公开(公告)号：US20210237127A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US17235354

申请日：2021-04-20

Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Inventor： Brian Merritt ,  Brett Stripe ,  Charles Bryan Shiflet ,  Robert C. Beesley ,  J. Mark Nunn

IPC: B08B5/02

Abstract: An apparatus for self-cleaning of a component in a machine, which includes at least one air nozzle disposed in air discharge communication with a surface of the component to be cleaned, such as a sensor surface or a gripper surface. The air nozzle is in air flow communication with air exhaust from an air cylinder of the component or a second component of the machine. Related, corresponding, or associated methods for self-cleaning the component in a machine are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20240351722A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-24

申请号：US18639469

申请日：2024-04-18

Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Inventor： Jimmy D. WHITTEN ,  John Miller ,  Charles Bryan Shiflet ,  J. Mark Nunn ,  Sam Lockaby ,  Clifford Halstead ,  Brian Williams

IPC: B65B27/04 ,  B65B41/04 ,  B65B43/44

CPC classification number: B65B27/04 ,  B65B41/04 ,  B65B43/44

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for applying container carriers to unitize a plurality of containers. A supply of container carriers are provided in a stack and grouped into sticks of multiple adjacent container carriers. A magazine accommodates the stack of container carrier sticks and a carrier feed draws a single container carrier stick from the magazine. A transport section comprising two or more container carrier sticks aligned in a queue provides single container carrier sticks to an applicating drum configured to apply to a corresponding group of containers.