摘要 |
<p>This invention provides a machine for assembling cup shaped base members onto the bottom portions of bottle shaped containers. The assembly machine comprises a continuously rotating base transport table receiving successive bases in pockets on its periphery from a supply source of bases. A plurality of vacuum chucks are positioned above the base pockets and successively engage the side walls of containers supplied in timed sequence to such pockets. A plurality of vertically shiftable plungers are mounted above the position of the containers and actuated by a peripheral stationary cam to depress such plungers into engagement with the neck portion of the containers and to push the containers into engagement with the cup shaped bases disposed below the containers. All of the principal rotating elements of the machine are carried by a single rotating column, thereby assuring complete synchronization of all of the functional elements of the machine and permitting the rapid assemblage of the cup shaped bases to the containers because the assembly machine is continuously rotated.</p> |