Workpiece conveyor for a decorating machine

B - Operations – Transporting – 41 – F

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

B41F 17/14 (2006.01) B41F 15/08 (2006.01) B41F 17/18 (2006.01) B44C 1/00 (2006.01) B65B 61/02 (2006.01) B65C 9/06 (2006.01) B65G 47/244 (2006.01) B65G 49/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2354082

Traveling motion imparted to bottles in an intermittent motion decorating machine (10) is provided by a pair of workpiece feed cams (66, 68) rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a common horizontal plane, the workpiece feed cams have feed cam tracks (66A, 68A) extending along the decorator between loading and unloading stations for receiving cam followers (74, 75) of each of plurality of bottle carriers. The feed cam track defines a workpiece dwell period (D) at each decorating station and workpiece advancement periods between each workpiece dwell period. A pair of carrier return cams (70, 72) is rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a common horizontal plane. The carrier return cams have carrier cam tracks (70A, 72A) extending along the decorator for returning bottle carriers received from the unloading station for delivery to the loading station.

L'invention porte sur une machine (10) à mouvement intermittent à décorer des articles du genre bouteilles dans laquelle l'avance est assurée par une paire de cames (66, 68) d'alimentation en articles placées côte à côte et tournant autour d'axes horizontaux espacés situés dans un plan horizontal commun. Lesdites cames comportent des pistes d'alimentation (66A, 68A) s'étendant le long de la machine (10) entre les postes de chargement et de déchargement et recevant les galets de cames (74, 75) de chacun des porte-articles. Les pistes d'alimentation définissent des périodes de pause (D) au niveau des différents postes de décoration, séparées par des périodes d'avance des articles. Une paire de cames (70, 72) placées côte à côte, tournant autour d'axes horizontaux espacés situés dans un plan horizontal commun, comportent des pistes d'alimentation (70A, 72A) s'étendant le long de la machine (10) et assurant le retour vers le poste de chargement des porte-articles revenant du poste de déchargement.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for Canadian inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Workpiece conveyor for a decorating machine does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Workpiece conveyor for a decorating machine, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Workpiece conveyor for a decorating machine will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFCA-PAI-O-1362584

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.