GB1278700A - Apparatus for feeding and inserting individual articles into holders of a continuously travelling conveyor means of a carton packing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

1278700 Transferring articles between endless conveyers INDUSTRIE-WERKE KARLSRUHE AG 21 July 1969 [20 July 1968] 36489/69 Heading B8A In apparatus for supplying and inserting individual articles 1 into holders 19 of a continuously travelling conveyer 20 of a carton packing machine, with a feed device 2 conveying the articles 1 continuously from a filling and closing machine (not shown) to a receiving point of the conveyer 20 a transfer device 16 moves in synchronism with the conveyer means 20 and supplies the articles 1 to the latter, and a pusher member 10 conveys the articles 1 from the end of the feed device 2 into the transfer device 16. Actuation of the member 10 is controlled by a switching device 5 dependently upon the presence of the individual articles at the end of the feed device, and a detent element 7 which permits the actuation only when a member 4 is displaced by the passage of an article 1. The member 4 closes the switch 5 which controls the rotation of a cam 7. The latter has a section 9 for operating a switch 6 actuating the member 10. The latter is driven by amotor 11. A cam disc 14 on the motor shaft operates a switch 13 after return of the member 10 to its inoperative position, thereby stopping the member 10. In Fig. 4, a plurality of belts 2 deliver articles 1 to a transfer position in which they may be deflected simultaneously by pushers 31 to a belt 38. Absence of any one or more of the articles on a respective belt 2 prior to the point of transfer is detected by a photoelectric device (21) (Fig. 3, not shown). This causes the articles which are present, to be deflected to a container (not shown) instead of being transferred to the belt 38. When a full complement of articles 1 arrives at the transfer position, a photo-electric device (23) is energized, and this causes actuation of a clutch 24 in the drive of the pushers 31. Spacing of the articles on the belt 38 is controlled by a flighted conveyer belt 33. The articles 1 are thereby fed into pockets of a conveyer 20.