US1017418A - Rotary machine. - Google Patents

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y K. KIEPER.

ROTARY MAGHH APPLICATION FILED AP} 7, 1909,

1,01 7,41 8. I Patented Feb. 13; 1912.

K. KIEFER. ROTARY MACHINE APPLICATION FILED APR.17, 1909.

W/f/Vi'SSES the machine.

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KARL KIEFER, or CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ROTARY MACHINE.

(4!! whom it may concern le 1t known that l, KARL Krrlrna, a citi- 'Ifill of the United States. residing at Cincinnati. in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio. have invented certain new and useful improvements in Rotary B'Iachines, of which the following is a specification;

)Iy invention relatesto improvements in machinery in which an operating head rotates, carrying a number of operating elements. together with a number of lifting elements presenting the articles to :be operated upon. these lifting elements being raised and lowered during such rotation.

The objects of my invention are to save time and avoid friction in the operation of the machine, and to provide adjustments for such a machine making it readily adaptable for operatingon articles of different sizes and shapes.

Myimprovements are especially desirable in the construction and operation of bottlefilling machines.

it is also readily applicable to other ma-' chines operating upon the ci'ples above set forth. 1

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying (lawings, in which Figure l is an upright view of a bottle filling machine embodying my improvement, showing however, for the sake of simplicity, only three bottle tables; Fig. 2 is a horizon- 'tal view of one of the bottle tables; and, Fig. shows another vertical view With a partial cross section through some of the parts of the machine. F ig'. l is a detail View of the composite gearwheel.

Similar letters :refer to similarparts throughoutthe several views.

The filling machine is mounted upon a substantial base A, Fig. 3, rigidly attached to which is a tubular for a bearing for all the rotating parts of All the rotating parts are mounted on a heavy cast tubular part 3, that finds its bearing upon tube 2, which tubular part is set in motionby a worm and worm wheel at and 5 respectively, the latter rigidly attached to the tubular part The filling head, by which word I designate the filling apparatus proper and which I will call B, in its rotation is carried by a tubular screw 6 that is held Securely'by the general prin- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 17, 1909 rect center line of the filling tubes.

part 2, which serves circle 12,

Patented Feb, 13, 1912. Serial No. 490,635.

threaded for this purpose. A lock screw 8,

will clamp the filling head in any position so as to be rigidly attached to the tube 3 and rotate therewith. Attached to the tube 3 is a. table 9 having apertures 16 corresponding in number with the number of fillingvtubes. Below is another disk-shaped holder 10, also securely fastened on the tube 3, and providing another set of bearings for the bottle table lifters, as will be described later on.

In order to adjust the machine for the dift'erent heights of bottles, I screw the filling head more or less into the threaded part of the tube 3. It is necessary, however, that bottles of different sizes, especially different diameters, should be brought centrally below the filling tube of the filling head, and

for this purpose the bottle tables,-as shown at an angle of about 120 degrees in the di Upon this table 2, Fig. 2, dotted circles are drawn 12 and 13, these circles representing different sizes of bottles. If such bottles are pressed against the angle-shaped border 11, their centers will approximately fall in line with the dotted line indicated by #145-which approximatelycorresponds with the linebisecting the angle formed'by the twohalves of the border. It is necessary in the filling operation that these bottles. should therefore be pressed against this border 11, in order to insure the placing of the bottle in the center line marked 14, this center line 14 lead ing through all centers of the filling tubes.-

In order-to also'c'entei thebottlc radially, i

it is necessary that when screwing thefilling head into the tube 3 by means of the threaded part 6, the filling tube should be stopped and the filling head fastened by means of the lock screw 8, so as to allow for the difference in diameters of the bottles, which will be easily understood from the drawing, Fig.

2. .In this figure the two circles indottcd lines represent bottles of diflerent-diarigeters.

Should the bottle table be stationar I 3P? proximately under the center of the 7 of the machine would not be filling i tube, the small bottle, indicated byfth aillotted would be somewhat aside ojf the center, and an accurate workingadjustment or other operating elements, in the head B,

are stopped over the respective centers of the small bottles. \Vhen this adjustment is completed, the head 13 is locked in its position by means of the screw 8.

The table lifting mechanism is easily visible in Fig. 1. A strong rod 15 carries at its upper end the bottle table, and slides in bearings 16 contained in the table 9. It carries a casting on its lower end, having a rack 17 and a roller 18,at its lowest end. This of the composite gear wheel 20, journaled on casting is of elongated slotted formation,- and the slot serves as a second guide by receiving the guide roller 19, which forms part a stud in the holder 10. This gear is composed of a spur part 20 and a bevel part 20". The spur part 20, which lies next to the guide roller part 19, is in constant mesh with the rack 17 of the casting above described, while the bevel part 20 periodically meshes with the segmental rack 21, mounted on the base A of the machine. The composite gear is well illustrated in Fig. 4, and the co-action of the parts will be readily understood from the following explanation.

In Fig. 1, gear 20 is in constant mesh with rack 17. Rack 17 is at its lowest point now, and the roller 18 is rolling at its lowest point on a track 22. The segmental rack 21 is of.

the approximate length of the rack 17, and

it is supposed that the operation of the machine, m drawing Fig. 1, is from right to left. The mechanism is in the position of the gear 20 just starting to come into mesh with the segmentalrack- 21; the action of the mechanism will be that as the gear 20 will rotate counter-clockwise, rack 17 will be moved upward and a bottle Will be lifted.

The track 22 is in inaction, but as soon as the bottle is at its full height, the roller 18 will find a new section of the track, marked 23, to roll upon, which track will hold the bottle in its upper position during the operation of filling, and until it drops back into its lowest position when coming over the lowest partof the track 22. o

By means of my arrangement a great deal of friction that has heretofore been-incurred by inclined tracks is avoided, and the table can be lifted very rapidly at any desired angle. I

Havin described my invention, what I claim an desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In. a rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of a number of lifting elements rotating around a common center, in combination with a number of gears co-acting to raise the lifting elements, and of a stationary rack operating said gears.

2. In a rotary machine of the character described. the combination consisting of a number of lifting elements, racks attached to saidclements, gears meshing with said racks,

said lifting elements being movable around a common vertical axis, and of astatlonary rack operating said gears.

3. In a rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of a frame movable around a vertical aX1s,'a

numberof lifting elements carriedby said accommodate vessels ofdi ti'ercnt heights and diameters, and means for maintaining the radial positions of the vessels.

5. ln av rotary machine of the character described, the combination with a vertically and circumferential ly adjustable filling head, of a series of lifting tables to cooperate with said .filling head, provided with convergent bottle centering guides to maintain the ra dial positions of bottlesearried' by the tables.

6. In a rotary machine of the character described, thecombina'tion consisting of a stationary base, a supporting column rotatable thereon, lifting tables carried in a circu-v lar series by said supporting column, afill ing head with which the lifting tables cooperate, a screw support for said filling head, working up or down in said supporting column, and locking means for said screw support in said supporting column, whereby the filling head is adjusted vertically and eircumferentially with relation to said lifting tables, said lifting tables being provided with means for maintaining the radial position of the bottles of different diameters placedthereon. v I

7. In Ia rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of a stationary base, a supporting column rotatable thereon, lifting elements arranged in circularseries, an upper guide carried by said column for each of said elements, lower guides for said elements, and periodically enacting gear teeth, severally, on said stationary base, on said lifting elements, and on said lower guides, whereby the lifting elements are raised on rotation of the supporting column.

8. In a rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of a segmental rack lying in a horizontal plane, lifting elements With vertical racks arranged in circular series and rotatably carried to pass close to the segmental rack, and pinions carried with the vertical racks, in constant mesh therewith, and adapted to mesh periodically With the segmental rack.

9. in a rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of liftingelements, a holder supporting them in circular series for vertical movement thereon, means to rotate the holder, racks on the lifting elements, pinions on the holder mesh-.

vto the slotted guides, and pinions on the holder, meshing with the racks, there being intermittent rotation of the pinions during rotation of said holder.

11. In a--rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of lifting elements, vertical racks thereon, pinions in constant mesh with the racks, a rotatable holder for the lifting elements and their racks and piuions, a stationary rack meshing 'periadicallyiwith the pinions, and a stationary track holding the lifting elements up 1 said bevel rack.

during their rotation, except in the region of the stationary ack.

12. ln-a rotary machine of the character described, the combination consisting of lift-- ing elements, vertical racks thereon, pinions in constant mesh with the racks, rollers on said lifting elements, a rotatable holder for the lifting elements and their racks, pinions,

and rollers, a stationary rack meshing periodically with said pinionS, and a stationary track upon which the rollers travel, except in the region of the stationary rack. I

13. In a rotary machine of the character described, lifting mechanism comprising the combination of an integrally formed rack and slotted guide, and a pinion having a plain guiding roller Within the slot of the guide, a spur part meshing ith the rack, and a bevel part beyondthe r ck, and a segmental rack to mesh with the bevel part of the pinion.

lat. In a rotary machine of the character described, as a part of,lifting mechanism thereof, a segmental bevel rack mounted stationaril and a pinion having a bevel part, carried around to mesh periodically with In testimony whereof name to th s specificatmn m the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

KA lt-L KIEFER.

. Witnesses:

E. FINGH, G. W. l/Vnnnnrn 1 have signed my

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