Material orientation and printing apparatus and method

Details Material orientation and printing apparatus and method Material orientation and printing apparatus and method

B - Operations, Transporting

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101/1

B65G 47/24 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1161298

ABSTRACT An apparatus and process for transporting, orienting and printing indicia upon materials which have dissimilar ends, like capsules, in a predetermined orientation and position. The apparatus includes three rotatable drums (28, 34, 150) in tangential arrangement. The first two drums (28, 34) each include a plurality of peripherally spaced pockets (40, 42) sized and shaped to receive and carry individual capsules (20). Means (58,58') are provided for each drum to orient certain preselected capsules from a radial to a longitudinal position with a selected end trailing. The so-oriented capsules are then delivered to the third drum (150) for further processing, like printing, such as spin-printing (178). Means (154) are provided to receive the longitudinally oriented capsules from the second drum (34) in a longitudinal orientation, and to rotate the capsules from the longitudinal to a transverse orientation, whereupon selected indicia may be applied to the capsules. The third drum (150) including the printing means (178) is also capable of use alone, separate from the first two drums, to apply indicia to a variety of materials or bodies having both similar and dissimilar ends, e.g. capsules, pellets or tablets. Printing is preferably accomplished using a spin printing apparatus which, unlike spin printing apparatus of the prior art, operates upon materials traversing a curving path.

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