Abstract: A system for controlled distribution of components, the system including a vibrating bowl provided with an enclosure having a wall extending right around an axis of revolution of the bowl and in which the components are placed in bulk, and an articulated gripping arm provided to distribute the components to the automatic assembly installation, the vibrating bowl including an ascending helical ramp extending along an internal face of the wall between a base and an upper edge of the vibrating bowl constituting an exit of the ramp, the components being able to travel along this ramp towards a supply platform, particularly a slide, on which at least one component is arranged in advance of its seizure by the articulated gripping arm, the supply platform being connected to the exit and extending above or in the enclosure of the vibrating bowl.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an object transportation apparatus for transferring articles from a supply device to a take-away device, comprising at least two, preferably three, transportation belts that are arranged above one another in their width directions and that each have a separate drive; a plurality of reception elements of which at least one is arranged at each of the transportation belts and that serve to receive the articles to be transported; and a screw element that is configured to cooperate with the plurality of reception elements to transfer an article to be transported to one of the plurality of reception elements in a transfer zone or to take it over from one of the plurality of reception elements, wherein the screw element has a first section having an unchanging diameter and a second section having a diameter larger in comparison at which the screw element cooperates with the plurality of reception elements.

Abstract: A conveyance facility for conveying a bag along a conveyance path includes a carrier including a traveling wheel traveling on the conveyance path, and a support supporting the bag being suspended, the carrier conveying the bag along the conveyance path; and a traveling rail provided along the conveyance path, and supporting the traveling wheel so as to be travelable. The traveling rail includes an accumulation belt causing the traveling wheel to travel in frictional contact with the support; and a tracking conveyance belt being meshed with the support to thereby cause the traveling wheel to travel.

Abstract: A spacing drum comprising: a segment receiving drum section capable of receiving a predetermined number of segments per revolution of the drum from a procession of segments approaching the segment receiving drum section at a segment-feed spacing and a segment-feed speed; a segment releasing drum section capable of releasing the predetermined number of segments at a segment-release spacing and a segment-release speed; and a radial profile flight comprising a continuous arc segment extending across at least portions of the segment receiving drum section and the segment releasing drum section. Associated methods are also provided, including method of changing pitch along a spacing drum progressively with a radial profile flight.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device, a system and a method for transportation, separation and orientation in a head up position of cuvettes. The invention also relates to using the device or the system for transportation, separation and orientation in head up position of the cuvettes. The device comprises a pipe, a rotating auger, a motor, a guiding plate and a slide rail. The system further comprises at least one cuvette.

Abstract: A conveying device for a labeling machine is provided with a conveying belt frame (40), plurality of top seat fixtures (50) and a feeding device (60). A conveying belt (41) is mounted on the conveying belt frame (40). The top seat fixtures (50) are mounted at intervals on the conveying belt (41). A protrusion column (51) is protruded from the top surface of each top seat fixtures (50), so that a space can be formed between the bottom of containers and the top seat fixtures when the containers are mounted on the top seat fixtures. The shrinkable film labels can be set around the lower bottom of the containers after being cut by the labeling machine so that the labels can be shrunk to coat the bottom surface of the containers after being heated. The feeding device (60) cooperates with the conveying belt (41) and the top seat fixtures (50) so that the containers to be processed are conveyed by the feeding device (60) to the conveying belt (41) on the conveying belt frame.

Abstract: A workpiece-separating device includes a rotating assembly, a moving assembly, and a driver. The rotating assembly includes a limiting board and a rotating shaft, wherein the limiting board defines a through groove, and the rotating shaft defines a plurality of grooves. A distance between two adjacent grooves changes along a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft. The moving assembly includes a number of first moving blocks for mounting workpieces. Each first moving block is slidably mounted in the through groove and a corresponding groove. The driver drives the rotating shaft to rotate, allowing the first moving blocks to move along the grooves and the through groove to separate the workpieces.

Abstract: Ovens for preforms in plastic material, applicable in particular but not exclusively to blowing machines and stretch blowing machines, are provided.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating containers, including a first treatment unit which treats the containers in a first predefined manner, a transport device which transports the containers away from the first treatment unit, and a second treatment unit which is arranged downstream of the first treatment unit in the transport direction of the containers and which treats the containers in a second predefined manner, wherein the transport device has a first transport unit for transporting the containers and this first transport unit has a guide device which makes contact with the containers and relative to which the containers are moved. The transport device has a second transport unit which is arranged downstream of the first transport unit in the transport direction of the containers and which rotates the containers through a predefined angle relative to the container longitudinal axis during transport of the containers.

Abstract: Systems for spacing and transferring objects between operative stations are provided. Such systems can be used with ovens for preforms for plastic material, in blowing or stretch-blowing machines and for other applications in the packaging field. Such systems provide spacing and transferring of objects advancing in procession on transport elements, from a minimum pitch to a preset pitch larger than said minimum pitch, and for transferring said spaced objects to handling elements.

Abstract: An inlet worm (11) for use in a treatment machine (1) for treating bottles or containers (2) of the like, having at least one distributing or inlet worm (11) which is provided to the side of a transport path (3), is driven by a drive device so as to rotate about a worm axis, and forms a conveying path or helix for the containers (2) on at least one worm body which is provided on a worm receptacle, having at least one transport star (12) which is assigned to the inlet worm, can be driven so as to rotate about a transport-star axis and has a multiplicity of container receptacles which are provided distributed about the transport-star axis at uniform angular intervals which correspond to a machine gauge, and having a drive device for the synchronous and angularly accurate drive of the at least one inlet worm (11) and the at least one transport star (12).

Abstract: A pitch adjustment device for blow molding machine is disclosed, which comprises: a platform, a driving unit, a screw rod unit, and a plurality of clipping units. The screw rod unit is composed of a transmission mechanism and a screw rod, in which the screw rod is pivotally mounted on the platform in a manner that when the platform is driven to move, the moving platform will activate the transmission mechanism for bringing along the screw rod to rotate.

Abstract: A conveying apparatus and a conveyed object inspection apparatus which can perform accurate, damage free image inspection. One conveying roller has a conveying surface formed in a spiral manner on an outer periphery surface thereof. The conveying surface is slanted with respect to the central axis narrowing toward other end side so as to convey a conveyed object while holding it between the conveying surface and other conveying roller. The other conveying roller has a tilt surface provided in a spiral manner on an outer periphery surface thereof. The tilt surface is slanted with respect to the central axis narrowing toward one end side. A feeding means can feed the conveyed object inbetween the conveying rollers. An inspection section has an image acquisition means capable of acquiring an image of an entire outer surface of the conveyed object, and an abnormality detecting means capable of detecting abnormality of the conveyed object based on the image A removing means can then remove an abnormal object.

Abstract: Method for changing the pitch between discrete entities conveyed in succession between a device for feeding the entities at an initial spacing pitch provided between two entities fed in succession and a device for receiving the entities at a final pitch substantially greater than the initial pitch. The method including transporting the discrete entities by a variable pitch feed screw device configured to receive the entities downstream of the device for feeding the entities, the screw including a groove in which the entities are capable of being housed and displaced, so that the pitch between two entities received by the screw is increased downstream of the screw as far as an intermediate pitch; and transferring and gripping the entities at the intermediate pitch by a wheel for changing the pitch, configured to transfer the entities into the receiving device at the final pitch.

Abstract: Method for changing the pitch between discrete entities conveyed in succession between a device for feeding said entities at an initial spacing pitch provided between two entities fed in succession and a device for receiving said entities at a final pitch substantially greater than the initial pitch, characterized in that it comprises the step of transporting the discrete entities by a variable pitch feed screw device capable of receiving said entities downstream of said device for feeding said entities, said screw comprising a groove in which said entities are capable of being housed and displaced, so that the pitch between two entities received by said screw is increased downstream of said screw as far as an intermediate pitch; and the step of transferring and gripping the entities at an intermediate pitch by a wheel for changing the pitch, capable of transferring said entities into said receiving device at said final pitch.

Abstract: There are provided linear section moving chain conveyors for moving carrier trucks on linear sections of a guide rail, curvilinear section moving chain conveyors for moving the carrier trucks on curvilinear sections of a guide rail, and conveyance interval variable portions for moving the carrier trucks on borders between the linear sections and the curvilinear sections while gradually varying the interval between the carrier trucks. When the carrier trucks are moved from a linear section to the following curvilinear section, spiral screws of the conveyance interval variable portions gradually widen the intervals between the carrier trucks, and when the carrier trucks are moved from a curvilinear section to the following linear section, the screws gradually narrow the intervals between the carrier trucks.

Abstract: In an apparatus for interfacing a line for conveying articles (4a) with a feeding line having a different pitch, a plurality of carriages carrying seats or trays for the articles, are driven by conveying chains having a plurality of pins which engage with corresponding recesses made in the carriages, in a first area of the apparatus. Flat projection joined to vertical walls support and guide the carriages in the forward movement direction while the chains are supported and guided by the walls. A worm screw drives the carriages in the forward movement direction, in a second area of the apparatus; Rollers are provided in the bottom of the carriages for mutual removable coupling with the worm screw, in the second area of the apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lumber unloading and feeding method and apparatus that can reliably separate individual boards from a stacked unit and feed the individual boards into other automatic machinery. One embodiment comprises a first load supporting surface and a second load supporting surface that cooperate to support a first end and a second end of at least one tier; a tier receiver located below the first and second load supporting surfaces; a first pusher that biases the first end of the tier off the first load supporting surface; and a second pusher that biases the second end of the tier off the second load supporting surface, thereby allowing the tier to drop onto the tier receiver.