Assembly machine for interconnected carrier devices
AssigneeGrip-Pak, Inc.
InventorErnest Ray Cunningham
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Abstract
An assembly machine for interconnected carrier devices is disclosed as including carrier assembly means that move in a closed triangular path and are arranged to assemble the interconnected carrier devices to containers moving in a linear path, beginning on one or another side or margin of said containers that is generally transverse to the movement thereof, depending on the direction of movement of said carrier assembly means in the closed path.
Claims11
A bi-directional assembly machine for assembling an interconnected series of plastic carrier devices to containers, comprising conveyor means for moving a plurality of containers in at least one row in a predetermined linear path, and carrier assembly means arranged to move in a predetermined closed path coinciding with said linear path along a portion thereof, said carrier assembly means being capable of bi-directional assembly of the interconnected series of carriers to containers and including means for assembling the interconnected series of carriers to said moving row of containers beginning generally transverse to the movement of said containers along a first container margin with assembly movement toward a second container margin when said carrier assembly means is operated in one direction in said closed path, said means for assembling the interconnected series of carriers to containers also being capable of moving generally transverse to the movement of said containers first along said second container margin with assembly movement toward said first container margin when said assembly means is operated in a second direction in said closed path.
An assembly machine for assembling an interconnected series of plastic carrier devices to containers, comprising conveyor means for moving a plurality of containers in two juxtaposed rows along a generally linear path, and carrier assembly means mounted for movement in a generally triangularly shaped path with rounded corner portions and including upper angular side portions and a linear portion which coincides with the linearly moving path of juxtaposed rows of containers at one end thereof, said carrier assembly means including a plurality of opposing pairs of pin elements which are mounted for movement in general alignment with said juxtaposed rows of containers along the linear portion of said triangular path, said carrier assembly means including means to position and feed the interconnected series of carriers relative thereto beginning in the vicinity of the rounded corner portion between the upper angular side portions and then along one upper angular side portion of the triangular path prior to progressively assembling said carriers to containers in the linear portion of said triangular path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.