US2127393A

US2127393A - Packing machine

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Publication number: US2127393A
Application number: US168527A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles L Doney
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1937-10-11
Filing date: 1937-10-11
Publication date: 1938-08-16
Anticipated expiration: 1955-08-16

Description

Aug. 16, 1938, c. L. DONEY PACKING MACHINE Filed 00%. 11, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Aug. 16, 1938. C. L. DONEY PACKING MACHINE -Filed Oct. 11, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 16, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Claims.

The invention relates to a packing machine and more particularly to a machine for'use in the mechanical packing of fish. This work is generally eiTected by hand and is a slow, disagreeable,

5 tedious task necessitating long hours of continuous work.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character, wherein fish, after being cleaned, can be mechanically and automatically cut and packed in a fast economical way reducing the spoilage to a minimum.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character, wherein the fish will be packed into cans, these after the packing are ready for the steam boxes where they are cooked and sent to the sealing machinathe lids being put on and the cans sealed, the machine being novel in its entirety and assures a continuity of packing operation.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character, which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in operation, automatic in the working thereof, readily and easily adjusted and inexpensive to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary top plan view of a 35 machine constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 4 is a sectional View on the line 4-4 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary sectional view through the can carrier.

Figure 7 is an elevation of the cam track of the machine.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings in detail, A designates generally a portion of a horizontal support in effect creating a stand and from which rises perpendicularly a stationary shaft Ill, being made secure in the support in any suitable manner and has formed near its lower end a circular bed flange l I provided at its under face with nibs [2 which bite into the support while threaded on the lower end of said shaft is a nut I 3, this fastening the shaft securely.

Rotatable about this shaft [0 is a turntable l4 forming a can carrier, being of substantially disk shape and having peripherally thereof can seats I 5, these opening outwardly and releasably clamp therein can bodies It which are devoid of lids or covers and are adapted to be filled or packed in the operation of the machine.

The turntable l4, which is rotated in any desirable manner, has an upstanding central hub l'l externally threaded at I8 for an adjustable collar lll'and this hub is accommodated in a columnar centrally located hub portion 20 formed interiorly of a rotatable cylinder 2| being in resting position upon the collar H] which regulates the spaced relationship thereof to the table M. The columnar hub portion 20 of the cylinder 21 is splined or keyed at 22 with the hub I! so that the turntable and said cylinder 2| rotate in unison with each other.

Formed at the perimeter of the cylinder 2| are vertically disposed cylinders or tubular columns 23, these being open at opposite ends and are aligned with the seats IS in the turntable I4 while reciprocatingly movable within the cylinders or columns 23 are packing pistons or plungers 24, the stems 25 of which at their upper end portions are formed with elbows 26, these slidably fitting in runners 21 operating in vertical slotted guides 28 fixed to and rising above the upper open end of the cylinder 2|. The runners 2! operate within the slots of the guides 28 vertically while the elbows 26 at their ends carry rollers 29, these movably fitted within a substantially oval shaped cam track 3|] armed at 3 I, the latter being fitted at 32 to the stationary shaft [0 thus stationarily holding the track above the cylinder 2i. The plungers or pistons 24 operating in the track 3|] during the rotation of the cylinder 2| reciprocate within the cylinders 23 for packing operation. During rotation of said cylinder 2|, these pistons or plungers 24 move outwardly of the cylinders 23 at one side of the cylinder 2| so that clean fish can be fed into the cylinders at such side from a, depository serving as a receiver for the fish before the packing operation and the fish within this depository can be mechanically or manually removed therefrom for the placing of such fish into the cylinders 23 from which have been removed the plungers or pistons 24 in the cycle of operation of the machine.

The track 30 has high and low stretches thereto and at the high stretch of the same a retaining member 33 is provided thereon to hold the members 29 within the track and to cause the plungers or pistons 24 when without the cylinders 23 to be moved laterally in the runners 2'! fitting the guides 28 and thus avoiding obstructing access to the cylinders 23 at the filling side of the cylinder 2| for the packing of fish within these cylinders. The high and low stretches of the track 30 effect reciprocation of the pistons or plungers 24 in the cycle of rotation of the cylinder 2|. When the pistons or plungers 24 are automatically lowered in the cylinders 23, the material therein is forced and packed into the cans [6 upon the turntable l4, the fish being admitted into the cans through the lower open ends of said cylinders 23 during rotation, thereof simultaneously with the rotationof the turntable l4, these being rotatable in unison with each other.

At one side of the cylinder 2| and fixed to an operating shaft 34 is a disk-like rotary cutter 35 which operates between a can, l6 upon the turntable l4 and the lower open end of a cylinder 23 in the cylinder 2|, this cutter 35 being horizontally arranged and functions to cut the fish to avoid surplus filling of the cans IS, the cutter 35 being located at the packing side'of the cylinder 2| and its shaft 34 is power driven in any suitable manner.

In'the operation of the machine the dressed fish are delivered into the cylinders 23 at the filling side of the cylinder 2|, either manually or mechanically, and'as the turntable I4 and cylinder 2| rotate in unison with each other, the filled cylinders 23 through the action of the plungers or pistons 24 will deliver the fish successively into the cans I6 on the turntable |4 while the cutter 35 severs superfluous fish at the top open ends of the cans to avoid overfilling .of the latter. The packed cans of fish are taken from the machine by successive removal from the turntable I4 and empty cans substituted so that in this manner fish can be mechanically and automatically packed in a fast economical way in the cans l6, reducing the spoilage to a minimum and suchfilled cans after passing the cutter are removed from the turntable and conveyed from the machine to steam boxes where the same are cooked and thereafter sent to a sealing machine where the lids are put on and the cans sealed, the packing and filling operations of the machine being continuous in the working thereof.

The cylinder'2l is-adjustable with relation to the turntable M in conformity with the sizes of the cans H? to be filled andpacked.

The shaft 34 carries an adjustable collar 36. which enables vertical adjustment of the cutter 35 in conformity with the adjustment of the relationship of the turntable and cylinder. It is, of course, understood that a suitable shelving concentric to the shaft l0 and supported from the support to be disposedbeneath the open ends of the cylinders or columns 23 for the closing of these lower ends excepting that cylinder or column having its lower end disposed over the r0- tary cutter 35 is present in the machine and in this way the filling of these cylinders or columns 23 cannot drop out of the same during the cycle of operation of said machine.

What is claimed is:

1. A machine of the character described comprising a turntable having peripheral seats for cans, a cylinder turnable with the table and having cylinders aligned with the seats, pistons opcrating within the cylinders and movable without the same, trackage effecting movement of the pistons, and a cutter operating between the turntable and said cylinder.

2. A machine of the character described comprising a turntable having peripheral seats for cans, a cylinder turnable with the table and having cylinders aligned with the seats, pistons operating within the cylinders and movable without the same, trackage efiecting movement of the pistons, a cutter operating between the turntable and said cylinder, and means for adjust ing the cylinder With relation to the turntable.

3. A machine of the character described comprising a turntable having peripheral seats for cans, a. cylinder turnable with the table and having cylinders aligned with the seats, pistons the cylinder with relation to the turntable, and

means for adjustment of the cutter with relation to the cylinder and turntable.

4. A machine of the character described comprising a turntable having peripheral seats for cans, a cylinder turnable with the table and having cylinders aligned with the seats, pistons operating within the cylinders and movable without the same, trackage effecting movement of the pistons, a cutter operating between the turntable and said cylinder, means for adjusting the cylinder with relation to the turntable, means for adjustment of the cutter with relation to the cylinder and turntable, and guides associated with the cylinder for the said pistons.

5. A machine of the character described comprising a turntable having peripheral seats for cans, a cylinder turnable with the table and having cylinders aligned with the seats, pistons operating within the cylinders and movable without the same, trackage effecting movement of the pistons, a cutter operating between the turntable and said cylinder, means for adjusting the cylinder with relation to the turntable, means for adjustment of the cutter with relation to the cylinder and turntable, guides associated with the cylinder for the said pistons, and a support for the trackage.

CHARLES L. DONEY.