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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1976
Herbert Richard Rueff, Croce di Casalecchio (Bologna), IT;
Franco Aiuola, Bologna, IT;
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus for transferring at a predetermined spacing on to a reception conveyor objects fed at an irregular spacing from a continuously moving delivery conveyor. The apparatus consists of a transfer conveyor which moves continuously and at a speed different from that of the delivery conveyor from the delivery conveyor to the reception conveyor, object take-up suckers for transferring the objects from the delivery conveyor and for depositing them at regular distances on the reception conveyor and at least one sensor sensing the position of the objects on the delivery conveyor. The apparatus comprises, moreover, a valve associated with each sucker, at least two control devices adapted to assume a position of engagement with the sucker valves to move them to an activation position and a further control device able to engage with the sucker valves to move them into a deactivation position.