System for feeding caps with rotating-drum accumulation device
AssigneeArol S.P.A.
InventorSergio Cirio
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Abstract
System for feeding bottle-tops to a bottle closing machine, in particular for feeding caps to an automatic capping machine, comprising an accumulation device, an entrance channel for feeding caps to the accumulation device and an exit channel to discharge the caps from the accumulation device and feed the caps to the capping machine. The accumulation device comprises a drum rotating around a vertical axis and provided with a plurality of pipes distanced uniformly one from another in the circumferential direction and each having an upper extremity and a lower extremity respectively for the entrance and exit of the caps.
Claims8
A system for feeding bottle-tops to a bottle closing machine, comprising:
- an accumulation device comprising a drum rotating around a vertical axis and provided with a plurality of pipes uniformly distanced one from the next in a circumferential direction and each having an upper extremity and a lower extremity respectively for the entrance and exit of caps, wherein the drum comprises two parts angularly mobile one with respect to another that can selectively be locked in different relative positions corresponding to different formats of the caps;
- an entrance channel for feeding the caps to the accumulation device;
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- an exit channel through which the caps leave the accumulation device and which feeds the caps to the bottle closing machine.
A device for at least one of washing, drying, and sterilizing caps for containers, comprising:
- a drum rotating around a vertical axis and provided with a plurality of pipes distanced uniformly one from another in a circumferential direction and each having an upper extremity and a lower extremity respectively for entrance and exit of the caps, wherein the drum comprises two parts angularly mobile one with respect to another that can selectively be locked in different relative positions corresponding to different formats of the caps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.