Orbital feeder
AssigneeR.A. Jones & Co. Inc.
InventorsRobert M. Kalany, Robert J. Thiemann, Paul A. Frederick
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Abstract
An improved orbital carton feeder comprises at least one carton gripping suction cup rotatably mounted to a rotatable wheel and moving in a hypocycloidal path having cusps, one of which defines a curved path portion coordinated with a blank placement station. Multiple cusps, cups and operational stations are disclosed, as well as a preferred cusp angular relationship responding to an angle of a carton blank at a discharge or pickoff station and an angle of disposition of a blank received conveyor.
Claims11
An orbital blank feeder having a blank transporter moving in a hypocycloidal path having a plurality of cusps wherein one of said cusps is defined as the apex of a curved path, said feeder having a blank pick-off station, a blank placement station and a blank pre-opening station between said pick-off and placement stations, each station oriented proximate one of said cusps.
An orbital feeder for feeding carton blanks from a blank magazine to a carton conveyor through a portion of a hypocycloidal path, said path having at least four cusps, said feeder comprising a blank pick-off station at said magazine and proximate a first of said cusps, a blank pre-opening station proximate a second of said cusps and a blank placement station proximate a third of said cusps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.