Patent ID: 8011168
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Installation for packing bottles or other objects like flasks, comprising a chassis which supports a conveyor which delivers said bottles, grouped together on one or more lines to a pick-up station, a picking station where there is a pick-up operation, a packing station where there is a deposing operation, a handling head to transfer collected bottles to the packing station, which handling head comprises appropriate tulip-shaped gripping tools with pneumatic operation, which gripping tools are integral with said handling head by means of couplers which can be deactivated allowing them to be changed in order to adapt said handling head to the shape and the diameter of the neck of these bottles, wherein the installation further comprises a magazine making it possible to house at least two separate groups of gripping tools, which magazine comprises presentation units suited to the shapes and dimensions of said gripping tools, which presentation units are constituted by a spindle, of floating type, for receiving, fixing and centering said gripping tools, which spindle is integral with a tray of the magazine by means of a suspension permitting relative controlled displacement, in order to provide a flexibility and to cooperate with said gripping tools both during the depositing operation and during the pick-up operation of the gripping tools.