US3759012A - Device for fitting caps to containers - Google Patents

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US3759012A
US3759012A US00190609A US3759012DA US3759012A US 3759012 A US3759012 A US 3759012A US 00190609 A US00190609 A US 00190609A US 3759012D A US3759012D A US 3759012DA US 3759012 A US3759012 A US 3759012A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
    • B67B1/005—Feeding stoppers
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    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
    • B67B1/04—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers by inserting threadless stoppers, e.g. corks

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  • ABSTRACT This device for fitting closing caps to containers filled with liquid, semi-liquid or pulverulent products, as they emerge from a filling machine, is easily adapted to most existing filling machines. It comprises essentially a rotary spider having a vertical axis and adapted to receive the containers as they are delivered from the filling machine. Said spider carries a head adapted to revolve in synchronism therewith and to dispense the caps to be fitted to said containers.
  • Said head comprises, in combination with each notch of said spider, a cranked lever fulcrumed about a horizontal axis, each lever having one end directed outwards and centered to the notch associated therewith, and provided on its lower face with cap gripping means enabling it to grip and retain the caps separately, means being provided for displacing angularly towards the neck of the container engaged in the relevant notch the aforesaid free end of said lever, after said lever has picked up a cap during its travel past the downstream end of a cap dispensing channel.
  • liquid product contained in the bottles or other containers must be sheltered as rapidly as possible from the surrounding atmosphere.
  • the device comprises a rotary spider having a vertical axis and adaptedto receive the containers as they are delivered from the filling machine, said spider carrying a head adapted to revolve in synchronism therewith and to dispense the caps to be fitted to the necks of the filled containers said head comprising, in combination with each notch of said spider, a lever fulcrumed about a horizontal axis, each lever having one end directed outwards and centered to the corresponding notch and provided on its lower face with gripping means adapted to grip and retain the caps, means being provided for displacing angularly towards the neck of the container engaged separately in the relevant notch, the aforesaid free end of said lever, after said lever has picked up a cap during its travel past the downstream end of a cap dispensing channel.
  • a pushmember responsive to a calibrated spring projects from the operative surface of a fixed cam in the path of a roller follower carried by the vertical arm of said lever, at a predetermined location, whereby, when the roller follower engages said push-member, it exerts through a substantially horizontal arm on the free end of said lever a predetermined effort on the cap in order properly to fit same into the neck of the container.
  • a capretaining and selecting device is provided in the vicinity of the downstream end of the cap dispensing channel, this last-named device comprising essentially a strapshaped pawl whereby the first or leading cap in the channel is released while the following caps are retained until, upon release of said first cap, the pawl is returned to its initial position and the first next cap thus released is allowed to slide down and so forth.
  • each bell-crank lever carries in the vicinity of its free end a shoulder acting as a retaining means for limiting the travel of the cap picked up by said lever.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of operation of the device of this invention
  • FIG. 2 is an axial section taken along the line'2-2 of FIG. 3
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view from above with a half-section taken along the line 3-3 of FIG. 2
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary view showing the cap retaining and selecting device
  • FIG. 5 is a top view in section taken along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2 and showing details of the rotary dispensing device.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the general principle of a device I, 2 for fitting caps to containers, this device, as shown, being positioned downstream of and tangent to a filling machine, the filling path 3 of which is shown very diagrammatically.
  • This device I, 2 is adapted to pick up the containers 4 at the end of the filling operation taking place at stations a, b, c, then to fit a cap to each container, and finally to release the capped containers at d where they are taken by a conveyor 5 and directed towards storage means (not shown).
  • the device I, 2 comprises essentially a single or double spider l and a head 2, the latter comprising a disk 60 which supports a notched wheel 6. Parts revolve in synchronism about a common, vertical axis. Each notch 7 of wheel 6 is adapted to engage the neck of a container, for example a plastic bottle 4, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. a
  • the disk 6a and notched wheel 6 are assembled with the interposition of spacers 8 mounted on the disk, where they are centered by tubular split pins 9, and the disk and wheel 6a, 6 are assembled by means of screws 10 alternating with said tubular split pins 9 on a common circumference.
  • the disk 6a comprises a central, open disk portion and a cylindrical socket 12, concentric with the disk 60 and welded to its lower, central face.
  • the lower portion of socket 12 is clamped to a driving shaft 13 of corresponding diameter, acting as a support.
  • the socket 12 carries on the other hand at its upper end a nut 14 the upper portion of which has a cylindrical surface for fitting the inner race of a ball-bearing l6 thereon.
  • the outer race of bearing 16 is fitted in a corresponding recess 17 formed in the lower portion of a cylindrical vertical member 18 concentricwith the notched wheel 6.
  • This tubular member 19 receives concentrically therein a relatively long screw 21 engaging the nut 14 and bearing with its lower end against the upper end of shaft 13.
  • the upper end of screw 21 comprises a hexagonal head 21a to permit the necessary adjustment.
  • each lever 22 registering with each notch 7 of wheel 6 and underlying notch of spider l is a bell-crank or angle lever 22 fulcrumed substantially at its elbow about a pivot pin 23 carried by a strap 24 secured to the disk 6a.
  • Each lever 22 comprises a substantially horizontal arm 22a and a substantially vertical arm 22b.
  • the horizontal arm 22a 'of lever 22 extends outwardly from pivot pin 23 over the notched wheel 6 and the vertical arm 22b has its lower end upwardly biased by a compression spring 25 housed in a bore formed in disk 6a on the other hand, this arm 22b carries at its upper end a roller follower 26 having a vertical axis.
  • spring 25 constantly urges the bell-crank lever 22 for pivoting in the clockwise direction, as shown by the arrow 27 in FIG. 2, so that in the inoperative position the horizontal arm 22a of each lever 22 is somewhat inclined, and its free end can overlie the mouth of the container just released from the filling machine.
  • annular member 28 Secured to the notched wheel 6 is an annular member 28 having a radial portion 28a for the fastening it to the notched wheel 6, and also having cylindrical portion 28b coaxially facing the cylindrical member 18 and formed with a radial upper face 280.
  • the cylindrical portion 28b has formed therein, peripherally adjacent and opositeto each crnak lever, a conduit 29.
  • Each conduit 29 has an outer end, where this conduit is connected through a flexible hose 30 to an orifice formed in the vicinity of the free end of the lower face of the horizontal arm 22a of the adjacent lever 22.
  • the other end of conduit 29 opens through the radial face 280'.
  • Above member 28 which constitutes the rotary element of a pneumatic distributor, is a circular member 32 secured to an external flange formed on cylindrical member 18, intennediate the ends thereof.
  • the lower radial face 32a of this flange bears on the radial upper face 280 of annular member 28.
  • the circular member 32 constitutes the fixed element of said distributor.
  • Circular member 32 comprises a circular groove 33 covering an arc of about 270 and registering with the outlet orifices of conduits 29 which open through having a radial face 28c. opposite crank f
  • This groove 33 is connected through four small'radial passages 34 to an annular cavity 35 formed in the bore 36 of circular member 32.
  • On either side of said annular cavity 35 a pair of annular grooves are formed and provided with suitable seals such as O-rings. Opening radially into the annular cavity 35 is the lower end of a longitudinal duct 37 formed in cylindrical member 18, the upper end of said duct 37 opening also radially at the upper end of said cylindrical member 18 into a union or nozzle 38 connected to a source of vacuum.
  • the cylindrical member 18 carries a fixed cam 39 coplanar with the roller followers 26.
  • This cam 39 has formed therein a radial hole receiving a push member 40 responsive to a calibrated spring 42.
  • a pin 43 engaging with its lower end an axial groove formed in said push member 40 prevents the latter from being ejected from its radial hole.
  • a cap retaining and selecting device 44 is provided at a downstream end of the cap dispensing channel (not shown).
  • This device 44 carried by a support 46 (FIGS. 3 and 4) comprises essentially a U-sectioned channel section 47 and a rocker or pawl 48 disposed beneath said channel.
  • the pawl 48 is substantially strap-shaped and has its base fulcrumed about a horizontal pivot pin 49. Moreover, it comprises at its lower portion a central depending stud 50.
  • the bottom wall of channel 47 has formed therethrough an elongated aperture permitting the passage of the free end of each arm of said pawl 48 and the latter is constantly urged by a spring 52 to an inoperative position in which the downstream arm of the pawl projects above said bottom wall so as to retain the caps 45 accumulating upstream thereof.
  • the stud 50 is adapted to co-act with a horizontal cam 53 pivoted to a vertical pin 54 and formed with a portion shaped to project in the path of vertical pins 56 carried by the notched wheel 6 and associated with each crank lever 22.
  • these pins 56 are adapted to actuate the cam 53 and rock the pawl 48 in order to retract the downstream arm thereof while causing its upstream arm to project above the bottom wall of the cap dispensing channel 47.
  • the first cap is released by the. downstream arm of pawl 48 and slides towards its gripping or pick-up point, the other caps being retained by the upstream arm until the cam 53 is released by the pin 56. Then, the pawl 48 is returned to its initial position by the spring 52 and the first following cap is released .in turn and slides towards the downstream arm, and so forth.
  • each released cap is facilitated by the provision of a suitably directed air-jet nozzle 57 controlled in synchronism with the movements of pawl 48 through suitable means (not shown).
  • the above-described device operates as follows Successive containers 4, filled at a, b, 0 (FIG. 1) are released from filling machine path 3 and are directly, as shown tangentially engaged by the new spider and head unit, whereon they move around to psoition d, while their mouths are capped. They are then released, near :1, for disposal by conveyor 5. Meanwhile caps are received in the cap channel (at right in the capping unit), are transferred therefrom to successive levers 22 (FIG. 4) and are carried around to the point of tangency between the filling and capping paths (FIG. 1).
  • the spider ii and notched wheel 6 are rotatably driven from shaft 13 at a predetermined speed depending onthe rate of delivery of containers 4, i.e. on the rate of filling of these containers in the filling machine 3.
  • the containers are. carried around shaft 13 by the spider 1 and notched wheel 6, immediately after the filling thereof, their necks engaging each a notch 7 of wheel 6 (FIG. 2, 3).
  • lever 22 When the roller follower 26 escapes from cam 39, lever 22 resumes its inoperative position, then the capped container is released and carried away by con veyor 5 directing same to towards storage means. The same sequence of operations is repeated for each lever 22.
  • lever 22 is extremely thin so that it can be moved to a position above the neck of the container just after the latter has left the filling tap of the filling machine.
  • a device for closing containers with closure means comprising:
  • a spider having notches for receiving each container from a filling machine and for carrying the container along an arc of a circle about the shaft;
  • a head comprising a disk rotatable coaxially and in synchronism with the spider;
  • each lever having a first, then generally horizontal arm for receiving a closure means and for carrying it to a position opposite a container on said arc, and having a second arm extending generally vertically from said first arm, and means for fastening the closure means to the container on said are;
  • a vacuum source for maintaining communication between said vacuum source and a point on the underside of the first arm of each lever, along said arc, to pick up closure means from the source of closure means and to release the closure means at a predetermined point of said are; and
  • cam means on said head and follower means on said second arm for actuating each lever at said point to perform said fastening of the released closure means to the container.
  • each cranked lever has means to pivot it to the head for rocking motion of the first am from very slightly above horizontal position to very slightly below horizontal position and reverse, whereby the driving shaft, spider and head can be installed so that the spider receives the containers directly from the filling machine, the horizontal arms of the cranked levers passing between the filling machine and the containers immediately after the filling operation.
  • the source of closure means comprises channel means for delivering the closure means, one after the other, at the periphery of the head, to the undersides of the horizontal arms of the levers, at a predetermined position relative to each arm and lever.
  • a device for fitting caps in the process of automatically capping containers which is disposed downstream of a filling machine, and comprises a spider having a vertical axis, adapted to receive the containers as they are released from said filling machine, said spider carrying a head rotating in synchronism therewith and adapted to distribute caps for closing said containers, said head comprising in combination with each notch of said spider a lever adapted to pivot about a horizontal axis and having one end directed outwards, centered to said notch and provided on its lower face with gripping means for gripping and retaining said caps, means being provided for moving angularly said free end of said lever towards the neck of the container engaged in said notch after said free end has picked up a cap during its travel past the downstream end of a cap dispensing channel, said means for causing the angular movement of said pivoting lever comprise on the one hand a roller carried by said lever and on the other hand a fixed cam, spring means constantly urging said roller against the operative contour of said cam each time said roller mov'es
  • a push member responsive to a calibrated spring projects from the operative face of said fixed cam and also in the path of the roller follower carried by the vertical arm of said cranked lever at a predetermined location, whereby, when said roller engages said push member it is adapted, through the horizontal arm of said lever, to exert a predetermined effort on the cap in order to properly sink same into the neck of the container.

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US4373316A (en) * 1980-09-05 1983-02-15 Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited Plug driving apparatus
US5050369A (en) * 1989-08-24 1991-09-24 Alfill Getranketechnik Gmbh Method of and apparatus for filling and capping containers for beverages and the like
US5373683A (en) * 1990-06-06 1994-12-20 Kronseder; Hermann Process and device for filling and sealing of containers
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US2840970A (en) * 1955-03-07 1958-07-01 Unette Corp Stoppering apparatus
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US3803800A (en) * 1973-02-09 1974-04-16 Neuvelle Baele Gangloff Racine Device for fitting bottle and container caps
US4373316A (en) * 1980-09-05 1983-02-15 Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited Plug driving apparatus
US5050369A (en) * 1989-08-24 1991-09-24 Alfill Getranketechnik Gmbh Method of and apparatus for filling and capping containers for beverages and the like
US5373683A (en) * 1990-06-06 1994-12-20 Kronseder; Hermann Process and device for filling and sealing of containers
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US5778635A (en) * 1996-05-23 1998-07-14 Robino & Galandrino S.P.A. Machine for applying heat-sealable pilferproof disks to bottles of wine liquor beverages in general and the like

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