Apparatus for nesting containers
OwnerAlain Cerfinventor
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Abstract
The invention is to accumulate the bottles in a nested formation at a high speed on a moving conveyor and the reduction or elimination of gaps between the nested bottles that are caused by missing bottles. The is done by oscillating the conveyor belt Another objective of the invention is to accumulate a predetermined number of bottles in rows to be bundled by establishing a first barrier to retain the bottles on the conveyor and using second barrier to control the number of rows to be included in the bundle.
Claims20
An apparatus for nesting containers resting on a moving conveyor belt comprising means for reducing the number of gaps or eliminating the gaps from the moving nested containers when a container is missing while the conveyor is moving, means for restraining the movement of the containers by a first barrier thereby allowing rows of containers to accumulate in a nested arrangement, means for separating a predetermined number of containers arranged in rows while the conveyor is moving, means for film wrapping the predetermined number of containers arranged in rows.
A process for nesting containers resting on a moving conveyor belt comprising, reducing or eliminating the number of gaps between the nested containers when a container is missing while the conveyor is moving, restraining the movement of the containers by a first barrier thereby allowing nested rows of containers to accumulate, separating a predetermined number of containers arranged in rows while the conveyor is moving, and film wrapping the predetermined number of containers arranged in rows.
An apparatus for nesting containers resting on a moving conveyor belt comprising means for oscillating the conveyor belt while the conveyor is moving to reduce the number of gaps or eliminating the gaps from the moving nested containers when a container is missing,
- means for separating a predetermined number of containers,
- means for restraining the movement of the containers by a barrier thereby allowing rows of containers to accumulate against the barrier.
A process for nesting containers resting on a moving conveyor belt comprising, oscillating the moving conveyor belt to reduce or eliminate the number of gaps between the nested containers when a container is missing, separating a predetermined number of containers arranged in rows while the conveyor is moving, and restraining the movement of the containers by a barrier thereby allowing rows of nested containers to accumulate against the barrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.