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US 4,729,413 AGranted
Transport puck and method to fill caulking cartridges
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorWalter E. Shults
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Abstract
A transport puck for filling, handling and packaging caulking tubes is disclosed and the process steps involved therewith.
Claims24
A transport puck to vertically align a caulking cartridge, nozzle down said puck comprising:
- (a) a substantially solid lower portion, having a bottom face for stable contact and frictional engagement with level planar surfaces, and attached thereto, opposite said bottom face,
- (b) an upper sleeve, shaped to receive said caulking cartridge in the desired alignment.
- wherein said lower portion has sufficient weight and said bottom face has sufficient breadth to maintain the center of gravity of said puck and a filled caulking cartridge, below a plane passing through any single fulcral point or edge of said bottom face and extending upward through said sleeve from said level planar surface at an angle of about 60.degree..
A method for filling a caulking cartridge comprising the steps of:
- (a) vertically aligning said cartridge in a transport puck, nozzle down, by means of an apparatus to unscramble and load said puck comprising
- (i) a substantially solid lower portion, having a bottom face for stable contact and frictional engagement with level planar surfaces, and attached thereto, opposite said bottom face,
- (ii) an upper sleeve, shaped to receive said caulking cartridge in the desired alignment,
- wherein said lower portion has sufficient weight and said bottom face has sufficient breadth to maintain the center of gravity of said puck and filled caulker, below a plane passing through any single fulcral point or edge of said bottom face and extending upward through said sleeve from said level planar surface at an angle of about 60.degree.;
- (b) transporting said puck to an apparatus for filling said caulking cartridge;
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- (d) filling said cartridge.
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