Abstract:
The present invention comprises a cart loading machine that provides for improved operating efficiencies, and includes a cart loading station, an infeed conveyor, a pattern forming area, a carrier sheet and wiping mechanism, and a fork loading apparatus. The cart loading station includes a framework defining a cart loading position and a cart waiting position. With the carrier in its extended position having carried a fully formed pattern to the cart loading position, a wiping mechanism is extended from beneath the carrier plate to contact the bundles as they sit on the carrier so that when the carrier moves back to its retracted position, the bundles are blocked and stripped therefrom. The wiping mechanism is then retracted below the carrier to permit the loading of a subsequent pattern of bundles thereon. This wiping mechanism eliminates the need for an overhanging blocking mechanism thereby permitting more efficient loader design and easier access to the pattern forming and bundle stripping areas.
Abstract:
A case packer has an inspection unit, a packing unit and a sorting unit. The inspection unit is disposed on the upstream side of a path of transportation for transporting packaged products and inspects conditions of the products being transported on the path and thereby distinguishes defective products from normal products. The packing unit is disposed on the downstream side and packs a container simultaneously with products delivered to it in a plurality of rows. The sorting unit is disposed between the inspection unit and the packing unit and discharges the defective products away from the normal path of transportation but arranges the normal products in the plurality of rows. The sorting unit uses quasi-circular members with a straight edge. They are rotatable in a plane perpendicular to the path in both directions from a retracted position at which they do not protrude into the transportation path of the products and serve to discharge each of defective products by rotating in one direction. The normal products are arranged in two rows as these quasi-circular members either remain in their retracted positions or rotate in the opposite direction to push the product transversely.
Abstract:
A package rectifying apparatus designed to prevent a rearmost one of packages (3) from being toppled rearwardly to fall down even though the packages have been rectified so as to partially overlap with each other and also to enable the amount of overlap between each neighboring packages to be adjustable. This package rectifying apparatus includes a rectifying and transport means (5,30,43) for bringing a leading end of one (3-2) of packages (3), having contents sealed therein, under a training end of another one (3-1) of the packages (3) which precedes such one (3-2) of the packages (3) so as to overlap the trailing end of such another one (3-1) of the packages (3) over the leading end of such one (3-2) of the packages (3) while the packages (3) are successively transported in a predetermined direction, and an overlap amount adjusting means (51,52,53) for adjusting the amount of feed of the packages (3) by the rectifying and transport means (5,30,43) to thereby adjust the amount of overlap between the neighboring packages (3).
Abstract:
An apparatus for transferring bag packs (10) containing sensitive loose material to a collective packer for the introduction of the packs into a carton or the like. To compensate for the difference in performance rates of a production machine (bag packer) for the packs (10) and the collective packer, there is provided a conveying device (17) with at least two conveyor belts (18, 19) which act as compensating conveyors. The packs (10) are fed to a special collecting station (16) by the conveying device (17). This collecting station comprises an intermediate band (35) and a group band (43). In the region of the intermediate band (35), the packs (10) are spaced out at a distance so they can be detected. In the region of the group band (43), a pack group (11) is formed from packs (10) lying tightly next to one another.
Abstract:
A machine for conditioning filled and sealed bags for testing, to assure that the bags are accurately tested without damaging the product contained in the bags, and for packaging the bags that have passed the test in cartons with the longitudinal axis of the bags arranged vertical.
Abstract:
A method of transferring a collation of flexible packages from a first location to a second location employs a loading head comprising an enclosure having an opening and a permeable barrier extending across the opening. The method comprises the steps of bringing the opening and the collation together at the first location, applying suction to the enclosure, thereby drawing air into the enclosure through the permeable barrier, drawing the packages against the barrier by the air drawn through the permeable barrier, and thus expanding upper regions of the packages towards one another by sub-atmospheric air pressure created by the suction. The packages tend to seal against one another and to prevent flow of air through the collation, so that the collation is held by suction against the barrier. The enclosure is transferred to the second location and the suction is removed to release the collation from the enclosure. Apparatus for carrying out this process incorporates a motor-driven radial flow fan without an external shroud mounted on the enclosure to generate the suction.
Abstract:
A packing machine for pouches or other flexible container is provided having an indexable conveyor, a feed means which discharges pouches onto said indexable conveyor, a sensing means for indexing the conveyor, a variable stroke vacuum head assembly with a vacuum shroud for transporting and packing the pouches, and means to vary the length of stroke of the vacuum head assembly.
Abstract:
The conveyor device for conveying flexible containers along a packaging line comprises a track (1) defining a horizontal closed path and one or more pairs of left and right movers (2a, 2b) movably mounted on the track (1) for moving along the path by the effect of active and reactive elements configured for independently driving and controlling the left and right movers along the path, pairs of left and right gripper arms (3a, 3b) pivotally connected to the left and right movers (2a, 2b) by respective left and right articulations (6a, 6b) about vertical axes, and one or more pairs of left and right clamps (4a, 4b) respectively mounted on the left and right gripper arms (3a, 3b) and configured for gripping one or more flexible containers (5) in a vertical position. The left and right gripper arms (3a, 3b) are linked together by a parallelism-keeping mechanism.
Abstract:
A device for inspecting transport bags (14) that can be conveyed in a suspended manner with a bag interior (16) for receiving piece-goods units (5), the transport bag having a bag opening (17) of the bag interior, includes a device for opening and/or keeping open the bag opening of a transport bag that is to be inspected; and a detection device (70) that is configured to receive at least one two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional image of at least part of the bag interior of the transport bag to be inspected.