FRANK D SMITH
Plumbers in Bricktown, NJ
License number
New Jersey 36BI00824200
Issued Date
Jan 8, 1988
Expiration Date
Jun 30, 2017
Category
Master Plumbers
Type
Master Plumber
Address
Address
Bricktown, NJ
Professional information
Automatic Lid Placing Apparatus For Large Plastic Lids And Method For Placing Lids
US Patent:
4312172, Jan 26, 1982
Filed:
Mar 14, 1980
Appl. No.:
6/130316
Inventors:
Warren Fisher - Bricktown NJ
Frank J. Smith - Bricktown NJ
Frank J. Smith - Bricktown NJ
Assignee:
United States Gypsum Company - Chicago IL
International Classification:
B65B 728, B67B 3062, B67B 322, B67B 326
US Classification:
53489
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for automatically placing large plastic lids onto containers. Lids 24 are dispensed individually from magazine 11 onto slide 33. Each dispensed lid is individually retained at the bottom of the slide 33 for pickup by a container 41. The lid is urged onto the container by a pivoted roller 47 and further leveled by a roller 58 which is extended twice by a pneumatic piston to first contact a leading edge of the lid and to secondly contact a trailing edge of the lid. Thereafter a pneumatically operated lid securement means 61 comprising a convex plate 70' burps the air from beneath the lid and fully seats the lid on the container. The apparatus has various sensing means for sensing the depletion of lids from magazine 11, for sensing that a lid has been dispensed onto slide 33 and for sensing a container at the capping station. The sensing means control the various operations of the machine in proper sequence.