Apparatus for cutting and assembling batches of diagnostic strips for transfer to containers
US5067309A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 29, 1990 |
| Grant date | Nov 26, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 29, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T83/783
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus for cutting cards into thin strips and for transferring predetermined numbers of strips into bottles or the like has a rotary knife set which slits the cards into strips and directs alternate ones of the strips into slots on one side of a carrier and directs the others of the strips into slots at the opposite side of the carrier. The strips are delivered to collection chambers for transfer to bottles, by relative movement of the carrier and collection chambers. In the preferred form of the invention, the carrier extends between two spaced apart pairs of collection chambers and alternately delivers batches of strips to each pair. The apparatus may be used in the bottling of medical diagnostic strips which exhibit a color change when exposed to body fluids of patients having certain medical conditions and enables high speed production and bottling of such strips or similar articles.
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