摘要:
A container for storing a plurality of bottles. The container comprises an inflatable assembly having a plurality of holes with bulging walls. Each one of the holes is configured to encircle at least one of the plurality of bottles.
摘要:
A multiple pack bottle holder capable of supporting one or more bottles is provided, the bottles being enclosed over their top portions. The bottle holder package can support the entire weight of the bottles by surrounding a neck and tapered portion just under the rim of each bottle, such that the barrel or a portion of the barrel remains exposed. The package includes foldable first and second sections that are connected by a center section. The package can be closed when buttons on the first section are engaged with corresponding enclosures on the second section. A hand grip can be provided in the first and second sections between cut-outs for the bottles, thereby facilitating gripping of the package.
摘要:
For reduction in externally excited oscillations there is provided at an escalator or a moving walkway an oscillation damper which is connected with the escalator or the moving walkway within a self-supporting region, preferably at the point of greatest oscillation displacement. The oscillation damper is preferably a speed-proportional plate damper comprising plates which move relative to one another in viscous oil.
摘要:
A hopper assembly for feeding literature to a literature dispenser. The literature dispenser and a label dispenser are positioned on opposite sides of a conveyor on which products being furnished with literature and labels are transported. The hopper assembly includes a chute which is designed to have an upstream chute portion adjacent the conveyor. The upstream chute portion is positioned within the reach of an operator who is stationed on the same side of the conveyer as the label dispenser, and a single operator can load both the hopper assembly and the label dispenser without moving from one side of the conveyor to the other. The hopper assembly also includes a literature escapement having a plurality of retaining members mounted on a pair of support elements. The retaining members engage a forward facing surface of a piece of literature and are arranged in spaced relationship to provide an opening through which the piece of literature is removable from the hopper assembly in the forward direction. A stud is connected at one end to one of the support elements, and a rotatable knob threadedly on the stud engages the other support element. As an operator rotates the knob, the knob moves along the stud and forces the support elements to move either toward or away from each other to move the retaining members and thereby adjust the size of the escapement opening.
摘要:
An article packaging machine comprises a frame, a carton conveyor mounted to the frame for conveying cartons along a carton path, and an infeed conveyor assembly for grouping articles such as beverage cans into groups of predetermined size and moving them toward and into open cartons moving along the carton path. When the cartons are packed with articles, adhesive is applied to the flaps of their open ends and the flaps are folded over onto themselves. A spring biased free floating compression section has a pair of opposed compression belt assemblies that are yieldably spring biased toward each other to apply pressure to the ends of the containers to set the adhesive, thus sealing the ends of the packaged cartons shut. When the cartons are sealed, they are ejected from the packaging machine by a pair of opposed ejector belt assemblies.
摘要:
Manually controlled handling machine for filling or emptying cases for transporting stowed articles, including a carriage (7), displaceable between a station for supplying bottles lying head to tail and a station for loading containers, bearing a tackle-block (16), and a centering frame (17) adapted to cooperate with a plate (24) equipped with gripping suction cups (25). Carriage (7) rolls on a runway (1) which is curved in a semi-circle above the containers in order to allow the loading of one half and the other half of the containers, and an orientable guiding member (28) enables the position of the plate (24) during its rising and descending movements to be corrected.
摘要:
A machine for packaging a plurality of bottles by enveloping the bottle necks within a plurality of apertures (2-7) formed in a main panel (1) of a carrier blank includes means for moving a group of bottles along a predetermined path (85,87), means for moving a carrier blank above the bottles and in synchronism therewith and with the apertures (b 2-7) in the main panel (1) of the blank disposed in vertical coincidence with the bottle necks, static plows (81,82) arranged to engage the main panel (1) from above and to urge it downwardly so that the apertures in the main panel engage the bottle necks together with a rotatable element (93) which engages a longitudinal fold line (8) formed in the main panel (1) of the blank and disposed in alignment with the apertures to facilitate envelopment of the bottle necks together with plow means (96,97,98,99,100) arranged to engage and fold the extensions of the blank which are foldably joined to the side edges of the main panel upwardly and over the tops of the packaged bottles and downwardly into overlapping face contacting relation with the main panel (1) together with a rotatable member (102) for engaging the topmost end portion of the blank so as to facilitate insertion of holding tabs (58-61) formed along the end edge thereof into holding apertures (37-40) formed in the other blank extension (26).
摘要:
A method for packaging glass jars by arranging the jars in nested engagement in staggered rows in a wrap-around fiberboard carton. By utilizing corrugated fiberboard with the corrugations extending at an angle to the score lines formed in the carton blank, consistency of carton dimensions is insured. The use of a film-type overwrap shrunken onto each jar minimizes any adverse effect caused by breakage and provides a surface for imprintation.
摘要:
A cutting mechanism which cooperates with certain types of package forming machines to produce packages of a plurality of containers. The certain package forming machines continuously deliver at least three rows of containers with a strip of applied carrier stock interconnecting the containers in rank and file to a cut-off station. The cutting mechanism mounted at the cut-off station includes a knife blade assembly that is rotated in timed relationship to the movement of the rows of containers with the applied carrier stock to cut the applied carrier stock between certain ranks which are between the side files of the containers. Cutting means are also provided for cutting the applied carrier stock on the side files of the containers between the same ranks where the carrier stock is cut by the knife blade assembly to form individual packages of a predetermined plurality of ranks of said containers.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe cutting mechanism of the subject invention cooperates with a system, machine and method for multipackaging containers as shown and described in the United States patent application of Benno et al, Ser. No. 583,079, filed June 2, 1975. The system, machine and method for multipackaging containers of that patent application is different from prior art machines in its teaching of the application of a strip or carrier stock to more than two adjacent rows of containers moving substantially continuously through the machine.Cutting mechanisms of prior known systems, machines and methods teach various arrangements for cutting carrier stock of only two rows of containers. Such cutting mechanisms are shown, for example, in FIGS. 25 and 26 of United States Pat. No. 3,032,943; in FIGS. 12, 13 and 19 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,032,944; and in FIGS. 34 and 35 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,204,386. While the two row cutting mechanisms of the prior art may to some extent be modified for cutting applied carrier stock on more than two rows of containers, no obvious modifications are known that will provide for the continuous uninterrupted cutting of the carrier stock on more than two rows of containers where the container rows are continuously uninterruptedly being delivered from the applicating machine at relatively high speeds.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe basic cutting mechanism of the subject invention uniquely solves the problem of cutting the middle or intermediate rows of applied carrier stock between certain predetermined ranks of containers in relatively high speed continuously operating carrier applicating machines. Although the basic mechanism is shown and described for cutting the webs between ranks of a single center row of containers, those skilled in the art will understand that the mechanism can be duplicated for two or more intermediate rows of container applied carrier stock.Briefly, the invention involves a rotating knife assembly mounted above the continuously moving files of containers with a strip of applied carrier stock. The rotating knife assembly, in one embodiment, rotates in a plane disposed at an angle of 45.degree. to the line of movement of the container files. One or more knife blades are carried on the periphery of the rotating knife assembly to extend radially outwardly thereof. Each knife blade is disposed in a plane at an angle of 45.degree. to the plane in which the knife assembly rotates so that when the knife assembly is rotated to a position where the knife blade extends vertically downwardly, the plane of the knife blade is perpendicular to the line of movement of the containers. At the vertically downward position of the knife blade, the blade intersects a horizontal plane through the webs of the carrier stock which interconnects adjacent ranks of the containers.The rotating knife assembly is rotated in timed relation to the conveyor or other mechanism that moves the containers beneath the rotating knife assembly so that the spatial relationship of a knife blade to the moving containers is such that the knife blade will move downwardly between adjacent ranks of containers, will move horizontally through a web of the middle file of containers, and will thereafter move upwardly from between those adjacent ranks of containers. The circumferential spacing of the knife blades on the rotating knife assembly is correlated to the spacing between web centers of the applied carrier in the middle file of containers to cut the carrier webs of the middle file in any repeating desired pattern. Thus, every middle web may be cut or one, two or more webs may be left uncut before a knife blade makes another cut. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, the middle web after every fourth container in the middle file is the cut web. Further, in the embodiment shown in the drawings, the rotating knife assembly may be provided with three more knife blades in addition to the three shown to produce a cut web after every second container in the middle file.A convenient and unique cooperation is provided in the present invention between the middle file cutting mechanism described above and the cutting mechanism for the side files of containers to which the carrier stock has been applied. The cutting mechanism for the side files is essentially the mechanism shown in FIG. 34 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,204,386, issued Sept. 7, 1965, to S. H. Creed et al, and described in that patent. That side file cutting mechanism comprises two wheels mounted in the applicating machine in a substantially horizontal plane on each side of the moving rows of containers to which the carrier stock has been applied. For convenience, those wheels may be called star wheels and the periphery of those wheels have arcuate pockets, in the present embodiment, for engaging the arcuate surfaces of the containers which in the embodiment shown are cylindrical. At certain ones of the peripheral junctions of adjacent arcuate pockets, radially reciprocating knives are provided for cutting the webs between certain adjacent containers in the side files of containers. The star wheels are rotated in timed relation to the center file cutting mechanism so that the knives of the star wheels cut the webs between containers of the same ranks cut by the knife or knives of the center file cutting mechanism. Close indexing between the operation of the star wheels and the center file cutting mechanism is more important that exact indexing between the cutting mechanisms and the carrier stock applicating mechanism because the carrier stock applicating mechanism may be slightly ahead or slightly behind in timing relative to the cutting mechanisms without any bad effect on the operation of the machine as those skilled in the art will understand.For a clear understanding of the operation of applicating machines, with which the present invention cooperates, reference is made to the United States patent application to Benno et al, Ser. No. 583,079, fixed June 2, 1975.The primary object of the present invention is to provide cutting mechanisms in applicating machines which apply a plastic carrier stock in a strip to move than two rows of containers, which cutting mechanisms will sever certain webs of the carrier stock between certain ranks of the containers to which the carrier stock has been applied.Other objects and features of the invention will be apparent upon a perusal of the hereinafter following detailed description in conjunction with the drawings.
摘要:
Apparatus for applying flat carrier grids to the tops of capped bottles of groups of three in line, said grids being of the kind having top encircling elements corresponding in number to the number of bottles in the group to which it is to be applied, which are adapted to be expanded over the caps onto the necks of the bottles, comprising a conveyor for moving the groups of bottles along a predetermined path, a pressure-applying assembly supported above the conveyor for progressively applying pressure to a grid deposited on the tops of the bottles downwardly over the caps onto the necks, a hopper for delivering grids to the successive groups of bottles, a detector operable by movement of each group of bottles by it to release a grid from the hopper to the bottles, and a stabilizer situated between the pressureapplying assembly and the hopper for initially engaging all of the top encircling elements of a grid with all of the bottle caps before the grid is presented to the pressure-applying assembly.