Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
  • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
  • B65D55/06—Deformable or tearable wires, strings or strips; Use of seals
  • B65D55/063—Muzzlets
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
  • B21F—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE
  • B21F45/00—Wire-working in the manufacture of other particular articles
  • B21F45/04—Wire-working in the manufacture of other particular articles of elements, e.g. levers or links, for bottle stoppers

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for the manufacture of wire baskets, such as are used for securing bottle closures, in particular for securing sparkling wine bottles.
• the baskets consist of a wire or sheet metal bracket placed over the cork, from whose base surface lying on the cork two or more, in particular four, legs depart, which have end hooks in which there is a wire loop which is wrapped around the bottle neck.
• the present invention relates to a machine by means of which the wire ring is assembled, which then twists around the bottle neck and secures the closure or the cork.
• the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a device of the type described at the outset, with the aid of which the ring assembly can be carried out at such a high speed that feed and ejection numbers of about 100 baskets per minute are achieved.
• the present invention is therefore particularly suitable for integration with machines which prefabricate wire baskets at high speed.
• the solution to this problem therefore consists in a device for assembling wire rings on wire baskets for securing bottle closures, in particular sparkling wine corks, the wire baskets consisting of legs with pre-shaped hooks extending from a holding level, inserted into the wire rings and be clamped using the features of the characterizing part of the main claim.
• Advantageous embodiments of the present invention are shown in the subclaims.
• the function of the device according to the invention is as follows. From the transfer, the wire rings are placed on the edge of the holder and held by the magnets, the wire rings having a circular area and a protuberance that serves for twisting. The circular part now surrounds the depression at a short distance from its edge.
• a stepper motor moves the circular guide step by step to the delivery of the baskets.
• the basket is inserted into the recess.
• the legs of the basket lie against the wall of the recess and are held there.
• the radius on which the hooks are located from the common center point is smaller than the radius of the circular part of the wire rings, so that the hooks can snap into the wire rings, the outer hook parts or the adjoining areas of the legs engage in the recesses of the depressions.
• the cups together with the rings have to be pushed out to the bending device, and a secure bond is created.
• the basket can also be secured indirectly on the holder via the wire ring.
• the hooks around the wire ring are bent into eyelets in the bending device.
• the hooks are gripped by the jaws and rolled up.
• the bending device is then moved back to the holder and the finished basket is returned to the holder before the next movement step is initiated.
• the basket will be ejected.
• all moving parts can be driven by a common cam.
• the fixing of the wire rings on the holder consists of point-shaped magnets, for example four magnets are distributed over the circumference, which can secure the wire ring and, as described above, also the basket.
• This tendon-infeed can be fed from the device described in the introduction or, if several stamps are present, one after the other in half a cycle.
• a quiet and jerk-free run is achieved in that the cam disk can be driven twice as fast as the guide disk and has a double curve, of which eight transport stamps are controlled.
• Fig. 2 shows the insertion and jamming of the wire rings
• Fig. 3 shows the device for Fig. 2 in section;
• Fig. 4 shows a plan view of the holder;
• Fig. 5 shows the delivery of the semi-finished wire baskets.
• Fig. 1 Here is an example wire basket 4, which consists of an upper wire circle 23 as a holding plane, which rests on the upper part of a sparkling wine cork.
• Four legs 15 extend from this wire circle 23, which embrace the cylindrical surface of the cork and extend down into the bottle neck.
• hooks 11 At the end of the legs 14 there are hooks 11 which are bent around the wire ring 3, the latter being one Has bulge 24, which serves to twist and thus devour the wire ring 3 around the bottle neck.
• the basket 4 is made here from four wires which are guided parallel to one another, the ends of which have been twisted to form the wire circle 23.
• any other forms e.g. those in which the holding plane and the legs or their hooks consist of appropriately shaped sheet metal strips.
• FIG. 2 shows the circular guide 1, on which the holders, in the present example twelve pieces, are arranged.
• the wire rings 3 with their bulges 24 * are transferred from the transfer 8 to the holder and fixed by holding members (magnets 16, FIG. 4).
• the wire rings are rotated (here) step by step (180 °) and brought into a coaxial position on one of the feed devices 7, ie axially parallel to the circular part of the wire ring.
• a wire basket 4 is held, this is inserted into the conical recess 5 until the hooks 11 snap into the wire ring.
• the basket 4 can protrude to the rear.
• the transport stamp 19 moves back, the turntable 1 is rotated by 2 steps and arrives at the bending device 10.
• this is a stamp 12, which presses against the rear overhang and brings the hooks to the jaws 25, the wire ring snapped into them is taken away.
• the jaws grasp the hooks and bend and clamp them into loops that surround and hold the wire ring.
• the bending device 10 is mounted on a rail 26 in the manner of a slide and can thus be advanced in order to put the finished basket back into the recess or the wire ring on the magnets. With an appropriate arrangement and pivotability of the jaws 25, the bending device can remain approximately in this position until the next basket is received.
• the circuit again moves one step further to the ejector 9, which ejects the cups to a collector (not shown).
• the division of the circular guide 1 into a plurality of brackets 2 located thereon and the division into individual steps of the circular guide movement brings advantages in addition to the high production speed as well as space distribution advantages, since the positions of the transfer 8, feed device 7, bending device 10 and ejector 9 besides theirs Order does not depend on an exact position.
• FIG. 3 A section through the turntable 1 is shown.
• the holder 2 is located on a disk 37 or also individual, star-shaped, firmly connected arms and angled thereon. This has a conical recess 5 into which the basket 4, shown here with the cover 27, is inserted .
• the wire ring 3 lies on an exchangeable hard metal plate 17 which also carries the magnets (FIG. 4).
• the hooks 11 are shown bent over to eyelets which grip around the wire ring 3. Before the The hooks are bent on the inside, concave to the wire, so that they snap into the wire due to the elasticity of the legs and can hold by spring action.
• FIG. 4 shows the top view of the hard metal plate 17 which is fastened on the holder 2.
• the recess 5 for receiving the basket with the legs 15 and the lid 27 has a circular edge 28, the radius of which is somewhat smaller than the wire ring 3 lying thereon.
• the bulge 24 is shown lying downwards, the wire ring itself lies on e.g. four magnets 16 that hold it.
• the legs 15 project into grooves 14, the grooves not having to extend over the entire plate 17 or the holder 2. Basically, only such a dimensioning of the grooves is required that the hooks 11 can snap into the ring 3.
• Fig. 5 shows the delivery of the semi-finished basket 4 with the legs 15 and the hook 11.
• the conical transport stamp 19 is moved into the basket 4, which is located in a peripheral pre-station 30 and e.g. recorded with the help of magnets.
• the transport stamp 19 is mounted on its guide 29 on a guide disk 18 and controlled by a cam 20 with cam 21.
• the curve 21 is doubled, so that more movements of the plunger per se can be carried out than required, for which purpose the cam disc also rotates twice as fast as the guide disc which guides the stem 29. On the one hand, this results in a particularly low-noise run, and on the other hand, a large number of stamps 19 can be accommodated, which on the one hand enable slow loading, and on the other hand do not determine the place of acceptance at a specific point in the transfer of the semi-finished wire basket.

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