US3174614A - Device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support - Google Patents

Device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support Download PDF

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US3174614A
US3174614A US214334A US21433462A US3174614A US 3174614 A US3174614 A US 3174614A US 214334 A US214334 A US 214334A US 21433462 A US21433462 A US 21433462A US 3174614 A US3174614 A US 3174614A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J9/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture, installation, removal, maintenance of electric discharge tubes, discharge lamps, or parts thereof; Recovery of material from discharge tubes or lamps
    • H01J9/24—Manufacture or joining of vessels, leading-in conductors or bases
    • 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
    • B65G47/1478—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 pick-up devices, the container remaining immobile

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  • the present invention relates to a device for delivering caps for electric filament lamps, discharge tubes and the like to a movable support in an orderly fashion.
  • the device in accordance with the invention is characterized in that it comprises a cap supply container in which the caps are randomly disposed and means for re moving caps from the said container and arranging them in a row in a first guide, after which the caps which are arranged in the said guide but otherwise are disposed in arbitrary relative positions are conveyed substantially successively to the upper surface of a transport device adapted to move with respect to the guide and containing a number of prepared positions designed so as to permit the caps of the row which have fallen into the prepared positions to assume only one prescribed position, said transport device being capable in at least one of its positions of delivering the caps successively to a second guide, in which a supply of caps arranged in a row and all occupying the desired position may be formed and which is adapted to deliver the caps in succession to the holders of the support.
  • the caps which are randomly disposed in a container are first arranged in a row on a guide.
  • This may be effected by known means such as, -for example, a paddle feeder or a vibrating feeder provided with a helical vibrating path along which the objects may be continuously vibrated upwards.
  • the caps arranged by such feeders in a row on a guide otherwise are randomly disposed. They are only arranged substantially in a row. If they should be direotly delivered by this guide to the support, those caps of the row which are disposed substantially in the desired position would directly fall into the holders but the caps disposed on the guides in different positions on leaving the guide would fall into the holders incorrectly or even beside the holders.
  • the transport device comprises :an intermittently rotatable table provided with holes under which is arranged a stationary plate designed so as to cover all but one or a few of the said holes.
  • the invention also relates to a few further embodiments specified in the sub-claims.
  • FIGURE 2 is a sectional view taken along the line I-I of FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 3 is a sectional view taken along the line ill-Ill of FIGURE 1.
  • a conveyer chain 1 of a machine for manufacturing electric filament lamps is provided with a number of supports 3 capable of intermittent movement along a guide path 2 and each adapted to hold a cap 4 for an electric filament lamp.
  • a cap supply container 6 contains a plurality of randomly disposed caps.
  • a paddle 11 is adapted to reciprocate in guides 13 and 14 according to the double arrow 9. The position of the paddle is inclined. The paddle 11 in its downward movement descends deep into the supply of caps 8.
  • the lifted caps may roll into a first guide 15 in the form of a vibrating trough.
  • the direction of the movement of the caps is indicated by an arrow 19.
  • On this guide 15 the caps collect in the manner shown in the drawing. In the guide the caps are substantially arranged in a row.
  • a gate 16 is disposed which is adapted to move in a predetermined rhythm with respect to the orifice of the first guide according to a double arrow 17.
  • the arrangement is such that each time substantially one cap .is enabled to leave the orifice of the guide.
  • An intermittently rotatabletransport device 27 is disposed below the guide 15.
  • This device comprises a table 18 provided with eight holes 19 uniformly spaced on a pitch circle.
  • a stationary plate 30 Below the table 18 is disposed a stationary plate 30. This limits the depth of a number of the apertures 19.
  • a second guide 31 Between the supports 3 and the table 18 is arranged a second guide 31.
  • This stationary guide is also in the form of a vibrating trough and has a U-shaped cross-section.
  • the guide 31 is adapted to receive the caps from the transport device 27 in the manner shown and to convey them according to an arrow 48.
  • a lock Near the orifice of the guide 31 a lock is produced by two gates 32 and 33 mounted on a common support 28 adapted to reciprocate according to a double arrow 29. The reciprocating movement of this support 28 ensures that each time only a single cap may find its way into thelock and is delivered from this lock to a holder 3.
  • the device operates as follows:
  • a cap which has fallen in a preferred position into the hole 19 located under the orifice of the guide 15 is supported by the plate 30 in the manner shown.
  • the cap which remains in contact with the plate 30, is conveyed in the direction shown by an arrow 46.
  • the cap reaches a point above the guide 31, owing to the fact that at this point the plate 30 does not limit the depth of the prepared position it falls in the manner shown onto the guide 31 by which it is conveyed according to'an arrow 48 towards the lock.
  • a cap is disposed on the guide 15 in a position such that on leaving the guide it falls on the table 18 beside the hole 19 instead of into this hole. In this case it remains on the upper surface 45 of the table.
  • the caps left on the upper surface 45 of the table 18 are removed with the aid of a stationary resilient scraper 47.
  • a blow-pipe 52 which blows an upward air stream through the holder which each time is positioned under the said orifice during a stationary period.
  • a cap which leaves the lock of the guide 31 and hence already is in the desired position is influenced by this air stream so as to remain in the said desired position during its fall into the holder 3.
  • the guides 15 and 31 are arranged in lines with one another (FIGURES 1,) however, it will be appreciated that the guide 31 may occupy another position relative to the table 18.
  • a device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support comprising a supply container in which said articles are randomly disposed, a first guide for said articles, means for removing said articles from said supply container and arranging the same in said first guide, a rotary transfer means provided with spaced holes therein and positioned adjacent to said first guide whereby said articles are deiivered substantiallyin succession to the upper surface of said rotarytransfer means and individually into said holes, an air orienting means discharging through said holes for orienting said articles in predetermined positions in said holes, a second guide for said articles positioned adjacent to said rotary transfer means and vibrating relative thereto whereby said articles are dropped through said holes in said rotary transfer means to said second guide in their desired positions, and a pocketed carrier arranged adjacent to said second guide whereby said articles are delivered individually and in succession from said second guide to said pocketed carrier.
  • a device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support as claimed in claim 1 further comprising means for holding said articles in substantially all of the holes in said rotary transfer means, said second guide for sm'd articles being located in a plane below the plane of said rotary transfer means at a location where said article holding means is not present whereby the articles at that location fall freely through their respective holes and on said second guide.
  • a device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support comprising a supply container in which said articles are randomly disposed, a first guide for said articles, means for removing said articles from said su ply container and arranging the same in said first guide, a rotary transfer means provided with spaced holes therein and positioned adjacent to said first guide whereby said articles are delivered substantially in succession to th upper surface of said rotary transfer means and individually into said holes, an air orienting means discharging through saidholes for orienting said articles in predetermined positions in said holes, a second guide for said articles positioned adjacent to said rotary transfer means and vibrating relative thereto whereby said articles are droppedthrough said holes in said rotary transfer means to said second guide in their-desired positions, a pocketed carrier arranged adjacent to said second guide whereby said articles are delivered individually and in succession from said second guide to'said pocketed carrier, and a stationary scraper adapted to remove articles which rest on said rotary transfer means but not in said holes, said scraper being located above said
  • a device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support as claimed in claim 1 further comprising means for stopping the movement of said rotary transfer means and the means for supplying articles from said first guide to said rotary transfer means.
  • a device for orienting and feeding articles to a movable support as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an air supply means arranged adjacent to said pocketed carrier for blowing an air stream through each of said pockets when said article is inserted therein to ensure that said article is in the desired position.

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US3401832A (en) * 1966-12-05 1968-09-17 American Home Prod Article sorting and feeding apparatus
US4947982A (en) * 1982-12-23 1990-08-14 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Device for automatically supplying screws
DE4413017A1 (de) * 1994-04-18 1995-10-19 Boellhoff Gmbh Fördersystem, insb. für Befestigungsmittel wie Schrauben oder dergleichen
DE4434100C1 (de) * 1994-09-23 1996-05-02 Torwegge Holztech Gmbh & Co Vorrichtung zur lagegenauen Ausrichtung einzelner, aufeinanderfolgend transportierter Werkstücke
US20060182610A1 (en) * 2004-10-25 2006-08-17 Sala Jaime M Article positioning machine

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US1446591A (en) * 1920-09-27 1923-02-27 First Nat Bank In St Louis Cap-feeding machine
US2777561A (en) * 1952-07-09 1957-01-15 Rose Brothers Ltd Feeding of articles in wrapping or packaging machines
US2946425A (en) * 1955-12-09 1960-07-26 Seragnoli Ariosto Mechanism for distributing and feeding articles into a machine
US3058616A (en) * 1961-01-06 1962-10-16 Atlas Pacifik Eng Co Device for feeding peaches and the like

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US1446591A (en) * 1920-09-27 1923-02-27 First Nat Bank In St Louis Cap-feeding machine
US2777561A (en) * 1952-07-09 1957-01-15 Rose Brothers Ltd Feeding of articles in wrapping or packaging machines
US2946425A (en) * 1955-12-09 1960-07-26 Seragnoli Ariosto Mechanism for distributing and feeding articles into a machine
US3058616A (en) * 1961-01-06 1962-10-16 Atlas Pacifik Eng Co Device for feeding peaches and the like

Cited By (6)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3401832A (en) * 1966-12-05 1968-09-17 American Home Prod Article sorting and feeding apparatus
US4947982A (en) * 1982-12-23 1990-08-14 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Device for automatically supplying screws
DE4413017A1 (de) * 1994-04-18 1995-10-19 Boellhoff Gmbh Fördersystem, insb. für Befestigungsmittel wie Schrauben oder dergleichen
DE4434100C1 (de) * 1994-09-23 1996-05-02 Torwegge Holztech Gmbh & Co Vorrichtung zur lagegenauen Ausrichtung einzelner, aufeinanderfolgend transportierter Werkstücke
US20060182610A1 (en) * 2004-10-25 2006-08-17 Sala Jaime M Article positioning machine
US7258222B2 (en) * 2004-10-25 2007-08-21 Jaime Marti Sala & Alex Marti Mercade Article positioning machine

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