US3578813A - Device for imparting a pre-arranged array to and carrying an orderly train of elongated bodies, the barycenter of which being adjacent and end thereof - Google Patents

Device for imparting a pre-arranged array to and carrying an orderly train of elongated bodies, the barycenter of which being adjacent and end thereof Download PDF

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US3578813A
US3578813A US745527A US3578813DA US3578813A US 3578813 A US3578813 A US 3578813A US 745527 A US745527 A US 745527A US 3578813D A US3578813D A US 3578813DA US 3578813 A US3578813 A US 3578813A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
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    • B65G47/1407—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl
    • B65G47/1442—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl by means of movement of the bottom or a part of the wall of the container
    • B65G47/1471—Movement in one direction, substantially outwards
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/02—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors
    • B65G47/04—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles
    • B65G47/12—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles
    • B65G47/14—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/02—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors
    • B65G47/04—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles
    • B65G47/12—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles
    • B65G47/14—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
    • B65G47/1407—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl

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  • This invention relates to a device for imparting a prearranged array to and for carrying an orderly train of elongated bodies, the barycentre of which being adjacent an end thereof, such as drawing tubes applied on valves for aerosol containers.
  • aerosol containers comprise a valve to which an elongated tube is attached and extends from said valve to adjacent the container bottom; when preparing such containers, there is a tendency to mechanize and to automize any operation relating thereto. For example, there are automatic machines placing onto a container a drawing tube fast with a valve, which is then attached to the container,
  • a device comprising a belt moving in a closed run, a container having a discharge outlet overlying a portion of said belt, a plurality of shaped housings or slots provided on said belt for accommodating the end adjacent the barycentre of said elongated bodies, at least one fluid between said discharge outlet and the belt portion underlying thereto, at least one suction inlet for said fluid and located below said belt substantially at said limited portion thereof, the belt being crossable by the fluid at least at said shaped housings or slots, at least the guide parallel extending to the belt and suitable for retaining and guiding said elongated bodies on said shaped housings or slots adjacent said limited portion of the belt.
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary diagrammatic view showing an embodiment of the device as sectioned along a vertical plane
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line Il-Il of the device of FIG. I;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic elevational and partly sectional view of a different embodiment for the device.
  • the device as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, comprises a tank 1 filled with water and a belt 2 winding up on pulleys 3, 4, 5 and 6, pulley 6 being driven to rotation by a speed variator (not shown in the FIGS.), so that the belt continuously rotates in a counterclockwise direction asseen in FIG. 1.
  • a plate 7 is located within tank 1 inside of belt ring 2, the plate being freely rotatably supported at an end thereof by a stationary pin 8 and being supported at the other end by two articulated rods 9, on the upper end of which a bolt 10 is screwed and rests on a stationary arm 11 through a spring shown in FIG. 1: as seen in FIG. I, said plate is inclined and adjacent its end nearest the tank bottom has a plurality of reliefs 12 defining a plurality of grooves which are rectilinear and parallel to one another, and the function which will be described hereinafter.
  • Two metal partitions 13 project from the tank bottom and extend adjacent to plate 7.
  • the device comprises a pump 14, the delivery side of which is connected through a pipe 15, diagrammatically shown in FIG. 1, to two tubes 16 for water admission into tank 1.
  • the suction side of pump 14 is connected to two suction pipes 17 through a pipe 18 diagrammatically shown in FIG. 1 and is also connected through a pipe 19 to a large sized hole in the tank bottom, which can be seen in FIG. 1 and is shown in FIG.
  • elongated metal elements 20 are secured to the tank, such elements 20 being parallel to belt 2 and defining guide grooves, the function of which is to be later described.
  • Container 21 is filled with a plurality of drawing tubes mounted on valves designed to be secured on aerosol containers, the tubes being randomly placed within the container.
  • valved tubes have been designated by reference numeral 24, the widest portion of each tube as shown in the drawings comprising the valve, while the actual tube is the elongated portion.
  • the tube is much lighter than the valve, so that the unit barycentre is adjacent that end of the tube where the valve is mounted.
  • a vibrator would shake container 21, from the outlet 23 of which said tubes drop in a number depending on the rate of vibrations being imparted to container 21.
  • the tubes exiting from outlet 23 drop into the water in the tank and due to gravity force, the resultant of which passes through the barycentre of the valved tube, and due to frictional forces as well as buoyancy acting with increasing intensity (in accordance with its larger volume) on the tube than on the valve, the tubes will arrange at a vertical position and contact plate 7 by that end thereof on which the valve is attached.
  • belt 2 there are formed a plurality of housings or slots 25, distributed on parallel rows (FIG. 2) and suitable for accommodating the valve fast with the tubes dropping into the container; through housings or slots 25 the water can be passed from one to the other surface of the belt.
  • the tubes not dropping into said housings or slots 25 will move on the belt following the water stream sucked by pipes 17 and collect within the chamber defined by partitions 13, bottom wall and sidewalls of tank 1 and now and then are withdrawn therefrom and returned to container 21.
  • the movement of the water in the tank aids in causing the tubes as dropped into the housings or slots to assume a correct vertical array, said tubes, on moving away from plate 7 as carried by the belt, inserting into the grooves defined by metal elements 20; thus, the valves fast with the tubes are between the belt and metal elements 20 and the tubes are carried by the belt on parallel rows to arrive at a collecting guide 26, from which they are orderly fed to a utilizing machine which applies them onto the containers.
  • the amount of tubes to be delivered to the collecting guides can be varied by varying the vibration conditions in container 21 and plate 7 and speed of rotation of the belt as well as rate of water exchange in the tank.
  • FIG. 3 A different embodiment of the device, in which the fluid being used for imparting a vertical array to the tubes is air, is shown in a diagrammatic and partly sectional view in FIG. 3, wherein a belt 27 provided with housings or slots similar to those in belt 2 is shown moving clockwise on pulleys 28, one of which is driven to rotation by a speed variator.
  • the upper portion of the belt is horizontally rectilinear and below it there are provided two large suction inlets 29 and 30 which are connected through pipes 31 and 32, respectively, to
  • suction side of a fan 33 the suction side of fan 33 being also connected by a pipe 34 to a suction inlet 35 carried by an arm 36 on a rigid support (not shown in the F16. for sake of simplicity), inlet 35 overlying inlet 30.
  • a tube 38 is provided above suction inlet 29, supported by an arm 37 fast with a rigid frame and connected by a pipe 39 to the suction side of a fan 40, the delivery side of which is connected by a pipe 41 to two blowing outlets 42, one of which being provided on one side of the belt and the other on the other opposite side.
  • Two containers 43 are fast with said tube 38 and filled with drawing tubes 24 mounted valves, identical to those above described, containers 43 being subjected to vibrations by known apparatus, not shown in the drawing for sake of simplicity.
  • tubes 24 confusedly drop from containers 43 into tube 38, moving downwards along it by gravity and encountering an intense ascending draught caus ing them to be vertically orientated with the valve disposed downward of the tubes.
  • Tubes drop onto belt 27 and those dropping into said belt housings or slots are firmly retained therein by the air being sucked by inlet 29 and next, moving along with the belt, by the air being sucked by inlet 30.
  • Air being sucked by outlets 42 aids in shaking and causing those tubes 24 having assumed an inclined array on dropping into the housings of the belt to assume a vertical arrayv
  • the tubes On continuing to move along with the belt, the tubes will insert into grooves defined by guides 44 similar to those as described in connection with FlGS. l and 2, and move along said guides to arrive at a collecting guide 45, from which they are withdrawn and sent back to the utilizing machine.
  • a device for imparting a prearranged array to and for carrying an orderly train of elongated bodies, the barycentre of which being adjacent an end thereof, such as drawing tubes applied on valves for aerosol containers, comprising a belt moving in a closed run, a container having a discharge outlet overlying a portion of said belt, a plurality of shaped housings or slots provided on said belt for accommodating the end adjacent the barycentre of said elongated bodies, at least one fluid between said discharge outlet and the belt portion under lying thereto, means for imparting a movement to said fluid, at least one suction inlet for said fluid located below said belt substantially at said limited portion thereof, the belt being crossable by the fluid at least at shaped housings or slots, at least one guide extending parallel to the belt and suitable for retaining and guiding said elongated bodies on said shaped housings or slots adjacent said limited portion of the belt.
  • a device wherein said belt is carried on pulleys rotating on shafts supported by a tank filled with a liquid, said belt portion being immersed in the liquid to which a pump imparts a feeding movement to said guide in the movement direction of the belt portion immersed therein, the bottom wall of the tank below said belt portion having at least one hole in connection with the suction inlet of a pump, there being provided in the tank as immersed in the liquid an inclined plate having at least one guide groove aligned with said guide parallel to the belt, the plate being interposed between said belt portion and the discharge outlet of said container, admission inlets being provided for the liquid into the tank at the opposite side of said hole in the bottom wall of the tank to said plate.
  • a device wherein said container is subjected to vibrations by a vibrator and sidewise of said belt, at the hole in the bottom wall of the tank, partitions are provided which define with the adjacent walls of the tank chambers which are connected to the suction inlet of said pump by suction pipes for the liquid.
  • a device wherein said fluid is air, said discharge outlet opens inwardly of a vertical tube in which an ascending draught is generated by a fan, the lower end of said tube overlying said belt portion below which there is provided at least a first air suction inlet.
  • a device wherein below the belt, adjacent said first inlet and located behind it in belt movement direction, there is provided a second suction inlet, above which and above the belt there are provided a further suction inlet and two side blowing outlets, an end of said guide parallel to the belt being adjacent said blowing outlets, the other end of the aide being adjacent an end of a collecting guide for the elongated bodies.

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