Device for feeding covers to a continuously operating container closing machine

US4807423A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Alcan International Limited · CA

Inventors

• Horst F. Schnippering · Werdohl, DE
• Peter Stenzel · Herscheid, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 1987
• Grant date: Feb 28, 1989
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B41/12
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for feeding covers to a continuously operating container closing machine. The device makes it possible continuously to feed covers to closure tools which revolve in a circular path and during their rotary movement descend, for the closing, onto containers moved past below the closing station, so that the closure tools place and close the covers on the containers. For the transfer of the covers, a cover guide path is moved over a certain region of the rotary movement of the closure tool synchronously and in alignment with the closure tools so that the covers can be delivered during this phase to the closure tool.