Bottle labeling machine
AssigneePE Corporation
InventorMario Ballarotti
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Abstract
A bottle labeling machine, comprising a rotating carousel provided with a supporting structure for pans on which the bottles rest and comprising input and output star conveyors, the input and output star conveyors being arranged at a fixed elevation, the rotating carousel being provided with means suitable to change the elevation of the pan supporting structure.
Claims8
A bottle labeling machine, comprising a rotating carousel provided with a supporting structure which supports a plurality of pans on which the bottles rest and an overlying structure for supporting heads for centering said bottles, further comprising input and output star conveyers, which are respectively suitable to pick up the incoming bottles in order to place them on said carousel and to receive the labeled bottles from said carousel in order to transfer them to a removal line, said input and output star conveyers being arranged at a fixed elevation for respectively picking up incoming bottles and transferring bottles to the removal line at said fixed elevation of the input and output star conveyors, said overlying structure being also arranged at a fixed elevation for having the bottles placed thereon from said input conveyor at the fixed elevation of said overlying structure and for having the bottles be received by said output conveyor at the fixed elevation of said overlying structure, and said rotating carousel being provided with means suitable to change the elevation of the pan supporting structure for changing simultaneously the elevation of all of the plurality of pans supported by said pan supporting structure for adapting the machine to different size bottles without changing the fixed elevations of all of said input and output star conveyors and of said overlying structure for supporting heads for centering said bottles of said carousel.
A bottle labeling machine in combination with a closure fitting unit, the bottle labeling machine comprising:
- a rotating carousel provided with a supporting structure which supports a plurality of pans on which the bottles rest and an overlying structure for supporting heads for centering said bottles;
- input and output star conveyors, which are respectively suitable to pick up the incoming bottles in order to place them on said carousel and to receive the labeled bottles from said carousel in order to transfer them to a removal line, said input and output star conveyors being arranged at a fixed elevation for respectively picking up incoming bottles and transferring bottles to the removal line at said fixed elevation of the input and output star conveyors, said overlying structure being also arranged at a fixed elevation for having the bottles placed thereon from said input conveyor at the fixed elevation of said overlying structure and for having the bottles be received by said output conveyor at the fixed elevation of said overlying structure, and said rotating carousel being provided with means suitable to change the elevation of the pan supporting structure for changing simultaneously the elevation of all of the plurality of pans supported by said pan supporting structure for adapting the machine to different size bottles without changing the fixed elevations of all of said input and output star conveyors and of said overlying structure for supporting heads for centering said bottles of said carousel.
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