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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2016
Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola Societa' Cooperativa, Imola (BO), IT;
Donato Laico, Imola, IT;
Abstract
An apparatus () for optical inspection of plastic parisons () intended to be blow molded to form containers, comprises a conveyor () for transporting corresponding parisons () along a predetermined path; at an inspection station along the path, each parison () is positioned with its axis () aligned with a longitudinal reference axis. A stationary camera () is provided, with its viewing axis () coincident with the longitudinal reference axis, to view the interior of the parison (); an illuminator () is positioned around the viewing axis () of the camera (), to irradiate the outside surface of a mouth end () of the parison (). The camera () has a wide-angle lens, to capture an image of an inside surface of the mouth end () of the parison (), representing a screw thread () and the identification code () of the parison (), shown in transparency.