公开(公告)号：US4442934A

公开(公告)日：1984-04-17

申请号：US444278

申请日：1982-11-24

申请人： Arthur L. Dorf ,  Sam Lovalenti ,  John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

发明人： Arthur L. Dorf ,  Sam Lovalenti ,  John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

IPC分类号： B07C5/12 ,  G01N33/00 ,  B65G29/00

CPC分类号： B07C5/122 ,  G01N2033/0081

摘要： Apparatus for inspecting glass containers in which an indexing starwheel moves a plurality of containers in series through a plurality of positions or stations where the containers are physically and optically examined.One station, or position, is described in detail as the position where a glass container that is in a vertical position is rotated about its vertical axis by engagement of the finish thereof with a driven wheel. Rotating worm means move the bottles into and out of the handling system and serve as means to time the bottle movements. A mechanism at the exit position assists the bottles out of the starwheel. At the station where the sidewall of the bottles is to be inspected, a light source in the form of a tall housing is positioned in a vertical, annular recess of the starwheel. Additionally, the starwheel is made such that individual containers are contacted by rollers supported from the starwheel and at the sidewall inspection station the container is held in the starwheel, in engagement with the lower rollers, by a side-engaging biased roller. The manner of holding and rotating the bottle is such that a vertical sidewall section of the container is unobstructed, both from the viewpoint of outwardly directed illumination, and view by a camera positioned radially outward of the container.

摘要翻译： 用于检查玻璃容器的装置，其中分度星形轮通过物理和光学检查容器的多个位置或站串联移动多个容器。 一个位置或位置被详细地描述为通过其完成与从动轮的接合而处于垂直位置的玻璃容器围绕其垂直轴线旋转的位置。 旋转蜗杆意味着将瓶子移入和移出处理系统，并作为瓶子运动时间的手段。 出口位置的机构可帮助瓶子离开星轮。 在要检查瓶的侧壁的站处，以高的壳体形式的光源定位在星形轮的垂直的环形凹部中。 此外，星轮被制成使得单独的容器被从星轮支撑的辊接触，并且在侧壁检查站处，容器通过侧面接合的偏压辊保持在星形轮中与下辊接合。 保持和旋转瓶子的方式使得容器的垂直侧壁部分不受阻碍，从向外照射的角度来看，并且通过位于容器的径向外侧的相机观察。

公开(公告)号：US4278173A

公开(公告)日：1981-07-14

申请号：US73596

申请日：1979-09-10

申请人： Ernest H. Pemberton ,  John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs ,  Thomas B. Sorbie

发明人： Ernest H. Pemberton ,  John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs ,  Thomas B. Sorbie

IPC分类号： G01B5/12 ,  B07C5/12 ,  G01B5/20 ,  G01B5/28 ,  G01B13/00 ,  G01B21/14 ,  G01B21/20 ,  G01N3/12 ,  B07C5/34

CPC分类号： B07C5/124 ,  G01B13/00 ,  G01B21/14 ,  G01N3/12

摘要： There is described a plug and air warp gauge which takes the form of an elongated vertically, reciprocated gauging head that is mechanically driven under the influence of a rotating cam. Coaxially within an annular head is positioned a plug which has a diameter such that it will pass through an unchoked neck of a bottle. The plug is attached to the lower end of a tube which is coaxially positioned within a larger tube. The larger tube is raised and lowered mechanically and when in its uppermost position, will support the plug-carrying tube. When the larger tube is lowered, the plug tube also is lowered. The lower end of the larger tube is in the form of an annular piston which will move downward within a cylinder that seats on the bottle finish. As the annular piston moves down, it will pressurize the inside of the bottle and the cylinder if the seal with the finish of the bottle is good. After the arrival of the larger tube at its lowest position, both the pressure generated in the bottle and cylinder and the position of the plug tube are observed for determining the presence or absence of a defective bottle.

摘要翻译： 描述了一种插头和空气经线仪，其采用在旋转凸轮的影响下机械地驱动的细长垂直的往复运动的测量头的形式。 在环形头部内同轴地定位有一个插头，该插头的直径使得它将穿过瓶子的未旋转的颈部。 插头连接到同轴定位在较大管中的管的下端。 较大的管子机械地升高和降低，并且当其最上部的位置将支撑插塞承载管时。 当较大的管子下降时，塞子管也被降低。 较大的管子的下端是一个环形活塞的形式，它将在一个圆柱体内向下移动，该缸体位于瓶子上。 当环形活塞向下移动时，如果瓶盖的密封良好，则会使瓶子和气瓶的内部加压。 在较大的管子到达其最低位置之后，观察瓶和气缸中产生的压力和塞管的位置，以确定是否存在有缺陷的瓶子。

公开(公告)号：US4378493A

公开(公告)日：1983-03-29

申请号：US203024

申请日：1980-11-03

申请人： Arthur L. Dorf ,  Sam Lovalenti ,  John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

发明人： Arthur L. Dorf ,  Sam Lovalenti ,  John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

IPC分类号： B07C5/12 ,  B08B9/46 ,  G01N21/90 ,  G01N33/00 ,  G01V9/04

CPC分类号： G01N21/90 ,  B07C5/122 ,  G01N2033/0081 ,  G01N21/9045

摘要： Apparatus for inspecting glass containers in which an indexing starwheel moves a plurality of containers in series through a plurality of positions or stations where the containers are physically and optically examined.One station, or position, is described in detail as the position where a glass container that is in a vertical position is rotated about its vertical axis by engagement of the finish thereof with a driven wheel. The container, as it is rotated, is viewed by a camera whose lens focuses the sidewall image of the bottle onto a vertical, linear array of light sensitive pick-ups in the camera. The camera is supported relative to the bottle handling system for adjustment up and down, back and forth and sideways so as to have the flexibility of viewing different size bottles. At the station where the sidewall of the bottles is to be inspected, a light source in the form of a tall housing is positioned in a vertical, annular recess of the starwheel. The light source is composed of three columns of five lamps plus a diffusion plate, with the outer columns being lit when viewing flint bottles and the center column is additionally lit when amber bottles are being viewed. The circuit for the lamps is provided with a means to detect the presence of burned out bulbs.

摘要翻译： 用于检查玻璃容器的装置，其中分度星形轮通过物理和光学检查容器的多个位置或站串联移动多个容器。 一个位置或位置被详细地描述为通过其完成与从动轮的接合而处于垂直位置的玻璃容器围绕其垂直轴线旋转的位置。 容器被旋转时，由镜头观察，镜头将瓶子的侧壁图像聚焦到相机中的垂直线性光敏拾取器阵列上。 相机相对于瓶子处理系统被支撑，用于上下调节和横向调节，以便具有观察不同尺寸瓶子的灵活性。 在要检查瓶的侧壁的站处，以高的壳体形式的光源定位在星形轮的垂直的环形凹部中。 光源由三列五个灯加上扩散板组成，当查看火石瓶时，外侧柱点亮，当观察到琥珀色瓶时，中心柱被点亮。 灯的电路具有检测烧坏的灯泡的存在的装置。

公开(公告)号：US4230219A

公开(公告)日：1980-10-28

申请号：US50914

申请日：1979-06-21

申请人： John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

发明人： John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

IPC分类号： B07C5/12 ,  B07C5/34 ,  B65G37/00

CPC分类号： B07C5/3412 ,  B07C5/122

摘要： In a cavity identification system the containers, which are upright, will be in single file and will be diverted from a linear conveyor by a rotating starwheel, having in the periphery thereof, pockets which generally correspond to the external diameter of the containers. The starwheel serves to guide the containers from the side of the conveyor, in slightly spaced-apart fashion, over an identification station where the cavity identification reader is positioned. After the container has passed the reading position, it will be moved back onto the moving conveyor so that the container will be carried to a later processing position. Guard rails are provided at both the incoming and outgoing ends of the cavity reading system to guide the containers in series relationship. The described inspection apparatus may be moved as a unit away from the side of the conveyor an amount to clear the normal span of the conveyor. When the inspection apparatus is moved away, a pair of straight rails will be automatically moved into the intervening gap in the permanent guard rails over that span of the conveyor which is bypassed for inspection purposes. The straight rails then span the gap between the permanent rails that are already present in overlying relationship to the conveyor, and in this manner the containers which are being moved by the conveyor may move uninterrupted during any period when the identification or inspection equipment is temporarily out of use.

摘要翻译： 在腔体识别系统中，直立的容器将处于单个文件中，并且将通过旋转星形轮从线性输送机转向，其旋转星形轮在其外围具有通常对应于容器的外径的凹穴。 星形轮用于以稍微间隔的方式将容器从输送机的侧面引导到识别位置，其中空腔识别读取器被定位。 在容器已经通过读取位置之后，它将被移回到移动的输送机上，使得容器被运送到稍后的处理位置。 在空腔读取系统的进入端和出射端都设有护栏，以引导串联的容器。 所描述的检查装置可以作为一个单元移动远离输送机的侧面，以清除输送机的正常跨度。 当检查装置移开时，一对直轨将被自动地移动到永久护栏中的跨越输送机的跨度的中间间隙中，以便进行检查。 然后，直轨跨越已经以与输送机重叠的关系存在的永久轨道之间的间隙，并且以这种方式，由输送机移动的容器可以在识别或检查设备暂时出口的任何时段期间不间断地移动 的使用。