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US 6,658,814 B2Granted
Feed unit for a container closure device
AssigneeAlcoa Deutschland GmbH Verpackungswerke
InventorsGünther Spatz, Wolfhard Schwarz, Karl Heinz Spether
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Abstract
A feed unit for a container closure device, with a feed device for container closures and a transfer device which transfers the closures from the feed device to a workstation at which containers are closed. The feed device has a rail that terminates at a stationary check shoulder which protrudes into the feed path of the closures along the feed device rail to position each closure to be picked up by the transfer device moving on a path.
Claims24
A feed unit for container closures, the feed unit comprising:
- a feed device including a support for closures, the support defining a feed path and including a flat bearing surface along which the closures move to a predetermined position to be engaged by a transfer device;
- a work station at which containers are closed;
- a transfer device operable into engagement with the closures in the feed device for transferring the closures from the feed device to the work station;
- the feed device having a stationary check shoulder which protrudes into the feed path of the closures along the feed device to stop the movement of the closures at the predetermined position along the feed path for engagement by the transfer device,
- the bearing surface being rotated relative to the horizontal around a line defining the feed direction of the closures on the feed device.
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