Device for the orienting of bottles applicable, in particular, to bottling machines
OwnerJean Bedininventor
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Abstract
A device for the orienting of bottles or similar containers, in particular for treatment machines such as labeling or decoration machines, each treated bottle being provided with a mark intended to come into engagement with an associated element of the orientation device, is so adapted that the associated element exerts on the bottle, as long as it is not in engagement with its mark, a push which tilts it and brings at least one point of a generatrix of its side surface to rub by contact against at least one wall during the relative displacement of the bottle and the wall.
Claims7
An arrangement for orienting bottles to a predetermined angular position, each bottle having a bottle axis, a bottle side wall, a bottle bottom wall and a bottle mark, said arrangement comprising:
- (a) a rotary selector wheel having a plurality of compartments rotatable about a wheel axis;
- (b) means for successively conveying the bottles into the compartments;
- (c) means for turning each bottle about its respective bottle axis until the bottle mark is positioned at said predetermined angular position;
- (d) tilting means for tilting each bottle in its respective compartment during turning to said predetermined angular position to a tilted position in which the respective bottle axis is inclined relative to the wheel axis at an angle other than a right angle;
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- (e) said turning means including braking means for engaging a reduced braking zone on a respective bottle side wall in the tilted position of the respective bottle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.