Methods for transferring discrete articles
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsClifford Theodore Papsdorf, Uwe Schneider
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a method of transferring discrete articles from or to a moving carrier member using a transfer assembly. The transfer assembly comprises a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles. The method comprises rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis and maintaining the transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the moving carrier member at the point of discrete article transfer.
Claims27
A method of transferring discrete articles from or to a rotating carrier member using a transfer assembly comprising a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a substantially flat transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles, the method comprising:
- rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis;
- and
- maintaining the substantially flat transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the rotating carrier member throughout a zone of discrete article transfer.
A method of transferring discrete articles from or to a rotating carrier member using a transfer assembly comprising a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles, the method comprising:
- rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis such that the transfer surface has a tangential velocity substantially the same as the velocity of the rotating carrier member in a zone of discrete article transfer;
- and
- maintaining the transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the rotating carrier member in the zone of discrete article transfer.
A method of transferring discrete articles from a first rotating carrier member to a second rotating carrier member using a transfer assembly comprising a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a substantially flat transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles, the method comprising:
- rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis;
- and
- maintaining the substantially flat transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the first rotating carrier member and the second rotating carrier member in zones of discrete article transfer.
A method of transferring discrete articles from or to a rotating carrier member using a transfer assembly comprising a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a substantially flat transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles, the method comprising:
- rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis;
- maintaining the substantially flat transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the rotating carrier member at the point of discrete article transfer;
- and
- moving the substantially flat transfer surface radially relative to the rotation axis at the point of discrete article transfer to maintain the substantially constant minimum distance.
A method of transferring discrete articles from or to a rotating carrier member using a transfer assembly comprising a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a substantially flat transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles, the method comprising:
- rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis;
- maintaining the substantially flat transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the rotating carrier member at the point of discrete article transfer by radial displacement of a portion of the transfer surface relative to the rotational axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.