Machine for automatically filling cans
US4232503A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 8, 1979 |
| Grant date | Nov 11, 1980 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 8, 1999 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65B25/061
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A machine for automatically filling cans, especially flat cans with substantially rectangular contour, with goods of elongated configuration which, in a filling station, are manually laid into a horizontally continuous row of receptacles open at their adjacent ends and mounted on the links of an endless conveyor chain. The machine includes a cutting device for dividing the piece of goods between the adjacent ends of each receptacle, for supplying the cans with their facing downward in continuous row to a location where the conveyor chain initiates a downward movement around a sprocketwheel. As the conveyor chain rotates about the sprocketwheel, the distance between the individual receptacles is increased enabling a can supplied by the guide device to be placed over and surrounding each receptacle, the contents of which falls down in the can at the bottom of the sprocketwheel.
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