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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:
Apr. 05, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Herzog, Riverhead, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23Q / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
221159 ; 221283 ; 221254 ; 198398 ; 198397 ; 198393 ;
Abstract
A feeder for a bottle capping machine comprising a hopper to receive and direct the caps to a conveyor which transports the caps to a chute transversely disposed to the conveyor housing wherein the conveyor housing is adjustably secured to the capping machine whereby the housing can be angularly adjusted to cause bottle caps improperly oriented to fall to the bottom of the conveyor wherein the conveyor housing has an angular wiper bar to force properly oriented caps to be discharged into the chute and then feed to the capping machine, there being provided a display window and wherein the conveyor has adjustably spaced flite bars which are adapted to transport caps of various dimensions.