Patent ID: 11926490
Assignee: MARCHESINI GROUP S.P.A.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 8:
9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pickup and transfer station comprises:
a second suction plate, provided on a relative face of a plurality of seats, each of which being conformed so as to be able to house internally thereof the bottom and a portion of the body of a bottle, the plurality of seats being predisposed on the face of the second suction plate in an arrangement corresponding to the arrangement of the bottles present in the trays, and each of the seats being predisposed and configured to be connected to a suction source, so as to exert a suction action;
a second frame conformed in such a way as to have at least a through-housing having a shape and dimensions such as to be able to receive the second suction plate, by form coupling, the second frame being configured and predisposed to be activatable in rotation about the rotation axis contemporaneously with the frame, so that when the frame is positioned in the first operating position, the second frame is positioned in the second operating position, and vice versa, when the frame is positioned in the first operating position, the second frame is positioned in the second operating position,
second releasable coupling means, configured and predisposed to releasably retain the second suction plate in the housing of the second frame,
so that:
when the frame, with the relative housing in which the suction plate is positioned with relative seats containing the bottles, is positioned in the second operating position and the handling organ is activated to collect the bottles, the second frame, with the relative housing in which the second suction plate is positioned in the first operating position so that the gripping and moving means can be activatable to collect the second suction plate and, consequently to the release of the second suction plate by the second releasable coupling means, can raise and move the second suction plate so as to position the second suction plate above another tray containing bottles to be filled, in the meantime positioned by the advancement line in the rest station, and can lower the second suction plate (6) towards the tray so that the bottles present therein are housed in the seats of the second suction plate, so that the bottles are retained by suction in the seats, and then activatable to raise the second suction plate, with the bottles retained by suction in the seats, and position the second suction plate at the through-housing) of the second frame so that the bottles, retained by suction in the seats, are turned with the mouths thereof facing downwards;
and when the frame, once the suction plate borne by the relative housing has been emptied of the bottles, is activated in rotation about the rotation axis to be newly positioned in the first operating position, the second frame is contemporaneously activated about the rotation axis in order to be positioned in the second operating position, thus causing the second suction plate borne by the relative housing to perform a rotation about the rotation axis so that the bottles retained in the relative seats are arranged with the relative mouths facing upwards when the second frame in the second operating position, the handling organ being thus activatable to extract groups of bottles from the second suction plate up to emptying the second suction plate.