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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1986
Enn Sirvet, Washington Township, Bergen County, NJ (US);
Sun Chemical Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus which reduces the number of moving parts and the movements required by such parts to enable cups to be transferred rapidly, without damage to cup sheet metal or coating, while controllably feeding cups into a press for redraw. Cups are held in a continuous-feed conveyor collimating means by a stationary element coacting with a longitudinally movable pusher-arm means on the opposite lateral side of the longitudinally directed cup travel path. After release, the cup at the head of the collimated feed line moves both longitudinally of and transversely to the cup travel path along a graded ramp surface, provided by the stationary element, into the control of a pivotally mounted gate means. Release of a cup held by the gate means is controlled by a cam carried by the pusher-arm means and the cup is moved longitudinally along the cup travel path by the pusher-arm means between pivotally-mounted cup-positioning arms which bring the cup into registry for redraw; the pusher-arm means is returned for the next cycle of operation as the cup is positioned in registry for redraw.