Abstract: A feed unit for a container closure device, with a feed device for container closures and a transfer device which transfers the closures from the feed device to a workstation at which containers are closed. The feed device has a rail that terminates at a stationary check shoulder which protrudes into the feed path of the closures along the feed device rail to position each closure to be picked up by the transfer device moving on a path.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 21, 2001
Date of Patent:
December 9, 2003
Assignee:
Alcoa Deutschland GmbH Verpackungswerke
Inventors:
Günther Spatz, Wolfhard Schwarz, Karl Heinz Spether
Abstract: A holding apparatus for a container and a method of holding a container of any size or shape, and formed of any material by supporting a container on a holding plate and employing a gripping mechanism to apply a frictional clamping force to the container. A displacement mechanism including a slider is magnetically coupled to the holding plate. The slider is operable to move the holding plate, to release the holding plate at a predetermined location, and by further movement of the slider after the holding plate has been released at the predetermined location, to displace the gripping mechanism to a clamping state in which frictional clamping forces are applied to the container.
Abstract: A feed unit for a container closure device, with a feed device for container closures and a transfer device which transfers the closures from the feed device to a workstation at which containers are closed. The feed device has a rail that terminates at a stationary check shoulder which protrudes into the feed path of the closures along the feed device rail to position each closure to be picked up by the transfer device moving on a path.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 21, 2001
Publication date:
February 21, 2002
Applicant:
ALCOA Deutschland GmbH Verpackungswerke
Inventors:
Gunther Spatz, Wolfhard Schwarz, Karl Heinz Spether