Apparatus for loading slide fasteners or the like into a receptacle in neat arrangement
US3951274A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 29, 1974 |
| Grant date | Apr 20, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 29, 1994 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G57/04
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A tubular suction member is provided which has a suction port at its bottom end and which reciprocates between a first position over a receiving plate and a second position over an open-top receptacle mounted on a rotatable platform. Manufactured slide fasteners or like articles are successively deposited onto the receiving plate and are carried away by the suction member to the second position, where each article is caused to drop into the receptacle. Cam means is provided for arresting the travel of the suction member from its first to second position, the cam means rotating through a preassigned angle during each complete reciprocation of the suction member from its second to first and back to second position, whereby the successive articles dropped into the receptacle are arranged in neat side-by-side relationship therein. The platform can be rotated 180.degree. in a horizontal plane each time two consecutive layers of the articles are formed in the receptacle, in order to prevent the layered articles, especially the slide fasteners each carrying a slider on one end thereof, from collapsing.
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