US1445899A - Delivery mechanism - Google Patents

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' Feb. 20,1923. 1,445,899.

R. McGREGOR;

DELIVERY MECHANISM.

FILED AUG-7. 1922.

U INVENTOR.

T 7W9 UMW ATTORNEYS.

Patented Feb. 20, 1923. a

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ROSS MGGREGOR, 0F SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE ELWOOD MYERS COM- PANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, A. CORPORATION OF OHIO.

DELIVERY MECHANISM.

Application filed August 7, 1922. Serial m5. 580,125.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ross MCGREGOR, a

citizen of the 'United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Delivery Mechanism, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to delivery mechanism and in particular to mechanism for delivering articles in a predetermined position.

It is an object of the invention to provide a delivery mechanism for delivering a plurality of articles which cannot be economically handled one by one.

It is a further object of the invention to provide means for sorting and arranging these articles during the course of their de-. livery from one point to the other so that this operation may take place without delay in their. delivery.

In particular, it is the object to provide a mechanism for this purpose so that the articles will be delivered in the proper predetermined position for the next operation in the course of their manufacture.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the mechanism embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

In this particular embodiment shown in the drawings and discussed in the specification, I have disclosed the adaptation of my mechanism to the delivery of tobacco cans.

In the manufacture of such cans, after the tops have been mounted on the bodies of the cans, each can is delivered one by one from the capping machine which places the tops on the bodies, down a chute 1, upon a conveyor belt 2 which conveys the cans to the operator who has charge of the machine for placing the bottoms on the cans.

These cans must be so delivered that as the operator picks up the can with the left hand, the can may be inserted in the bottom attaching machine with the can upside down in the the position of the can on the belt or conveyor and to have thecans delivered one by the conveyor where it will come in contact with a stop and deflector consisting of the stop 5 against which the head of the can will impinge as it is conveyed by the belt. A. lateral member 6 on which the head of the can will roll and due to the fact that the head of the can is thus slowed u while the bottom is being freely conveye by the conveyor, the position of the can on the belt will be reversed. A horizontal member 7 is projected into the path of the can to complete the reversal of the can and in so doing it is deflected towards the other side of the belt where it will come in contact with the incline 8 which, when itleaves it, will have positioned the can bottom first at a predetermined position on the belt as in the position of the cans at 9 and 10.

The belt may be supported in any suitable fashion as by the driving roller 11.

While I have shown and described certain features as constituting my invention, it will. i

be understood that parts have been'sh'own for purposes of illustration only, and that I do not desire to be limited to such details, as

obvious modifications will occur to a person and stopped may roll while the articles are being reversed in fposition on the conveyor with a minimum 0 delay.

2. In a conveyor, a stop, a deflecting member placed adjacent to the surface of the conveyor to deflect articles from one side thereof to the other, to be brought in contact with the stop, a second deflecting memher on which one end of each article so deflected end stopped may roll while the articles are being reversed in position on the conveyor with the minimumof delay and means to position said article in their reversed position at predetermined points on the conveyor.

3. In a conveyor, a delivery chute, a eonveying belt for receiving articles from the delivery chute. a deflecting member superimposed on the belt end adjacent thereto for engaging with the articles so delivered to deflect them to one side a stop spaced from the deflecting member adapted to stop i eeaeee one end of the article, a second deflecting member for assisting in effecting the reversal of position of the articles, an angular member for completing the reversal'of the ture.

ROSS McGREGQR.

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