公开(公告)号：US4225035A

公开(公告)日：1980-09-30

申请号：US938563

申请日：1978-08-31

Applicant: Harold F. Mohney ,  Darius O. Riggs

Inventor： Harold F. Mohney ,  Darius O. Riggs

IPC: B65G21/20

CPC classification number: B65G21/2072

Abstract: A multiple station inspection glassware inspection machine in which the containers are moved from station to station by engagement with a changeable, cylindrical pocket with a plurality of these pockets assembled to form an endless structure similar to a chain. Each of the semi-cylindrical pockets is adapted to engage the sidewall of the containers and to effect the indexing movement of the containers from an inlet where they are received from a conveyor and to carry the containers through a plurality of inspection stations. Various inspections may be carried out at the stations. Each container, after having moved through all of the stations, is returned to the conveyor. As each of the containers is moved through the series of positions while engaged in the pockets, they are retained in the posckets by the positioning of a guide rail system which effectively confines the bottles to the semi-cylindrical pocket of the indexing system. Details of the rail system, which is made up of a plurality of substantially identical rail supports spaced circumferentially about the pocketed indexing system, has unique configurations with regard to the actual bottle-engaging members which are provided on the holders or supports for the rails. Also illustrated, at one station, is a portion of the guide rail system which is provided with an opening within which a driven, bottle-engaging wheel is mounted to effect rotation of the bottle at this station.

Abstract translation: 一种多工位检查玻璃器皿检查机，其中容器通过与可更换的圆柱形口袋接合而移动，其中多个这些口袋被组装以形成类似于链条的环形结构。 每个半圆柱形凹穴适于接合容器的侧壁并且实现容器从其从输送机接收的入口的分度运动，并且通过多个检查站运送容器。 各站可以进行各种检查。 每个容器在移动通过所有站之后，返回到传送带。 当每个容器在接合在口袋中时通过一系列位置移动时，它们通过定位导轨系统而被保持在孔中，导轨系统将瓶子有效地限制在分度系统的半圆柱形袋中。 轨道系统的细节由多个基本上相同的轨道支撑件组成，其围绕袋装分度系统周向间隔开，具有关于设置在用于轨道的保持器或支撑件上的实际瓶接合构件的独特构造。 还示出了在一个站处的导轨系统的一部分，其设置有开口，在该开口内安装有驱动的与瓶接合的轮，以在该站处实现瓶的旋转。

公开(公告)号：US4124112A

公开(公告)日：1978-11-07

申请号：US799897

申请日：1977-05-23

Applicant: Harold F. Mohney ,  Darius O. Riggs ,  Walter K. Schoch ,  Thomas B. Sorbie

Inventor： Harold F. Mohney ,  Darius O. Riggs ,  Walter K. Schoch ,  Thomas B. Sorbie

IPC: B07C5/342 ,  B08B9/32 ,  B08B9/46 ,  B65G47/86 ,  G01N21/90

CPC classification number: B65G47/847 ,  B65G2201/0244

Abstract: Indexing mechanism for multiple station glassware inspection machines in which a plurality of pocketed starwheels are used. One set of pockets are formed with container encircling or restraining members which open and close in response to the contour of a box cam. The encircling members loosely retain containers so that they may be rotated about their vertical axes while held in a specific location. The finish of the containers is guided by an upper starwheel having pockets of a size commensurate with the size of the finish of the container. The containers to be inspected are brought into the starwheel with the encircling members opened. Upon closing of the encircling members, containers may be indexed through a series of positions where they may be inspected for various defects. Prior to arriving at the position where the containers are to be taken from the starwheel, the containers are oriented with their generally long, horizontal axes normal to the direction of movement of the conveyor for taking containers away. This apparatus permits rotation of non-round containers while still retaining the containers in a sufficiently precise location so as to permit both mechanical and optical inspection of various portions of the container.

Abstract translation: 使用多个袋式星形轮的多工位玻璃器皿检查机的分度机构。 一组口袋形成有容器环绕或限制构件，其响应于盒式凸轮的轮廓而打开和关闭。 环绕构件松动地保持容器，使得它们可以围绕其垂直轴线旋转，同时保持在特定位置。 容器的表面由具有与容器的表面尺寸相当的尺寸的口袋的上星形轮引导。 被检查的容器被带入星形轮，环绕构件打开。 在关闭环绕构件时，容器可以通过一系列位置进行索引，在那里可以检查各种缺陷。 在到达集装箱从星形轮的位置到达之前，容器被定向成其通常长的水平轴线垂直于输送机的移动方向以便将集装箱移走。 该设备允许非圆形容器的旋转，同时仍然将容器保持在足够精确的位置，以允许对容器的各个部分进行机械和光学检查。

公开(公告)号：US4378493A

公开(公告)日：1983-03-29

申请号：US203024

申请日：1980-11-03

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

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

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

CPC classification number: G01N21/90 ,  B07C5/122 ,  G01N2033/0081 ,  G01N21/9045

Abstract: 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.

Abstract translation: 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

Applicant: John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

Inventor： John J. Pezzin ,  Darius O. Riggs

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

CPC classification number: B07C5/3412 ,  B07C5/122

Abstract: 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.

Abstract translation: 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。

公开(公告)号：US4096939A

公开(公告)日：1978-06-27

申请号：US666294

申请日：1976-03-12

Applicant: Darius O. Riggs ,  Charles G. Vogel

Inventor： Darius O. Riggs ,  Charles G. Vogel

IPC: B65G47/29 ,  B65G47/88 ,  B65G43/00 ,  B65G47/26

CPC classification number: B65G47/8823 ,  B65G47/29 ,  B65G2205/04

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed which provides an entrance gating structure for spacing the entry of containers carried by a conveyor into a testing device. The containers arrive at the testing device under line pressure and are then permitted to enter a testing apparatus where they are conveyed through the testing device and then returned to the conveyor. The gating device is a spring-loaded pivot arm having a pair of legs. One leg stops the flow of containers until the prior container clears the length of the long or other leg. The gate functions automatically without requiring any external operator.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种装置，其提供了一个入口浇口结构，用于将由输送机携带的容器进入间隔进测试装置。 容器在管线压力下到达检测装置，然后被允许进入测试装置，在那里它们通过检测装置输送，然后返回到输送机。 门控装置是具有一对腿的弹簧支承的枢转臂。 一条腿停止容器的流动，直到现有的容器清除长或其他腿的长度。 门自动运行，无需任何外部操作员。

公开(公告)号：US4433785A

公开(公告)日：1984-02-28

申请号：US276770

申请日：1981-06-24

Applicant: Darius O. Riggs ,  Thomas B. Sorbie

Inventor： Darius O. Riggs ,  Thomas B. Sorbie

IPC: G01B5/00 ,  G01B5/20 ,  G01B5/207 ,  G01B5/24 ,  G01B7/30 ,  G01B21/20 ,  B07C5/00

CPC classification number: G01B7/30

Abstract: In the inspection of generally round glass containers where the containers are indexed into the gauging stations or positions by the movement of a starwheel mechanism, the containers are held in a generally upright attitude with their bottoms engaging a pair of spaced rollers extending through a slide plate at the gauging station. Each roller is biased in an upward direction against the container bottom. The containers are rotated, in station, by engagement of the sidewall thereof by a rotating wheel mounted on an axis that is somewhat out-of-vertical to aid in holding the container down against the rollers and slide plate. The gauging rollers each have their vertical movements drive the core of a separate differential transformer. The output of the transformers are amplified, alegebraically summed and fed to a discriminator. The tracking of the rollers is such that the output signals from the discriminator are a reflection of the relative positions of the rollers and the output is fed to a reject mechanism or indicator when a predetermined difference indicates that a "leaner" container is being gauged.

Abstract translation: 在检查通常为圆形的玻璃容器时，容器通过星形轮机构的移动被分配到测量站或位置中，容器被保持在大致直立的姿态，其底部接合一对间隔开的辊子，延伸穿过滑板 在测量站。 每个辊子朝向容器底部向上的方向偏置。 容器通过其侧壁通过安装在稍微不垂直的轴线上的旋转轮的接合而转动，以帮助将容器向下压靠在辊和滑板上。 测量辊各自具有垂直运动驱动单独的差动变压器的磁芯。 变压器的输出被放大，被大概相加并馈给鉴频器。 辊的跟踪使得来自鉴别器的输出信号是辊的相对位置的反射，并且当预定的差表示正在测量“更精细”的容器时，输出被输送到拒收机构或指示器。

公开(公告)号：US4200183A

公开(公告)日：1980-04-29

申请号：US936973

申请日：1978-08-25

Applicant: Darius O. Riggs

Inventor： Darius O. Riggs

IPC: B65G19/02

CPC classification number: B65G19/02 ,  B65G2201/0244 ,  Y10S209/912

Abstract: Apparatus, as set forth, in which glass containers moving on a horizontal conveyor in an upright attitude are guided into a bottle-engaging pocket, while the pocket is in position at an entrance position. The pocket is one of a series which are connected together in an endless series. An indexing hub supports a plurality of circumferentially spaced rollers about its periphery, with the rollers acting similar to a sprocket. The hub is indexed by a suitable drive. The rollers, in cooperation with the endless series of bottle-engaging pockets, will move containers held in the pockets through a series of positions at which the containers may be gauged or inspected for various defects. A second hub, which is essentially the same as the previously described hub, also has a series of rollers which engage the series of pockets. This second hub is mounted for "idler type" rotation about its vertical axis. Each of the series of bottle-engaging pockets have interchangeable inserts to accommodate different sized bottles, and the hubs actually support two vertically spaced series of bottle-engaging pockets.

Abstract translation: 如上所述的装置，其中以直立姿态在水平输送机上移动的玻璃容器被引导到瓶接合口袋中，同时口袋在入口位置处的位置。 口袋是一系列以无尽的系列连接在一起的口袋之一。 分度轮毂围绕其周边支撑多个周向间隔开的辊，其中辊的作用类似于链轮。 集线器由合适的驱动器索引。 辊子与无端系列瓶接合口袋协作，将通过一系列位置移动容纳在口袋中的容器，容器可以被测量或检查各种缺陷。 与之前描述的轮毂基本相同的第二轮毂也具有一系列与该系列袋相接合的辊。 该第二轮毂围绕其纵轴安装为“惰轮型”旋转。 每个系列的瓶子接合袋具有可互换的插入件以适应不同尺寸的瓶子，并且轮毂实际上支撑两个垂直间隔的一系列瓶接合口袋。

公开(公告)号：US3980173A

公开(公告)日：1976-09-14

申请号：US618878

申请日：1975-10-02

Applicant: Darius O. Riggs

Inventor： Darius O. Riggs

IPC: B65G17/08 ,  B65G21/20 ,  B65G17/00

CPC classification number: B65G17/08 ,  B65G21/2018 ,  B65G2201/02 ,  B65G2201/0244

Abstract: A stable moving platform from which articles may be measured while in motion on this platform. An endless, moving silent chain type conveyor is modified to allow a center group of links to float relative to the pins which hold the links together. A mechanical force applying means presses the chain downward to define fixed horizontal and vertical planes just as the chain is to enter an inspection zone. A magnetic force applying means under the chains holds the chain in the fixed position defined by the mechanical force applying means as the chain moves through the inspection zone.

Abstract translation: 一个稳定的移动平台，可在此平台上运动时测量物品。 一个无尽的移动的无声链式输送机被修改为允许中心组的链接相对于将链节保持在一起的销漂浮。 机械力施加装置将链条向下压，以在链条进入检查区域时形成固定的水平和垂直平面。 链条下方的磁力施加装置在链条移动通过检查区域时将链条保持在由机械力施加装置限定的固定位置。

公开(公告)号：US4442934A

公开(公告)日：1984-04-17

申请号：US444278

申请日：1982-11-24

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

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

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

CPC classification number: B07C5/122 ,  G01N2033/0081

Abstract: 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.

Abstract translation: 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：US4413738A

公开(公告)日：1983-11-08

申请号：US242808

申请日：1981-03-11

Applicant: Ernest H. Pemberton ,  Darius O. Riggs ,  Douglas J. Mansor ,  James R. Sager ,  John W. Juvinall

Inventor： Ernest H. Pemberton ,  Darius O. Riggs ,  Douglas J. Mansor ,  James R. Sager ,  John W. Juvinall

IPC: C03B35/00 ,  B07C5/34 ,  B23Q41/00 ,  C03B9/40 ,  C03B9/41 ,  G01B11/30 ,  G01N19/08 ,  G06F15/46

CPC classification number: B07C5/3412 ,  C03B9/41

Abstract: A finished product controller is disclosed for monitoring the performance of a glassware production line and the bottle inspection equipment operating thereon. Bottles are formed in molds which impress an identifying code unique to each mold in each formed bottle. Bottles leaving the forming machine are fed to one of several inspection loops. A primary inspection loop inlcudes apparatus for inspecting the bottles fed to it for defects and apparatus for reading the identifying code on those bottles. One or more secondary inspection loops are provided for inspecting the rest of the bottles for defects only. A computer correlates the detected defects in the bottles passing through the primary inspection loop to the defective mold which produced them and acquires defect data on the secondary loops. A cavity reject ratio is calculated for each defect and compared to a predetermined value to alert a forming operator to a defective cavity. The reject ratios are totaled for each defect and the ratio for each defect from each loop is compared to the corresponding ratio from the other loops to identify malfunctioning inspection devices. Located downstream of all of the inspection loops is an apparatus for reading the identifying codes of all the inspected bottles. In the alternative, the downstream reader can sense the presence of bottles formed in a particular mold which has been determined in the primary inspection loop to be defective, and the computer can alert maintenance personnel to locate and correct the defective inspection equipment in one of the secondary inspection loops.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种成品控制器，用于监测玻璃器皿生产线和在其上操作的瓶检验设备的性能。 瓶子形成在模具中，这使得每个成形瓶子中的每个模具独有的识别代码。 离开成型机的瓶子进料到多个检查回路中的一个。 主要检查环路包括用于检查供给其的瓶子的缺陷的装置和用于读取这些瓶子上的识别代码的装置。 提供了一个或多个二次检查回路，用于仅检查其余瓶子的缺陷。 计算机将通过主要检查回路的检测瓶中的检测到的缺陷与产生它们的缺陷模具相关联，并获得次级回路上的缺陷数据。 针对每个缺陷计算腔体排斥率，并将其与预定值进行比较，以向成形操作者警告缺陷腔。 对于每个缺陷，拒绝比率被总计，并且将来自每个回路的每个缺陷的比率与来自其他回路的相应比率进行比较，以识别故障检查装置。 在所有检查循环的下游位置是用于读取所有被检查瓶子的识别代码的装置。 或者，下游读取器可以感测在主要检查回路中确定的特定模具中形成的瓶子的存在是否有缺陷，并且计算机可以警告维护人员定位和校正其中一个缺陷检测设备 二次检查循环。