US 5,333,988 AGranted

Device for supplying products ordered in series to a successive work station

AssigneeG.D S.p.A.

InventorsMario Turra, Verter Cesari, Armando Neri

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Abstract

The device serves to convey products singly and in succession to a work station. For example rolls of strip material can be conveyed to a wrapping machine, or containers of cigarettes can be conveyed to a packaging unit. The device comprises a conveyor system by which products loaded into a magazine are supported and caused to advance from an infeed end of the magazine toward a mechanism, positioned at an outfeed end, which the transfers each product to a position within the work station. The movement of the conveyor system is reversible, and with a transfer mechanism installed at both the infeed and the outfeed end of the magazine, the contents can be emptied from either end without manual or machine assistance.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A device for transferring products to a work station comprising:

a magazine adapted to hold a plurality of products, said magazine having an infeed end and an outfeed end;
means for advancing the products in a forward direction along the magazine from said infeed end toward said outfeed end during a normal transfer of the products to the work station, said advancing means being further capable of alternatively advancing the products in a reverse direction toward the infeed end;
means for successively transferring each of said products from the outfeed end of the magazine to the work station during the normal transfer of the products;
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further transfer means for removing the products from the infeed end of the magazine when the products are alternatively advanced in the reverse direction to the infeed end.

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