| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a top locater 16 from damaging a star wheel 10 and a center guide 12, even when a PET bottle 6 is not supplied from an inlet star wheel 10.SOLUTION: The PET bottle 6 is sandwiched and rotatably transferred by a vessel table 14 and the top locater 16 vertically correspondingly arranged on a rotary body 44. The top locater 16 has a rod 70 energized downward by a main spring 54, a guide cone 72 liftably supported by the lower end of the rod 70, a lock mechanism 82 for connecting the rod 70 and the guide cone 72 in the lifting direction, and an operation member 76 for operating the lock mechanism 82 by abutting on a top surface 6aa of the PET bottle 6 before the guide cone 72 abuts on the PET bottle 6. When the rod 70 is pushed up by the PET bottle 6, the lock mechanism 82 connects the rod 70 and the guide cone 72. |
