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US 4,363,204 AGranted
Apparatus for simultaneous operation of uncasing and cap removing
AssigneeShibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasao Ohude, Duro Kawamura
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Abstract
At a first position, bottles are stored in a box, and the bottles are taken out of the box at the first position and transferred to a second position. If the bottles are capped, all the caps are removed during the above-mentioned uncasing operation so that all the bottles placed at the second position are uncapped. In this manner, an uncasing operation and a cap removing operation take place simultaneously. The present apparatus comprises a holding head unit which makes a reciprocating motion between the first and the second positions. The holding head unit is provided with bottle grippers and cap removers. The cap removers are movable with respect to the bottles for uncapping.
Claims8
An apparatus for uncasing and uncapping bottles, comprising:
- (a) a movable holding head unit including a bottom plate provided with a plurality of bottle grippers and a top plate fixedly connected to said bottom plate, wherein each of said bottle grippers includes cylinder means and elastic member means provided on the inner surface of said cylinder means and the bottom end of each of said cylinder means is engageable with a part of a bottle stored in a box when said unit is located at a lowered position;
- (b) means for moving said holding means unit between a first position where a plurality of bottles, some of which may have caps thereon, are contained in a box and a second position where said bottles are placed with the caps removed and in an uncased condition;
- (c) means for vertically moving said holding head unit while said unit moves between said first and second positions;
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- (d) means, attached to said holding head unit, for removing caps from the bottles while being transferred from the first position to the second position, said means for removing caps including an intermediate plate interposed between said top and bottom plates, said intermediate plate being movable with respect to said top and bottom plates in order to carry out a cap removing operation and provided with cap removers corresponding in position to respective said bottle grippers.
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An apparatus for uncasing and uncapping bottles, comprising:
- (a) a movable holding head unit comprising a top plate and a bottom plate provided with a plurality of bottle grippers, wherein each of said bottle grippers includes cylinder means and elastic member means provided on the inner surface of said cylinder means and the bottom end of each of said cylinder means is engageable with a part of a bottle stored in a box when said unit is located at a lowered position;
- (b) means for moving said holding head unit between a first position where a plurality of bottles, some of which may have caps thereon, are contained in a box and a second position where said bottles are placed with the caps removed and in an uncased condition;
- (c) means for vertically moving said holding head unit while said unit moves between said first and second positions;
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- (d) means for removing caps from the bottles while being transferred from the first position to the second position, said means for removing caps including cap removers provided with said top plate corresponding in position to respective said bottle grippers, whereby the relative positional relation between said bottle grippers and said cap removers is changed by changing the relative positional relation between said top plate and said bottom plate in order to carry out a cap removing operation.
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An apparatus for uncasing and uncapping bottles, comprising:
- (a) a movable holding head unit comprising a bottom plate provided with a plurality of bottle grippers and a top plate fixedly connected to said bottom plate, wherein each of said bottle grippers includes cylinder means and elastic member means provided on the inner surface of said cylinder means and the bottom end of each of said cylinder means is engageable with a part of a bottle stored in a box when said unit is located at a lowered position;
- (b) means for moving said holding head unit between a first position where a plurality of bottles, some of which may have caps thereon, are contained in a box and a second position where said bottles are placed with the caps removed and in an uncased condition;
- (c) means for vertically moving said holding head unit while said unit moves between said first and second positions;
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- (d) means for removing caps from the bottles while being transferred from the first position to the second position, said means for removing caps including cap removers provided with said top plate corresponding in position to respective said bottle grippers and holding means disposed below each of said bottle grippers for holding the bottles in position during a cap removing operation, whereby said top and bottom plates are moved upward with keeping the bottles stationary by said holding means to remove the caps from said bottles and then said elastic member is inflated to grip the neck of the bottles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.