Patent ID: 7735627
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A plastic bottle unscrambler with vacuum settling tables comprising a rotating inner wall ( 3 ) of a cylindrical hopper ( 4 ) for bulk loading of plastic containers ( 2 ), a fixed cylindrical outer wall ( 5 ) concentric with the rotating inner wall ( 3 ), and an annular chamber between said inner wall ( 3 ) and said outer wall ( 5 ), cradles ( 6 ) and discharge channels ( 7 ) being located in said annular chamber, said cradles ( 6 ) being adapted to receive the plastic containers ( 2 ) in a horizontal position, and the discharge channels ( 7 ) being configured to align and maintain the bottles in a vertical position when the bottles fall from the cradles ( 6 ) overlying the discharge channels ( 7 ), with one or more container settling and supporting tables ( 8 ) being located between the cradles ( 6 ) and the discharge channels ( 7 ), wherein each of said one or more container settling and support tables ( a. a box-like chamber having a housing ( b. at least one row of holes ( wherein, as vacuum is applied in the housing (