Device for positioning printed caps
OwnerAlbert Desominventor
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Abstract
Printed caps to be placed upon filled and corked bottles are forwarded onto slanted parallel guide rods which are caused to selectively rotate to present the successive caps thereon to a cap gripping and setting device with said caps having a determined position as detected by a sensing device disposed adjacent the lower end of the guide rods for sensing marks provided on the caps. The desired position of the caps is determined with respect to a proper positioning of the bottles so as to have printed patterns on the caps and the pleats thereof positioned with respect to structural features of the bottles, such as wire eyes of cork-wiring of champagne bottles.
Claims7
A device for orientating and positioning printed container caps to be placed upon containers, said caps being provided with optical marks, said device comprising a cap gripping means, a pair of separated guide rod means extending parallel to each other at an angle to a horizontal plane for slidingly forwarding a stack of interengaged bottle caps supported thereon toward said cap gripping means arranged adjacent the lower end portions of said guide rod means for successively gripping the lowermost cap in the stack and placing same on said container, at least said lower end portions of said guide rod means being mounted for synchronous rotation around their longitudinal axes;
- a mark reading means arranged adjacent said lower end portions of said guide rod means for sensing the marks provided on the lowermost cap of the stack supported onto said guide rod means;
- a driving means for selectively rotating said portions of said guide rod means, and a switching means connected to said mark reading means and to said driving means for controlling selective rotation of said portions of said guide rod means, said switching means interrrupting said rotation when a lowermost cap of the stack is in a predetermined rotational position as sensed by said mark reading means.
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