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US 10,961,001 B2Granted
Transfer wheel between a lollipop forming and a lollipop wrapping unit
AssigneeGea Food Solutions Weert B.V.
InventorBruno Gerfried Baumeister
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Abstract
A lollipop production and down-stream processing apparatus with a forming unit and a down-stream processing unit and a transfer wheel in between the units which rotates around a first axis and which includes a multitude of grippers which releasably hold the stick of the lollipop and which rotate relative to the transfer wheel around a second axis of rotation parallel to the first axis of rotation.
Claims15
A lollipop production and wrapping apparatus comprising:
- a forming unit comprising a forming chamber in which a head of a lollipop is formed and where a stick is inserted into the head,
- a down-stream processing unit, and
- a transfer wheel positioned in between the forming unit and the down-stream processing unit, the transfer wheel is configured to rotate around a first axis of rotation, the transfer wheel comprises a multitude of grippers, one of which is configured to releasably hold the stick of the lollipop while the lollipop is transferred from the forming unit to the down-stream processing unit, each one of the multitude of grippers is configured to rotate relative to the transfer wheel around a respective second axis of rotation that is parallel to the first axis of rotation,
- wherein each one of the multitude of grippers is attached to a means that moves eccentrically around the second axis of rotation, the eccentric motion of each of the multitude of grippers is configured to adjust a radial extension of each of the multitude of grippers relative to the first axis of rotation by moving each of the multitude of grippers in a radial direction towards the first axis of rotation and away from the first axis of rotation, which adjusts a length by which each of the multitude of grippers move into a holding means of the forming unit and/or move into a holding means of the down-stream processing unit and/or adjusts a distance between two of the multitude of grippers to a gapping of the holding means at the forming unit and/or of the holding means at the down-stream processing unit.
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A lollipop production and wrapping apparatus comprising:
- a forming unit comprising a forming chamber in which a head of a lollipop is formed and where a stick is inserted into the head of the lollipop,
- a down-stream processing unit that is a cooling unit, a coating unit, a drying unit, and/or a wrapping unit, and
- a transfer wheel positioned in between the forming unit and the down-stream processing unit, the transfer wheel is configured to rotate around a first axis of rotation, the transfer wheel comprises a multitude of grippers, one of which is configured to releasably hold the stick of the lollipop while the lollipop is transferred from the forming unit to the down-stream processing unit,
- wherein each one of the multitude of grippers is configured to around a respective second axis of rotation that is parallel to the first axis of rotation,
- wherein each one of the multitude of grippers is attached to a means that moves eccentrically around the first axis of rotation, the eccentric motion of each of the multitude of grippers adjusts a radial extension of each of the multitude of grippers relative to the first axis of rotation by moving each of the multitude of grippers in a radial direction towards the first axis of rotation and away from the first axis of rotation, and
- wherein while each of the multitude of grippers move in the radial direction, each of the multitude of grippers are also configured to rotate around a third axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the first axis of rotation before the lollipop is transferred from the forming unit to the down-stream processing unit.
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