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US 4,170,860 AGranted
Candle manufacturing system and method
AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Flinn, Roy D. Robinson
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AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Flinn, Roy D. Robinson
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A system for the production of dipped taper candles, including an overhead conveyor system supporting mobile carrier racks for formation of the candles in suspended relation from the rack, and including a wicking station for providing rows of candle wicks in generally tensioned suspended relation from a carrier rack, a dipping station for automatically dipping said wicks on the rack through a predetermined number of dipping cycles, a cutoff station for cutting off the bases including the wick tensioning weights of the candles suspended from the carrier rack, a butt forming station for heat forming the cut butt ends of candles suspended from the carrier rack, and a cut down station for expeditiously cutting down the carrier rack rows of the candles formed on the candle wicks and for collecting the same for further processing. The invention also provides a novel method of producing physically uniform candles in mass production batches.
In a system for the production of dipped taper candles including a mobile carrier rack suspended from an overhead conveyor system, a wicking station for providing candle wicks and for attaching the latter in generally tensioned suspended relation to said rack, a dipping station including a tank for automatically dipping the wicks on said rack through a predetermined number of dipping cycles, for forming candles on the wicks, a cut-off station for cutting off the bases of the candles suspended from said rack, the last mentioned station including means for clamping the candles during the cutoff operation, a butt forming station for forming the cut butts on candles suspended from said rack, said butt forming station including means for holding the candles in generally stationary relation to the rack during said butt forming operation, and a cut down station for cutting down the candles from said rack.
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