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US06267550B1 Container nesting and counting apparatus 有权
标题翻译：集装箱和计数装置
公开(公告)号：US06267550B1
公开(公告)日：2001-07-31
申请号：US09649334
申请日：2000-08-28
申请人： Mark J. Morgan
发明人： Mark J. Morgan
IPC分类号： B65G5716
CPC分类号： B65G47/28 , B65G15/14 , B65G57/11 , B65G57/165 , B65G2201/02
摘要： A method and apparatus for nesting a plurality of containers into a stack having a desired quantity of containers are disclosed. The apparatus includes a container guide, a container hold back, a counter and a shuttle. The container guide includes an input end and output end and provides at least one guide surface adapted to direct the plurality of containers from the input end to the output end. The container hold back is proximate the output end and includes a stop surface actuatable between a first hold back position in which the stop surface engages a frontward most container of the plurality of containers such that successive containers nest within the frontward most container and within each other and a second retracted position. The counter is proximate the input end and is configured to count the plurality of containers moving towards the output end prior to the containers nesting with each other. The shuttle is situated proximate the guide and is configured to engage and push a counted and nested stack of containers toward the output end past the hold back based upon the number of nested containers that have moved past the counter. The method includes the steps of directing a plurality of containers including a first container and a last container in succession, reducing a rate of movement of the first container at a first downstream location causing successive containers to nest with the first container and to nest with one another, counting each of the plurality of containers to produce a container count as the containers move past a second upstream location prior to becoming nested with preceding containers and engaging the last container and pushing the last container and the plurality of containers past the first downstream location in response to the container count equaling a predetermined quantity.
摘要翻译：公开了一种用于将多个容器嵌套到具有期望量的容器的堆叠中的方法和装置。该装置包括容器引导件，容器保持件，计数器和梭子。容器引导件包括输入端和输出端，并且提供适于将多个容器从输入端引导到输出端的至少一个引导表面。容器保持靠近输出端并且包括可在第一保持位置之间致动的止动表面，止动表面接合多个容器中的最前面的容器，使得连续的容器嵌入在最前面的容器内并在彼此内和第二缩回位置。计数器靠近输入端，并且被配置为对容器彼此嵌套之前对输出端移动的多个容器进行计数。梭子位于引导件附近，并且被构造成基于已经移动通过计数器的嵌套容器的数量，将经过计数和嵌套的容器堆叠朝着输出端移动超过保持位置。该方法包括以下步骤：连续地引导包括第一容器和最后一个容器的多个容器，从而降低第一容器在第一下游位置的移动速度，从而使连续的容器与第一容器嵌套并与一个嵌套另一个，当多个容器中的每一个计数，以在容器移动通过第二上游位置之前，计数每个容器，以便在与先前的容器嵌套并且接合最后的容器之间并且推动最后的容器和多个容器经过第一下游位置响应于等于预定量的容器计数。

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