Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
  • B65G47/02—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors
  • B65G47/04—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles
  • B65G47/12—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles
  • B65G47/14—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
  • B65G47/1407—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl
  • B65G47/1442—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl by means of movement of the bottom or a part of the wall of the container
  • B65G47/1457—Rotating movement in the plane of the rotating part

Definitions

• TITLE METHOD FOR MOVING CONTAINERS AND ROTARY
• the present finding is inserted in the field of orienting machines and of treatment lines downstream of such machines.
• Object of the present finding is to provide the art with a new work method for the movement of the containers after the orienting machine.
• Another object of the invention is to create a more compact work system, optimizing the bulk and also the costs of the transfer lines.
• reference number 1 indicates an orienting machine for containers (bottles, preform bottles), preferably made of plastic.
• Said orienting machine comprises means for selecting the containers, and positioning them according to a suitable position.
• the containers are selected laid-down via a series of means known with the technical term of lifting elements, then they are made to fall into cradles and separators which provide for their straightening.
• the present finding already functions with the container selected and in some manner arranged on the machine, ready to be extracted and moved according to a path better described hereinbelow.
• the containers vertically fall inside the machine, they slide on a slide surface, and from here they are advanced e.g. on an annular path inside the orienting machine.
• Forming the object of the finding is the method for treating the containers 3 selected or aligned by an orienting machine, wherein within said rotary, a plurality of bulk containers are selected and ordered and possibly aligned or straightened .
• the method provides for extracting the container, thus selected and ordered and possibly aligned or straightened, in at least one pick-up point of the orienting machine and subsequently bringing it back at least once inside the orienting machine, where it is moved according to a same rotary path analogous to that of the previously-selected containers; said steps of extraction and interior reintroduction able to be completed multiple times during the 360° movement corresponding to a complete revolution of the machine.
• the step of reintroduction occurs at at least one distance pitch with respect to that where the container is picked up by the first extraction means.
• the method provides for completing, on the container that is straightened and brought outside, one or more operating steps on the container itself.
• the rotary apparatus comprising at least one apparatus for orienting bulk containers, and one or more devices 10 for extracting and one or more devices for reintroducing the same container inside the machine; during a complete revolution of the rotary machine which selects and orders the bulk containers, the container which is picked up at least once returns into the machine before then exiting once again at a different pick-up point.
• the reintroduction devices reintroduce the container at at least one distance pitch with respect to that where the extraction device picked up the container.
• said reintroduction means reintroduce the container on the same movement level of the container selected by the orienting machine, or alternatively said reintroduction means reintroduce the container on a different circular movement path or level than that of the container selected by the orienting machine, specifically on a lower path or level.
• Said extraction and reintroduction means are devices such as star conveyors or rotary carousels which pick up and transfer and release the container by means of mechanical or pneumatic gripping systems or equivalent systems.
• Said extraction and reintroduction means are means for supporting the container that are moved by a catenary; said catenary exits at at least one point of the orienting machine, driving with it the corresponding support means and the container, then subsequently returning inside the apparatus in order to deliver the container back inside the machine, after at least one further operating step has been completed thereon.
• At least one extraction means carries the selected container on at least one carousel or machine or work station on which one or more work steps is executed, on their own or in combination, such as: steps of filling, labeling, sealing or capping, orientation, inspection, analysis of the seal etc....; at the end of at least one of said steps, the reintroduction means delivers the container back inside the orienting machine.

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• Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
• Specific Conveyance Elements (AREA)

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• 2015
  • 2015-12-21 WO PCT/IB2015/059844 patent/WO2016103156A1/en active Application Filing
  • 2015-12-21 EP EP15830855.1A patent/EP3237312A1/de not_active Withdrawn

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