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Gebo Corporation USA

Sean Dotson

Emmanuel Roth

Stéphane Lorange

Samuel Mathis

Gilles Waeldin

Curtis Welter

Joe Kolcun

Bill Klawonn

Paul Dumas

Mina Klawonn, Legal Representative

Doug Robertson

A conveyor which can be used to route oriented objects, such as caps, covers, lids, etc. from a finishing machine of the type including a belt, a vibrating bowl or other. The conveyor includes a module having a vertical conveyor in the form of a column with an adjustable height and an intermediate conveyor in the form of a casing which is disposed between the finishing machine and the column. In addition, the module includes channel-type devices for guiding the objects and devices for propelling the objects, in the form of jets of air pulsed through eyes. The channel and the eyes form a continuous assembly between the finishing machine and the upper end of the column. The conveyor also includes devices enabling the automatic ejection of objects from grooves provided in the belt of the machine.

Conveyor for a preparation machine used to orient objects

A conveyor system has a housing with a plurality of horizontally extending lower support arms and a plurality of horizontally extending upper support arms spaced above the lower support arms and forming a plurality of guide sets. An upper pair of crossed scissor fingers and a lower pair of crossed scissor fingers are provided. A vertically oriented primary pivot shaft is secured between each upper support arm and its associated lower support arm and through each of the scissor fingers for rotation about a common first axis for each guide set. Four vertically disposed guide plates in each guide set with second pivot shafts are pivotally coupled to an associated end of one upper scissor finger and one lower scissor finger for rotation about second axes. Each guide plate has a radially inwardly oriented extension with a slot and fixed pin extending downwardly from an upper support arm into an associated slot. A driving subassembly includes a common drive bar for concurrently moving the common scissor fingers and guide plates between an inoperative orientation and an operative orientation.

Scissors chute

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Sarasota, FL, United States of America

Sean Dotson