Feeding apparatus for caps made of magnetic substance
AssigneeShibuya-Kogya Company, Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Ono
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Abstract
A feeding apparatus for caps which are made of magnetic substance to feed the caps of bottles to a cap placing apparatus one by one in good order in a continuous manner, in which said feeding apparatus comprises: a magnetic first conveyor belt to attract and transfer the caps from a hopper; a baffle to remove overlapping caps on said first conveyor belt; a second conveyor belt to select out the caps which are in the wrong position; a guide passage to feed the caps one by one to said cap placing apparatus; a set of an inclined guide fence and a swingable fence to define a guiding section; an outlet to discharge excess caps; and a swinging means to swing said swingable fence.
Claims2
An apparatus for feeding caps made of magnetically attractable substance from a hopper, which comprises:
- a first conveyor belt having magnetism which attracts said caps by the magnetic force thereof and receives and transfers said caps from said hopper onto said first conveyor belt;
- a baffle provided in operative relation to said first conveyor belt for displacing overlapping caps on said first conveyor belt so that a single layer of caps is formed on said first conveyor belt, with said caps being arranged so that either the front sides thereof or the back sides thereof face outwardly of said first conveyor belt;
- said baffle comprising two elastic plates disposed opposite one another on opposite sides of said first conveyor belt and connected by a connecting rod at the upper ends thereof, said connecting rod being reciprocated by a reciprocating means in a direction at right angles to the moving direction of said first conveyor belt;
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- a second conveyor belt having magnetism which is provided downstream of said baffle on said first conveyor belt, and is positioned close to said first conveyor belt to attract and transfer to said second conveyor belt only the caps disposed in front side out position on said first conveyor belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.