INSERTER APPARATUS

摘要

The apparatus can insert into containers, such as narrow mouth bottles, a sheet of material having a lineal dimension which can be from about 2 to 5 times or more than the largest dimension of the container opening. Sheets of material (72, 74,...) are picked from magazines (86, 88,...) by a plurality of picker arms (56, 58,...) as a plurality of containers (20, 22,...) are moved into alignment. The picker arms move into position over each container. A stabilizer (21, 23,...) contacts the neck of each container, the stabilizer having a sheet material shaping and aligning mechanism. As the picker arms move downwardly into each container, the sheet material is further formed into a tubular shape and inserted into the bottle. The sheet materials are released in the containers and the picker arms retracted from the containers.