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Gripper for an automatic bag filling apparatus

US7882685B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 10, 2009
Grant dateFeb 8, 2011
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Expiry dateJul 29, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65B43/465
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In an intermittently rotating table type bag filling apparatus, a plurality of pairs of grippers being provided at equal intervals around an intermittently rotating table, the grippers including pairs of left and right swing levers mounted on the intermittently rotating table, gripper arms affixed to swing levers, chuck sections installed in the tip end portions of the gripper arms, and chuck open/close mechanisms that open and close chuck sections. Gripper arms are cylindrical, and air cylinders and link mechanisms that constitute chuck open/close mechanism are installed inside the tube bodies of the gripper arms.

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