feeder wheeL
Pκifcrαhly; the means by which the feeder wheel conveys the bhsier cards corsrpsdses lugs thai proti s.ide frosn the suriaee of the feeder w-heel. and which are brought, into abutment whh a nailing edge of the busier cards by rotation or the fe-dsr wheel, arid through which abuαnent s bsequent conveyance of the blister card is achiev ed.
Picferab-iy , the xnagazine comprises protrusions shat abut a proximate snrhsee of a bhster card of the snaga/.ine, thereby prevendng any blister eacds irom hcirsg: seleased, winch protrusions ■nay be eosUroUabty irmved out of abnnoesu with said proxύruue sudate.. by displacentent of
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FIGURE 5 si'KovN, a perspective vic^v nf a loading system according to pretorcd cmbodsnv;nt oi' die iuvcnison; and
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a g;Ue srsechanbni AU f- >r init-rmilk-ntly releasing blmer cards 22 &<>m a magazine 1 5, Λs the blister cards 22 are rekased, they are lϊarssfoiτed to locate upon respective packaging cards 14 that are disposed upon a packaging eos^e-yor 28. The pacbagirφ <.ards 14 wrapπ.se a i&rtca of apertures i 1 thai ,k.CGsruτsod;.;Te bbaiers. 2 • that ate disposed upon one side of the blister card 22.
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