Process and apparatus for introducing products into containers
AssigneeGerhard Schubert GmbH
InventorRalf Schubert
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Abstract
In a process and an apparatus for introducing individual products into containers for receiving a given number of individual products for filling the containers, by means of a picker line, the individual products and the containers are not advanced with a transportation movement in co-flow relationship, and delivery of the next container to be filled, into the working region of the pickers of the picker line, is controlled in dependence thereon.
Claims25
A process for introducing individual products into containers, which comprises the following steps:
- a) providing a picker line apparatus which includes:
- a picker means which is pivotably supported for universally dimensional operation;
- b) moving the individual products and the containers with a transportation movement;
- c) sensing the location of the individual products and containers with the sensing means;
- d) pivoting the picker;
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- e) delivering the next container to be filled to a working region, whereby products can be transposed into the container by rotating the picker means about a perpendicular axis.
A picker line apparatus for introducing individual products into containers, comprising:
- a control means;
- a sensing means, wherein the sensing means communicates with the control means;
- a first surface for conveying products;
- a second surface for conveying containers;
- and at least one picker means for transposing individual products into the containers, wherein the picker means is pivotably supported for universally dimensional operation, wherein the picker means, the first surface and the second surface are controlled by the control means.
A picker line apparatus for introducing individual products into containers, comprising:
- a control means;
- a sensing means, wherein the sensing means communicates with the control means;
- a first conveyor belt for conveying products;
- a second conveyor belt for conveying containers;
- at least one picker means for transposing individual products into the containers, wherein the picker means is pivotably supported, wherein the picker means is operable to transfer products on the first conveyor belt into containers on the second conveyor belt, wherein the picker means and the conveyor belts are controlled by the control means;
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- a drive means for producing relative movement of the conveyor belts and the picker means, wherein the first conveyor and the second conveyor move in a relationship, whereby the control means controls the speed of the first and second conveyor belts relative to each other such that the containers are entirely filled when the containers leave the working region of the last picker means in the direction of movement of the second conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.