US876382A

US876382A - Feeding mechanism.

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Publication number: US876382A
Application number: US24113405A
Authority: US
Inventors: Felix Mueller
Original assignee: STANDARD STOPPER Co
Current assignee: STANDARD STOPPER Co
Priority date: 1905-01-14
Filing date: 1905-01-14
Publication date: 1908-01-14
Anticipated expiration: 1925-01-14

Description

PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

F. MUELLER. FEEDING MECHANISM. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ornron FELIX MUELLER,

or NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR ro STANDARD STOPPER COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FEEDING- MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

4 To all whom it may concern:

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Be it'known that I, FELIX MUELLER/a subject of the German Emperor, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeding Mechanisms, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in mechanism'for feeding receptacles, and has for its object to produce a simple, efficient and positively operating mechanism for feeding receptacles to machines, such, for instance, as bottle capping machines, or other machines in which a ositive feed ca-v pable of being operated at a'liigh speed is desirable.

With this and other objects not specifically referred to in view, the invention consists in certain constructions, and in certain parts, improvements and combinations, as will be hereinafter fully described and specifically pointed out.

.Refe i to the drawings-Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of so much of a bottle capping machine as is necessary to an understanding of the invention. gig.

1g. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a modification.

In the drawings which illustrate embodiments of the invention, 1 indicates a frame or standard in which the operative parts ofthe mechanism are mounted.

A machine embodying the invention will include some means for presenting the receptacles to a mechanism which is to perform a further operation in connection with the receptacles. This presenting means may be varied in construction and will vary according to the type of machine in which the invention is embodied, and the function of the mechanism which is to operate upon the receptacles. In the particular construction shown, which as before stated represents the invention as embodied in a bottle ca ping machine, the presenting de-.

vice will e arranged so that it may be given a movement to successively present receptacles to the mechanism which is to thereafter operate in connection with them.

'In the particular construction shown, the

presenting device embodies a star wheel 2 and a table 3. In the preferred construction and as shown, the presenting device will be mounted so as to rotatein order to successively present receptacles, and this rotation will also referably be effected by mechan ism of sue a character as to give the presenting device a step by step movement. While the construction by which the presenting device is given this movement may be varied widely, in the construction shown, the presenting device is mounted on a shaft 4 which is preferably held in an inclined position in the frame, as shown, the lower end of the shaft being supported in suitable bearings in a bracket 5, and the u per end of the shaft being held in suitable hearings in a bracket 6. The mechanism for giving the shaft 4 the step by step movement referred to may beof any desired character. As shown, the shaft is provided with a disk 7 having slots 8 therein on its under side, which slots are successively entered by a in 9 on a continuously rotating wheel 10. '1 e wheel 10 is mounted on a stud 11 projecting from the main frame ofthe machine. This movement is of the general character known as a Geneva" movement, and a specific descriptionof it is unnecessary, as any other desired movement may be substituted therefor. As shown the gear 10 is driven by a gear 12 attached to a bevel gear 13, this gear being driven by intermediates l l and 15 which derive their motion from the main driving gear 16.

In machines embodying the invention, the receptacles will be positively fed to the presenting device by automatic means. The means for automatically and positively feeding the receptacles may be widely varied in construction. As shown, there is provided a shaft 17 on which is mounted a screw conveyer 18. In the particular construction shown and for reasons to be hereinafter stated, the shaft 17 is a jointed shaft, the joint being indicated at 19. This shaft is supported, in the construction illustrated, in a bearing 20 carried in an arm 21 mounted in a clamp 22 secured to a stud or projection 23 extending frpm the side of the frame. The shaft 17 is supported at its other end in a bearing 24 formed in an arm 25 which extends from a hubor bearing 26, this hub or bearing being carried on a projection or stud 27 extending outward from the machine 1 frame on the side opposite to that on which the stud 23 is located.

The receptacles may be brought within the range of action of the conveyor in any desired way. In the construction shown, there is provided a table 28 having a guiding rail 29, the table being inclined toward the feeding device so that the receptacles may roll down it by gravity, and being also inclined so that the receptacles will lie upon it in a position substantially parallel to the shaft 4.

In the construction so far described, it will be readily understood that articles placed on the table 28 will roll down the table and the conveyor being suitably driven will positively forward the articles into the range of action of the star wheel which will in turn present them to the mechanism which is to thereafter act in connection with them.

In the preferred construction a machine embodying the invention will include not only means for automatically and positively forwarding the receptacles to the presenting device, but will also provide means for discharging them from the machine after they have been operated upon. While the means for discharging or removing the receptacles from the presenting device may be of any desired character, there is preferably pro vided a screw conveyer 30, this conveyer being also mounted 011 the shaft 17, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. After the articles have been operated upon by the mechanism which is to act in connection with them, a movement of the star wheel brings them within the range of action of the conveyer 30 which automatically and positively moves them away from the presenting device, the receptacles moving over a supporting plate 31 and being delivered onto a receiving table 32. As the receptacles lie in an inclined position in the conveyer 30, a guard 33 is or may be provided which bears against the receptacles near the bottom and brings them up into a vertical position as they pass onto the table 32.

Inasmuch as the conveyer 18 has the receptacles delivered to it by gravity, the receptacles rolling down the inclined plane 28, as has been described, this conveyer 18 will lie in an inclined position, and in order to utilize a single shaft for operating both conveyers, this shaft is made jointed as has been before described. The shaft may, if desired, be additionally supported, arms 34, 35 provided with suitable bearings being shown for this purpose.

he conveyer mechanism may be operated in any desired manner. In the particular construction shown, the shaft 17 is provided with a gear 36 which meshes with a gear 37 carried on a shaft 38, this "shaft being supported in a bearing in the arm 25 before referred to and in a similar bearing in an arm 39 similarly located. This shaft 38 is provided with a sprocket wheel 40 over which runs a sprocket chain 41. This chain passes over a second sprocket wheel 42 mounted on a stud extending from the frame which stud also supports a third sprocket wheel 42". These two sprocket wheels are secured together in any desired manner, the second sprocket wheel being driven from a chain 43 chine, this shaft being the shaft which supports the gear 16 before referred to.

Instead of feeding the bottles into the range of action of the conveyer by gravity, they may, if desired, be manually placed within its range of action, and a construction is illustrated in Fig. 3 by which this can be accomplished. This construction includes a table 51 having a guard rail 52 against which a series of bottles may be placed and along which they may be pushed. The rail 52 terminates at the beginning of the conveyer which in Fig. 3 is marked 53. The conveyer is mounted on a shaft 54 supported in a hearing 55 carried on the table. The driving means for this shaft are omitted as unnecessary to an understanding of this part of the invention, but it will be understood that this shaft may, if desired, be driven in the same manner as the conveyer shaft previously re- .ferred to. The table 51 is, as illustrated,

horizontally arranged, but the presenting device is inclined, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. When the construction is arranged in this manner, a guide will be employed for turning the receptacles from a vertical to an inclined position, such a guide being illustrated and marked 56.

It will be understood that when the conveyer mechanism illustrated in Fig. 3 is employed for forwarding receptacles to the presenting device, a conveyer similar to that illustrated in Fig. 2 will be employed for moving the receptacles away fromthe present device after action has been had upon them by the mechanism which is to operate in connectionwith them.

The operation of the mechanism will be understood without further specific description than thatalready given.

It will be seen that the construction is exceedingly simple, and it has been found in practice to be very efiicient, as high as one hundred. bottles a minute having been successfully fed by it to a capping mechanism.

While the mechanism illustrated and described forms an efieetive means for carrying out the invention,it is to be understood that the invention may be embodied in mechanisms which difier widely therefrom. The invention is not, therefore, to be limited to the warding the receptacles to the presenting device, and means for automatically presenting the receptacles to the conveyer in an inclined position, the inclination of the receptacles being toward the axis of the conveyer,

2. The combination with a receptacle presenting device, of means for giving it an intermittent movement, a screw conveyer for positively forwarding the receptacles to the presenting device in an inclined position, the inclination of the receptacles being toward the axis of the conveyer, and a support and guide operating respectively on the bottom and side of the resceptacles, said support and guide being inclined with respect to the conveyer so that the receptacles may roll down it into the ran e of action of the conveyer.

3. The com ination with a receptacle presenting device, of means for giving it an intermittent movement, a receptacle support, a screw conveyer for moving the receptacles along the support to the presenting device,

a receiving support, a screw conveyer for forwarding the receptacles along the receiving support, and means for continuously operating both conveyers.

I. The combination with a receptacle presenting device comprising a star wheel, of a table on which the receptacle rests, means for giving the star wheel an intermittent movement, a support, a screw conveyer for moving the receptacles along the support and into the range of action of the star wheel, a receiving support, and a screw conveyer for moving the receptacles away from the star wheel and along said support, and means for continuously' operating both conveyers.

5. In a capping machine, the combination with a capping head, of a presenting device, s

means for giving the presenting device an mtermittent movement, means for producing a relative movement between the head and pres'entin device to bring the receptacle to be cappe into the range of action of the capping head, a receptacle support, a screw conveyer for forwarding the receptacles along the support to the presenting'device, a receiving support, a screw conveyer for moving the receptacles along this su port away from the presenting device, an means for continuously operating the conveyers.

, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing J. A. GRAVES, A. WHITE.