公开(公告)号：US5421686A

公开(公告)日：1995-06-06

申请号：US38377

申请日：1993-03-29

申请人： William J. Covert ,  Walter D. Robison

发明人： William J. Covert ,  Walter D. Robison

IPC分类号： B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/127 ,  B65G47/52 ,  B65G65/00 ,  F26B5/06 ,  F26B25/00 ,  F26B13/30

CPC分类号： B65G65/00 ,  F26B25/001 ,  F26B5/06

摘要： A system for automatically loading and unloading bottles, vials, or other containers into and out of a freeze dryer or other material treating apparatus includes a loading station and a conveyer for bringing bottles to the loading station. A transfer vehicle movable between the loading station and one or more freeze dryers includes a horizontally arranged platen for supporting an entire dryer shelf of bottles. When the vehicle is aligned with the loading station, a pusher bar slides bottles from the loading station onto the vehicle platen. The vehicle then moves to a dryer where the platen aligns itself with one of the dryer shelves. A guide bar at the rear end of a rectangularly shaped lasso or transfer cage moves forwardly pushing the bottles onto the shelf. The forward end of the cage is then raised above the height of the bottles and removed from the dryer. To unload a dryer shelf, the cage enters the dryer above the bottles and the forward end drops down behind them. The bottles are then drawn out from the shelf onto the vehicle platen by the cage. Thereafter, the vehicle is moved to an unloading station where an unloading transfer guide at the forward end of the vehicle moves rearwardly to push the bottles from the platen onto an unloading conveyer.

摘要翻译： 将瓶子，小瓶或其他容器自动装卸的冷冻干燥机或其他材料处理装置的系统包括装载站和用于将瓶子运送到装载站的输送机。 在装载站和一个或多个冷冻干燥器之间可移动的传送车辆包括用于支撑瓶的整个烘缸的水平布置的压板。 当车辆与装载站对准时，推杆将瓶从装载站滑动到车辆压板上。 然后，车辆移动到烘缸，其中压板与烘干机架之一对准。 在矩形套索或转移笼的后端的导杆向前推动瓶子到架子上。 然后将保持架的前端升高到瓶子的高度上方，并从烘干机中取出。 为了卸下烘干机架，机箱进入瓶子上方的烘干机，前端在其后面落下。 然后通过保持架将瓶子从搁板上拉出到车辆压板上。 此后，车辆移动到卸载站，在卸载站处，车辆前端处的卸载转移引导件向后移动以将瓶从压板推送到卸载输送器上。