Transfer device for nestable container bodies
AssigneeOwens-Illinois, Inc.
InventorsJohnny Will Collins, Gunars Kochmanis, Bobby Ross Lynch
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Abstract
A transfer device for seriately receiving from a forming machine frustoconical paper bucket bodies, nestably accumulating them in a horizontal column in a cylindrical front section of a rotatable drum, loosening the nested bucket bodies from each other in an enlarged cylindrical rear section of the drum, randomly separating the column of bucket bodies into small groups, intermittently conveying successive groups axially away from said drum to a lateral conveyor, conveying the groups laterally to a remote processing machine and adavancing said groups axially into said machine in a direction opposite from the first axial direction.
Claims7
A bucket body transfer device comprising:
- a horizontally disposed rotatable drum having an open-ended accumulator section for receiving frustoconical bucket bodies and nestably accumulating them in a column, said accumulator section having a cylindrical inner surface, a separator section integrally connected to said accumulator section, said separator section having an enlarged openended cylindrical inner surface coaxially aligned with said accumulator surface, means for rotating said drum, and an offloading conveyor at the exit end of said separator section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.