High speed bottle transfer machine

摘要

Discloses a machine for feeding groups of bottles in case formation in one-by-one fashion onto an outlet conveyor. The machine involves the use of a spacing conveyor interposed between the feed conveyor and the outlet conveyor and channel means disposed over the end of the feed conveyor so as to orient the groups of bottles in side-by-side rows as they were taken from the case. Spacing guides are positioned on the spacing conveyor at an angle so that a row of bottles in side-by-side relation are retained on the spacing conveyor while the foremost row is angled so that the bottles reach the outlet conveyor at different times and can then be carried away one at a time. The spacing guides are angled so that the last bottle in one row is fed onto the outlet conveyor before the first bottle of the next row is fed onto the outlet conveyor. A series of gates are supplied at the end of all but the last channel so that the gates separate the bottles as they are fed onto the outlet conveyor. A timing screw driven in the same direction as the outlet conveyor and in synchronism therewith engages each of the bottles in a pocket as it is fed onto the outlet conveyor and carries it along the outlet conveyor.