EP 1595699 A1 20051116 - WORKPIECE STEADY FOR A DECORATING MACHINE.
Title (en)
WORKPIECE STEADY FOR A DECORATING MACHINE.
Title (de)
Werkstückbefestigung für Dekorationsmaschinen
Title (fr)
Fixateur des pièces pour une machine à décorer
Publication
Application
Priority
EP 04102128 A 20040514
Abstract (en)
A reduction to the traveling motion of bottles (B1) along a delivery conveyor (12) in an intermittent motion decorating machine (10) is provided by one (66,68) of a pair of workpiece feed cams (66,68;70,72) rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a common horizontal plane. The workpiece feed cams (66,68;70,72) have feed cam tracks (66A,68A) for receiving cam followers (74,75) of each of plurality of horizontal bottle carriers (76). One of the feed cam tracks (66A,68A) reduces the speed of the bottle carriers (76) from a relatively high entry speed corresponding to the through put speed in the decorating machine (10) to the speed of the deliver conveyor for more densely populating the delivery conveyor (12) with workpieces (B1). Carrier transfer members (52,53,54,55) at each of opposite ends of the workpiece feed cams (66,68) transfer the bottle carriers (76) from one to the other of the workpiece feed cam (66,68). A drive (14,15,21,38) rotates the workpiece feed cams (66,68), carrier return cams (70,72) and carrier transfer members (52,53,54,55). The decorating machine (10) is provided with a registration station (R) preceding spaced apart decorating stations (P1-PN). The registration station (R) includes a drive to reduce the clamping pressure by chucks (79) on a workpiece (B1) while establishing a predetermined orientation of each workpiece (B1) relative to the decorating stations (P1-PN). <IMAGE>
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B41F 15/08 (2006.01); B41F 15/18 (2006.01); B41F 15/30 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
B41F 15/08 (2013.01); B41F 15/0872 (2013.01); B41F 15/18 (2013.01); B41F 15/30 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
- [XY] US 6581750 B1 20030624 - TWEEDY MARK R [US], et al
- [X] US 2004020746 A1 20040205 - TWEEDY MARK R [US], et al
- [E] US 2004099160 A1 20040527 - TWEEDY MARK R [US], et al
- [Y] US 3311051 A 19670328 - RUDOLPH ROME R, et al
- [YA] US 6257136 B1 20010710 - MCCOY GARY W [US], et al
- [A] US 3237555 A 19660301 - JONES ROBERT G, et al
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1595699 A1 20051116; EP 1927470 A2 20080604; EP 1927470 A3 20080618
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 04102128 A 20040514; EP 07121293 A 20040514