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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1978
Michael Vamvakas, Rocky River, OH (US);
Niagara Bottle Washer Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for unscrambling a mass of uniform size bottles and loading the same in rather large groups into a continuously moving conveyor on which are arranged a series of bottle receptacles arranged in a double row including a first or upper row of a plurality of closely spaced receptacles, and a second or lower row of receptacles of the same number as the first row but offset to one side from the receptacles of the first row by an amount equal to half the spacing of the first row receptacles. The apparatus includes a rotary transporting device having a plurality of rigidly connected transporting wheel structures equal in number to the number of bottle receptacles in a row, each of these wheel structures having one set of two bottle carrier recesses opening radially outwardly and specifically spaced circumferentially so that the rotation of the wheel structure timed to the drive of the transporting mechanism will bring a first of the bottle carrier recesses opposite a first row receptacle on the transporting mechanism, and will bring the second of the bottle carrier recesses opposite a second row receptacle on the transporting mechanism.