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US 4,158,624 AGranted
Apparatus for deflecting bottles in bottle feeding apparatus
AssigneeTI Fords Limited
InventorsGeoffrey E. Ford, Antis Pantelides, Trevor R. Willsmer
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AssigneeTI Fords Limited
InventorsGeoffrey E. Ford, Antis Pantelides, Trevor R. Willsmer
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The invention relates to bottle feeding apparatus in which bottles in an upright position are moved continuously in a stream along a path, means being provided for deflecting the mouth of a bottle transversely of the direction of its forward movement to tilt the axis of the bottle, the neck of a deflected bottle being engaged by a plough positioned adjacent to and downstream of the deflecting means and shaped progressively to displace the body of the bottle sideways out of the stream of moving bottles. As a deflected bottle is moved sideways out of the stream it is guided by the plough into a deflection channel and its axis is restored to an upright position by its neck engaging with a rail at the opposite side of the deflection channel and by the squeezing action of adjacent bottles.
Bottle feeding apparatus comprising guide means defining a path along which bottles are adapted to be moved in an upright position in a single file, means for moving a stream of bottles along said path, means for deflecting the mouth of a bottle transversely to its direction of forward motion along said path to tilt the axis of the bottle, and a plough positioned adjacent to and downstream of where the deflecting means tilts a bottle, said plough being arranged to engage the neck of a deflected bottle and being shaped to displace the body of a deflected bottle sideways out of the stream of bottles moving in said path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.