Device for unpacking bottles or similar articles in a shrink foil package
AssigneeAutomation Steeg and Hoffmeyer GmbH
InventorsEmil Steeg, Uwe Hoffmeyer
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Abstract
A table is adapted to receive the shrunk foil package, and its top is substantially the same in size or somewhat smaller than the base surface of the package. A pressing platen is adapted to be lowered on to the package, for clamping and holding firm the bottles. A cutting device cuts open the shrunk foil around the periphery of the package. A gripping device folds downwards the edge, produced by cutting open, of the lower shrunk foil part, over the table top. A frame can be fitted over the platen and the package holds together the bottles after moving the platen clear of them and with which the bottles can be pushed off the lower part of the shrunk foil.
Claims6
A device for unpacking bottles or similar articles in a shrunk foil package, characterized by a table adapted to receive the shrunk foil package, with a stationary table top, a turntable and a lifting table which can be raised and lowered in relation to the table top and the turntable in order to form a receiving niche, a cutting device for cutting open the shrunk foil along the periphery of the package, a gripping device, which after the foil covering has been cut can be moved from the side to a position adjacent to the rim or edge of the box-shaped lower part of the shrunk foil produced by the cutting and on lifting the lifting table strips off the rim, and a frame adapted to surround the package, which holds the bottles together and can be displaced with the latter from the lower part of the shrunk foil.
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