US3707217A - Method in apparatus for feeding closures - Google Patents

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US3707217A
US3707217A US70213A US3707217DA US3707217A US 3707217 A US3707217 A US 3707217A US 70213 A US70213 A US 70213A US 3707217D A US3707217D A US 3707217DA US 3707217 A US3707217 A US 3707217A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/06—Feeding caps to capping heads
    • B67B3/064—Feeding caps to capping heads from a hopper
    • B67B3/0645—Feeding caps to capping heads from a hopper with means for orientating the caps to a position ready to be applied to the container
    • 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
    • B65G47/1442—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 movement of the bottom or a part of the wall of the container
    • B65G47/1457—Rotating movement in the plane of the rotating part
    • 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
    • B65G47/1442—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 movement of the bottom or a part of the wall of the container
    • B65G47/1457—Rotating movement in the plane of the rotating part
    • B65G47/1464—Rotating movement in the plane of the rotating part using the centrifugal effect to arrange or orientate the articles

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  • This invention is concerned with a method and apparatus for feeding closure seals and is particularly directed to a method and apparatus for feeding and orienting circular seals with their respective interior surfaces facing in the same direction.
  • a unique closure seal has recently come into use as fully described in copending application Ser. No. 7,780 filed Feb. 2, 1970 in the name of Edward Wolf et al and having the same assignee as the instant application.
  • This particular closure seal has a recessed center panel surrounded by an annular sealing channel having an inverted U-shaped cross sectional configuration. Due to the above described structural design, this sealdoes not lend itself to handling by conventional closure feeding arrangements.
  • Suchconventional feeding arrangements for handling circular articles rely on a substantial distinction between the interior and exterior surfaces of the article to facilitate orientation. This distinction is minimized in the recessed center panel closure seal handled by the invention. In order to meet the needs of commercial closure seal production and application operations, it is necessary to orient and feed such seals efficiently at relatively high speeds. Conventional vibratory feeders and available mechanical feeders have not been found adequate to meet these needs.
  • randomly oriented closure seals are deposited onto a rotating disc and fed partially'oriented with their respective central axes disposed in a vertical plane into a tangentially extending exit chute.
  • a unique sensing device in the exit chute senses the moving seals and ejects seals facing openside down back onto the rotating disc for recycling, allowing fully oriented seals facing open side up to pass through the exit chute.
  • the apparatus for carrying out this operation is compact, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and capable of feeding high speed closure manufacturing and applying operations.
  • Another object is to provide apparatus for carrying out that method.
  • a further object is to provide a method and. apparatus for feeding circular closure seals having a recessed center panel surrounded by an annular sealing channel.
  • a further object is to provide a simplified apparatus capable of feeding oriented recessed center panelclosure seals at a high rate of speed.
  • FIG; 1 is perspective view of the closure feeding apparatus of the invention and for carrying out method thereof partly broken away for clarity;
  • FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the closure orienting station of the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the closureorienting station
  • FIG. 4 is an elevational view taken on line 4-4 in FIG. 3 and looking in the direction ofthe arrows;
  • FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 5-5 in FIG. 3 and looking in the direction of the arrows; 7
  • FIG. 6 is sectional view taken on line 6-6 in FIG. 3
  • FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 9-9 in FIG.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates-the closure feeding apparatus of the invention-wherein'numeral 1 indicates a flat circular disc mounted on a central shaft 2 rotationally driven by a pulley 3 and drive belt 4 connected to a motor (not shown).
  • a cylindrical housing wall 5 surrounds the disc 1 and is provided with an interruption 6.
  • a mounting block 7 is securedto the housing wall 5 exteriorly of the interruption 6.
  • a spacer plate 8 is secured to the mounting block 7 and has an inwardly facing curvededge 9 corresponding to the circumference of the disc 1.
  • An air passage 10 is provided in the plate 8 which communicates with the upper surface of plate 8 as indicated at 11.
  • An elongated' discharge member 12 is secured to the upper surface of the plate 8 so as to overlie the periphery of the disc 1.
  • the discharge member 12 has a pair of guide rails 13 and 13a secured to its under surface.
  • An aperture 14 is formed in the discharge member 12 provided with'a radially inwardly disposed edge 15 having a downwardly and radially outwardly facing chamfered surface 16 as clearly seen in FIGS. 6 and 8.
  • An elongated air passage 17 is formed in the guide rail 13 as seen in FIGS. 6 and 7 which communicates with the chamfered surface 16 as indicated at 18.
  • An air line 19 is connected to the passage 17 at a point on the discharge member 12 remote from the aperture 14.
  • a radially inwardly directed air jet 20 is positioned above the discharge member 12 so as to direct a stream of air over the aperture 14.
  • a lead in block 21 is secured to the inner surface of the retaining wall 5 at the forward end of the discharge member 12.
  • An air line 22 is connected to an air passage 23, shown in FIG. 5, in the lead in block 21, communicates with the bottom surface of the block 21 at 24 so as to direct a stream of air downwardly and tangentially into the inner end of discharge member 12.
  • An exit chute 25 is connected to the outer end of the discharge member 12 and extends from the disc 1 to a subsequent work station (not shown).
  • the chute 25 is made up of a bottom plate 26 bordered by a pair upstanding longitudinally extending L-shaped rails 27 each of which has an upper foot 28 partially overlyingthe bottom plate 26.
  • the sealing channel has upstanding inner wall 33, a base wall 34 and a peripheral outer wall 35.
  • closure members 30 are deposited onto the rotating disc 1 and are urged under the influence of centrifugal force to the periphery of the disc 1 with the closure member center panels 31 lying in a horizontal plane. ln this position the closure members 30 are conveyed in a single file path by the disc 1 underneath the lead in block 21 where the closure member is brought under the influence of the air jet-directed through the opening 24. The closure member. 30 is accordingly accelerated into the discharge member 12. As the closure member 30 approaches the center of the aperture 14 in the discharge member 12, the air jet directed through the opening 18 in the chamfered surface 16 urges the closure member 30 against the guide rail 13a. Upon reaching the center of the aperture 14 the closure member channel 32 is positioned over the air jet directed through the opening 11'.
  • a closure member having its channel portion 32 opening downwardly is blown upwardly, as illustrated in FIG. 8,.0ut through the aperture 14 in the discharge member 12 and back onto the disc 1.
  • the chamfered surface 16 bordering the inner edge of the aperture 14 assists in the movement of the closure member 30 out of the discharge member 12.
  • the air jet 20 acts against the underside of the closure member as it is'lifted up through the aperture 14 bythe air. jet directed through the opening 11.
  • the air jet 20 directs the closure back onto thedisc l for recycling.
  • a closure member entering the discharge member 12 with its annularchannel 32 opening upwardly is conveyed over the air jet through the opening 11 so that the air jet acts against the channel base wall 34.
  • closure member 30 is urged downwardly by atmospheric pressure against the spacer plate 8 as the closure is conveyed thereover. Accordingly, closure members properly oriented with their respective sealing channels opening upwardly are conveyed through'the discharge member 12 by the air jet directed through the opening 24 into the exit chute 25 for feeding to a subsequent work station in fully properly oriented condition.
  • said sensing means comprises an upwardly directed air jet.
  • Apparatus for feeding oriented closure members having a recessed center panel surrounded by a U- shape sealing channel comprising a horizontally disposed circular disc, drive means for'rotating said disc, a tangential exit station juxtaposed said disc, closure sensing means located within said exit station for distinguishing between properly oriented closure members and improperly oriented closure members, means operative in conjunction with said sensing means for ejecting improperly oriented closure members out of said exit station, an exit chute connected to said exit station, means for conveying properly oriented closure members into said exit chute, said exit station including an enclosed passageway and an upwardly opening aperture in said passageway through which said improperly oriented closure members are ejected.

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US4878575A (en) * 1988-12-30 1989-11-07 Norwalt Design, Inc. Vibratory feeder for elastomeric components
US5236077A (en) * 1992-10-02 1993-08-17 Hoppmann Corporation Linear feeder
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US4311229A (en) * 1975-09-18 1982-01-19 Molins Limited Apparatus for handling rod-like articles
US4878575A (en) * 1988-12-30 1989-11-07 Norwalt Design, Inc. Vibratory feeder for elastomeric components
US5236077A (en) * 1992-10-02 1993-08-17 Hoppmann Corporation Linear feeder
US5333716A (en) * 1992-10-02 1994-08-02 Hoppmann Corporation Linear feeder for varying size articles
US6216845B1 (en) * 1996-11-05 2001-04-17 Polese Giovanni Automation Srl Automatic loader of ferrules for brushes
CN102009844A (zh) * 2010-10-29 2011-04-13 苏州工业园区高登威科技有限公司 一种用于自动送料设备的反向下料装置
CN102001018A (zh) * 2010-10-29 2011-04-06 苏州工业园区高登威科技有限公司 一种自动送料设备
US9796535B2 (en) * 2014-02-13 2017-10-24 Nissei Asb Machine Co., Ltd Preform alignment apparatus
EP3114055A1 (de) * 2014-03-03 2017-01-11 La Monnaie de Paris Verfahren und anlage zum ausgerichteten zuführen von zuschnitten
EP3114055B1 (de) * 2014-03-03 2022-06-22 La Monnaie de Paris Verfahren und anlage zum ausgerichteten zuführen von zuschnitten
CN104475610A (zh) * 2014-11-03 2015-04-01 深圳先进技术研究院 带轴孔球形工件自动上料装置
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EP4328160A1 (de) 2022-08-24 2024-02-28 Krones Ag Vorrichtung und verfahren zum orientierten bereitstellen von behälterverschlüssen
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