Tray loader
US4712356A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 23, 1986 |
| Grant date | Dec 15, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 23, 2006 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G2201/0205
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Cookies 20 having irregularly shaped upper surfaces are received in an as-baked, horizontal attitude from the cookie oven first on a slick top belt conveyor 10, then on an edge abutment belt conveyor 11, where the cookies are delivered in edge abutment relationship to a timing belt 12. The timing belt delivers the cookies to cookie loading wheel 14 which reorients each cookie in series from the as-baked, horizontal attitude to an edge standing attitude and aligns each cookie with the preceeding cookie in the cell 56 or 57 of a turret 15. Once the cookies have been properly aligned in an edge standing attitude, the cookies are urged by the loading wheel into the cell, and after a predetermined number of cookies have been properly loaded, the turret is inverted so as to drop the cookies into an awaiting cookie tray 65. Each cell 56, 57 includes a lead finger 60, 61 which holds the first cookie delivered to the cell in an edge standing attitude, and each subsequent cookie is held in its edge standing attitude by the previously delivered cookie.
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