Rotary electronic profile placer
AssigneeHMS Label Specialties, Inc.
InventorRichard E. Schaupp
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Abstract
A rotary transfer device for placing and feeding articles includes a main rotating body, a motor coupled to the main rotating body, a center gear, a planetary gear, an article transfer mechanism and a servo motor. The rotating drive body motor rotates the main rotating body about an axis. The center gear continuously rotates about the axis. The planetary gear rotates with the main rotating body and is in rotational communication with the center gear. The article transfer mechanism rotates with the planetary gear and has at least one apex position of travel. The servo motor is in communication with the center gear and varies the continuous rotational velocity of the center gear to vary rotational velocity of the planetary gear.
Claims29
A rotary transfer device for placing articles on objects, the device comprising:
- a main rotating body;
- means for rotating the main rotating body about a first axis;
- a center gear for rotation about the first axis wherein the center gear continually rotates about the first axis in one direction;
- a planetary gear for rotation with the main body and about a second axis the planetary gear being in rotational communication with the center gear;
- means for driving the planetary gear about the center gear;
- an article transfer mechanism for placing articles onto objects, the article transfer mechanism rotating with the planetary gear and having at least one apex position of travel;
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- motion control means for periodically varying rotational velocity of the center gear to vary rotational velocity of the planetary gear such that the velocity of each article to be placed matches the velocity of the object on which it is to be placed at the time of its placement.
An apparatus for placing articles onto moving objects positioned on conveyor means, the apparatus comprising:
- a main body for rotation about an axis;
- an article transfer mechanism for traveling in orbital motion with apex positions about the axis;
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- a center gear for rotation about the axis, the center gear continuously rotating about the axis in one direction;
- a planetary gear coupled between the center gear and the article transfer mechanism, the planetary gear being in rotational communication with the center gear;
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- motion control means for electronically varying rotational velocity of the center gear to vary rotational velocity of the planetary gear such that the velocity of each article to be placed matches the velocity of the object on which it is to be placed at the time of its placement.
The rotary transfer device for placing articles onto moving objects having a velocity, the device comprising:
- a main rotating body;
- means for rotating the main rotating body about a first axis;
- a center gear for continuous rotational movement about the first axis in a single direction;
- a planetary gear for rotation with the main rotating body and about a second axis, the planetary gear being in rotational communication with the center gear;
- an article transfer mechanism for placing articles onto objects, the article transfer mechanism rotating with the planetary gear and having at least one apex position of travel;
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- motion control means for periodically varying the continuous rotational velocity of the center gear to vary rotational velocity of the planetary gear such that the velocity of each article to be placed matches the velocity of the object on which it is to be placed at the time of its placement.
The rotary device for placing articles onto moving objects, the device comprising:
- a main rotating body;
- means for rotating the main rotating body about an axis;
- a center gear for rotational movement about the axis in one direction, the center gear having a radius;
- a planetary gear for rotation with the main rotating body and in rotational communication with the center gear, the planetary gear having a radius substantially the same as the radius of the center gear;
- an article transfer mechanism for placing articles onto the moving objects, wherein the article transfer mechanism is attached to the planetary gear such that it rotates with the planetary gear and having at least one apex position of travel;
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- motion control for varying the rotational velocity of the center gear to vary rotational velocity of the planetary gear such that the velocity of each article to be place matches the velocity of the object on which the article is to be placed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.