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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1991
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1989
Werner Rademacher, Essen-Kettwig, DE;
Franz Hochlehnert, Essen, DE;
Jorg Geiger, Oberhausen, DE;
Frank Kuhnke, Essen, DE;
Kurt Scheid, Dorsten, DE;
Werner Schulz, Essen, DE;
Opti Patent- Forschung-und Fabrikations AG, Riedern-Allmeind, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus for packing slide fasteners as they arrive in a longitudinal transport direction one after the other at a predetermined travel speed from a production facility has a speedup conveyor receiving the arriving slide fasteners and operating at a speed substantially higher than the travel speed thereof and a separating conveyor running transversely of the speedup conveyor and having an upstream end receiving the fasteners from the speedup conveyor and a downstream end transversely offset therefrom. A collection trough having a floor inclined to the horizontal, upper and lower ends, and a plate blocking the lower end is positioned underneath the separating conveyor to receive the fasteners therefrom and a downstream trough is aligned longitudinally with and has an upstream end separated by a space from the collection trough, a floor formed with a throughgoing aperture, and a downstream end. A collection vessel is provided underneath the downstream end of the downstream trough. A transport device has an upstream arm engageable in the collection trough at the lower end thereof and a downstream arm engageable in the space and downstream trough for displacing both of these arms between upstream and downstream positions for pushing respective bundles of the fasteners downstream. A packing unit in the space between the troughs applies a wrapping to the bundles thereat and a labeling unit underneath the aperture prints indicia on the wrappings as same pass the aperture.