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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:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Tatsuhiro Nakada, Ishikawa-ken, JP;
Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kanazawa, JP;
Abstract
Resin vessels are conveyed on a air conveyor while they are supported at a point below a flange , and are conveyed into a drier which is disposed within a sterile chamber through an inlet wheel . The drier carries resilient grippers including a pair of arms which are urged toward each other by a spring to hold a vessel sandwiched therebetween. A vessel is dried up while it is rotatively conveyed as gripped by the resilient grippers, and is then returned to the air conveyor through an outlet wheel . A reject wheel is disposed upstream of the outlet wheel and includes unlockable grippers which grips the vessel at a point above the flange for taking out the vessel from the drier. A reject arm is disposed downstream of the reject wheel and is movable into and from a conveying path of vessels within the drier. The reject arm causes a vessel which the reject wheel failed to grasp to be dropped onto a discharge chute . This allows a resin vessel which has been deformed under heat as a result of a machine stop over an increased length of time to be rejected positively.
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