Modularly constructed automatic packaging machine
AssigneeTisma Machine Corporation
InventorSteven Tisma
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Abstract
An automatic packaging machine is custom constructed from standardized modules in order to reduce cost and standardize operational and maintenance procedures. The standardized modules include conveyor chain modules which may be ganged to maintain synchronization of operations. Various types of attached may be attached to the conveyor chain in order to mandrels adapt the machine to load different types of products. A cam pin guides and directs selective transfers of products when both box and product are present and to cancel transfer when one of said box or product is absent. One example of such a customized machine is a machine for loading golf balls.
Claims23
An automatic packaging machine constructed of standardized modules assembled in a customized manner, said machine comprising a plurality of chain modules assembled in juxtaposition and with at least one of said chain modules confronting at least one other of said chain modules in at least one location where product carried by a conveyor chain module may be put into a box carried by another conveyor chain module, means for transferring driving power through said chain modules for operating them in a predetermined synchronism, a plurality of different types of mandrels for carrying different types of product and for performing transfer functions between said chain modules, and means for attaching a plurality of a selected type of mandrels to at least one of said chain modules.
The machine of claim 12 wherein said product is golf specific number on it.
An automatic packaging machine comprising a conveyor for transporting a plurality of elongated trays around a closed path, means for transporting a plurality of boxes around another closed path, said two closed paths coinciding over an area common to at least parts of said paths whereby product in said elongated trays may be dumped into said boxes in said area, loader means spanning an area which is long enough to simultaneously cover a plurality of said elongated trays, said loader means having a loading station corresponding to each elongated tray in said spanned area, means for feeding product from separate sources to each of said loading stations, means for transferring product from each loading station to a corresponding elongated tray, and means for dumping product from said elongated tray into an underlying box.
An automatic packaging machine comprising a plurality of conveyors for transporting items around closed paths, said closed paths coinciding in areas where items are transferred from one closed path to another closed path, transfer rods for accomplishing said transfer, a cam pin associated with each of said transfer rods, each of said cam pins having two stable positions, means associated with said closed paths for guiding and directing said cam pin to move into either of said two positions and means responsive to said cam pin moved into only one of said two positions for moving said transfer rod in order to transfer said item to said other closed path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.