Patent ID: 6098781
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
Bottle straightening and aligning machine (10) comprising a bulk bottle loading hopper (11) whose internal side wall bears paddles (12) for pushing the bottles onto a helical guide (14) extending along said internal wall from the end of which the bottles (13) are unloaded into an annular compartment (15) arranged around the periphery of the upper edge of the hopper where the bottles are taken to run on a support (18) in cradles (21) peripheral to the hopper (11) and rotating therewith with the support (18) being broken to let the bottles fall into straightening conveyors (22) rotating integrally with the cradles and from which the bottles are unloaded into peripheral compartments of a ring (20) rotating coaxially with the hopper at a greater speed than it and characterized in that the hopper (11) and the ring (20) are supported in rotation by respective mutually coaxial carrousels (36,44) with the carrousel (36) of the hopper (11) driven by a powered shaft (33) and the carrousel (44) of the ring (20) being driven by a shaft (41) driven in rotation by the powered shaft (33) through gearing (39,40) with the two shafts (33,41) being arranged inside the machine beneath the hopper.