CN102582903B

CN102582903B - Reinforced plastic foam cup, method and apparatus of manufacturing the same

Info

Publication number: CN102582903B
Application number: CN201210008396.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗伯特·W·霍利斯; 迪米特尔·斯塔马蒂乌
Original assignee: Prairie Packaging Inc
Current assignee: Prairie Packaging Inc
Priority date: 2005-05-27
Filing date: 2006-05-10
Publication date: 2015-05-20
Anticipated expiration: 2026-05-10
Also published as: CA2811167A1; CA2811167C; CN101506054B; CA2608826C; TW200700290A; MX2007014542A; CN101506054A; WO2006130325A2; CN102582903A; CA2608826A1; WO2006130325A3

Abstract

A reinforced plastic foam cup includes a body which defines an open top end and a closed bottom end, wherein the top end has a greater diameter than the bottom end. The body includes a reinforced tapered side wall that extends from the bottom end to the top end. A substantial portion of the reinforced tapered side wall includes a plastic foam layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer and a rigid material layer. Such reinforced plastic foam cup provides an improved tactile feel and enhanced insulation and rigidity properties.

Description

Reinforced plastics foam cup and manufacture method thereof and equipment

Background technology

Drinking cup is generally used in the consumption of beverage and other products.Every day, millions of cup was like this distributed, for single use by fast food restaurant, cafe and convenience store.These cups are processed usually after a single use.

The disposable cup of known type is a traditional plastic foam cup, such as particle polystyrene foam cup.Traditional plastic foam cup totally illustrates in fig 1 and 2, is always indicated by numeral 10.Traditional plastic foam cup 10 comprises elasticity frusto-conical main body 12.This main body, first or top 14 place opening, closes second or bottom 16 place.Top has larger diameter than bottom.The design of frusto-conical main body is convenient to be stacked together by multiple cup in transport and distribution.Main body comprises the tapered sidewalls 18 on inner face or surface 20 and outside or the surface 22 having and extend to bottom from top.The inner face of tapered sidewalls or surface can comprise at least one internal shelf, and it is convenient to multiple glasss stacked.When cup is placed in vertical position, tapered sidewalls 18 proper angle deviation range that is usual and vertical plane surface is 2 degree to 15 degree.Tapered sidewalls 18 comprises the flange 24 outwards being formed or extend.The flange of outside formation is shaped suitably, can be connected to the flange of formation, the bowl cover that drinks water to be fixed to the top of cup with the annular installation portion of the bowl cover (not shown) that makes to drink water.Before cup is distributed from traditional cup distributing box, the flange outwards formed is sometimes in place for being fixed by cup.

A kind of method forming such conventional plastic foam cup comprises adds to expansion polystyrene (using suitable foaming agent improvement) before in mould or die cavity.By in steam injection mould or die cavity, granules of polystyrene is expanded and forms cup.The cup formed takes off from mould or die cavity subsequently.But it will be appreciated that other form the appropriate method of conventional plastic foam cup, comprising any suitable injection molding technology is known technology.

Traditional plastic foam cup has outstanding hot heat preservation property, makes it be specially adapted to the hot drinks such as splendid attire such as coffee, hot tea, soup and hot chocolate.User holds these cups and oneself can not be scalded, and these glasss are also easy to the temperature keeping beverage.Traditional plastic foam cup also has outstanding cold heat preservation property, and it is specially adapted to ice confectionery or the cold drinks such as splendid attire such as milk shake, ice cream and chilled beverage.These glasss are easy to the low temperature keeping Foods or drinks in long-time section.Compared with paper substrate cup or plastic base cup, the manufacturing cost of this conventional plastic foam cup is relatively low, and has better leak resistance than the following cup formed by multiple component.But traditional plastic foam cup outside face can not provide the feel of dixie cup, is also unfavorable for special quality graphic printing thereon.

Other known heat insulation disposable cups for heat or cold drink are made of paper.Dixie cup is made up of paper main element, and paper main element bonds to the base paper plate member with upper surface and lower surface, and wherein the joint portion of base paper plate member and main element forms sealing.Paper substrate cup comprises liner, the upper surface of its main body covered inside face and bottom, and wherein liner in use effectively prevents Liquid Penetrant in paper.But because these cups are formed (i.e. main element and base plate part) by two parts, therefore these glasss are more prone to the joint leadkage along two parts combinations.Traditional dixie cup has outside face, and it provides comfortable feel, but has poor heat-proof quality.Such as, dixie cup usually after filling hot drink a period of time too hot to such an extent as to can not be hand-held.Refreshment steward and customer are usually by together with two or more paper substrate glass holder or increase insulation bushing for such as Hot Coffee, hot tea and hot chocolate etc. and provide heat insulation.This is undesirable, because which increase the quantity of cup and lining, takes extra money.Two glass holders also can make the cup filled more unstable or be easier to crooked together.

In order to address these problems, propose paper to be attached to plastic foam cup.Known method paper being attached to plastic foam cup is use suitable lining cement to arrange the paste portion of fixing scraps of paper inside face, and is contacted with the paper fixed by cup paper is pasted plastic foam cup.This generates the essential part of the paper without lining cement.Because lining cement is discontinuous and be arranged in by halves on paper, therefore form gauffer when paper is attached to or be wrapped in around cup.The gauffer that the producer is undesirably such, for consumers, makes us not liking from aesthetic angle.

Another kind of known method comprises film is attached to plastic foam cup, and when cup-shaped one-tenth on cup this film of thermal contraction.In such mould, method is included in the process manufacturing cup film is integrated with the material of cup.The surrounding materials that such integration comprises film will form cup stretches, and heating material and film make film shrunk subsequently, thus adhere to described material.Although this cup comprises the insulative properties desired by plastic foam cup, the method is relatively costly.

Therefore, there is this demand, namely disposable drinking cup has the insulative properties of plastic foam cup and the feel of paper substrate cup and high quality graphics printing characteristic, thus provides good drinking experience for user.And, there are the equipment of disposable drinking cup, the needs of system and method that provide manufacture such.

Various known machine for one or more label being pasted drinking container, system and method can not solve these needs.Such as, US Patent 4,709,800; 4,729,81; 4,731,147; 4,743,469; 4,911,285; 4,944,825; 4,944,830; 4,950,350; 4,973,374; 4,981,547; 4,994,135; 5,004,518; 5,017,261; 5,021,116; 5,037,499; 5,062,917; 5,062,918; 5,078,826; 5,082,520; 5,087,317; 5,110,402; 5,120,392; 5,121,827; 5,129,984; 5,160,570; 5,167,755; 5,174,851; 5,185,053; 5,188,696; 5,201,984; 5,217,538; 5,227,005; 5,271,783; 5,569,353; 5,713,403; 5,882,474; With 6,050,319 describe the known machine, system and the parts that one or more label are attached to drinking container.These patents do not provide the solution of the problems referred to above.Enhancing cup disclosed herein and cup enhancing machine, equipment, system and method describe at least part of improvement to one or more machines disclosed in these patents, system and method.

Summary of the invention

The disclosure relates in general to a kind of reinforced plastics foam cup, more specifically, relates to a kind of disposable plastic foam cup with the reinforcing member of stickup, and relate to manufacture described cup equipment, method and supply.

Usually, in one embodiment, reinforced plastics foam cup comprises the reinforcing member pasting reinforced plastics foam cup main body tapered sidewalls outside face essential part.Thus, the essential part of tapered sidewalls that reinforcing member pastes on it comprises foamed layers, bond layer and rigid material layer.Compared with the non-reinforced plastic foam cup only including foamed layers, the reinforced plastics foam cup (i.e. foamed layers, bond layer and rigid material layer three layers) with multilayer tapered sidewalls has basic raising in reinforced plastics foam cup rigidity.Therefore, reinforced plastics foam cup provides the insulative properties of plastic foam cup and the feel of paper substrate cup.

In one embodiment, base cup (namely in reinforced plastics foam cup) is conventional plastic foam cup, the cup be such as made up of graininess styrene or any other suitable material.More specifically, base cup or pre-reinforced plastics foam cup comprise elasticity frusto-conical main body.This main body first or top end opening, and closes second or bottom.Top has larger diameter than bottom.This main body comprises the tapered sidewalls with inner face or surface and outside or surface.Tapered sidewalls is to extend to the top of this main body with the suitable angular deflection of vertical plane surface from the bottom of this main body.This glass also comprises the flange of the outside formation extended from tapered sidewalls.The flange of outside formation is shaped suitably, can be connected to the flange of formation with the annular mounting portion of the bowl cover that drinks water making suitable shape and size, the bowl cover that drinks water to be fixed to the top of base cup.In the alternate embodiments be further described below, strengthen system by cup described below and improve the traditional plastic foam cup of process.These improvement generally include: the height increasing cup diapire lower sidewalls, increase below diapire and the angle of the cup-and-cone shape side wall inner surfaces of adjacent bottom wall, and increase the width of the outward extending flange of cup top end.

In one embodiment, reinforcing member or reinforcing material comprise the main body formed by ductile pliable material, such as suitable paper, suitable plastics, suitable composite material or any other suitable material.Although this material is pliable and tough, when pasting base cup, it has the characteristic of rigidity and durability.Thus, it refers to rigid material sometimes herein.In one embodiment, main body is recessed into shape top by annular, annular shape bottom margin, top rake or the head edge and rear-inclined or rear part edge of protruding is formed.In one embodiment, for reason described below, a part before or head edge vertically or be substantially arranged vertically.In this embodiment, each clearly distinguishes from the remainder of reinforcing member front edge of vertical plane surface inclination and offset and the lagging dege of reinforcing member by front edge vertical or basic vertical component respectively.It will be appreciated that when pasting base cup-and-cone shape wall outer surface, the essential part of reinforcing member front edge and whole antemarginal angular adjustment are that reinforcing member provides higher appropriate degree.In another embodiment, as being further described below, a part for rear part edge vertically or is substantially arranged vertically.In this embodiment, the vertical component of rear part edge and reinforcing member rear portion or antemarginal remainder clearly distinguish.

In one embodiment, the inner face of reinforcing member main body or surface are covered by pressure adhesive completely or almost completely.That is, whole or substantially whole inside face is covered by pressure adhesive.The outside of reinforcing member main body can be blank maybe can comprise high-quality visual content, such as printing or the figure, word and/or the pattern that are otherwise formed on it.As the description in process below, in one embodiment, reinforcing member inside face application and paste (passing through lining cement) base cup tapered sidewalls all or essential part outside face.Base cup engages the reinforcing member pasting it and forms reinforced plastics foam cup.Compare with traditional cup with the paper that point type method of attaching is pasted with conventional plastic foam cup, the reinforced plastics foam cup with multilayer tapered sidewalls has basic increase in rigidity.Reinforced plastics foam cup also provides suitable printing region, wherein can print and the high quality graphics can seen by user subsequently, company logo or suitable sale mark.Should recognize, because the inside face of reinforcing member is in a preferred embodiment covered by pressure adhesive completely or almost completely or applies, whole reinforcing member will paste base cup tapered sidewalls, thus the formation of gauffer in reinforcing member is avoided, add intensity and the hardness of base cup, and add the feel of the whole or substantially whole outside face of base cup.In one embodiment, described by below, reinforcing member pastes base cup in an overlapping arrangement.

In one embodiment, the Method and process manufacturing above-described reinforced plastics foam-based cup generally includes the center-point determining reinforcing member top and bottom margin, and wherein said center-point corresponds to reinforcing member and is recessed into the concave point of shape top and the summit of reinforcing member protrusion shape bottom margin.The method comprises base cup or pre-reinforced plastics foam cup to be arranged in turned upside down position and by reinforcing member and arranges with angle (from vertical plane surface skew) the contiguous described cup of the angle (from vertical plane surface skew) corresponding to described base cup or pre-reinforced plastics foam cup tapered sidewalls.This cup move in delivery system and reinforcing member moves or distributed by distributing box time carry out.The reinforcing member of movement is pasted the tapered sidewalls of mobile cup by the vertical axis that the method comprises the initial center-point along being determined by reinforcing member top and bottom margin.In one embodiment, the method comprises the tapered sidewalls that remaining for reinforcing member first non-adhesive portion (namely extending to the part of rear part edge from central vertical shaft) and the remaining non-adhesive portion of reinforcing member second (namely extending to the part of leading edges from central vertical shaft) are pasted cup by order, to form reinforced plastics foam cup.

More specifically, in one embodiment, the method manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup comprises in the open top that faced down in the delivery system placing or rest cup enhancing system or equipment by base cup (i.e. pre-reinforced plastics foam cup).The method comprises from the supply of reinforcing member distributing box and distributes reinforcing member.In one embodiment, reinforcing member distributing box supply reinforcing member, until cup strengthens system determine that the vertical axis extending through reinforcing member top and bottom margin center-point is aimed at the tapered sidewalls of base cup.In this embodiment, due to the inclination of the tapered sidewalls of cup and the reinforcing member of opposing straight, parting paper (reinforcing member pastes on it separably) is arranged with the proper angle corresponding to base cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles, thus, when reinforcing member is separated from parting paper, reinforcing member is arranged with the proper angle corresponding to base cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles.

In one embodiment, when reinforcing member supply is strengthened system by cup by reinforcing member distributing box, cup strengthens position or the location of the sensor determination reinforcing member of system.The position that this is determined according to reinforcing member is (with the information that other is suitable, the such as speed of reinforcing member distributing box supply reinforcing member), the treater that the cup such as such as microprocessor, the platform based on microcontroller, suitable integrated circuit or one or more application-specific IC (ASIC) strengthens system is determined or calculates when reinforcing member to move into the position that reinforcing member central vertical shaft aims at base cup tapered sidewalls.Before sensor detects reinforcing member or the position of the basic vertical component of head edge, to determine the relative position of reinforcing member.In one embodiment, sensor setting became before reinforcing member is about to paste base cup, and described sensor detects the accurate location of each reinforcing member.In this embodiment, by sensor setting in such position, in the position that reinforcing member is placed on base cup, providing the basic precision improved, as being described in more detail, providing the correct joint of reinforcing member and cup below.In alternative embodiments, any suitable clock mechanism can be used for realizing this alignment procedures.It should be appreciated that any suitable mechanism or indicating device, no matter paste or be printed on reinforcing member, can be used to the central vertical shaft of locating reinforcing member.In various embodiments, such mechanism comprises any suitable a groove, multiple groove, mark or multiple mark on reinforcing member, any suitable radio frequency identification instruction, any suitable visible instruction (such as bar code) or any suitable invisible or instruction of not easily seeing.

Reinforcing member central vertical shaft and base wall of cup are on time in this process, and the initial centrally vertical axis of inner face (it is covered by pressure adhesive completely or almost completely) of reinforcing member pastes cup.As described above, reinforcing member is arranged with the angle corresponding to base cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles, and thus reinforcing member pastes base cup with the angle corresponding to base cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles.It will be appreciated that, after centrally vertical axis pastes cup to reinforcing member at first, the advanced or rear part edge of cup keeps not pasting or freedom.

After reinforcing member central vertical shaft pastes cup, the reinforcing member of cup and stickup continues along cup delivery system, and the remainder strengthening system pastes base wall of cup.In one embodiment, cup rotates at first direction, so that first remainder (namely extending to rear part edge from the central vertical shaft of cup) of reinforcing member is pasted cup.Subsequently, cup second, opposite sense rotates, so that second remainder (namely extending to the part of leading edges from central vertical shaft) of reinforcing member is pasted cup.Compared with non-reinforced plastic foam cup, such process defines has the basic reinforced plastics foam cup increasing stiffness characteristics.With first paste the technique of cup along non-central vertical axis compared with, the technique that the vertical axis along reinforcing member is pasted reinforcing member reduces the possibility of makeing mistakes.It will be appreciated that as below discuss, strengthen system according to cup disclosed herein, other suitable rotation modes can be adopted.

In one embodiment, cup enhancing system or equipment comprises glass delivery system and one or more reinforcing member distributing box.Cup delivery system constructs like this, namely hold each and strengthen cup in advance, transmit and separate each and hold cup in place like this, and be transported to the correct position for pasting reinforcing member, and from cup enhancing system, each cup is taken off after reinforcing member is pasted this cup.Each reinforcing member distributing box constructs like this, be transported to for the correct position pasted of cup of conveying by transfer unit, and by each reinforcing member along the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member to paste the wall of a cup corresponding to the angle of cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles.

More specifically, an embodiment of cup delivery system generally includes a glass distributing box, cup feeder, cup separation pig, cup conveyer and Cup separator.As described in more detail below, pre-enhancing or base cup enter cup by cup distributing box and strengthen system, and described cup distributing box distributes cup one at a time from the supply of nested cup.Cup moves to a glass separation pig by cup feeder, and then arrives cup conveyer, and cup is separated by described cup separation pig suitably within a predetermined distance.Each cup moves to and reinforcing member distributing box proper alignment by cup conveyer.Reinforcing member to be pasted by reinforcing member distributing box along its central vertical shaft or is attached on cup.At reinforcing member after central vertical shaft place pastes cup, cup conveyer rotating cup, to paste the remainder of cup by the front and rear edge of reinforcing member.Then by cup disconnector, the cup of enhancing is strengthened system from cup to take off.Should recognize, system is strengthened according to cup disclosed herein, can adopt any suitable cup delivery system and any suitable reinforcing member distributing box, reinforcing member is pasted base cup tapered sidewalls along its central vertical shaft and subsequently the remainder of reinforcing member is pasted base cup tapered sidewalls by described reinforcing member distributing box.。

In one embodiment, base cup enters cup enhancing system by two cup distributing box.This pair of cup distribution system comprises the framework of support at least two guiding partss, and described in each, guiding parts is constructed like this, i.e. a fixing folded nested base cup from suitable supply.Each guiding parts distributes screw rod with multiple threaded cup and is associated.In operation, multiple threaded cup distributes screw rod and rotates the flange engaging nested base cup, with one next from its respective nested folded separation base cup.The base cup separated faces down from cup distributing box and drops on glass feeder.

Cup feeder comprises the framework of the movable load-transfer device supporting multiple adjacent layout.In one embodiment, load-transfer device is directly arranged in below glass distributing box guiding parts, and each is formed with multiple hole or hole.In another embodiment, be formed except the load-transfer device of multiple holes activity except being directly arranged in below glass distributing box guiding parts, each is also formed with multiple hole or hole not directly to be arranged in load-transfer device below glass distributing box guiding parts.Cup feeder is connected to vacuum or negative pressure source suitably, and its hole making the region of air above load-transfer device flow over load-transfer device arrives and is connected to glass vacuum of feeder framework or a negative pressure source.The base cup that such air-flow makes each separate is moved to downwards glass feeder from cup distributing box with prone position by vacuum or negative pressure.It will be appreciated that to provide on the base cup that relative weight is light vacuum or negative pressure prevent base cup its from cup distributing box and cup feeder depart from nested or fall time overturning.

Base cup moves to a glass separation pig by the load-transfer device of cup feeder.Cup separation pig comprises framework, and its support feeds at least one infeed star-wheel that screw rod or separation screw rod and each form multiple separated saucer.Separate screw rod order be separated from cup feeder and separate base cup, to be sent to infeed star-wheel.Separated infeed star-wheel saucer is fixed when base cup is sent to glass conveyer or rotating disk and is kept the spacing of base cup.

Cup conveyer or rotating disk comprise multiple around the isolated cup fixed way of disk peripheral.Each independent cup fixed way is configured to hold base cup from the infeed star-wheel of cup separation pig, and base cup can be rotated complete 360 degree.After base cup is arranged on the cup fixed way of rotating disk by the infeed star-wheel of cup separation pig, the spring supported by rotatable topside is biased the bottom that centering bell engages turned upside down cup, in place to be fixed by cup on fixed way.

In one embodiment, base cup is aligned to and reinforcing member distributing box proper alignment by cup conveyer, and is pasted by reinforcing member or be attached to cup.In one embodiment, each reinforcing member distributing box comprises one or more reinforcing member supply volume bracket, it is configured to fixing reinforcing member supply volume, and described reinforcing member supply volume comprises the reinforcing material that multiple order pastes elongated parting paper separably.Reinforcing member distributing box comprises at least one and preferably multiple being configured for drives or pull the head roll of parting paper.Reinforcing member distributing box also comprises at least one and preferred guide piece and the tension wheel such as multiple such as guide pulleys, and it is configured for and guides parting paper and in parting paper, keep appropriate tension force.Reinforcing member distributing box comprises parting paper and to relax piler and at least one sensor, wherein, the parting paper piler that relaxes to be configured to provide in parting paper lax designated area of piling up thus to be easy to each reinforcing member to aim at each glass, and described sensor for determining the accurate location of each reinforcing member before and then reinforcing member pastes cup.Reinforcing member distributing box also comprises parting paper disconnector and parting paper collection cylinder, and wherein parting paper disconnector is used for being separated reinforcing member from parting paper, and parting paper collection cylinder is used for fixing parting paper after being separated with reinforcing member.。

In one embodiment, the parting paper piler that relaxes is the parts of elongated substantially u-shaped, and it provides the lax designated area that can be deposited in wherein in parting paper.In this embodiment, because reinforcing member is accurately pasted a glass tapered sidewalls along reinforcing member central vertical shaft by needs, cup strengthen the treater of system constantly regulate reinforcing member be about to paste before kinematic velocity, to guarantee that the cup that moves on rotating disk contacts in the suitable time with by strengthening the reinforcing member that distributing box distributes with position, with make the central vertical shaft of each reinforcing member being less than ± consistent basis of the limit of error of 0.1 inch on paste on each cup.In other words, provide and can pile up the treater that lax region can make cup strengthen system and regulate parting paper (thus reinforcing member) supply through the speed of reinforcing member distributing box, and do not affect the infeed that parting paper supplies from parting paper.Therefore this structure is easy to each and accurate location that is each reinforcing member.

In one embodiment, after reinforcing member strengthens base cup, enhancing cup is strengthened system from cup and takes off by cup disconnector.Cup disconnector comprises one or more output star-wheel, and enhancing cup is sent to export and strengthens cup load transfer device by it.Export enhancing cup load transfer device and each enhancing cup is sent to the cup position controls such as such as cup tipping device, it will strengthen cup and place or overturning (leading edges is downward) on its sidepiece with its sidepiece.Then by cup system of discharging, the cup vacuum of overturning is pulled to a folded nested enhancing cup.It will be appreciated that according to cup enhancing system disclosed herein, any suitable equipment for taking off cup can being adopted.

Therefore the reinforcing member owing to pasting completely, the advantage of this equipment and method is to provide a kind of disposable plastic foam drinking cup, and it has feel, the basic rigidity improved and the durability substantially improved that base cup improves.

Another advantage of this equipment and method is to provide a kind of disposable foamed plastic drinking cup, cup outer wall has the high quality graphics of printing, its drinking experience stronger for user provides.

Another advantage of this equipment and method is to provide a kind of disposable plastic foam drinking cup, and it has the relatively low non-wrinkled reinforcing member of manufacturing cost.

Below in detailed description book and accompanying drawing, will describe other feature and advantage, by detailed description book and accompanying drawing below, these feature and advantage are also apparent.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Fig. 1 is the front perspective view of conventional plastic foam cup.

Fig. 2 is the sectional view of the conventional plastic foam cup of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is the front perspective view of a reinforced plastics foam cup disclosed herein embodiment.

Fig. 4 is the sectional view of the reinforced plastics foam cup of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is the top plan view of the outside of a reinforcing member disclosed herein embodiment.

Fig. 6 is the bottom plan view of the reinforcing member inner face of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is the top plan view of the multiple reinforcing members be arranged sequentially in elongated parting paper.

Fig. 5 A is the top plan view outside reinforcing member alternate embodiments disclosed herein.

Fig. 6 A is the bottom plan view of Fig. 5 A reinforcing member inner face.

Fig. 7 A is the top plan view of the multiple Fig. 5 A reinforcing members be arranged sequentially in elongated parting paper.

Fig. 5 B is the top plan view outside another alternate embodiments of reinforcing member disclosed herein.

Fig. 8 is indicative flowchart, and an embodiment of the reinforced plastics foam cup manufacture method of Fig. 3 disclosed herein is shown.

Fig. 9 is the diagrammatic top plan view that cup disclosed herein strengthens an embodiment of system, and the pre-reinforced plastics foam cup separated with reinforcing member is shown.

Figure 10 is that the cup of Fig. 9 strengthens the diagrammatic top plan view of system, illustrates and moves to pre-reinforced plastics foam cup in engage position and reinforcing member.

Figure 11 is the pre-reinforced plastics foam cup separated of Figure 10 and the sectional view of reinforcing member.

Figure 12 is the diagrammatic top plan view of the cup enhancing system of Fig. 9, and the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member is shown, it is aimed at the tapered sidewalls of pre-reinforced plastics foam cup.

Figure 13 is the pre-reinforced plastics foam cup aimed at reinforcing member central vertical shaft.

Figure 14 is the sectional view of the reinforcing member engaged with plastic foam cup tapered sidewalls.

Figure 15 is the diagrammatic top plan view of the cup enhancing system of Fig. 9, the Part II of the Part I that the reinforcing member being attached to cup is shown and the reinforcing member not being attached to plastic foam cup.

Figure 16 is the lateral plan of the reinforcing member of Figure 15 bonding partially.

Figure 17 is the diagrammatic top plan view of the cup enhancing system of Fig. 9, illustrates and is attached to plastic foam cup completely to form the reinforcing member of the reinforced plastics foam cup of Fig. 3.

Figure 18 A is the diagrammatic top plan view that cup disclosed herein strengthens a system embodiment.

Figure 18 B is the schematic side elevation of the cup enhancing system of Figure 18 A.

Figure 19 is the lateral plan that cup disclosed herein strengthens two cup distributing boxs of a system embodiment, cup conveyer and vacuum chamber.

Figure 20 is the front perspective view of an a set of cups distribution screw rod of the two cup distributing box of Figure 19.

Figure 21 is the top plan view that the two cup distributing box cups engaged with cup distribute screw rod.

Figure 22 is the front perspective view that cup disclosed herein strengthens two cup distributing boxs of a system embodiment, cup conveyer, vacuum chamber and separation screw rod.

Figure 23 is the semi-sictional view three-dimensional view of vacuum chamber in Figure 22, and multiple adjacent belt conveyor and multiple admission port are shown.

Figure 24 A is the schematic side elevation of the vacuum tank of Figure 22, illustrates and enters vacuum chamber from multiple belt conveyor upper area by multiple induction opening and left the air-flow of vacuum chamber by deflation hole.

Figure 24 B is the schematic side elevation of vacuum tank alternate embodiments, illustrates and enters vacuum chamber from multiple belt conveyor upper area by multiple induction opening and left the air-flow of vacuum chamber by multiple deflation hole.

Figure 24 C is the schematic side elevation of vacuum tank alternate embodiments, illustrates that multiple belt conveyor upper area is entered air stream components by multiple induction opening and left the air-flow of air stream components by multiple deflation hole.

Figure 25 is that cup disclosed herein strengthens the separation screw rod of a system embodiment, feeds the lateral plan of star-wheel and a part of cup conveyer.

Figure 26 is that cup disclosed herein strengthens a part for a system embodiment for cupule, the front perspective view separating screw rod and part infeed star-wheel.

Figure 27 A is that a part is for cupule, the top plan view that separation screw rod and the cup separation pig of multiple infeed star-wheel and an embodiment of a part of cup conveyer are shown.

Figure 27 B is that a part is for cupule, the top plan view that separation screw rod and an infeed cup separation pig for star-wheel and an alternate embodiments of a part of cup conveyer are shown.

Figure 28 be a part of Figure 27 A for cupule, illustrate and separate screw rod and the cup separation pig of multiple infeed star-wheel and the front perspective view of a part of cup conveyer.

Figure 29 is the sectional view that cup disclosed herein strengthens one of them saucer of one of system star-wheel.

Figure 30 is that cup disclosed herein strengthens one of infeed star-wheel of a system embodiment and the front perspective view of cup conveyer, and the multiple cup holding racks relevant to multiple centering bell are shown.

Figure 31 A is the infeed star-wheel of Figure 30 and the lateral plan of cup conveyer, illustrate with feed star-wheel contiguous arranges and feed star-wheel slightly below cup conveyer.

Figure 31 B is the infeed star-wheel of Figure 30, cup conveyer and support the lateral plan of topside of multiple centering bell.

Figure 32 is the front perspective view that cup strengthens the bottom part of a cup conveyer cup fixed way of a system embodiment.

Figure 33 is a glass lateral plan for an embodiment of fixed way centering bell, and it engages with the cup be arranged on glass bottom part of conveyer cup fixed way.

Figure 34 is the sectional view of a cup fixed way centering bell embodiment of glass conveyer.

Figure 35 is the sectional view of a centering bell embodiment of glass fixed way, and it engages with the cup on the cup fixed way bottom part being arranged on glass conveyer.

Figure 36 is the electric structural representation diagram of circuit that cup disclosed herein strengthens a system embodiment.

Figure 37 is the front perspective view that cup disclosed herein strengthens a cup disconnector embodiment of system.

Figure 38 A is the top plan view that cup disclosed herein strengthens an embodiment of system reinforcing member distributing box.

Figure 38 B is the top plan view of cup reinforcing member distributing box alternate embodiments that cup disclosed herein strengthens system, illustrates that parting paper relaxes the alternative design of piler (slack accumulator).

Figure 39 is the front perspective view of the reinforcing member distributing box of Figure 38 A, illustrates relative to the reinforcing member distributing box of cup conveyer in proper angle.

Figure 40 is the front perspective view that the reinforcing member distributing box of Figure 38 A amplifies, and interactional a part of reinforcing member distributing box with the cup transmitted by cup conveyer is shown.

Figure 41 A is the top plan view sketch that cup disclosed herein strengthens system alternate embodiments.

Figure 41 B is the top plan view sketch that cup disclosed herein strengthens system alternate embodiments.

Figure 41 C is the top plan view sketch that cup disclosed herein strengthens system alternate embodiments.

Figure 41 D is the top plan view sketch that cup disclosed herein strengthens system alternate embodiments.

Figure 42 A to 42E is that cup disclosed herein strengthens interactional three-dimensional view between the cup conveyer of a system embodiment and reinforcing member distributing box.

Figure 43 A to 43F is the top plan view sketch that cup disclosed herein strengthens system, illustrates that reinforcing member pastes an embodiment of plastic foam cup.

Figure 44 A to Figure 44 D is the top plan view sketch that cup disclosed herein strengthens system alternate embodiments.

Detailed description of the invention

The present invention relates in general to a kind of enhancing drinking cup, more specifically, relates to a kind of disposable plastic foam and strengthens drinking cup and its manufacture method and equipment.Strengthen drinking cup and be particularly useful for splendid attire and transfer case as hot drinks such as coffee, tea and hot chocolate or other products.

Referring now to Fig. 3 and 4, the technique formation of reinforced plastics foam cup 30 by using reinforcing member to strengthen base cup (such as above-described traditional plastic foam cup) of an embodiment disclosed herein, it is as described below.Strengthen cup 30 and comprise main body 32, it forms open top 34 and closed bottom 36, and wherein the diameter on top is larger than the diameter of bottom.Main body comprises tapered sidewalls 38, and it extends to top from bottom.The top of main body comprises the flange 40 outwards formed, but cup need not have the flange of formation.Should understand, plastic foam base cup can be formed by any suitable material, such as graininess polystyrene.In another embodiment, base cup comprises the paper substrate cup of suitably covering or laminating layer or multilayer polystyrene.

Different from traditional plastic foam base cup, reinforcing member 42 pastes the outside face of nearly all tapered sidewalls 38 or the essential part of tapered sidewalls 38 outside face, to be supplied to the good feel of tapered sidewalls, support and rigidity.Therefore, as shown in Figure 4, the tapered sidewalls 38 of reinforced plastics foam cup 30 comprises foamed layers 44, pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 46 and provides the rigid material layer 48 of better feel.Compared with the non-reinforced plastic foam cup only including foamed layers, the reinforced plastics foam cup with multilayer tapered sidewalls (that is, plastic film layers 44, bond layer 46 and rigid material layer 48) has basic raising in its feel and rigidity.Therefore, reinforced plastics foam cup provides the disposable cup with plastic foam cup insulative properties and paper substrate cup feel.Such reinforced plastics foam cup cost is lower than the paper substrate cup such as, with suitable insulative properties (that is, nested paper substrate cup).And as below described in an embodiment, when on graphic printing is outside reinforcing member rigid material, reinforced plastics foam cup also provides the disposable cup having paper substrate cup high quality graphics and show characteristic.

Referring now to Fig. 5 to 7, in one embodiment, reinforcing member or reinforcing material 42 comprise the main body 50 that, rigid material extending by such as suitable paper, suitable plastic material, suitable composite material or any other suitable material etc. is formed.Main body 50 be substantially thickness at 1.5 millimeters to the plane within the scope of 8 millimeters or flat face, and in a preferred embodiment thickness at about 2.7 millimeters within the scope of 4.0 millimeters.As in Fig. 6, the best illustrates, in one embodiment, the straight body 50 of reinforcing member 42 inner face or surface 52 by lining cement and be preferably pressure adhesive 54 cover completely or almost completely.It will be appreciated that and can use any suitable lining cement or adhesives, the inner face of its coverage enhancement parts completely or almost completely.As shown in Figure 7, in one embodiment, the lining cement overplate of reinforcing member 42 pastes in suitable elongated parting paper 56 separably, its lining cement that can process reinforcing member and not expose.In this embodiment, as described in more detail below, multiple reinforcing member is arranged along parting paper 56 order linear.Parting paper 56 can be made up of any suitable material, such as suitable plastics, paper or its combination in any.Such as, parting paper is the craft paper of about 40 pounds.

In one embodiment, as shown in Figure 5, inner face or the surface 58 of straight body 50 comprise one or more printing area 60, it print the such as high quality graphics such as company logo or suitable sale figure, word and/or image.In one embodiment, sheeting or protection overplate (not shown) paste the top of outside ink layer, protect and/or strengthen print content.

In one embodiment, straight body 50 by bend or ring edge 62, bending or ring edge 64, tilt before or head edge 66 and the rear or tail edge 68 that tilts limit.In one embodiment, the edge 62 of reinforcing member is suitable recessed shape, and edge 64 is suitable protrusion shape, and wherein the concave point at recessed shape edge and the summit at protrusion shape edge are positioned at identical vertical plane surface.In one embodiment, the length at edge 62 is less than the length at edge 64, to make head edge 66 with proper angle (A degree) from vertical plane surface inclination and offset, and afterbody or lagging dege 68 also with suitable angle (B degree) from vertical plane surface inclination and offset.Identify that edge 70 is vertical or extend substantially vertically, it comprises a part of front edge of joining edge 64.As described in more detail below, identify that edge is for determining the exact location of reinforcing member and preventing lining cement seepage when multiple reinforcing member pasting parting paper is separably wound on feed roller.

In another embodiment, as Fig. 5 A, shown in 6A and 7A, except identifying edge 70 (i.e. vertical or a part of head edge of joining edge 64 of extending substantially vertically), reinforcing member comprises lining cement alleviation edge 72.Lining cement alleviates a part of tail edge that edge is the vertical of adjacent reinforcing member edge 64 or extends substantially vertically.In one embodiment, identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and had equal length or substantially identical length.In another embodiment, identify that edge is different with lining cement alleviation edge length or length is substantially different.It will be appreciated that reinforcing member shows with upper and lower upside down position, thus mate with the cup of turned upside down, these cups will engage described by below.Therefore, as the best illustrates in figure 5b, the figure 60 be printed on reinforcing member can any suitable construction print.

Should recognize, when multiple reinforcing member along elongated parting paper linear arrangement to form reinforcing material raw material or feed roller, and when parting paper is wound up in cylinder around center circle column jecket, the pressure of relative significant quantity is placed on the reinforcing member of one or more winding, particularly be placed on inner reinforcement part, inner reinforcement part is with larger angle winding (because cylinder has less diameter at such some place).This pressure tends to make to cover lining cement overplate on such wind reinforcements part from head edge and bending or circular bottom part intersect edge point and/or rear part edge and bending or circular bottom part intersect edge point place seepage.Lining cement overplate can damage one or more wind reinforcements part and/or the structure parting paper disconnector or separating plate (as described below) from the seepage of these points.This seepage lining cement also can stop reinforcing member correctly to paste on cup in the mode expected.In an embodiment of the present disclosure, each identifies that edge and lining cement alleviate the extendible portion that the pressure that these respective points on reinforcing member are formed is re-assigned to reinforcing member by edge.This redistributes the pressure alleviating formation, and thus reduces or prevent bond layer from the reinforcing member seepage of one or more winding.

Should recognize, the size of reinforcing member is by proportional with the specification of base cup.Therefore, the respective angle of reinforcing member head and tail edge, top and any suitable size of the shape of bottom margin, the length between head edge and tail edge or reinforcing member are by based on the size of base cup, the angle of base cup tapered sidewalls or any other specification of base cup.Should recognize further, when reinforcing member pastes glass at first, as described below, identify that edge 70 is: bottom margin of (i) vertical or basic vertical cup; And (ii) be parallel to the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member.Such structure is that cup enhancing system provides absolute reference point, to determine the position of reinforcing member.

Such as, in one embodiment, if base cup is 12 ounces of cups, then the reinforcing member angle be configured between recessed edge and head edge is about 90 degree, recessed angle between edge and rear part edge is about 90 degree, angle between head edge and identification edge is about 150 degree, the angle that rear part edge and lining cement are alleviated between edge is about 150 degree, angle between cocked bead and identification edge is about 120 degree, and the angle that cocked bead and lining cement are alleviated between edge is about 120 degree.

In another example, if base cup is 16 ounces of cups, then the reinforcing member angle be configured between recessed edge and head edge is about 90 degree, recessed angle between edge and rear part edge is about 90 degree, angle between head edge and identification edge is about 155 degree, the angle that rear part edge and lining cement are alleviated between edge is about 155 degree, angle between cocked bead and identification edge is about 115 degree, and the angle that cocked bead and lining cement are alleviated between edge is about 115 degree.

In another example, if base cup is 20 ounces of cups, then the reinforcing member angle be configured between recessed edge and head edge is about 90 degree, recessed angle between edge and rear part edge is about 90 degree, angle between head edge and identification edge is about a degrees, the angle that rear part edge and lining cement are alleviated between edge is about a degrees, angle between cocked bead and identification edge is about 110 degree, and the angle that cocked bead and lining cement are alleviated between edge is about 110 degree.

Usually, as shown in Figure 8, the method or the technique that manufacture above-mentioned reinforced plastics foam cup comprise the vertical axis determining to extend through reinforcing member top and bottom margin center-point, as institute's brief description in square 80.The method comprises base cup or pre-reinforced plastics foam cup turned upside down setting, and with the angle corresponding with the angle of base cup tapered sidewalls, arranges, the base cup tapered sidewalls of contiguous for reinforcing member turned upside down as institute's brief description in square 82 and 84.When base cup and reinforcing member all move in place, as institute's brief description in square 86, the inner face of reinforcing member pastes base cup-and-cone shape sidewall outer along the central vertical shaft determined, wherein reinforcing member is pasted with the angle corresponding with the angle of base cup tapered sidewalls.Pasted at the center of reinforcing member after on base cup tapered sidewalls, the cup with reinforcing member continues to move on cup conveyer, and remains free or non-adhesive portion order or paste tapered sidewalls, as institute's brief description in square 88 simultaneously.It will be appreciated that the such drift angle of reinforcing member is when the non-adhesive portion of the residue of reinforcing member or sections paste base cup tapered sidewalls, realize strengthening the tapered sidewalls that sidewall pastes base cup completely.

More specifically, as shown in Figure 9 schematically, in one embodiment, manufacture or strengthen at least one subsequently and the method for preferred multiple independent plastic foam cup or technique comprise purpose processor is controlled cup enhancing system or equipment 100.In one embodiment, cup strengthens system and comprises a glass delivery system, and cup is moved to paste position and one or more plastic foam base cup or pre-reinforced plastics foam cup 102 are run through whole cup enhancing system 100 and transmits or move by a conventional manner.Cup enhancing system also comprises at least one reinforcing member distributing box 104, operationally supplies each reinforcing member towards paste position subsequently, to paste each base cup 102.Cup enhancing system also comprises suitable sensor 106, can be used to the position determining each reinforcing member, and wherein based on the position determined like this, cup strengthens system 100 and aimed at by the tapered sidewalls of the central vertical shaft 108 of reinforcing member 42 with each base cup 102.Therefore, the system or equipment for reinforcing member being pasted cup comprises a glass delivery system, reinforcing member distributing box (namely for being centered by reinforcing member and being pasted by reinforcing member or be attached to the outside of glass tapered sidewalls).It will be appreciated that technique disclosed in reinforced plastics foam cup, any suitable cup can be used to strengthen system.

In one embodiment, as further described below and illustrating, cup conveyer comprises the position of one or more cup separately, wherein the position of each independent cup comprises and rotates the cup installed and fix rotating disk, and it has cup is properly positioned on the suitable cup registration device that the desired location on rotating disk fixed by cup.Also can operate cup to fix rotating disk, with cw and anticlockwise direction, cup is rotated complete 360 degree.In one embodiment, cup registration device comprises friction engaging member or axle, and cup is fixed in the correct position on rotating disk by the inner face of its frictional engagement base wall of cup.In operation, base cup 102 faces down, and (namely placing with open top) is placed in glass delivery system, and cup moves to the position being convenient to engage with reinforcing member.

In one embodiment, as shown in figs. 9 and 10, reinforcing member distributing box 104 (by one or more suitable cylinder) is operated at the direction of the base cup that faces down supply reinforcing member.In one embodiment, to construct or shaping reinforcing member distributing box 104 limits or comprises parting paper separate section 112.In this embodiment, based on the orientation of reinforcing member 42 relative to parting paper separate section 112, when reinforcing member 42 is supplied by parting paper separate section 112, reinforcing member will be separated from parting paper 56 (it protects pressure adhesive).In one embodiment, cup strengthens system and also comprises one or more reinforcing member pasting pad 114, operates on it thus guides reinforcing member, and after a part of reinforcing member 42 is separated from parting paper 56, prevents reinforcing member shift position.

As in Figure 11, the best illustrates, in one embodiment, operation reinforcing member distributing box makes it supply parting paper 56 (reinforcing member is pasted thereon separably) with the proper angle offseting vertical surface towards base cup 102, and described proper angle corresponds to the angle (also from vertical plane surface skew) of base cup tapered sidewalls.In this embodiment, when reinforcing member is separated from parting paper 56, reinforcing member is by with the suitable angle orientation corresponding with the angle of base cup 102 tapered sidewalls.In one embodiment, at cup and reinforcing member all when mobile, reinforcing member engages the tapered sidewalls of base cup in the proper angle of skew vertical plane surface.As described in more detail below, such drift angle achieves the tapered sidewalls that reinforcing member pastes base cup completely.

Referring back to Fig. 9 and 10, as described above, cup strengthens system and also comprises at least one sensor 106, for determining or checking reinforcing member 42 relative to the orientation of base cup 102 position or position.In one embodiment, the basic vertical component in before sensor detects reinforcing member 42 or head edge ground or identify the position at edge 70 thus determine the relative position of reinforcing member.Based on this reinforcing member allocation and any other suitable information (kinematic velocity of such as cup, supplied the diameter of the speed of reinforcing member, the length of reinforcing member and cup by reinforcing member distributing box) really, cup strengthens system processor and determines or calculate the position that central vertical shaft 108 that when reinforcing member 42 moves into reinforcing member 42 is aimed at base cup 102 tapered sidewalls.In this embodiment, central vertical shaft 108 is recessed into the vertical axis on the concave point of shape top 62 and the summit of reinforcing member protrusion shape bottom margin 64 for extending through reinforcing member.

In one embodiment, arrange or place at least one sensor, with the exact location making sensor detect each reinforcing member before reinforcing member is attached to base cup at once.In this embodiment, arrange in the process that sensor is placed on base cup at reinforcing member in such position and improve accuracy rate, as described in more detail below, this makes correctly to engage between reinforcing member and cup.In alternative embodiments, alignment procedures is controlled by suitable timing machine, uses one or more sensor correct to check timing machine in described timing machine.In the illustrated embodiment, sensor sensing identifies edge.But, it will be appreciated that sensor can sense other suitable reinforcing member position indicators.

As Figure 12, shown in 13 and 14, in one embodiment, the treater that cup strengthens system makes glass conveyer move in paste position by cup 102, and in the paste position that the central vertical shaft 108 making reinforcing member distributing box 104 reinforcing member 42 be fed reinforcing member 42 is aimed at the tapered sidewalls of base cup 102, and make the initial centrally vertical axis of the inner face 52 (it is covered completely or almost completely by pressure adhesive 54) of reinforcing member 42 paste the tapered sidewalls (as shown in Figure 13) of cup.In this embodiment, to it will be appreciated that before reinforcing member to cup-and-cone shape wall outer surface affixed points and through this some cup and reinforcing member all in motion.In one embodiment, base cup moves in the position engaging reinforcing member pasting pad 114 by cup conveyer, compress or engage reinforcing member pasting pad 114 to make the tapered sidewalls of cup, thus reinforcing member 42 (it is arranged between tapered sidewalls and reinforcing member pasting pad 114) is engaged with the tapered sidewalls of cup 102, as in Figure 14, the best illustrates.

As mentioned above and in fig. 14 the best illustrates, reinforcing member 42 is placed with the angle that the tapered sidewalls angle with cup is corresponding, and reinforcing member pastes base cup with the angle corresponding with base wall of cup angle.And as shown in Figure 13, after reinforcing member pastes cup along the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member and cup at first, the head edge 66 of reinforcing member and rear part edge 68 keep not pasting or freely.Should recognize, because cup open end is placed downwards, therefore the top 62 of reinforcing member pastes tapered sidewalls in the bottom of (or substantially contiguous) cup, and the bottom margin 64 of reinforcing member pastes tapered sidewalls in the top of (or substantially contiguous) cup, open end.Should recognize further, based on production tolerance, reinforcing member can paste cup with offseting a little from reinforcing member central vertical shaft, and in one embodiment to add deduct the scope of three degree.

As shown in Figure 15, after reinforcing member pastes cup 102 tapered sidewalls along the central vertical shaft 108 of reinforcing member, operation cup strengthens system 100 makes the remaining non-adhesive portion of reinforcing member engage and paste the tapered sidewalls of cup.In one embodiment, utilize the rotating disk of cup placement on it, cup revolves turnback at first direction.Along with the rotation of cup, the tapered sidewalls of cup 102 compresses or engages reinforcing member pasting pad 114 and engages to make the Part I of reinforcing member or sections and paste the tapered sidewalls of cup due to the pressure adhesive overplate 54 on reinforcing member 42.In one embodiment, Part I or sections comprise reinforcing member 42 extends to rear part edge 68 part from central vertical shaft 108.Therefore, as shown in Figure 16, paste the tapered sidewalls of cup at reinforcing member Part I after, the second sections of reinforcing member keeps not pasting or freedom.

As shown in Figure 17, in one embodiment, after the rotation of cup first direction, then cup is at contrary second direction rotating 360 degrees.Along with the rotation of cup, the tapered sidewalls of cup compresses or engages reinforcing member pasting pad 114 and engages to make the Part II of reinforcing member or sections and paste the tapered sidewalls of cup.In one embodiment, Part II or sections comprise reinforcing member 42 extends to head edge part from central vertical shaft.As mentioned above, the shape of the reinforcing member be combined with shape and the structure of cup or structure paste cup along with reinforcing member remainder, realize reinforcing member pastes cup tapered sidewalls (namely cup engages reinforcing member completely, and reinforcing member engages cup completely) with desired structure.Reinforced plastics foam cup provides feel and the high quality graphics printing characteristic of insulative properties and the paper substrate cup with plastic foam cup, thus is supplied to the drinking experience of user's enhancing.

In an alternate embodiments, cup enhancing system can there is multiple reinforcing member pasting pad, it is arranged on the opposite side of cup, turnback is revolved at first direction to make cup, the Part I of reinforcing member is pasted cup, then revolve turnback in second direction, the Part II of reinforcing member is pasted cup.After second direction rotates, reinforcing member pastes base cup completely, and forms (and shown in Fig. 3 and 4) described above reinforced plastics foam cup 30.It will be appreciated that according to the disclosure, any suitable equipment and the method that for centrally vertical axis, reinforcing member are pasted tapered sidewalls can be adopted.

It will be appreciated that in one embodiment, as shown in Figure 17, cup enhancing system can be operated and come sequentially to strengthen one or more cup separately.In this embodiment, each placement that faces down of one or more cup, and spaced apart suitably on cup conveyer.And one or more reinforcing member linearly arranges along a parting paper and is wound in feed roller.Feed roller is loaded onto around reinforcing member distributing box, supplies to provide continuous print reinforcing member.

In another embodiment (not shown), cup is placed on glass conveyer, shelves with its closed bottom.(not shown) in another embodiment, reinforcing member distributing box is arranged to reinforcing member and is engaged with the tapered sidewalls of the cup be placed in vertical plane surface.Therefore, in this embodiment, cup conveyer, with suitable angle configuration, also engages with reinforcing member with the tapered sidewalls realizing cup in vertical plane surface.In another embodiment, cup conveyer is arranged with suitable angle, and cup runs through conveying cup enhancing system with such angle.In these embodiments, therefore reinforcing member distributing box and/or reinforcing member pasting pad are adjusted to any proper angle, to determine the angle of cup and/or reinforcing member, thus guarantee that reinforcing member pastes the tapered sidewalls of cup at first with the angle corresponding with the tapered sidewalls of cup.

Referring now to Figure 18 A to 43F, shown in it, cup disclosed herein strengthens each embodiment of system or equipment, and is totally indicated by numeral 200.As shown in Figure 18 A to 18B, cup strengthens system and generally includes glass delivery system 202 and one or more reinforcing member distributing box 204a and 204b (totally quoting with 204).Cup delivery system structure holds each and strengthens cup in advance, and such cup transmission is separated in the correct position pasting reinforcing member, and after reinforcing member is pasted this cup, each cup strengthened system from cup and take off.Each reinforcing member to be sent in the correct position pasted with the cup transmitted by each reinforcing member distributing box 204 structure, and each reinforcing member is pasted the sidewall of the cup that turned upside down is arranged along the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member with the angle corresponding with the tapered sidewalls of cup.

More specifically, cup delivery system comprises glass distributing box 206, cup feeder 208, cup separation pig 210, cup conveyer 212 and cup disconnector 214.As totally illustrated in Figure 36, cup strengthens the treater 402 of system and cup distributing box 206, cup feeder 208, cup separation pig 210, cup conveyer 212, cup disconnector 214 and reinforcing member distributing box 204 communication, and programming controls them.Treater also enables user operate cup to strengthen the input media of system or control panel 404 and at least one for user and show read out instrument 406 communication that cup strengthens system information with at least one such as touch-screen or one or more suitable switch or button etc., and programmes and control them.The treater that input media enables user strengthen system to cup inputs suitable order and/or suitable information.Such as, user utilizes at least one input media to start or closes closed-cup and strengthens system, information about cup and/or reinforcing member precise specifications is provided, input and cup is carried through the speed that cup strengthens system, and input arranges the angle of reinforcing member distributing box relative to cup conveyer.In another embodiment, above-described one or more function can utilize one or more machinery or other appropriate device manual regulation.Such as can utilize one or more independent handle manual regulation, thus regulate reinforcing member distributing box that angle is set relative to cup conveyer.

Treater and at least one data store or memory unit 408 communication, or can operate and enter at least one data and store or memory unit 408 communication, or store with at least one data or memory unit 408 communications exchange signal.The executable program code of memory storage storage of processor and instruction, control cup and strengthen system.In one embodiment, memory storage comprises random access memory (RAM), its other forms that can comprise nonvolatile memory (NVRAM), magnetic random memory (MRAM), ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) and be commonly understood in the art that.In one embodiment, memory storage comprises read-only memory (ROM) (ROM).In one embodiment, storing apparatus comprises flash memory and/or EEPROM (EEPROM).Any other suitable magnetic, light and/or semiconductor memory can strengthen together with system with cup disclosed herein and operate.In one embodiment, above-described some or all programming code and/or service data can be stored in separable or removable storage apparatus, include but not limited to suitable tape, disk, CD-ROM drive, DVD or USB memory storage.Treater and memory storage can be called " computing machine " or " controller " sometimes in this article jointly.

As described in more detail below, pre-enhancing or base cup enter cup by cup distributing box 206 from nested cup supply and strengthen system.Cup moves to glass separation pig 210 by cup feeder 208, then arrives cup conveyer 212.Cup is aligned to by cup conveyer 212 to be aimed at suitably with reinforcing member distributing box 204, and reinforcing member is pasted by reinforcing member distributing box 204 or is attached to cup.Strengthen cup and strengthen system disengaging by cup disconnector 214 from cup.Should recognize, system is strengthened, the cup delivery system that any other can be adopted suitable and reinforcing member is pasted base cup tapered sidewalls along reinforcing member central vertical shaft and subsequently the remainder of reinforcing member is pasted any suitable reinforcing member distributing box of the tapered sidewalls of base cup according to cup disclosed herein.

As shown in Figure 19 to 22, the cup distributing box 206 that cup strengthens system comprises framework 230, and it comprises two guiding parts 232a and 232b (totally quoting with 232) independently offset.Each guiding parts is configured to be fixed on above glass feeder 206 and is in the folded nested pre-enhancing in one in turned upside down position or base cup 234a and 234b (totally quoting with 234).Each guiding parts 232 with at least one and preferably multiple or a set of vertical or substantially vertically arranged coefficient cup distributes screw rod or cup deintercalation cover device 236a, 236b, 236c and 236d (with 232 overall with reference to and in Figure 20 and 21 the best illustrate) relevant, cup distributes screw rod or cup deintercalation cover device 236a, 236b, 236c and 236d is formed by any suitable smooth surface with self-lubricating property, non-abrasive material, such as any suitable plastics, as manufactured by E.I.DU PONTDE NEMOURS AND COMPANY plastics.

Each glass distributes screw rod 236 and has interior extension screw thread 238 on its outer surface.Screw thread makes suitable size and angle, is associated with the top flange of the base cup 102 arranged with the turned upside down of being fixed by guiding parts 232.Cup distributes each removable connection of screw rod 236 or is attached at least one motor such as controlled by cup enhancing system processor or suitable motion-generating device actuator 240, and it makes each glass of distribution screw rod 236 rotate in suitable direction with suitable speed.

In operation, as in Figure 19 and 21, the best illustrates, the negative thread being located on or near cup distribution screw rod 236 top 238a that each rotates engages with outward extending a part of flange 24 of the nested cup of the first turned upside down fixed by one of them guide member 232.Each glass distributes screw rod distributes screw rod screw top 238a by each glass engaged with cup flange 24 and rotate pull-out first glass from a nested a set of cups 234.Along with each glass distributes the lasting rotation of screw rod 238, the cup flange 24 of first glass is sent to the screw thread be located on or near in the middle part of each cup distribution screw rod 238 rotated, then be sent to and be located on or near each cup rotated and distribute screw thread bottom screw rod 238, with lentamente and first glass is pulled away from further a nested a set of cups 234 constantly.Middle part screw thread 238b is sent to from the screw top 238a of each glass of distribution screw rod along with first glass, screw top 238a engages the flange 24 of the nested cup of the second turned upside down, pulls out second glass with the screw top 238a by joint second glass of flange from a nested a set of cups 234.Continue this process the turned upside down cup that each nested cup is nested with this cover loaded in cup distributing box 206 is separated.In other words, cup distribute the rotation screw thread combined action of screw rod come one next each cup engaged and nested turned upside down are strengthened in advance cup is folded to be separated.After disengaging is nested, each cup 102 be separated continues to drop to the cup feeder 208 be just in time positioned at below glass distributing box 206.

In one embodiment, cup distributing box comprises the guiding parts more than two independences, skew.In this embodiment, each guiding parts fixes a folded nested pre-enhancing cup, and with at least one and preferred multiple vertically arranged cup described above distributes screw rod is associated.In another alternate embodiments, a guiding parts is configured to fixing many folded nested pre-enhancing cups above multiple diverse locations of cup feeder.In this embodiment, guiding parts and for folded at least one of each fixing pre-enhancing cup and preferred multiple vertically arranged cup distributes screw rod is associated.In another alternate embodiments, a guiding parts is configured to above a position of cup feeder, fix a folded nested pre-enhancing cup.In this embodiment, guiding parts and for folded at least one of fixing pre-enhancing cup and preferred multiple vertically arranged cup distributes spiral shell literary composition is associated.It will be appreciated that and strengthen system according to cup disclosed herein, can adopt any suitable by one or more pre-enhancing cup to the equipment on cup feeder or method.Should recognize further, cup distributing box disclosed herein can be arranged on any correct position of cup reinforcing member distributing box upstream described below.

As shown in Figure 19 and 22 to 24, the cup feeder 208 of cup delivery system comprises framework 250, and it supports contiguous load-transfer device 252a to the 252e (totally quoting with 252) arranged of many rows.Load-transfer device can be dynamically connected or be attached to suitably on the actuator of at least one such as motor or other suitable motion-generating device 254 etc., and it makes load-transfer device move under any appropriate speed in a conventional manner.

It will be appreciated that and can produce electrostatic by the quick travel of plastic foam cup.Multiple guiding parts 232 and the multiple glasss of uses distributing screw rod 236 reduce the possibility producing electrostatic in cup enhancing system disclosed herein.That is, the use of multiple guiding parts and multiple glasss of distribution screw rods reduces the quantity that each independent guiding parts/cup distributes the cup that screw rod per minute must distribute.Quantity and the cup of the cup of this minimizing must be conveyed through cup to strengthen the reduction of the speed of system directly related, and such speed reduces and decreases electrostatic generation.

In one embodiment, one, multiple or each load-transfer device 252 forms one or more air from the hole that it flows through or hole 256, as described below.As Figure 22, in 24A and 24B, the best illustrates, arrange or be arranged in below offset guide member 232a and 232b or the load-transfer device of below, be load-transfer device 252a and 252e in this example embodiment, than the load-transfer device be not arranged on below offset guide member, in this example embodiment for load-transfer device 252b, the hole of 252c and 252d or hole 256b, form hole or the hole 256a of larger diameter.It will be appreciated that according to cup enhancing system disclosed herein, the hole of any suitable quantity can be adopted, the hole of any suitable shape (such as the hole of elongated olive shape) of any suitable diameter and the flowing of permission q.s air.

As shown in Figure 23,24A and 24B, the framework 250 of cup feeder 208 supports vacuum chamber, case or shell 258.Vacuum tank 258 comprise roof or surface 260 and isolated diapire or surface 262.Roof forms multiple hole or admission port 264.Vacuum tank comprises isolated sidewall 268, and wherein the top of each sidewall is connected to roof, and the bottom of each sidewall is connected to diapire.Vacuum tank also comprises isolated end wall 270a and 270b, and wherein the bottom of each end wall is connected to diapire, and the side of each end wall is connected to a sidewall, and the opposite side of each end wall is connected to another sidewall.At least one sidewall of vacuum tank (the sidewall 270a in Figure 24 A and sidewall 270a and 270b in Figure 24 B) each form one or more hole or exhausr port 272, it is connected to one or more vacuum or negative pressure source (not shown) by suitable air communication pipeline.That is, vacuum chamber and suitable vacuum or negative pressure fluid communication.

In an alternate embodiments, as shown in Figure 24 C, the framework 250 of cup feeder comprises two isolated air stream components 274a and 274b below the offset guide member of cup distributing box.In this embodiment, each air stream components is connected to vacuum or negative pressure source, and each base cup pulls out from cup distributing box by it.It will be appreciated that in this embodiment, air only flows over larger-diameter hole in load-transfer device (being just in time positioned at above air stream components), and if some words, is not just in time positioned at the hole of the small diameter above air stream components in load-transfer device.

As specifically illustrated in Figure 24, the exhausr port 272 that vacuum source to provide from load-transfer device 252 upper area through the hole 264 of load-transfer device, the admission port 256 of vacuum tank top surface 260 and vacuum tank are formed arrives the angrily stream of vacuum source.In operation, each base cup be separated is moved to downwards glass feeder 208 from cup distributing box 206 by vacuum pressure with prone setting.Should recognize, the larger hole 256a of some belt conveyor is set below the offset guide member of cup distributing box 206, be the gas for increase, make above its load-transfer device 252, to flow through the vacuum source (not shown) falling the position of cup 102 compared with macropore 256a arrival near cup distributing box 206.Should be further appreciated that the vacuum pressure being applied to cup realizes the light base cup of relative weight (as contrasted with heavier bottle) and do not have overturning when it drops to glass feeder 208 from cup distributing box 206.

When with move through bottle label system bottle speed compared with time, cup strengthens system construction and is used for along load-transfer device with speed mobile cup relatively slowly.That is, although the bottle of bottle label system is labelled with the speed of about per minute 100 usually, disclosed cup strengthens system, with the speed being less than such bottle label system half, reinforcing member is attached to base cup.As mentioned above, cup moves through such reduction of speed that cup strengthens system and eliminates the electrostatic usually produced by plastic foam cup quick travel.

As shown in Figure 22 and 24, cup feeder 208 comprises the elongated guide roller or guided way 266a and 266b (totally quoting with 266) that at least two relative spacings supported by cup feeder framework 250 open.Guided way 266 from vertical plane surface with proper angle inclination and offset, to match with the tapered sidewalls angle of the cup transmitted by load-transfer device 252.Guided way 266a and 266b extends in the plane intersected, and to stretch out and reduce to make the spacing between two guided ways 266 with guided way from basic region below cup distributing box 206.In operation, along with the load-transfer device 252 of each glass 102 along cup feeder 208 moves in cup separation pig 210 direction, one of each glass of engagement rail 266.Along with cup moves closer to cup separation pig 210, cup is made to move into single-row order with the joint of guided way 266.It will be appreciated that glass feeder can comprise any suitable equipment or the method that cup are sent to glass spacer from cup distributing box.

As shown in Figure 25 to 27B, the cup separation pig 210 of cup delivery system comprises framework 280 that is contiguous and that arrange with the basic phase co-altitude of cup feeder 208.As shown in fig. 27 a, cup feeder frame supported feed screw rod or separate screw rod 282, and two coefficient entrance star-wheels or feed star-wheel conveyer 284a and 284b (totally quoting with 284).As shown in Figure 27 B, in one embodiment, cup feeder frame supported feeds screw thread or separates screw thread 282 and an entrance star-wheel or feed star-wheel conveyer 284a.In these embodiments, utilize cup separation pig 210 that each cup 102 is transported to a glass conveyer from cup feeder 208.

Infeed screw rod or the separation screw rod 282 of cup separation pig 210 are the parts that level or basic horizontal are arranged, its by having any suitable smooth surface of self-lubricating property, non-abrasive material makes, such as any suitable plastics, as manufactured by E.I.DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY plastics.Separation pig screw rod has the screw thread 286 extended internally on its outer surface.Screw thread 286 makes suitable size and angle, to be associated with the tapered sidewalls of cup.As shown in figures 25 and 26, second end 296 of the spacing between separation pig screw flight from the first end of the separation pig screw thread of contiguous cup feeder 208 to the separation pig screw rod of contiguous cup conveyer 212 gradually and continue to increase.The spacing increased between separation pig screw flight realizes when each glass is sent to separation pig screw rod the second end 296 from the first end 294 of separation pig screw rod, and each cup (being threadedly engaged by a part for separation pig screw rod) is separated suitably.Such spacing of cup corresponds to the spacing between first each saucer 290 feeding star-wheel 284a.In other words, feed screw rod or the separation of interval screw thread 282 order, separate or the spaced apart single-row cup transmitted by load-transfer device 252, to set up the distance of separation feeding the spacing between star-wheel 284a saucer 290 corresponding to first.That is, separate screw rod 282 at each correct interval, each glass to be sent in a saucer 290 of the first infeed star-wheel 284a.It will be appreciated that the hand of rotation owing to separating screw rod 282, when cup is sent to separation screw rod the second end 296 from separation screw rod first end 294, cup can rise a little from load-transfer device.Therefore, pin down parts 298 to be supported by the framework 280 of cup separation pig 210, the described bar pining down parts 298 and make for suitable smooth surface, the non-abrasive material that such as there is self-lubricating property by any, described material is any suitable plastics such as, as manufactured by E.I.DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY plastics.In this embodiment, if cup rises from load-transfer device by separation pig screw rod, then pin down parts 298 and engage with the bottom of the cup of turned upside down, contact with separation screw flight to keep cup.In one embodiment, separate the removable connection of screw rod or be attached on the actuators 288 such as at least one motor such as controlled by cup enhancing system processor or other any suitable motion generators, it makes separation screw rod rotate in any proper orientation under any appropriate speed in a conventional manner.

The entrance star-wheel 284 of each glass of separation pig 210 is the circle of level or basic horizontal layout or almost circular parts, the suitable smooth surface having a self-lubricating property by any, non-abrasive material are made, such as any suitable plastics, as manufactured by E.I.DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY plastics.Each entrance star-wheel 284 is formed multiple around the suitable separated saucer 290 of entrance star-wheel circumference.The quantity of saucer is determined based on the size of cup and the size of reinforcing member.Each saucer 290 is configured to fix or engage cup 102 when cup is sent to glass conveyer or rotating disk 212 from cup feeder 208.Each entrance star-wheel can be dynamically connected or be attached at least one actuator (not shown), such as strengthen the motor of system processor control or any suitable motion-generating device by cup, it makes entrance star-wheel move in any suitable direction under any suitable speed in a conventional manner.

As shown in Figure 27 A and 28, the framework 280 of cup separation pig supports two entrance star-wheel guiding partss or guide rail 292a and 292b (totally quoting with 284).Guide rail 292a neighboring entry star-wheel 284a is arranged, and guide rail 292b neighboring entry star-wheel 284b is arranged.Each guide rail 292 prevents the cup transmitted by entrance star-wheel 284 from the movements such as such as overturning occurring.Cup guiding parts has suitable size and the proper angle from vertical plane surface skew, to be associated with cup.

In operation, as in Figure 27 A and 28, the best illustrates, each glass 102 from or near the first saucer 290 separating screw rod 282 the second end 296 and be sent to the first entrance star-wheel 284a.Cup is sent to second saucer of the second entrance star-wheel 284b by the first entrance star-wheel 284a.Cup is sent to the cup fixed way 302 of glass conveyer 212 by the second entrance star-wheel 284b along the cup support component 297 of horizontal arrangement, described by below.Namely cup is fixed on appropriate location by the saucer of the second entrance star-wheel 284b and guide rail 292b combined action, and is placed on by cup on a cup fixed way 302 of glass conveyer.It will be appreciated that according to cup enhancing system disclosed herein, any suitable means or the mode that one or more cup are sent to glass conveyer or rotating disk from cup distributing box can be adopted.

As shown in Figure 29, the sidewall of each saucer 290 offsets, with the angle automatching of the tapered sidewalls with cup 102 from vertical plane surface with suitable angular slope.That is, because power even relatively in a small amount can make the outside face of cup 102 be recessed into, therefore each star-wheel saucer 290 is configured to prevent to damage the surface that base cup is relatively easily damaged.In other words, different from the star-wheel saucer of known bottle label machine, namely the design of bottle label machine transmits relatively solid glass bottle, and the star-wheel saucer 290 of the cup separation pig 210 of cup disclosed herein enhancing system is designed for the plastic foam cup that process is relatively easily damaged.

As shown in Figure 27 A to 31B, the cup conveyer of cup delivery system or rotating disk 212 are supported by suitable framework 300, and framework 300 is close to glass separation pig 210 and arranges with the height a little below cup separation pig 210.Rotating disk be level or basic horizontal arrange cylindrical or basic be columniform parts, the bar that the suitable smooth surface having a self-lubricating property by any, non-abrasive material are made, such as any suitable plastics, as manufactured by E.I.DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY plastics.Rotating disk 212 can be dynamically connected or be attached at least one and such as strengthen the motor of system processor control or suitable motion-generating device actuator by cup, and it makes rotating disk move in any proper orientation under any suitable speed in a conventional manner.In operation, as mentioned above, cup conveyer 212 is by the paste position transmission of each base cup towards contiguous reinforcing member distributing box.

Cup conveyer 212 comprises and is evenly arranged on multiple independent rotating cup dish around glass separator peripheral or cup fixed way 302a, 302b, 302c and 302d (totally quoting with 302).Each glass of dish or fixed way 32 are configured to hold cup 102 from the saucer 290 of the second entrance star-wheel 284b.As mentioned above, each glass of fixed way comprises the rotating base 303 that can operate at cw and complete 360 degree of anticlockwise direction rotation.In another embodiment, each glass of fixed way is loaded by spring, and can operate to raise to engage the cup transmitted from cup separation pig, and can operate to reduce to be departed from from cup conveyer by cup after reinforcing member is attached to cup.

Each glass of fixed way comprises the suitable wall of multiple shape and size, and it frictionally engages wall of cup to be fixed on by cup in the correct position on glass fixed way.In operation, when each cup 102 is placed on cup dish or fixed way, the centering bell 312 that cup is biased by spring is fixed in place.Each centering bell can operate and rotate complete 360 degree at cw and anticlockwise direction.It will be appreciated that and strengthen system according to cup disclosed herein, can adopt the mode of any suitable fixed cup, it realizes, and the tapered sidewalls of cup is unfettered pastes reinforcing member.

As in Figure 31 B, the best illustrates, each centering bell 312 is supported by rotatable topside 324.Rotatable topside comprises cam 326 and is connected to multiple spring-loaded parts 328 of multiple centering bell 312 suitably.Each spring-loaded part is movably connected to or is attached at least one actuator, such as motor or other suitable motion-generating device, it makes each spring-loaded part move in any suitable direction under any suitable speed in a conventional manner.In operation, when multiple spring-loaded part 328 rotates around cam 326, the shape of cam makes each spring-loaded part reel or retracts, and this makes each centering bell extend to engage with multiple walls of cup, or retracts to be separated with multiple walls of cup.Spring fitting pressure and the cup of centering bell in conjunction with time, there is at least enough power and with the cup in fixing rotation, there is the power less than the foam cup of the relative destructible of damage simultaneously.It will be appreciated that can adopt any suitable one or more mechanisms, it makes centering bell engage with multiple walls of cup or be separated according to cup enhancing system disclosed herein.

As Figure 32, shown in 33,34 and 35, the outer wall of each glass of fixed way 302 forms oblique angle suitably or tapering mates with the madial wall tapering at base cup 102 top or engages.As in Figure 32, the best illustrates, each glass of fixed way 302 comprises that vertically arranged sidewall or cup support 304, the 3rd wall 310 of first wall 306 being connected to sidewall of horizontal arrangement, vertically arranged the second wall 308 being connected to the first wall and the inclination being connected to the second wall.First wall 306 of cup fixed way engages the top 330 of the flange of the cup-shaped one-tenth of turned upside down, and cup fixed way second wall 308 engages the top 332 of the inside face of turned upside down cup.It will be appreciated that according to cup enhancing system disclosed herein, any suitable composition surface forming recessed-convex connection between cup fixed way and cup can be adopted.

In one embodiment, in order to the cup fixed way from cup separation pig to rotating disk transmits base cup, in order to the height of applicable fixed way friction engaging member, rotating disk is arranged on below glass separation pig a little.The cup that the setting such below cup separation pig of cup conveyer makes each transmit directly is placed on the top of a cup fixed way 302 of glass conveyer 212.That is, when each glass 102 is sent to the cup fixed way 302 of rotating disk 212 from cup separation pig 210, in order to the height of vertically arranged second wall 308 of applicable fixed way 302, rotating disk is arranged on below glass separation pig a little.

And the wall of centering bell is configured to mate with multiple walls of cup and engage suitably.As Figure 34 and 35 the bests illustrate, the first wall 314 of centering bell engages the bottom margin 334 of cup, and the inclination of bell of feeling relieved or taper second wall 316 engage inclination or the conical inner side wall of cup.In this embodiment, 3rd wall 318 of centering bell engages the exterior bottom wall 16 of cup, the wall 320 of centering bell engages the top surface 337 of the central elevated portion of cup exterior bottom wall, and the 5th wall 322 of bell of feeling relieved engages the sidewall 338 of cup exterior bottom wall central elevated portion.It will be appreciated that any proper engagement surface forming recessed-convex connection between centering bell and cup can be applicable to cup disclosed herein and strengthens system.

It will be appreciated that when compared with known bottle label system, the rotating disk that cup strengthens system comprises the fixed way that quantity reduces, to hold the length of reinforcing member.Namely, because the reinforcing member being attached to base cup is longer than the label of the bottle being attached to bottle label machine, and length longer like this can be interfered to producing during cup at reinforcing member bonding partially, as described below, therefore larger distance must be had between each fixed way/rotating disk centering bell.Therefore, when not increasing rotating disk size, between each fixed way/centering bell of rotating disk, provide larger distance then to need the quantity of the fixed way/centering bell reducing rotating disk.

Illustrate with the best in Figure 42 A to 43F as described above, the multiple reinforcing member pasting pad of frame supported 390a and 390b (totally quoting with 390) of cup conveyer 212.Each reinforcing member pasting pad 390 comprises base 392a and 392b (totally quoting with 392) and reinforcing member composition surface 394a and 394b (totally quoting with 394), wherein reinforcing member composition surface comprises any suitable material with anti stickness characteristic, such as, cover polytetrafluoroethylene or poly tetrafluoroethylene band, its opposing covers the adhesion of lining cement on reinforcing member.Each reinforcing member pasting pad 390 is arranged relative to reinforcing member adhesive spots, to provide the appropriate surfaces engaged by the tapered sidewalls of cup, reinforcing member (it is arranged between the tapered sidewalls of cup 102 and the composition surface 394 of reinforcing member pasting pad 390) to be fixed to the tapered sidewalls of cup.Each reinforcing member pasting pad 390 shape and size is made suitably, to hold the shape and size of strengthened cup, and the size and dimension of the cup conveyer 212 of holding mobile cup.Such as, each reinforcing member pasting pad 390 tilts suitably and forms tapering, to mate with the tapered sidewalls of cup and to engage.It will be appreciated that the height of one or more reinforcing member pasting pad or angle can regulate to hold the shape and size of cup suitably.

As mentioned above, cup conveyer 212 is configured to each base cup to be transported to reinforcing member and pastes or junction or paste position.In this affixed points, the reinforcing member distributed from reinforcing member distributing box 204 described below suitably bonding partially to the tapered sidewalls of cup 102.

After reinforcing member pastes cup 102, each cup strengthened is sent to glass disconnector 214 by cup conveyer 212.As shown in Figure 37, the cup disconnector 214 of cup delivery system comprises contiguous cup conveyer 212 and the framework 340 arranged at At The Height substantially identical with cup conveyer.The framework 280 of cup feeder supports two coefficient entrance star-wheels or feeds star-wheel conveyer 342a and 342b (totally quoting with 342), output conveyor 344 and strengthen cup eduction gear 346.In one embodiment, cup strengthens system and comprises an outlet star-wheel or export star-wheel, and cup is sent to export from cup conveyer and strengthens cup feedway by it.(not shown) in one embodiment, cup strengthens system and utilizes one or more brush to engage the sidewall of each glass, strengthens the rotating disk of each glass from cup conveyer to exporting the motion strengthening cup feedway.Each outlet star-wheel 342 can be dynamically connected or join at least one actuator, such as strengthened motor or other suitable motion-generating device of system processor control by cup, it makes outlet star-wheel rotate in any suitable direction or move under any suitable speed in a conventional manner.Be similar to above-described entrance star-wheel, each outlet star-wheel 342 circumferentially comprises multiple saucer 346 at it.Each saucer 346 is configured to fixed cup 102 when cup transmits from cup conveyer 212.The sidewall of each saucer 246 offsets, with the angle automatching with base cup tapered sidewalls from vertical plane surface with suitable angular slope.

The framework 340 of cup conveyer 212 supports two outlet star-wheel guiding partss or guide rail 348a and 348b (totally quoting with 348).Guiding parts 348a contiguous outlet star-wheel 342a is arranged, and guiding parts 348b contiguous outlet star-wheel 342b is arranged.Each guiding parts 348 prevents the cup being exported star-wheel transmission by it separately from the movements such as such as overturning occurring.Cup guiding parts 348 size and from vertical plane surface skew angle with enhancing cup rule be associated.In another embodiment, cup strengthens system and comprises multiple entrance star-wheel or feed star-wheel, and cup is sent to from cup conveyer 212 and exports cup feedway 344 by its combined action.

Export cup feedway 344 and can be dynamically connected or be attached at least one actuator suitably, such as motor or other suitable motion-generating device, it makes load-transfer device move under any appropriate speed in a conventional manner.Cup conveyer comprises the elongated guide track or guide rail 350 that at least two relative spacings open, and is supported by the framework 340 of cup conveyer.Guide rail 350 from vertical plane surface with suitable angular slope skew, with by the angle automatching exporting the cup tapered sidewalls that cup feedway 344 transmits.

As shown in Figure 37, each cup 102 is sent to the such as position control 352 such as cup tripper or other suitable components by exporting enhancing cup feedway 344, and it will strengthen cup with its sidewall location or overturning (downward) above.Guide rail 350 guarantees that the cup of overturning is arranged with its sidepiece.Then the cup of overturning is discharged system (not shown) vacuum by cup and is moved a folded nested enhancing cup to.It will be appreciated that according to cup enhancing system disclosed herein, can adopt any suitable means or mode that one or more cup is sent to glass conveyer or rotating disk from cup distributing box.

In one embodiment, as Figure 38 A, 38B, shown in 39 and 40, each reinforcing member distributing box 204 that cup strengthens system comprises framework 360, and it supports adjustable frames or bearing 386.As mentioned above, can operate reinforcing member distributing box 204 and supply each reinforcing member 42 towards cup 102 with the proper angle offseting vertical plane surface, described angle is corresponding with the angle (also offseting from vertical plane surface) of cup tapered sidewalls.Therefore, the adjustable frames 386 of reinforcing member distributing box 204 is from vertical plane surface inclination and offset suitably.The angle adjustable (angle adjusting mechanism 382 by suitable) of reinforcing member distributing box 204 adjustable frames 386 holds the different base cups with different tapered sidewalls angle.

Except regulating reinforcing member distributing box from the angle that vertical plane surface offsets, the height of the adjustable frames 386 of adjustable reinforcing member distributing box 204 comes (height adjustment mechanism 384 by suitable) to be held the cup of different size and is arranged on the difference of the different reinforcing members in parting paper.And if necessary, the angle of the adjustable frames 396 of adjustable reinforcing member distributing box 204 offsets from horizontal plane.Therefore, it will be appreciated that the plane that reinforcing member distributing box can separate at three regulates separately so that reinforcing member correctly pastes the tapered sidewalls of cup.In alternative embodiments, reinforcing member distributing box can be adjusted to any proper angle in any suitable flat or several plane, so that reinforcing member correctly pastes the tapered sidewalls of cup.

Reinforcing member distributing box comprises two reinforcing members supported by adjustable frames 386 and supplies bracket 362a and 362b (totally quoting with 362).Each reinforcing member supply bracket 362 is configured to fixing reinforcing member supply 364a and 364b (totally quoting with 364), wherein the supply of each reinforcing member comprises multiple reinforcing member, and its order pastes separably around center circle column jecket 388a and 388b (totally quoting with 388) elongated parting paper wound into a roll (in Fig. 7 and 7A can the best illustrate).Each reinforcing member distributing box comprises at least one and preferred multiple head roll, such as, supported by adjustable frames 386 and be configured to drive or cylinder 366a and 366b (totally quoting with 366) of tractive parting paper 56 (reinforcing member pastes it separably).In operation, parting paper 56 is entered parting paper to relax the designated area 374 of piler 372 (as described below) towards head roll 366a tractive or driving from feed roller by head roll 366a.Then head roll 366b from parting paper relax piler 372 designated area 374 towards cup reinforcing member paste junction tractive or drive parting paper.Each head roll 366 can be dynamically connected or be attached at least one actuator (not shown) suitably, and such as motor or other suitable motion-generating device, it makes head roll move with any appropriate speed.In one embodiment, one, multiple or each head roll 366 comprises knurled surface, to engage parting paper better by during reinforcing member distributing box being supplied.In another embodiment, one, multiple or each head roll 366 comprises rubber surface, to engage parting paper in its supply better by during reinforcing member distributing box.

Each reinforcing member distributing box comprises power take-up roll 367, is supported by adjustable frames 386, and be configured to by with cross parting paper 56 tractive or be driven into parting paper collect bracket 376.Power take-up roll 367 can be dynamically connected or be attached at least one actuator (not shown) suitably, such as motor or other suitable motion-generating device, and it makes take-up roll move with any suitable speed.

Each reinforcing member distributing box also comprises multiple guide piece or tension wheel, such as guide pulley 368, it is supported by adjustable frames 386 and is configured to guide parting paper (reinforcing member pastes it separably) in parting paper, simultaneously to keep appropriate amount tension force towards the point engaged with cup.

Reinforcing member distributing box 204 comprises vertically arranged parting paper adapter 370, and it is supported by adjustable frames 386, and is configured to allow the supply of multiple reinforcing member to be bonded together.Parting paper adapter 370 comprises first area (not shown), is configured to the tail end fixing the first parting paper supply, and second area (not shown), is configured to the front end fixing the second parting paper supply.The user that parting paper adapter strengthens system for cup provides a kind of tail end by the first parting paper supply to join the mechanism of the front end of the second parting paper supply to, to guarantee to provide continuous print parting paper to supply to reinforcing member distributing box.

Such as, in one embodiment, when last reinforcing member of the first parting paper supply being detected, the first parting paper supply is placed on cutting groove overcentre by user, and utilizes one or more suitable mechanism by fixing in place for the first parting paper supply.Then the second parting paper supply is slided by user above the first parting paper, the head edge of the first reinforcing member of the second parting paper supply is placed on exactly the top of first last reinforcing member of parting paper, and utilizes one or more suitable mechanism by fixing in place for the second parting paper supply.User utilizes suitable cutting head and cutting guide piece to cut the first and second parting paper supplies, removes slug, and linked together by the first and second parting paper supply adhesive tapes from the first and second parting paper supplies.

As shown in FIG. 38 A, reinforcing member distributing box 204 also comprises parting paper and to relax piler 372a, and it is supported by adjustable frames 386, and is configured to lax stackable designated area 374a in parting paper.As shown in Figure 38 B, in alternative embodiments, the parting paper that reinforcing member distributing box 204 comprises alternative design relaxes piler 372b, and it is supported by adjustable frames 386, and is configured to the designated area 374b of lax stackable alternative design in parting paper.In an embodiment (not shown), the parting paper piler that relaxes comprises one or more chip remover, it is supported by adjustable frames, and be configured to, when parting paper infeed can be piled up the lax designated area of parting paper and/or be exported from it, any to such as dust or powder etc. chip be removed on rear side of parting paper.Reinforcing member distributing box also comprises parting paper and piles up bracket 376, and it is supported by adjustable frames 386, and is configured to fixing parting paper after being separated from reinforcing member.

As shown in Figure 42 B and 43A to 43F, reinforcing member distributing box 204 also comprises at least one sensor 378, and it is supported by adjustable frames 386, and is configured to the position detecting reinforcing member 42.It will be appreciated that height and the position of sensor 378 can regulate according to the structure of the cup be enhanced.In one embodiment, reinforcing member distributing box also comprises one or more sensor (not shown), and it is supported by adjustable frames, and is configured to determine to be deposited in parting paper and relaxes the position of the parting paper in piler designated area and quantity.Reinforcing member distributing box 204 comprises parting paper disconnector 380, such as separating sheet, is supported by adjustable frames 386, and is configured to be separated reinforcing member from parting paper.

Each reinforcing member supply bracket 362 is configured to supply volume 56 (multiple reinforcing member pastes it separably) of fixing parting paper winding.In one embodiment, the reinforcing member volume of each winding is fixed in horizontal structure.In this embodiment, because the same structure of the cup that will paste with reinforcing member is fixed reinforcing member, before pasting cup, therefore do not need repacking or reverse.In another embodiment, the reinforcing member volume of each winding is fixed with vertical stratification.In this embodiment, reinforcing member must carry out reequiping or reversing before pasting base cup.

In one embodiment, reinforcing member distributing box 204 multiple guide pulleys 368 design by parting paper 56 from parting paper supply volume 364 through parting paper adapter 370, through parting paper relax piler 372, arrive used release paper roll 376 through sensor 378 and parting paper disconnector 380.In one embodiment, one, multiple or each guide pulley 368 comprises knurled surface, to engage parting paper in its supply better by during reinforcing member distributing box.In another embodiment, one, multiple or each guide pulley 368 comprises rubber surface, to engage parting paper in its supply better by during reinforcing member distributing box.It will be appreciated that cylinder has suitable height, to hold the size (with the reinforcing member pasted) of the parting paper engaged by multiple cylinder.

As in Figure 39 and 40, the best illustrates, the parting paper piler 372 that relaxes is the parts of elongated substantially u-shaped, and it provides can pile up the lax designated area 374 of parting paper 56.Namely, owing to needing accurately along the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member, reinforcing member to be pasted a glass tapered sidewalls, therefore the treater of cup enhancing system must regulate the moving velocity of reinforcing member usually, contact to guarantee that the cup of movement on rotating disk and the reinforcing member distributed by reinforcing member distributing box to be formed with position in the suitable time, paste cup with the error limit being less than plus or minus 0.1 inch on a consistent basis to make the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member.In other words, provide and can pile up treater that lax region can make cup strengthen system and regulate parting paper supply not affected by the speed of reinforcing member distributing box to feed parting paper from parting paper supply.Such as, can operate parting paper and relax the designated area of piler to hold release length, five to six reinforcing members paste on it separably.It will be appreciated that to strengthen parting paper that system the is associated piler that relaxes with cup disclosed herein longer and narrower than the parting paper of the known bottle label system piler that relaxes, to hold the length pasting basic reinforcing member and increase.

As mentioned above, the sensor 378 of each reinforcing member distributing box 204 is for determining or checking reinforcing member 42 relative to the location of cup 102 position or position.Sensor can be any suitable sensor, includes but not limited to optical pickocff or ultrasonic transduter.In operation, before sensor 378 detects the reinforcing member 42 or position of the basic vertical component of head edge 70, to determine the relative positioning of reinforcing member.Based on this position determined of reinforcing member and any suitable information (speed of such as cup movement, reinforcing member supply are by the diameter of the speed of reinforcing member distributing box, the length of reinforcing member and cup), the treater 402 that cup strengthens system determines or calculates reinforcing member when move to the position that reinforcing member central vertical shaft aims at base cup tapered sidewalls.

As in Figure 42 B, the best illustrates, sensor 378 arranges like this or places: sensor detect immediately preceding the reinforcing member being adhered to base cup before the relative position of each reinforcing member.In this embodiment, by sensor setting in such position when reinforcing member pastes on base cup, which provide the precision of increase, this is provide correct joint between reinforcing member and cup.It will be appreciated that in bottle label machine, because first label engages bottle at the head edge of label, therefore sacrifice label is pasted onto label ad-hoc location precision to increase labelled speed.Therefore, in known bottle label machine, sensor is placed on the upstream position substantially pasting bottle place at label.On the other hand, in cup enhancing system disclosed herein, because reinforcing member must paste the tapered sidewalls of base cup with the ad-hoc location of centrally vertical axis, instead of with head edge, therefore the contiguous reinforcing member of sensor will engage the placement of base cup place, to improve the precision that reinforcing member is pasted onto ad-hoc location.In this embodiment, cup disclosed herein strengthens system and sacrifices the speed being enhanced cup, obtains this cup and is improved by the precision correctly strengthened, and is specially the precision raising that reinforcing member pastes the correct location of glass tapered sidewalls.

The parting paper disconnector 380 of each reinforcing member distributing box 204, such as separating sheet, is used for reinforcing member to be separated from parting paper 56.That is, based on the orientation of reinforcing member 42 relative to release disconnector, when reinforcing member is supplied by parting paper disconnector 380 by parting paper, reinforcing member will be separated with parting paper (it protects pressure adhesive).It will be appreciated that due to reinforcing member with vertical plane surface offset and the suitable angle (also from vertical plane surface offset) corresponding with base cup tapered sidewalls towards base cup, therefore parting paper disconnector 380 is also from vertical plane surface inclination and offset suitably.

Parting paper is collected bracket 376 and is configured to pile up and the parting paper that reels suitably after reinforcing member is separated from parting paper.In one embodiment, in parting paper after reinforcing member affixed points or junction, parting paper is fed to parting paper by one or more suitable cylinder and collects bracket.In one embodiment, parting paper collects bracket can be dynamically connected or be attached to one or more actuator (or other suitable motion-generating device being strengthened system processor control by cup), and it makes parting paper collect bracket 376 in any proper orientation with any appropriate speed rotation or motion.In various embodiments, each used parting paper winding volume is fixed in horizontal structure or vertical stratification.

As shown in figure 18, cup enhancing system disclosed herein can sequentially utilize multiple glasss to strengthen distributing box 204a and 204b.In operation, when multiple glasss of reinforcing members 42 are pasted or are attached to multiple cup 102 by first glass of enhancing distributing box 204a, second glass of enhancing distributing box 204b prepares (that is, part parting paper winding volume strengthens a distributing box by cylinder supply through an increasing cup) suitably and also applies or paste reinforcing member.Therefore, when the reinforcing member supply of first glass of reinforcing member 204a is finished, second glass strengthens distributing box 204b and starts when minimum delay pasted by multiple reinforcing member or be attached to multiple base cup.

As shown in Figure 41 A to 41D, in each alternate embodiments, multiple reinforcing member distributing box 204a, 204b and 204c can be operated and sequentially strengthen each cup 102.In this embodiment, the first reinforcing member pastes base cup by the first reinforcing member distributing box, and then the second reinforcing member is pasted base cup by the second reinforcing member distributing box.Such as, the first reinforcing member is pasted base cup by the first reinforcing member distributing box 204a first junction point on cup conveyer, and at the second downstream junction point, is pasted by the second reinforcing member by the second reinforcing member distributing box 204b or 204c.It will be appreciated that in this embodiment, strengthen system according to cup disclosed herein, the reinforcing member distributing box 204 of any suitable quantity can be adopted.

It will be appreciated that as described above, any suitable cup can be utilized to strengthen system architecture, and reinforcing member is pasted base cup by the concrete any suitable cup delivery system design relative to one or more reinforcing member distributing box.Such as, Figure 41 A illustrates the cup conveyor construction had in Figure 18 A and 18B of three reinforcing member distributing boxs.Another embodiment shown in Figure 41 B, wherein cup separation pig and cup disconnector each utilize a star-wheel, and entered and leave cup by opposite end and strengthen system.Figure 41 C illustrates another embodiment, and wherein cup separation pig utilizes two star-wheels, and cup disconnector utilizes a star-wheel, and cup enters and leave cup enhancing system by same side.Figure 41 D illustrates another embodiment, and wherein cup separation pig utilizes multiple star-wheel, and cup disconnector utilizes a star-wheel, and cup enters and leave this enhancing system by different end.

In alternative embodiments, as shown in Figure 42 A and 43A, the first base cup or the pre-cup 102 that strengthens move in paste position, and reinforcing member distributing box 204 distributes the first reinforcing member 42a.As shown in Figure 42 B and 43B, reinforcing member engages the tapered sidewalls of base cup.As mentioned above, the first reinforcing member 42a engages the tapered sidewalls of the first base cup 102a with the angle corresponding to base cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles offset from vertical plane surface.

As shown in Figure 43 C, after the first reinforcing member 42a engages the first base cup 102a, in one embodiment, the first base cup 102a vacillates dynamic by cup conveyer 212 downwards from reinforcing member joint or affixed points.In this embodiment, due to the first reinforcing member 42a centrally vertical plane surface paste the tapered sidewalls of the first base cup 102a, therefore, along with cup is removed from junction, any remainder that the first reinforcing member 42a pastes parting paper is separated from parting paper 56.

As shown in Figure 42 C and 43C, vacillate dynamic downwards from junction at first glass of 102a and the first reinforcing member 42a, with by the first reinforcing member 42a completely from after parting paper 56 is separated, in one embodiment, the first base cup 102a first, clockwise direction rotate 10 degree to 20 degree by first of the first reinforcing member 42a, core pastes cup.In this embodiment, the rotation of base cup makes a part of reinforcing member and base cup engage reinforcing member pasting pad 390a, with the reinforcing member composition surface 394a making the tapered sidewalls of cup compress or engage pasting pad 390a, thus make first of the first reinforcing member 42a, core (it is arranged between tapered sidewalls and reinforcing member pasting pad 390a) engages and pastes the tapered sidewalls of first glass of 102a.

This that it will be appreciated that 10 degree to 20 degree first rotates and reduces the length of not pasting reinforcing member, and to reduce from least one edge of first glass of reinforcing member and reinforcing member to second, possibility that stickup that postorder strengthens cup is interfered.And by the reinforcing member region larger than reinforcing member central vertical shaft is pasted base cup, reinforcing member is also fixed to base cup by the first such rotation.In another embodiment, reinforcing member pastes cup and does not have such first rotation of 10 degree to 20 degree.It will be appreciated that when reinforcing member pastes glass at first, identify that edge 70 is: (i) is vertical or be basically perpendicular to the bottom margin of cup; And (ii) is parallel to the central vertical shaft of reinforcing member.Such structure is that the position of cup enhancing system determination reinforcing member provides absolute reference point.

As shown in Figure 42 D and 43E, in one embodiment, first of cup rotate followed by be greater than 180 degree second, left-hand revolution, with by second of the first reinforcing member 42a, tail edge bonding partially is to first glass of 102a.In this embodiment, the rotation of base cup makes a part of reinforcing member 42a and cup 102a engage reinforcing member pasting pad 390a, with the reinforcing member composition surface 394a making the tapered sidewalls of cup compress or engage pasting pad 390a, thus make second of the first reinforcing member 42a, tail edge part (it is arranged between tapered sidewalls and reinforcing member pasting pad 390a) engages and pastes the tapered sidewalls of first glass of 102a.

As shown in Figure 42 E and 43F, in one embodiment, second rotate followed by cup be greater than 360 degree the 3rd, clickwise, with by the 3rd of the first reinforcing member 42a the, head edge bonding partially is to first glass of 102a.In this embodiment, the rotation of base cup makes a part of reinforcing member 42a and cup 102a engage reinforcing member pasting pad 390a, with the reinforcing member composition surface 394b making the tapered sidewalls of cup compress or engage pasting pad 390b, thus make the 3rd of the first reinforcing member 42a the, head edge part (it is arranged between tapered sidewalls and reinforcing member pasting pad 390a) engages and pastes the tapered sidewalls of first glass of 102a.

It will be appreciated that as mentioned above, cup disclosed herein enhancing system can be operated and come sequentially to strengthen multiple cup.As Figure 42 D, in 42E, 43E and 43F, the best illustrates, first glass of 102a and the first reinforcing member vacillate downwards from junction dynamic after, second glass of 102b and the second reinforcing member 42b moves in suitable paste position.

In another embodiment, one or more reinforcing member pasting pad movable and can operate suitably can sequentially again can side by side by the residue of reinforcing member freely part paste the tapered sidewalls of cup.In this embodiment, cup keeps substantially static or static, and reinforcing member is pasted the tapered sidewalls of cup by the rotation of reinforcing member pasting pad or motion.

(not shown) in another embodiment, reinforcing member does not have the central vertical shaft along reinforcing member to paste the tapered sidewalls of cup at first.In this embodiment, reinforcing member is pasted along the off-centered vertical axis of reinforcing member, and improves suitably above-described method thus compensate the stickup departing from center-point.(not shown) in another embodiment, reinforcing member pastes the tapered sidewalls of cup at first along the head edge of reinforcing member.Therefore, it will be appreciated that in cup enhancing system disclosed herein, any suitable method and apparatus operating specified point or the position that the specified point on reinforcing member or position are aimed at or pasted on cup can be adopted.

In an alternate embodiments, as shown in Figure 44 A to 44D, the side of reinforcing member is not covered by lining cement completely or almost completely.In this embodiment, as mentioned above, cup is placed on the cup fixed way of glass conveyer 212, and is sent to the zones of different that cup strengthens system.As in Figure 44 A, the best illustrates, cup strengthens system and comprises adhesive-applying device 420.In operation, when suitable sensor 378a detects the correct position of cup 102, suitable lining cement is applied directly to the surface of base cup tapered sidewalls by adhesive applicating apparatus 420.In one embodiment, lining cement is with mist or spray application or be sprayed on the surface of base cup tapered sidewalls.It will be appreciated that lining cement can use any suitable technique to apply, such as, base cup is immersed in lining cement container.

In one suchembodiment, as in Figure 44 B, the best illustrates, covered by lining cement completely or almost completely at the tapered sidewalls of base cup, and after suitable sensor 378b detects the correct position of cup, reinforcing member 42 is pasted base cup.In this embodiment, because the side of reinforcing member is not coated with lining cement, therefore reinforcing member does not need to store along parting paper, and can be stored as a folded reinforcing member 422.Therefore, in this embodiment, suitable reinforcing member anchor fitting or mechanism 424 primary distribution back side do not have the reinforcing member of lining cement, to engage the tapered sidewalls of base cup.Reinforcing member anchor fitting 424 comprises suitable isolated sidewall 426a and 426b, and it supports reinforcing member and folds.Reinforcing member anchor fitting can connect or be attached at least one actuator, the motor, spring-feel mechanism or other the suitable motion-generating device that are such as controlled by cup enhancing system processor, it makes reinforcing member anchor fitting move in suitable position, with the cup making the reinforcing member fixed engage lining cement covering.In alternative embodiments, lining cement is sprayed on applicator suitably, and it is by the surface of adhesive applicating to reinforcing member.As mentioned above, in these alternate embodiments, reinforcing member is arranged with the angle corresponding to cup-and-cone shape Sidewall angles, and thus reinforcing member pastes base cup with the angle corresponding to base wall of cup angle.And as mentioned above, in these alternate embodiments, reinforcing member must engage base cup along the central vertical shaft of base cup at first.

As in Figure 44 C, the best illustrates, after reinforcing member 42 pastes base cup 102 tapered sidewalls along reinforcing member central vertical shaft 108, this embodiment that cup strengthens system can operate to make the remaining non-adhesive portion of reinforcing member engage and paste the tapered sidewalls of cup.In one embodiment, utilize the cup fixed way of cup placement on it, cup revolves turnback at first direction.When cup rotates, the tapered sidewalls of cup compresses or engages the reinforcing member composition surface 394 of reinforcing member pasting pad 390, thus makes the Part I of reinforcing member or sections engage and paste the tapered sidewalls of cup due to the lining cement overplate being coated to cup sidewall.In one embodiment, Part I or sections comprise reinforcing member extends to tail edge part from central vertical shaft.

As in Figure 44 D, the best illustrates, in one embodiment, after the rotation of cup first direction, cup then in the opposite direction, second direction rotating 360 degrees.When cup rotates, the tapered sidewalls of cup compresses or engages the reinforcing member composition surface 394 of reinforcing member pasting pad 390, engages to make the Part II of reinforcing member or sections and pastes the tapered sidewalls of cup.In one embodiment, Part II or sections comprise reinforcing member extends to head edge part from central vertical shaft.It will be appreciated that this embodiment of cup enhancing system can operate order and strengthen multiple cup.Such as, engage the first lining cement cover cup from the first reinforcing member that reinforcing member is folded, what the self-reinforcing parts that come on thereafter were folded covers with the second lining cement the second reinforcing member that cup engages.

In another alternate embodiments, the structure that the cup shown in Figure 18 A and 18B strengthens system is put upside down suitably.That is, cup conveyer 212 is not rotate in the counterclockwise direction, but this glass of conveyer rotates in the clockwise direction.It will be appreciated that in this embodiment, the independent rotation changing each glass of fixed way is held the change of glass conveyor direction.In other words, each glass of fixed way by first, anticlockwise direction rotates 15 degree to 20 degree, each independent cup, its followed by be greater than 180 degree second, clickwise, and be and then greater than below 360 degree the 3rd, left-hand revolution.

It will be appreciated that above-described method and apparatus also can be used for reinforcing member or other suitable packagings to paste any other container or vessel, such as bowl, bottle, box, dish, tank, cup or kettle.Should be further appreciated that above-described method and apparatus also can be used to reinforcing member or other suitable packagings to paste plastic waste foam container, the such as plastic container of paper container or other types.

Therefore, in one embodiment, the reinforced plastics foam cup that cup enhancing system disclosed herein is produced comprises plastic foam conical body and is pasted onto the straight reinforcing member of tapered sidewalls external surface peripheral in an overlapping arrangement.Plastic foam conical body forms open top end and closed bottom end and extends to the tapered sidewalls on top from bottom, and wherein top comprises the flange outwards rolled, and top has larger diameter than bottom, and tapered sidewalls has outside face and inside face.Straight reinforcing member comprises the rigid material layer with inside face and outside face, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the whole inside face of basic layer of cover material.Before being pasted onto tapered sidewalls external surface peripheral, reinforcing member has recessed or the first edge and protrusion or the second edge, and wherein the recessed concave point at edge is aimed in identical plane with the summit of cocked bead.The reinforcing member of pre-stickup comprises head or the 3rd edge and identification or the 4th edge, head edge and identify edge material layer one end place recessed with cocked bead between extend.Pre-stickup reinforcing member also comprises rear portion or the 5th edge and lining cement and alleviates or hexagon edge, rear part edge and lining cement alleviation edge are recessed at material layer opposite end place and extend between cocked bead, head edge and rear part edge extend in intersecting plane, identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in substantially parallel plane.After being pasted onto tapered sidewalls external surface peripheral, the closed bottom of the contiguous plastic foam conical body in recessed edge, the open top of the contiguous plastic foam conical body of cocked bead, head edge and rear part edge extend in substantially parallel plane, and identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in the plane intersected.

In another embodiment, cup strengthens system and produces reinforced plastics foam cup, strengthens cup and comprises plastic foam cup and be pasted onto the reinforcing member of tapered sidewalls external surface peripheral in an overlapping arrangement.Plastic foam cup comprises diapire and is formed with diapire is at one end integrated and extends to the conical side wall on top from diapire, this sidewall has inside face and outside face, diapire and sidewall form inner chamber, and top forms the opening of this inner chamber, and top has larger diameter than bottom.Plastic foam cup also comprises the outward extending flange that formed integrated with sidepiece top, and integratedly with sidewall is formed and the flange to downward-extension extended below diapire.Reinforcing member comprises the paper wood bed of material with inside face and outside face, and the basic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer covering the whole inside face of the paper wood bed of material.Before being pasted onto around wall outer surface, reinforcing member has recessed or the first edge and protrusion or the second edge, and wherein the recessed concave point at edge is aimed in identical plane with the summit of cocked bead.The reinforcing member of pre-stickup comprises head or the 3rd edge and identification or the 4th edge, head edge and identify edge material layer one end place recessed with cocked bead between extend.Pre-stickup reinforcing member also comprises rear portion or the 5th edge and lining cement and alleviates or hexagon edge, rear part edge and lining cement alleviation edge are recessed at material layer opposite end place and extend between cocked bead, head edge and rear part edge extend in intersecting plane, identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in substantially parallel plane.Be pasted onto after around wall outer surface, the bottom margin of the downward extending edge in recessed edge, the contiguous outward extending edge of cocked bead, head edge and rear part edge extend in substantially parallel plane, and identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in the plane intersected.

In another embodiment, cup disclosed herein strengthens system and comprises plastic foam cup reinforcing member supply volume, and it comprises elongated backing band and the multiple straight reinforcing member of order along the arrangement of backing band.Each reinforcing member comprises the paper wood bed of material with inside face and outside face.Each reinforcing member has recessed or the first edge, and protrudes or the second edge, and wherein the recessed trough at edge is aimed in identical plane with the summit of cocked bead.Each reinforcing member has head or the 3rd edge, and identifies or the 4th edge, and head edge and identification edge extend between the recessed of material layer one end place with cocked bead.Each reinforcing member also comprises rear portion or the 5th edge, alleviate or hexagon edge with lining cement, rear part edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and are extended between the recessed of material layer opposite end place and cocked bead, head edge and rear part edge extend in intersecting plane, identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in substantially parallel plane.Each reinforcing member is configured to when reinforcing member is pasted onto the cone shaped cup tapered sidewalls external surface peripheral with bottom and top, wherein top has larger diameter than bottom, the bottom of the contiguous cone shaped cup in recessed edge, the top of the contiguous cone shaped cup of cocked bead, head edge and rear part edge extend in substantially parallel plane, and identify that edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in the plane intersected.And each reinforcing member pastes backing band by the basic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer covering the whole inside face of the paper wood bed of material.

Should understand, the various changes and improvements made the preferred embodiment described herein are at present by apparent to one skilled in the art.Such changes and improvements and without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention can be made, and do not reduce the advantage of its expection.Therefore such changes and improvements should be covered by the claim of enclosing.

Claims

1. a plastic foam strengthens cup reinforcing member supply volume, comprising:

Elongated backing release liner, wound into a roll; With

Multiple straight reinforcing member, order is along elongated backing release liner arrangement, and each reinforcing member comprises the paper wood bed of material with inside face and outside face, and each reinforcing member has:

A () is recessed into edge,

(b) cocked bead, wherein the recessed concave point at edge is aimed in identical plane with the summit of cocked bead, flat transverse in described reinforcing member,

(c) head edge;

D () identifies edge, head edge and identification edge extend between the recessed edge and cocked bead at material layer one end place,

(e) rear part edge, and

F () lining cement alleviates edge, described rear part edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and are extended between the recessed of material layer opposite end place and cocked bead, described head edge and rear part edge extend in intersecting plane, described identification edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and are extended in substantially parallel plane

Each reinforcing member is configured to when described reinforcing member is pasted onto around the wall outer surface with bottom and top, and the diameter on wherein said top is larger than the diameter of described bottom,

The bottom of the contiguous cone shaped cup in (i) the female edge,

(ii) top of the contiguous described cone shaped cup of described cocked bead,

(iii) described head edge and rear part edge extend in substantially parallel plane, and

(iv) described identification edge and described lining cement alleviation edge extend in intersecting plane,

Reinforcing member described in each pastes backing parting paper by the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer substantially covering the whole inside face of the described paper wood bed of material.

2. plastic foam according to claim 1 strengthens cup reinforcing member supply volume, and wherein said elongated backing release liner reels around central cylindrical pipe.

3. plastic foam according to claim 1 strengthens cup reinforcing member supply volume, and wherein said elongated backing release liner is the craft paper of about 40 pounds.

4. plastic foam according to claim 1 strengthens cup reinforcing member supply volume, and it comprises the figure on described reinforcing member.

5. plastic foam according to claim 1 strengthens cup reinforcing member supply volume, and it comprises the figure be printed on rigid material layer outside face.

6. plastic foam according to claim 1 strengthens cup reinforcing member supply volume, and wherein said lining cement is alleviated edge and had substantially identical height with described identification edge.

7. plastic foam cup strengthens an equipment, and for reinforcing member being pasted the plastic foam cup with tapered sidewalls, described equipment comprises:

Cup conveyer, comprising:

A () cup distributing box, comprising:

(i) cup dispenser frame;

(ii) at least one independently offset guide member, is supported by described cup dispenser frame; With

(iii) at least a set of multiple coefficient vertically arranged threaded cup distributes screw rod, is supported by described cup distribution frame, and wherein each guiding parts and an a set of cups distribute screw rod and aim at;

B () cup feeder, comprising:

(i) cup feeder framework;

(ii) at least one load-transfer device, by described cup feeder framework moveable support, described load-transfer device is formed with multiple hole;

(iii) load-transfer device actuator, is movably attached to each load-transfer device;

(iv) vacuum chamber, by described cup feeder frame supported, described vacuum chamber and vacuum fluid communication, and

V cup feeder guide rail that () relative spacing is opened, by described cup feeder frame supported, described cup feeder guide rail extends in intersecting plane, and described cup feeder guide rail is from vertical plane surface inclination and offset, corresponding with the angle of the described tapered sidewalls with described cup;

(c) cup separation pig;

(d) cup conveyer; With

(e) cup disconnector, and

Cup reinforcing member distributing box and gummer, and

At least one treater, it at least controls described cup distributing box, described cup feeder, described cup separation pig, described cup conveyer, described cup disconnector and described reinforcing member distributing box and gummer.

8. plastic foam cup according to claim 7 strengthens equipment, and wherein said cup distributing box comprises multiple independently offset guide member supported by described cup dispenser frame, and many a set of cups distribute screw rod.

9. plastic foam cup according to claim 7 strengthens equipment, and wherein said cup feeder comprises multiple load-transfer device by described cup feeder framework moveable support, and wherein load-transfer device described at least one is formed with multiple hole.

10. plastic foam cup strengthens an equipment, and for reinforcing member being pasted the plastic foam cup with tapered sidewalls, described equipment comprises:

Cup conveyer, comprising:

(a) cup distributing box;

(b) cup feeder;

(c) cup separation pig;

D () cup conveyer, comprising:

(i) cup conveyor frame;

(ii) rotating disk, is supported by described cup conveyor frame;

(iii) floppy drive, is movably coupled to described rotating disk;

(iv) multiple glasss of fixed ways, are arranged around described turntable periphery, and wherein each glass of fixed way comprises base and spring biased centering bell,

Wherein each base comprises:

(1) the first wall of horizontal arrangement, is configured to the flange of the cup engaging turned upside down;

(2) vertically arranged second wall, be connected to described first wall, described second wall is configured to the top of the inside face of the cup engaging described turned upside down; With

(3) the 3rd wall tilted, is connected to described second wall;

Wherein each centering bell comprises:

(1) first wall, is suitable for the bottom margin engaging described turned upside down cup;

(2) taper second wall, is suitable for the bottom engaging described turned upside down cup tapered exterior sidewall;

(3) the 3rd walls, are suitable for the bottom engaging described turned upside down cup exterior bottom wall; With

(4) walls, are suitable for the central elevated portion engaging the described exterior bottom wall of described turned upside down cup; With

V () each fixed way, is attached to a glass fixed way actuator; With

(e) cup disconnector;

Reinforcing member distributing box and gummer, and

11. 1 kinds of plastic foam cups strengthen equipment, and for reinforcing member being pasted the plastic foam cup with tapered sidewalls, described equipment comprises:

Cup conveyer, comprising:

(a) cup distributing box;

(b) cup feeder;

(c) cup separation pig;

(d) cup conveyer; With

(e) cup disconnector;

Reinforcing member distributing box and gummer comprise:

(a) reinforcing member dispenser frame, described framework comprises height-adjustable base;

B () at least one reinforcing member supply volume bracket, is supported by described base;

C () at least one supply volume, is supported by described base;

D () supply volume actuator, is movably connected to described supply volume;

E () multiple rotatable guide pulley, is supported by described base;

F () parting paper adapter, is supported by described base;

G () to relax piler, is supported by described base;

H () at least one optical pickocff, is supported by described base, described sensor setting is used for the accurate location detecting each reinforcing member before described reinforcing member is about to paste described cup;

I () parting paper disconnector and parting paper collect bracket, supported by described base, and

(j) described base, contiguous described cup conveyer is arranged, and pastes along described reinforcing member central vertical shaft to make the reinforcing member pasting described foam cup tapered sidewalls; With

12. plastic foam cups according to claim 11 strengthen equipment, and wherein said reinforcing member distributing box and gummer comprise multiple reinforcing member supply volume bracket supported by described base.

13. plastic foam cups according to claim 11 strengthen equipment, and wherein said reinforcing member distributing box and gummer comprise multiple supply volume supported by described base.

14. plastic foam cups according to claim 11 strengthen equipment, and wherein said reinforcing member distributing box and gummer comprise multiple optical pickocff supported by described base.

15. 1 kinds of methods manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup, described method comprises:

A () provides a kind of plastic foam cup, have:

(i) bottom,

(ii) conical side wall, is formed with diapire is at one end integrated, and extends to top from described diapire,

(iii) described sidewall, has inside face and outside face, and described diapire and described sidewall form inner chamber,

(iv) described top, forms the opening of described inner chamber,

V () described top has larger diameter than described bottom;

(vi) outward extending flange, integratedly with the top of described sidewall is formed, and

(vii) to the flange of downward-extension, integratedly with described sidewall to be formed, and extend to below described diapire;

B () turned upside down arranges described cup, be positioned at below the bottom of described cup to make the top of described cup;

C () arranges reinforcing member relative to vertical plane surface and corresponding to the Sidewall angles of described cup with acute angle, described reinforcing member has:

(i) center shaft, it extends through the center-point that described reinforcing member is recessed into shape top and protrudes shape bottom margin,

(ii) described center-point is limited by the concave point of the female shape top and the summit of described protrusion shape bottom margin,

(iii) inside face,

(iv) outside face, and

(v) pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, it covers described whole inside face substantially;

D () moves described cup and described reinforcing member towards paste position;

E () is at described paste position, by described reinforcing member along or substantially centrally vertical axis paste the sidewall of described cup, the top of wherein said reinforcing member is aimed at substantially with the bottom of described cup, described reinforcing member bottom margin is aimed at substantially with the top of described cup, and described reinforcing member engages described sidewall with the angle corresponding to described plastic foam cup Sidewall angles;

F () rotates the reinforcing member of described cup and stickup at first direction, the rear portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said rear portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to rear part edge; With

The reinforcing member of (g) cup and stickup described in second-phase opposite spin, the head portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said head portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to head edge.

The method of 16. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 15, wherein said first direction is anticlockwise direction, and described second direction is clockwise direction.

The method of 17. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 15, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one lining cement and alleviates edge.

The method of 18. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 15, it comprises provides described reinforcing member from supply volume.

The method of 19. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 15, it comprises provides described cup from a folded cup.

20. 1 kinds of methods manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup, described method comprises:

A () provides plastic foam cup, have

(i) bottom,

(iv) described top, forms the opening of described inner chamber,

V () described top has larger diameter than described bottom;

I () is recessed into shape top,

(ii) shape top is protruded,

(iii) center shaft, its center-point extending through the female shape top and protrude shape bottom margin, described center-point is limited by the concave point of the female shape and the summit of described protrusion shape bottom margin,

(iv) inside face,

(v) outside face,

(vi) pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, it covers described whole inside face substantially,

(vii) head edge, and

(viii) the vertical or identification edge that extends substantially vertically, described head edge and identify that edge extends at the female shape edge at material layer one end place and protruding between shape edge;

D described cup and described reinforcing member, with the while of sensing described reinforcing member identification edge basic at least partly, are moved to paste position by ();

E () is at described paste position, by described reinforcing member along or substantially centrally vertical axis paste the sidewall of described cup, the top of wherein said reinforcing member is aimed at substantially with the bottom of described cup, the bottom margin of described reinforcing member is aimed at substantially with the top of described cup, and described reinforcing member engages described sidewall with the angle corresponding to described plastic foam cup Sidewall angles;

The method of 21. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 20, wherein said first direction is anticlockwise direction, and described second direction is clockwise direction.

The method of 22. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 20, it is included in before described reinforcing member is about to paste described cup, senses the identification edge of described reinforcing member.

The method of 23. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 20, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one lining cement and alleviates edge.

The method of 24. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 20, it comprises provides described reinforcing member from supply volume.

The method of 25. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 20, it comprises provides described cup from a folded cup.

The method of 26. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 20, it comprises the identification edge that optics senses described reinforcing member.

27. 1 kinds of methods manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup, described method comprises:

A () provides plastic foam cup, have

(i) bottom,

(iv) described top, forms the opening of described inner chamber,

V () described top has larger diameter than described bottom;

B () departs from described cup from multiple nested cup;

The cup of described disengaging is assigned on glass conveyer by c turned upside down position that () is positioned at below the bottom of described cup with the top of described cup, and described distribution is included in glass conveyer place or just provides negative pressure, to make described cup overturning-free on a conveyor;

D () arranges reinforcing member relative to vertical plane surface and corresponding to the Sidewall angles of described cup with acute angle, described reinforcing member has:

(iii) inside face,

(iv) outside face, and

E () moves described cup and described reinforcing member towards paste position;

F () is at described paste position, by described reinforcing member along or substantially centrally vertical axis paste the sidewall of described cup, the top of wherein said reinforcing member is aimed at substantially with the bottom of described cup, the bottom margin of described reinforcing member is aimed at substantially with the top of described cup, and described reinforcing member engages described sidewall with the angle corresponding to described plastic foam cup Sidewall angles;

G () rotates the reinforcing member of described cup and stickup at first direction, the rear portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said rear portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to rear part edge; With

The reinforcing member of (h) cup and stickup described in second-phase opposite spin, the head portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said head portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to head edge.

The method of 28. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 27, wherein said first direction is anticlockwise direction, and described second direction is clockwise direction.

The method of 29. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 27, wherein at cup conveyer place or provide negative pressure to comprise above cup conveyer to make air flow over described cup conveyer and arrive vacuum source above described cup conveyer.

The method of 30. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 27, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one lining cement and alleviates edge.

The method of 31. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 27, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one and identifies edge.

The method of 32. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 27, it comprises provides described reinforcing member from supply volume.

The method of 33. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 27, it comprises provides described cup from a folded cup.

34. 1 kinds of methods manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup, described method comprises:

A () provides a kind of plastic foam cup, have:

(i) diapire, in the bottom of described cup, described diapire has inside face and outside face,

(ii) conical side wall, formed with described diapire is at one end integrated, and extend to top from described diapire, described sidewall has top and bottom margin, described sidewall has inside face and outside face, described diapire and sidewall form inner chamber, and the inside face of described sidewall comprises the sloping portion extending to described diapire from described bottom margin

(iii) described top forms the opening of described inner chamber,

(iv) described top has larger diameter than described bottom,

V () outward extending flange, integratedly with the top of described sidewall is formed, and

(vi) to the flange of downward-extension, integratedly with described sidewall to be formed, and extend to below described diapire;

B described cup is arranged in turned upside down position by (), be positioned at below the bottom of described cup to make the top of described cup;

C described cup, by engaging with lower part simultaneously, remains in turned upside down position by ():

The top of (i) described sidewall

(ii) inside face of the described sidewall on described top is close to;

(iii) outside face of the described sidewall of described bottom is close to;

(iv) bottom margin of described sidewall,

The sloping portion of the described sidewall of (v) contiguous described bottom, and

(vi) outside face of described diapire,

(ii) described center-point is limited by the summit of the concave point and protrusion shape bottom margin that are recessed into shape top,

(iii) inside face,

(iv) outside face, and

E () remains on cup in turned upside down position and described reinforcing member described in moving towards paste position;

The method of 35. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 34, wherein said first direction is conter clockwise, and described second direction is cw.

The method of 36. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 34, it comprises the described wall outer surface engaging contiguous described bottom under stress, the bottom margin of described sidewall, the contiguous described sidewall slope part of described bottom and the outside face of described diapire.

The method of 37. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 34, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one lining cement and alleviates edge.

The method of 38. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 34, it comprises provides described reinforcing member from supply volume.

The method of 39. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 34, it comprises provides described cup from a folded cup.

40. 1 kinds of methods manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup, described method comprises:

A () provides plastic foam cup, have:

(i) bottom,

(iv) described top, forms the opening of described inner chamber,

V () described top has larger diameter than described bottom;

(ii) described center-point is limited by the concave point of the female shape top and the summit of protrusion shape bottom margin,

(iii) inside face,

(iv) outside face, and

F () rotates the reinforcing member of described cup and stickup in the counterclockwise direction, the rear portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said rear portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to rear part edge; With

G () rotates the reinforcing member of described cup and stickup in the clockwise direction, the head portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said head portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to head edge.

The method of 41. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 40, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one lining cement and alleviates edge.

The method of 42. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 40, it comprises provides described reinforcing member from supply volume.

The method of 43. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 40, it comprises provides described cup from a folded cup.

44. 1 kinds of methods manufacturing reinforced plastics foam cup, described method comprises:

A () provides plastic foam cup, have

(i) bottom,

(iv) described top, forms the opening of described inner chamber,

V () described top has larger diameter than described bottom;

(iii) inside face,

(iv) outside face, and

F () rotates the reinforcing member of described cup and stickup at first direction, with by a part for described reinforcing member but not every head portion pastes the sidewall of described cup, wherein said head portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to head edge; With

The reinforcing member of (g) cup and stickup described in second-phase opposite spin, the rear portion of described reinforcing member to be pasted the sidewall of described cup, wherein said rear portion comprises the region of described reinforcing member from the central vertical shaft of described reinforcing member to rear part edge;

H () rotates the reinforcing member of described cup and stickup at first direction, described reinforcing member to be remained the sidewall of other bonding partially to described cup of head portion.

The method of 45. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 44, wherein said first direction is conter clockwise, and described second direction is cw.

The method of 46. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 44, wherein said reinforcing member comprises at least one lining cement and alleviates edge.

The method of 47. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 44, it comprises provides described reinforcing member from supply volume.

The method of 48. manufacture reinforced plastics foam cups according to claim 44, it comprises provides described cup from a folded cup.

The Enhancement Method of 49. 1 kinds of plastic foam cups, described method comprises:

A () provides a kind of plastic foam conical body, it has:

I () open top, comprises the flange of outwards volume,

(ii) closed bottom, has the diameter being less than described top, and

(iii) tapered wall, extends to described top from described bottom, and described tapered wall has outside face and inside face; And

B () provides a kind of straight reinforcing member, have:

I () rigid material layer, has inside face and outside face,

(ii) pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, it covers the whole inside face of described material layer substantially,

(iii) recessed edge,

(iv) cocked bead, the concave point at wherein said recessed edge is aimed in identical plane with the summit of described cocked bead,

(v) head edge, described flat transverse in described reinforcing member,

(vi) identify edge, described head edge and identification edge extend between the female and cocked bead at described material layer one end place,

(vii) rear part edge, and

(viii) lining cement alleviates edge, described rear part edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and are extended between the female and cocked bead at described material layer opposite end place, described head edge and rear part edge extend in intersecting plane, and described identification edge and lining cement are alleviated edge and extended in substantially parallel plane; With

C the outside face of described tapered wall pastes around described tapered wall by () in an overlapping arrangement, to make:

The closed bottom of the contiguous described plastic foam cup conical body in (i) the female edge,

(ii) open top of the contiguous described plastic foam cup conical body of described cocked bead,

(iv) described identification edge and lining cement alleviation edge extend in intersecting plane.

The Enhancement Method of 50. plastic foam cups according to claim 49, it comprises the figure on described reinforcing member.

The Enhancement Method of 51. plastic foam cups according to claim 49, it comprises the figure be printed on described rigid material layer outside face.

The Enhancement Method of 52. plastic foam cups according to claim 49, wherein said lining cement is alleviated edge and is had substantially identical height with described identification edge.

The Enhancement Method of 53. 1 kinds of plastic foam cups, described method comprises:

A () provides a kind of plastic foam cup, have:

(i) diapire,

(ii) conical side wall, formed with described diapire is integrated at one end, and extend to top from described diapire, described sidewall has inside face and outside face, described diapire and sidewall form inner chamber, described top forms the opening of described inner chamber, and described top has larger diameter than bottom

(iii) outward extending flange, integratedly with the described top of sidepiece is formed; With

(iv) to the flange of downward-extension, integratedly with described sidewall to be formed, and extend to below described diapire,

B () provides a kind of reinforcing member, comprising:

I () paper wood bed of material, has inside face and outside face,

(ii) pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, it covers the whole inside face of the described paper wood bed of material substantially,

(iii) recessed edge,

(iv) cocked bead, the concave point at wherein said recessed edge is aimed in identical plane with the summit of described cocked bead, described flat transverse in described reinforcing member,

(v) head edge,

(vii) rear part edge, and

C described reinforcing member is pasted the external surface peripheral of described sidewall by () in an overlapping arrangement, to make:

The bottom margin of the contiguous described downward stretch flange formability in (i) the female edge,

(ii) the contiguous described outward extending flange of described cocked bead,

The Enhancement Method of 54. plastic foam cups according to claim 53, it comprises the figure on described reinforcing member.

The Enhancement Method of 55. plastic foam cups according to claim 53, it comprises the figure be printed on rigid material layer outside face.

The Enhancement Method of 56. plastic foam cups according to claim 53, wherein said lining cement is alleviated edge and is had substantially identical height with described identification edge.