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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wilhelm Kupper, Wegberg, DE;
Assignee:
W. Schlafhorst & Co., Monchen-Gladbach, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209615 ; 198398 ; 209651 ; 209927 ;
Abstract
A tube transfer device for transferring usable tubes from a tube feeding device to a tube receiving device includes an elevator advancing tubes in a given transport direction from the tube feeding device to the tube receiving device is steps with pauses between the steps, the elevator having receiver elements for individual tubes, a feeler element movable back and forth transverse to the given transport direction during the pauses, the feeler element passing over usable tubes and pushing unusable tubes out of the receiver elements, and a receiver device adjacent the elevator for receiving the unusable tubes from the receiver elements.