Can processing machine with cantilever design
AssigneeBelvac Production Machinery, Inc.
InventorsTerry Babbitt, Harold James Marshall, Joseph Schill
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Abstract
A machine arrangement that operates on a plurality of articles includes a plurality of machines arranged to cooperate with each other in a manner to form a machine arrangement. Each machine includes a modular base, a transfer star wheel, and a turret mechanism configured to perform a working operation on an article. The turret mechanism includes a turret star wheel. A central axis of the transfer star wheel is approximately 45 degrees below horizontal relative to a central axis of the turret star wheel. The turret mechanism includes a cantilevered portion overhanging a portion of the base.
Claims18
A machine arrangement which operates on a plurality of articles comprises:
- a plurality of machines arranged to cooperate with each other in a manner to form a machine arrangement,
- each machine in the plurality of machines includes a modular base, a transfer star wheel having 20 transfer pockets, and a turret mechanism configured to perform a working operation on an article, the turret mechanism including a turret star wheel having 12 support pockets, and
- wherein a central axis of the transfer star wheel is 45 degrees below horizontal relative to a central axis of the turret star wheel.
A machine arrangement which operates on a plurality of articles comprises:
- a plurality of machines arranged to cooperate with each other in a manner to form a machine arrangement,
- each machine in the plurality of machines includes a modular base, a transfer star wheel, and a turret mechanism configured to perform a working operation on an article, the turret mechanism including a turret star wheel, each machine in the plurality of machines being configured to receive a drive motor and reducer,
- wherein a central axis of the transfer star wheel is 45 degrees below horizontal relative to a central axis of the turret star wheel, and
- wherein at least one of the machines in the plurality of machines further includes a drive motor and reducer, the at least one machine in the plurality of machines driving the remaining ones of the plurality of machines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.