Article selection and placement assembly and method
AssigneeGraphic Packaging International, Inc.
InventorKelly Ziegler
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Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for applying tags with attached elastic anchor bands onto the tops of objects such as bottles in a high speed packaging application. The apparatus includes an infeed assembly for feeding a web, a conveyor assembly that receives a web and conveys it along a path in an upstream direction, a rotating selector wheel, a placement assembly, a pair of rotating jaw assembles, a vacuum cup of the selector wheel, and stretched elastic bands over the tops of respective bottles being conveyed along a path below the placing assembly. The elastic bands then snap onto the tops of their respective bottles to secure the tags to the bottles.
Claims16
An article selection and placement assembly comprising:
- an infeed assembly for continuously feeding a supply of articles to be placed on objects;
- a conveyor assembly receiving the supply of articles from the infeed assembly and moving the articles in an upstream direction;
- a selector assembly at an upstream end of the conveyor assembly;
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- a placing assembly configured to engage articles of the supply of articles moving on the conveyor assembly, the placing assembly being separate from the selector assembly;
- wherein the selector assembly is configured to select the engaged articles from the supply of articles moving on the conveyor assembly, and the placing assembly is configured to prepare the selected articles for placement onto objects and to place the prepared articles on the objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.