Apparatus for separating and making available closure elements

US5285618A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventor

• Herbert Bernhard · Wolfsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 1992
• Grant date: Feb 15, 1994
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67B3/062
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for separating and making available crown corks or similar closure elements. The apparatus has a wheel that rotates about a vertical axis. The wheel is provided with carrier members that project radially beyond a periphery of the wheel and are disposed over a support surface. The carrier members successively move closure elements that rest on the support surface from a transfer position formed at the end of a closure channel to a receiving position, where a respectively available closure element is picked up and carried along by a closing mechanism of a closing machine. The support surface is a surface of the wheel, which rotates about the vertical axis. At least one magnet arrangement is effective at each carrier surface. This magnet arrangement locates the carried-along closure element during movement between the transfer position and the receiving position.