Method and device for supplying regularly objects to a work station

US7036655B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG · DE

Inventor

• Wolfgang Schafer · Düren, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 5, 2001
• Grant date: May 2, 2006
• Expiry date: Jul 31, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2205/04
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and an apparatus wherein regular articles are fed to an operating station and the articles have handle elements arranged on two opposite sides. The successive articles are advanced up in abutment against one another on a moving transporting path, and are separated one after the other and fed individually, and in time with the operating cycle, to the operating station. The articles are advanced up in abutment against one another in a stable position and are fed individually, and without being adversely affected, to the operating station in the longitudinal direction. For this purpose, the articles are advanced up with the opposite sides transverse to the transporting direction and with the handle elements interengaging, and are separated by virtue of the following article being pushed back counter to the build-up pressure, caused by the following articles, on the transporting path in time with the operating cycle.