公开(公告)号：US5495704A

公开(公告)日：1996-03-05

申请号：US232774

申请日：1994-04-25

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B7/28 ,  B65B9/13 ,  B65B9/10

CPC分类号： B65B9/13 ,  B65B7/2885

摘要： A band application machine for transferring to containers heat-shrinkable bands. The band application machine includes a band feed system for feeding band supply material to a cutting system which cuts a band from the band supply. A transfer system transfers cut bands to containers conveyed past a banding point, and includes a band gripping mechanism and a plunger. Band gripping mechanism includes opposed suction cups that are movably mounted for gripping and positioning a cut band. The suction cups are laterally movable from a position where a closed band is gripped on opposing sides by the suction cups to a position where the band is open and aligned with the stroke of the plunger. The plunger is positioned over the opened band at an angle with respect to the band. The plunger presses and drives the band onto a container as the gripper apparatus releases the open band. The angle of the top plunger with respect to the cut band results in the plunger engaging a leading edge of the cut band as the plunger moves to press the band onto the underpassing container. Associated with the plunger are air blast openings that direct air against an inside, trailing section of the band so as to effectively urge and maintain the band in an open position as the plunger presses the band onto the container. A programmable control system directs the operation of the band application machine.

摘要翻译： 用于转移到容器热收缩带的带施加机。 带施加机器包括带式馈送系统，用于将频带供应材料馈送到切割系统，该切割系统从带电源切割带。 转移系统将切割带传送到经过捆扎点传送的容器，并且包括带夹持机构和柱塞。 带夹持机构包括可移动地安装用于夹紧和定位切割带的相对的吸盘。 吸盘可以从相对侧被吸盘夹紧的位置横向移动到带打开并与柱塞行程对准的位置。 柱塞相对于带以一定角度位于打开的带上。 当夹具装置释放开放带时，柱塞将带推入并将其驱动到容器上。 顶部柱塞相对于切割带的角度导致当柱塞移动以将带压在基础容器上时柱塞接合切割带的前缘。 与柱塞相关联的是鼓风开口，其将空气引导到带的内部，后部，以便当活塞将带压入容器时，有效地将带保持在打开位置。 可编程控制系统引导频带应用机的运行。

公开(公告)号：US06543514B2

公开(公告)日：2003-04-08

申请号：US09767168

申请日：2001-01-22

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B500

CPC分类号： B29C63/426 ,  B29C53/48 ,  B29C65/08 ,  B29C66/1122 ,  B29C66/4312 ,  B29C66/4322 ,  B29C66/49 ,  B29C66/5326 ,  B65C3/065 ,  Y10T156/1705 ,  Y10T156/1744 ,  Y10T156/1768

摘要： An in-line continuous feed sleeve labeling machine labels containers, such as beverage containers, in an in-line fashion maintaining the elevation of the containers during their linear transport. The in-line continuous feed sleeve labeling machine of the present invention receives bottles in flood feeder or linear fashion. A timing screw or the like properly separates, and both spatially and temporally disposes, the containers for sleeving. The timing screw propels the containers onto a pedestal system. The pedestals of the pedestal system maintain their horizontal nature due to offset pivotable attachments to the track system upon which they travel. A sheet of film is unspooled from an unwind roll and passed through a tube forming apparatus that overlaps the edges of the film. The overlapping edges completing the tube enclosure are connected using ultrasonic welding or the like. The sleeve is then passed to an iris carrier. In coordinated fashion with the travel of the pedestal system, iris carriers carrying sleeves upon articulating radial arms descend upon the bottles. Once the label sleeve has reached the appropriate point (generally adjacent to the central portion of the bottle), the iris carrier allows the label sleeve to engage the central portion of the bottle. Frictional attachment or otherwise allows the finger rods of the iris carrier to pull away from the sleeve as the iris carrier continues to descend down towards the pedestal. The sleeve then becomes attached to or engaged by the bottle until the finger rods of the iris carrier free themselves from the sleeve label. A container stabilizer may provide lateral bottle support and aid the ensleevement process. The finger rods then dilate to better disengage the bottle as the iris carrier ascends up and away from the bottle. The bottle is then transported to an exit conveyor having been properly sleeved, while the iris carrier returns to transport another sleeve.

公开(公告)号：US06505457B2

公开(公告)日：2003-01-14

申请号：US09974574

申请日：2001-10-10

申请人： Jeff Grass ,  Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Jeff Grass ,  Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B6302

CPC分类号： B65B61/22

摘要： An automatic film insertion device automatically unwinds a predetermined amount of plastic tubing from a roll, measures the required length, cuts and automatically inserts the cut piece into the mouth of filled pharmaceutical bottles. In one embodiment, a set of rollers receives a sheet of tubing, which is passed to a mandrel that opens the tubing. A guillotine cuts the tubing, and the tubing is pushed by a plow into a receiving member. The tubing is held inside the receiving member via friction until a plunger pushes the tubing out of the receiving member and into the bottle. The plunger then forces the tubing to buckle and remain in the bottle. In a second embodiment, the receiving member comprises a reciprocating tube attached to a shuttle cylinder. During the film advance portion of the cycle, the tube is positioned under a film feed station adjacent a cutting assembly. The film is fed vertically downward by rollers into the receiving member and cut. The film is then pushed from the tube into the headspace of the container, after which an actuator actuates a rod that forces the buckled film below the underside of the container neck so that it does not bounce out of the mouth of the container.

公开(公告)号：US5448876A

公开(公告)日：1995-09-12

申请号：US71097

申请日：1993-06-04

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B67B5/03 ,  B65B9/10

CPC分类号： B67B5/036

摘要： The present invention entails a band application machine for applying tamper-evident bands and other bands about the circumference of a container. The band application machine directs a supply strip of banding material to a curing mechanism which cuts the supply strip into a series of cut bands. A band transfer system transfers the cut band to a container being conveyed adjacent to the band application machine on a conveyor assembly. The band transfer system includes a gripping mechanism having a pair of opposing gripper arms with attached suction cups. The gripper arms and attached suction cups engage opposite sides of a closed band and then move apart to open the band. An actuator laterally positions the gripper mechanism to a position where the grippers extend over the conveyor assembly. A tilting actuator rotates the gripper mechanism from a generally horizontal position to a tilted position where a lower section of the gripped band extends into the pathway of the passing containers. A shoe assembly is designed to be longitudinally moveable along the conveyor system from a retracted position to an extended position. The shoe assembly is positioned in the retracted position as the gripping mechanism is moved from the generally horizontal position to the tilted position such that the shoe assembly does not interfere with the positioning of the gripping mechanism. In the extended position, the shoe assembly lies over a band held in the tilted position and effectively limits its upward movement as a passing container strips the band from the tilted position.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于在容器周围施加防篡改带和其它带的带施加机。 带施加机器将带状材料的供应带引导到固化机构，其将供应条切割成一系列切割带。 带传输系统将切割带传送到在传送带组件上邻近带应用机器传送的容器。 带传送系统包括具有一对具有附接的吸盘的相对的夹持臂的夹持机构。 夹持臂和附接的吸盘与封闭带的相对侧接合，然后移开以打开带。 致动器横向地将夹具机构定位在夹持器在输送机组件上方延伸的位置。 倾斜致动器将夹持器机构从大致水平的位置旋转到倾斜位置，在该倾斜位置，夹持带的下部延伸到通过的容器的路径中。 鞋组件被设计成沿着输送系统从缩回位置纵向移动到延伸位置。 当夹持机构从大致水平位置移动到倾斜位置时，鞋组件定位在缩回位置，使得鞋组件不会干涉夹持机构的定位。 在延伸位置，鞋组件位于保持在倾斜位置的带上，并且当通过的容器从倾斜位置剥离带时，有效地限制其向上运动。

公开(公告)号：US5197259A

公开(公告)日：1993-03-30

申请号：US830186

申请日：1992-01-31

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B61/00

CPC分类号： B65B61/00

摘要： The present invention entails a conveyor system for use in conjunction with a band application machine that applies tamper-evident bands to containers being conveyed by the conveyor system. The conveyor includes a conveyor with an upper run and a lower run. Connected to the conveyor and moving with the conveyor is a series of band support plates that each define an individual container opening. A container support plate extends beneath the conveyor's upper run and below the band support plates being conveyed along the conveyor's upper run. Each container is inserted into an individual container opening such that the container is vertically supported by the container support plate and such that the band support plate extends around the container. The band support plates are positionable at a selected vertical position about the containers by varying the relative height of the container support plate beneath the band support plates. The inserted containers are slid along the container support plate by the band support plates toward the band application machine. The band application machine places tamper-evident bands about the top of containers and the tamper-evident bands are supported by the band support plates at a selected vertical position on the container. The band support plates encircle the containers and provide continuous support for the tamper-evident bands placed about the container. While the bands are supported by the band support plates at a selected position about the containers, the bands are spot-heated or heat shrunken to fix the tamper-evident bands about the containers.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种与带式施加机器一起使用的输送机系统，其将显窃启带施加到由输送机系统输送的容器。 输送机包括具有上运行和下运行的输送机。 连接到输送机并与输送机一起移动的是一系列带状支撑板，每个限定单独的容器开口。 容器支撑板延伸在输送机的上部行程下方，并且沿着输送机的上部运行传送的带状支撑板的下方延伸。 将每个容器插入单独的容器开口中，使得容器由容器支撑板垂直支撑，并且使得带支撑板围绕容器延伸。 带支撑板可通过改变容器支撑板在带支撑板下方的相对高度而位于围绕容器的选定垂直位置。 插入的容器通过带支撑板沿着容器支撑板向带施加机器滑动。 带施加机器将容器的顶部放置防伪带，并且防拆透带在带状支撑板上在容器上选定的垂直位置处支撑。 带状支撑板围绕容器并为围绕容器放置的防篡改带提供连续的支撑。 当带子在围绕容器的选定位置处由带支撑板支撑时，带被点加热或热收缩，以将易损带固定在容器周围。

公开(公告)号：US5711135A

公开(公告)日：1998-01-27

申请号：US604459

申请日：1996-02-21

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B7/28 ,  B65B9/13 ,  B65B9/10

CPC分类号： B65B9/13 ,  B65B7/2885

摘要： A band application machine for transferring to containers heat-shrinkable bands. The band application machine includes a band feed system for feeding band supply material to a cutting system which cuts a band from the band supply. A transfer system transfers cut bands to containers conveyed past a banding point, and includes a band gripping mechanism and a plunger. Band gripping mechanism includes opposed suction cups that are movably mounted for gripping and positioning a cut band. The suction cups are laterally moveable from a position where a closed band is gripped on opposing sides by the suction cups to a position where the band is open and aligned with the stroke of the plunger. The plunger is positioned over the opened band at an angle with respect to the band. The plunger presses and drives the band onto a container as the gripper apparatus releases the open band. The angle of the top plunger with respect to the cut band results in the plunger engaging a leading edge of the cut band as the plunger moves to press the band onto the underpassing container. Associated with the plunger are air blast openings that direct air against an inside, trailing section of the band so as to effectively urge and maintain the band in an open position as the plunger presses the band onto the container. A programmable control system directs the operation of the band application machine.

摘要翻译： 用于转移到容器热收缩带的带施加机。 带施加机器包括带式馈送系统，用于将频带供应材料馈送到切割系统，该切割系统从带电源切割带。 转移系统将切割带传送到经过捆扎点传送的容器，并且包括带夹持机构和柱塞。 带夹持机构包括可移动地安装用于夹紧和定位切割带的相对的吸盘。 吸盘可以通过吸盘从相对的两侧夹紧闭合带的位置横向移动到带打开并与柱塞行程对准的位置。 柱塞相对于带以一定角度位于打开的带上。 当夹具装置释放开放带时，柱塞将带推入并将其驱动到容器上。 顶部柱塞相对于切割带的角度导致当柱塞移动以将带压在基础容器上时柱塞接合切割带的前缘。 与柱塞相关联的是鼓风开口，其将空气引导到带的内部，后部，以便当活塞将带压入容器时，有效地将带保持在打开位置。 可编程控制系统引导频带应用机的运行。

公开(公告)号：US5305578A

公开(公告)日：1994-04-26

申请号：US31314

申请日：1993-03-15

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B7/28 ,  B65B9/13 ,  B65B9/10

CPC分类号： B65B9/13 ,  B65B7/2885

摘要： A band application machine for transferring to containers heat-shrinkable bands. The band application machine includes a band feed system for feeding band supply material to a cutting system which cuts a band from the band supply. A transfer system transfers cut bands to containers conveyed past a banding point, and includes a band gripping mechanism and a plunger. Band gripping mechanism includes opposed suction cups that are movably mounted for gripping and positioning a cut band. The suction cups are laterally movable from a position where a closed band is gripped on opposing sides by the suction cups to a position where the band is open and aligned with the stroke of the plunger. The plunger is positioned over the opened band at an angle with respect to the band. The plunger presses and drives the band onto a container as the gripper apparatus releases the open band. The angle of the top plunger with respect to the cut band results in the plunger engaging a leading edge of the cut band as the plunger moves to press the band onto the underpassing container. Associated with the plunger are air blast openings that direct air against an inside, trailing section of the band so as to effectively urge and maintain the band in an open position as the plunger presses the band onto the container. A programmable control system directs the operation of the band application machine.

摘要翻译： 用于转移到容器热收缩带的带施加机。 带施加机器包括带式馈送系统，用于将频带供应材料馈送到切割系统，该切割系统从带电源切割带。 转移系统将切割带传送到经过捆扎点传送的容器，并且包括带夹持机构和柱塞。 带夹持机构包括可移动地安装用于夹紧和定位切割带的相对的吸盘。 吸盘可以从相对侧被吸盘夹紧的位置横向移动到带打开并与柱塞行程对准的位置。 柱塞相对于带以一定角度位于打开的带上。 当夹具装置释放开放带时，柱塞将带推入并将其驱动到容器上。 顶部柱塞相对于切割带的角度导致当柱塞移动以将带压在基础容器上时柱塞接合切割带的前缘。 与柱塞相关联的是鼓风开口，其将空气引导到带的内部，后部，以便当活塞将带压入容器时，有效地将带保持在打开位置。 可编程控制系统引导频带应用机的运行。

公开(公告)号：US06263940B1

公开(公告)日：2001-07-24

申请号：US09295549

申请日：1999-04-21

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65B500

CPC分类号： B65C3/065 ,  B29C53/48 ,  B29C63/426 ,  B29C65/08 ,  B29C66/1122 ,  B29C66/5326 ,  Y10T156/1705 ,  Y10T156/1744 ,  Y10T156/1768

摘要： An in-line continuous feed sleeve labeling machine labels containers, such as beverage containers, in an in-line fashion maintaining the elevation of the containers during their linear transport. The in-line continuous feed sleeve labeling machine of the present invention receives bottles in flood feeder or linear fashion. A timing screw or the like properly separates, and both spatially and temporally disposes, the containers for sleeving. The timing screw propels the containers onto a pedestal system. The pedestals of the pedestal system maintain their horizontal nature due to offset pivotable attachments to the track system upon which they travel. In coordinated fashion with the travel of the pedestal system, iris carriers carrying sleeves upon articulating radial arms descend upon the bottles. Once the label sleeve has reached the appropriate point (generally adjacent to the central portion of the bottle), the iris carrier allows the label sleeve to engage the central portion of the bottle. Frictional attachment or otherwise allows the finger rods of the iris carrier to pull away from the sleeve as the iris carrier continues to descend down towards the pedestal. The sleeve then becomes attached to or engaged by the bottle until the finger rods of the iris carrier free themselves from the sleeve label. A container stabilizer may provide lateral bottle support and aid the ensleevement process. The finger rods then dilate to better disengage the bottle as the iris carrier ascends up and away from the bottle. The bottle is then transported to an exit conveyor having been properly sleeved, while the iris carrier returns to transport another sleeve.

摘要翻译： 在线连续进料套筒贴标机以直线方式标记容器，例如饮料容器，以便在其线性运输期间保持容器的高度。 本发明的在线连续进料套筒贴标机接收灌水器或线性瓶子。 定时螺钉等适当地分离并且在空间和时间上都配置用于套管的容器。 定时螺丝将容器推进到基座系统上。 基座系统的基座由于偏移可枢转的附件而保持其水平性质，因此它们移动到轨道系统上。 与基座系统的行进协调一致地，携带袖子的虹膜运载器在桡动臂上下降到瓶子上。 一旦标签套筒已经到达适当的点（通常与瓶的中心部分相邻），虹膜托架允许标签套筒接合瓶子的中心部分。 摩擦附着或其他方式允许虹膜托架的手指杆随着虹膜托架继续向下朝向基座而远离套筒。 袖子然后变得附着在瓶子上或与瓶子接合，直到虹膜承载器的指杆从套筒标签上释放出来。 容器稳定器可以提供侧向瓶支撑并帮助包围过程。 随着虹膜托架上升和离开瓶子，手指杆扩张以更好地脱离瓶子。 然后将瓶子运送到已经适当地套管的出口传送带，同时虹膜托架返回运送另一个套筒。

公开(公告)号：US5417794A

公开(公告)日：1995-05-23

申请号：US213506

申请日：1994-02-22

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B65C3/16 ,  B65C3/06 ,  B32B31/00

CPC分类号： B65C3/065 ,  Y10T156/1773

摘要： An apparatus for simultaneously disposing tubular labels on a plurality of bottles or other containers includes an assembly for advancing the bottles or other containers along an endless travel path. The apparatus also includes a plurality of tubular label applying stations each operable to individually apply a tubular label onto a bottle or other container as the bottle or other container is advanced along the travel path. The advancing assembly is preferably in the form of a rotating plate supporting the bottles or other containers thereon at uniform angular spacings from one another and the tubular label applying stations are preferably also supported on the rotating plate. A cam and cam follower arrangement is utilized for controlling each tubular label applying station to perform its label applying operation in coordination with the advancing movement of its associate bottle or other container.

摘要翻译： 用于在多个瓶子或其他容器上同时设置管状标签的装置包括用于沿着环形行进路径推进瓶子或其它容器的组件。 该设备还包括多个管状标签施加站，每个管状标签施加站可操作以在瓶或其他容器沿着行进路径前进时，将管状标签单独地施加到瓶或其他容器上。 推进组件优选地为旋转板的形式，其上以彼此均匀的角度间隔支撑瓶子或其他容器，并且管状标签施加站优选地也支撑在旋转板上。 凸轮和凸轮从动装置用于控制每个管状标签施加工位，以便与其关联瓶或其他容器的前进运动相配合地执行其标签施加操作。

公开(公告)号：US5165215A

公开(公告)日：1992-11-24

申请号：US754976

申请日：1991-09-04

申请人： Victor V. Menayan

发明人： Victor V. Menayan

IPC分类号： B67B5/03

CPC分类号： B67B5/03

摘要： The present invention entails a method and apparatus for applying tamper evident bands to a container. In particular, the apparatus of the present invention directs a supply strip of banding material to a cutter which cuts the supply strip into a series of cut bands. From the cutter, the respective cut bands are, one at a time, transferred to a suction source and held. A form is passed adjacent the suction source and strips the cut band from the suction source. While the cut band is held within the form, a container is passed thereunder, and because of the spacing of the form and the position of the container, the container top or lid engages a portion of the cut band held within the form and strips the cut band from the form. Thereafter, the container and cut form are passed underneath a vibrating plate, causing the plate to engage the cut band and to properly position the same about the container for subsequent heat treatment.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种将显窃启带施加于容器的方法和装置。 特别地，本发明的装置将带状材料的供应条引导到将供应条切割成一系列切割带的切割器。 从切割器中，各自的切割带一次一个转移到吸入源并保持。 一个形式通过吸引源附近并从抽吸源剥离切割带。 当切割带保持在形式内时，容器在其下方通过，并且由于形状的间隔和容器的位置，容器顶部或盖子与保持在形式内的切割带的一部分接合并剥离 从表格切割带。 此后，将容器和切割形式通过振动板的下方，使板接合切割带并使其适当地位于容器周围以进行后续热处理。