US3527337A - Article pusher mechanism for bagging machines - Google Patents

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US3527337A
US3527337A US633913A US3527337DA US3527337A US 3527337 A US3527337 A US 3527337A US 633913 A US633913 A US 633913A US 3527337D A US3527337D A US 3527337DA US 3527337 A US3527337 A US 3527337A
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  • a principal object of this invention is to provide a positive control over the movement of an article-pushing paddle as it moves around an orbit of a bagging machine for the purpose of pushing an article into a bag and then being retracted from the bag quickly without interruption of the movement of the paddle carrier around the orbit.
  • FIG. 1 is a top perspective of the bagging machine.
  • FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the upper portion of the bagging machine with parts broken away
  • FIG. 3 is a plan of the bagging machine having parts broken away.
  • FIG. 4 is a top perspective of paddle-lowering mechanism of the bagging machine
  • FIGS. 5, 6 and 7 are side elevations of such mechanism showing parts in different operative positions.
  • FIG. 8 is a top perspective of paddle-carrier-raising mechanism of the bagging machine
  • FIGS. 9, and 11 are side elevations of such mechanism with parts in different operative positions.
  • the present invention relates to a machine which is particularly useful for bagging sliced loaves of bread in polyethylene bags, but by modifying the machine in minor respects it can be used for bagging other articles singly or in groups, such as a cluster of bread rolls, or even a plurality of separate articles which can be moved as a group by a pusher paddle into the open end of a bag suitably held open.
  • a bagging machine it is important that the pusher paddle be moved rapidly and under positive control at all times so that it will engage the article or articles to be bagged properly and firmly during the bagging operation and will then be retracted quickly and reliably from the bag to be returned to a starting location for eifecting another bagging operation.
  • the particular bagging machine illustrated in the drawings has a base 1 supporting a superstructure 2 located alongside a table 3 over which articles to be bagged are moved to the bagging station 4. Such movement is effected by the pusher paddles 5 supported on the ends of curved arms 6 which are attached to carrier rods 7. As shown in FIG. 3, each of these rods is supported by a collar 8 carried by a roller chain 9 and a second collar 10 spaced from collar 8 and carried by a roller chain 11 as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the roller chain 9 is supported and guided for movement by sprockets 12 and 13 at opposite ends of its loop, as seen in FIGS. 4 and 8.
  • Chain 11 is supported and guided by sprockets 14 and 15 at opposite ends of its loop.
  • the loops of the two chains 9 and 11 are held in alignment by such sprockets and establish the orbit about which the paddle carrier rods 7 are moved.
  • Sprockets 13 and 15 are rotatively carried by common shaft 16.
  • Shaft 16' carrying sprockets 12 and 14 also carries a drive sprocket 17 for rotating such shaft, as shown in FIG. 3.
  • An intermediate shaft 18 carries a sprocket 19 which is connected to sprocket 17 by chain 20.
  • a powered chain 21 engages sprocket 22 mounted on shaft 18 to drive such shaft. Power supplied to the chain 21 will drive the two paddle-carrying chains 9 and 11 at a speed corresponding to the speed at which it is desired to move articles along the table 3 during the bagging operation.
  • the mechanism for powering chain 21 can be controlled by suitable controls 21 for the purpose of starting and stopping movement of the paddle-carrying rods 7 around their orbits.
  • a stack of bags 23 such as of polyethylene material is supported so that the open ends of these bags face articles moved toward them along the table 3 by the paddles 5.
  • the mouth of the uppermost bag can be opened by an air jet to enable the adjacent ends of spreader fingers 24 to be moved into the bag end.
  • spreader fingers are reciprocated toward the bag stack and are spread apart to open the mounth of the bag to receive the article or articles to be bagged, such as a sliced loaf of bread.
  • the paddle-carrying mechanism then operates to withdraw the paddle from the mouth of the bag and to return the paddle around the orbit defined by the chains 9 and 11 to engage and bag another article.
  • Each pusher paddle 5 is supported by its arcuate arm 6 depending from its supporting rod 7 so that the carrier rod will be above the path of travel of the article to be bagged and consequently will not interfere with movement of such article.
  • the paddle-supporting arm is curved rearwardly and upwardly from the paddle so that the paddle can be advanced a substantial distance into the mouth of the bag during the filling operation without the curved arm interferring with the bag mouth.
  • the paddle should be spaced far enough from the carrier rod 7 so that when the article has been bagged the paddle can be withdrawn from the mouth of the bag by rotation of the rod 7 about its axis even though such rod may still be moving in the same direction that the filled bag was moved by the paddle.
  • the upper and lower straight stretches of the orbit traveled by the paddle-supporting rods must, however, be spaced apart a distance greater than the distance between such rod and the portion of the paddle carried by it which is farthest from such rod so that as a paddle-carrying rod is moved in one direction along the upper stretch of its orbit, its paddle can pass a paddle-supporting rod moving in the opposite direction along the lower stretch of the orbit.
  • the paddles 5 and their supporting arms be maintained in the same attitude while their supporting rods are being moved along both the top and bottom stretches of the orbits through which such rods move.
  • the attitude of the paddles can be established by controlling the rotation of rods 7, and such rotation can be controlled by controlling the swinging of a crank arm 29 attached to rod 7.
  • a crank arm 29 attached to rod 7.
  • such crank arm carries upper and lower rollers 30 spaced apart slightly from each other and spaced a considerable distance from the axis of shaft 7.
  • These rollers straddle a straight guide track 31 extending along the upper and lower stretches of the carrier rod orbit between the chaincarrying sprockets. Because engagement of either roller 30 with the track 31 will hold the crank 29 against swinging the paddle-carrier rod 7 will correspondingly be prevented from turning so as to maintain the paddle 5 and its arcuate supporting arm 6 in a constant attitude.
  • crank arm rollers 30 At the opposite ends of the carrier rod orbit it is necessary to transfer the crank arm rollers 30 from engagement with one track 31 to engagement with the other track 31. At the article-feeding end of the orbit such rollers and their crank must be lowered from the upper track 31 to the lower track 31. At the filled-bag-discharging end of the orbit traced by the carrier rods 7 the rollers 30 and their cranks must be raised from the lower track 31 to the upper track 31.
  • mechanism is provided to control the swinging of the cranks 29 from the time the rollers 30 leave contact with one track 31 and engage the other track 31. Controlling the swinging of the crank arms 29 during such transfer also enables the rollers to be engaged properly with the track at the end of each transfer operation.
  • rotary control means rotatable unidirectionally are provided at each end of the rod orbit.
  • Such 4 unidirectionally rotatable control means at the articlefeeding end of the orbit include an arm 32 secured to a stub shaft 33 which is rotated by a sprocket 34 shown best in FIGS. 5, 6 and 7.
  • This sprocket is driven in synchronism with shaft 16, carrying the sprockets 13 and 15 on which the paddle-driving chains 9 and 11 run, by a sprocket 35 connected to sprocket 34 by a short chain 36.
  • the spacing between the axes of shafts 16 and 33 corresponds to the spacing between the axis of a paddlecarrier rod 7 and the axis of one of the rollers 30 on crank 29 having a spindle 37 long enough to project into registry with the arm 32.
  • the end of such arm has in it a notch of a size and shape to engage the spindle 37.
  • the length of arm 32 between the axis of shaft 33 and spindle 37 corresponds to the distance between the axis of shaft 16 and the axis of rod 7 during movement of the rod around sprocket 15.
  • the sprockets 34 and 35 and chain 36 are then timed so that the notched end of arm 32 will be in a position to engage the roller spindle 37 as the crank 29 is moved to the article-feed end of the orbit as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the carrier rods 7 are spaced along chains 9 and 11 distances corresponding to one or more complete rotations of arm 32, so that the notched end of such arm will be in a position to pick up the projecting spindle 37 of each crank as its carrier rod 7 approaches the sprockets 13 and 15, as shown in FIG. 4.
  • crank arm 29 and consequently the associated paddle 5 and supporting arm 6 will be maintained in a substantially constant attitude as the paddle arm and rod 7 supporting them are lowered from the upper stretch of the rod orbit to its lower stretch.
  • control means rotatable unidirectionally to control the attitude of the paddle 5 and its supporting arm 6 take the form of a rotor 38 carrying a square cluster of guide rollers 39. These rollers are spaced apart sulficiently to leave between them passages for receiving a blade 40 carried by the crank 29. Such blade preferably has a double-beveled end to facilitate its entrance into a passage between guide rollers 39.
  • the rotor 38 is rotatively mounted in a bearing block 41 located at the discharge end of the lower track 31 as shown best in FIG. 8.
  • a spring-pressed detent roller 42 mounted near block 41 will engage a recess in the periphery of rotor 38 located to hold the rotor in a position such that one of its passages between opposite rollers 39 will be disposed in alignment with the crank arm blade 40 while the rollers 30 of such crank arm are still engaged with the lower track 31.
  • the paddle-carrier rod 7 begins to move upward around sprockets 12 and 14 the blade 40 will have penetrated sufliciently deeply into the passage between the opposite pairs of rollers 39 so as to span between the rollers along such passage.
  • the lever action of blade 40 will rotate the rotor 38 from the position shown in FIG. 9 through the position of FIG. 10 to the position of FIG. 11. Continued upward movement of the carrier rod 7 will then withdraw the blade 40 from between the rollers 39.
  • the blade 40 is not withdrawn from between the rollers 30 until the crank arm rollers 30 can engage the downwardly curved end portion 31' of the upper track 31, so that during further movement of the paddle carrier rod 7 the attitude of the crank arm 29 will be controlled by engagement of its rollers 30 with such curved track portion.
  • the rotor 38 will have been turned through an angle of approximately 90, so that the detent roller 42 will be in at least partial engagement with another recess 43, such recesses being located at 90 circumferentially of the rotor 38.
  • the detent roller 42 will engage fully in a recess 43 to position the rotor with another passage between rollers 39 in alignment with an approaching blade 40 of another crank arm 29.
  • the control means rotatable unidirectionally for controlling the attitude of the paddles and their supporting arms will function eitectively irrespective of the number of paddles moved by chains 9 and 11, as long as the timing is synchronized with rotation of an arm 32 as described above. While ordinarily such spacing will not be sufficiently close to require more than one arm 32 opposite ends of such arm could be notched or additional arms could be provided as may be necessary to synchronize a notched arm with the location of each paddle attitudecontrolling crank arm.
  • the single assembly of rotor 38 can control the attitude of all the paddles and arms as long as the carrier rods 7 are spaced lengthwise of chains 9 and 11 a distance at least as great as the circumferential extent of one quadrant of sprockets 12 and 14.
  • a bagging machine including a bagging station, article-supporting means in advance of the bagging station supporting articles to be bagged for movement to the bagging station, a pusher paddle engageable with an article to be bagged on the article-supporting means for moving such article to the bagging station, and drive means for moving the pusher paddle in an orbit successively along a lower stretch toward the bagging station, an arcuate stretch, an upper stretch and a second arcuate stretch from such upper stretch back to the lower stretch, wherein the improvement comprises attitude-control means connected to the pusher paddle, orienting means adjacent to an arcuate stretch of the pusher paddle orbit, engageable with said attitude-control means independently of the drive means and rotatable to orient said attitude-control means and, consequently, to govern the attitude of the pusher paddle relative to the drive means during movement thereof around such arcuate stretch of the pusher paddle orbit between the upper and lower stretches of such orbit, means mounting said orienting means for rotation substantially about a horizontal axis, and means restricting rotation of said orienting means
  • attitude-control means includes a crank swingable relative to the drive means to alter the attitude of the pusher paddle
  • orienting means includes a member rotatable in synchronism with movement of the drive means around an arcuate stretch of the pusher paddle orbit and engageable with said crank to govern movement thereof relative to the drive means during travel of the pusher paddle around such arcuate stretch.
  • the orienting means includes an arm rotatable in synchronism with movement of the drive means around the arcuate stretch of the pusher paddle orbit but rotatable about an axis offset from the center of curvature of such arcuate stretch.
  • crank has an arm-engageable member spaced from its axis of swing which is engageable by the orienting means arm.
  • attitude-control means includes a crank swingable relative to the drive means and carrying a blade
  • orienting means includes a rotor adjacent to an arcuate stretch of the pusher paddle orbit and engageable by said blade as said crank is moved by the drive means for swinging said blade and its crank relative to the drive means and rotating said rotor incrementally as the drive means moves around such arcuate stretch.
  • detent means engageable with the rotor for deterring rotation thereof, but releasable for rotation of the rotor by engagement of the crank blade therewith.

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