Manual capper with two lever for crown caps
AssigneeFerrari Group S.r.l.
InventorFrancesco Marchini
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Abstract
A manual capper for crown caps, of the type including a main support, two jaws, arranged symmetrically to the main support, each including a lower portion configured to encircle the neck of the bottle to be capped and an upper portion connectable to handlebars of the lever type, the actuation of which generates the opening and/or closure of the jaws, said capper wherein an actuation thereof in opening and/or in closure induces at least one simultaneous and linear displacement of the upper portion and of a portion of the handlebars, and wherein after the closure of the jaws, means suitable to keep the lower portion movable in a direction parallel to the vertical capping axis operate.
Claims19
A manual capper for crown caps, comprising
- a. a main support having a vertical capping axis,
- b. two jaws, arranged symmetrically to the main support, each comprising a lower portion configured to encircle a neck of a bottle to be capped, an upper portion and a lower pawl,
- c. handlebar levers, the actuation of which generates an opening and/or closure of the jaws, the handlebar levers including connecting portions connected to the upper portions of the jaws,
- the capper being configured such that an actuation of the handlebar levers in the opening and/or closure induces at least one simultaneous and linear displacement of both the upper portions of the jaws and of the connecting portions of the handlebar levers,
- a guide mechanism suitable to keep the lower portions movable in a direction parallel to the vertical capping axis after the closure of the jaws around the neck of the bottle, the guide mechanism including at least one guide protrusion,
- wherein the at least one guide protrusion is positioned below the lower pawls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.