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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:
Aug. 09, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heinz Ruetschi, Suhr, CH;
Hansrudolf Hediger, Aarau, CH;
Assignee:
Ferrum AG, Rupperswil, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53282 ; 53308 ; 53312 ; 53314 ; 53367 ;
Abstract
The apparatus has a circular can filling device, a lid star wheel, a lid supply star wheel and a sealing device. The sealing device is spaced from both the filling device and the lid supply means but the path is very short. The lid star wheel and the can filling device for filling the containers or cans have a common contains transfer area, in which the lids are individually placed on the cans. In order to transport the cans with the lids thereon to the sealing device, a conveying unit is provided, which has two container guides, between which the containers are guided to the sealing device by the conveying unit.