CAN LID FEEDER

摘要

The known can lid feeder in a can seamer having a separator for can lids which projects from the outside towards a drop hole provided in a cylindrical body at the bottom of a hopper in the can lid feeder in the can seamer and which separates dropped and stacked can lids one by one from the bottom of the stack, is improved in -that a rotary shaft of the separator is supported from a swinging gear box in a freely swingable manner, the swinging gear box is swingable so that the separator can move in the radial direction with respect to the cylindrical body having the drop hole, and after a side surface of the swinging gear box has been brought into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical body by swinging along an elongated hole, the swinging gear box is fixed in position by means of a clamp lever. According to another aspect of the present invention, the separator for can lids is of rotary type and provided with two independent screw grooves along its circumferential surface for separating can lids one by one from the bottom of a stack of can lids dropped through a drop hole at, the bottom of a hopper in a can lid feeder and stacked. According to still another aspect of the invention a can lid feeding mechanism for successively feeding can lids to cans filled with liquid is disposed in the midway of a can feeding conveyor between a filler and a can seamer.