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Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
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P
B23P 21/00 (2006.01) A61C 15/04 (2006.01) B65G 47/74 (2006.01) B65H 49/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2185404
A system including an apparatus and method for assembling an insert and a cutter bar into a subassembly for use in dental floss dispensers. The insert includes a body portion defining an arbor for rotatably supporting a spool of dental floss and a superstructure contiguous with the body portion. The superstructure includes cutter bar receiving structure adapted to be grippingly engaged by a cutter bar having a cutting blade portion. The apparatus includes a rotatable assembly wheel having multiple pockets for receiving inserts, which wheel is rotatable into a plurality of positions corresponding to a plurality of assembly stations. An insert is inserted into a wheel pocket in a first direction at a first assembly station, a cutter bar is pushed onto the insert's cutter bar receiving structure at a second assembly station and the subassembly is discharged in a direction opposite to the direction of insertion at a third assembly station. The apparatus preferably includes several sensing means for determining the status of the subassembly throughout the assembly procedure. The apparatus is preferably controlled by a computer such that a plurality of subassemblies may be simultaneously and synchronously assembled.
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Inc.
Smart & Biggar
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