Abstract:
When an inside-out can lid is detected in a lid row, an abutting block mounted on a pneumatic cylinder moves upward. The abutting block passes through the inside of a through-hole and pushes up the lid row in a position near the inside-out can lid. Then, the inside-out can lid is popped out of the lid row upward and is removed from the lid row.
Abstract:
A bottle cap orienter has two rotating pin sorters, one positioned above and the other below a path over which randomly oriented bottle caps must travel. A stationary cam adjacent each sorter causes a plurality of pins at selected locations to project into the area of the path through which the bottle caps must travel. Thus, the projecting pins enter the cavity of the caps from above and below so that the caps are captured to rotate with the pin sorters. At one point in the rotation, the pins are withdrawn so that the caps are released to travel under their own inertia over a tangential path. The caps released by one of the pin sorters are inverted, so that all caps are ultimately oriented the same.
Abstract:
Apparatus and a method of rejecting articles, such as can closures, are disclosed. The rejection of articles is obtained by variation in the length of a reciprocating member. In one mode of operation, a register of a multiregister counter is activated by an upstream sensor when a defective article is detected, and an actuator shortens the reciprocating member for a single upstroke after a prdetermined number of strokes of the reciprocating member to provide rejection of the defective article. In a second mode of operation, a predetermined number of articles are rejected upon every start-up of the apparatus to provide for rejection of questionable quality articles produced during start-up of the apparatus. In either mode of operation, the position of the variable length reciprocating stacking member can be determined by a proximity detector, to correctly time the lengthening or shortening of the variable length member.
Abstract:
The machine embodying the mechanism is of low silhouette frame construction so that it reduces the weight of the machine and the space required for its use. The means for operating the needle carrier is an oscillating arm which serves to shift the needle carrier back and forth along a straight line. One end of said arm is positioned in a slideway in said needle carrier so as to be free for both rotational and translational movement relative thereto. Provision has been made for adequate lubrication of the relatively sliding surfaces, to minimize the development of high temperatures in the course of high speed sewing operations.
Abstract:
A novelty greeting card is provided wherein an item of wearing apparel is attached in combination with a stiffener element and the combination is folded so as to take on the appearance of a conventional greeting card. The item of wearing apparel is removable from the stiffener element so that it can be worn by one receiving the novelty greeting card.
Abstract:
A conveying system for crowns used to cap containers having a portion thereof adapted to detect and eject bent crowns comprising a conveyor chute for permitting the gravity feed of bent and unbent crowns therethrough, a conventional crown orienting apparatus for orienting each crown to be in the same relationship and a transfer system between the conveyor chute and the crown orienting apparatus for transferring crowns between the conveyor chute and the crown orienting apparatus and wherein the transfer system has a movable bent crown detecting apparatus for stopping the movement of bent crowns therethrough but permitting the movement of unbent crowns therethrough. A sensing device that is responsive to the stoppage of flow of the crowns through the bent crown detecting apparatus is provided and functions to signal appropriate apparatus to stop the flow of crowns into the transfer system, to move the detecting apparatus so that the bent crown may move therethrough and to activate a bent crown ejecting apparatus to remove the bent crown from the transfer system and to return the conveying system to normal operations.