Method and apparatus for placing objects into boxes
AssigneeSAPAL Societe Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques
InventorAlexis Chenevard
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Abstract
Sets of objects such as cupped chocolates are deposited by templates on a table where each set is held by suction with the objects spaced apart from another. A frame with movable walls brings together each set of objects which are lifted by a suction head forming a bell with the closed frame, and the set of objects is then deposited in a box.
Claims11
A method of placing sets of objects, such as assortments of chocolates, in boxes, comprising disposing a set of objects in a template, conveying the objects disposed in the template to a table, holding the objects on the table by suction, removing the template, bringing mobile walls about the objects held on the table, moving the walls against the objects to bring the objects together into an area corresponding to an inner space of a box which is to receive the objects, gripping and conveying the thus assembled set of objects and depositing the set of objects in the box.
An apparatus for placing sets of objects, such as assortments of chocolates, in boxes, comprising templates each able to receive a set of objects to be placed in a box, pneumatic means for holding the objects by suction on a table, means for cyclically moving the templates to each deposit a set of objects on the table and remove the template from the deposited objects, mobile walls which can be brought about a set of objects held on the table and moved against the objects to bring them together into an area corresponding to an inner space of a box which is to receive the objects, means for conveying the walls together with a set of objects, and means for gripping and conveying the assembled set of objects and depositing the set of objects in one operation in a box.
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