Patent ID: 6244307
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A feeding apparatus of irregular-formed vessels comprising:a transportation trough for hanging down a mouth plug flange part of an irregular-formed vessel with a mouth plug and transporting vessels arranged in a same direction of vessel bodies;a transportation disk continuously rotating in a horizontal direction for taking up the mouth plug flange part from the tip of said transportation trough and feeding the mouth-plugged irregular-formed vessel to a continuously rotating rotary filling apparatus;said transportation disk having an asymptotic plane of a shape of cutting in towards the center side of said transportation disk and smoothly changing to a spiral curve from the cut-in center-side bottom to the outer edge, a hanging step formed for taking up the mouth plug flange part,a vessel neck pressing lever movably disposed for pressing the mouth plug flange part to hold the mouth plug flange part in cooperation with said hanging step, anda holding spring disposed between said transportation disk and said vessel neck pressing lever for urging said vessel neck pressing lever towards a holding direction of the mouth plug flange part,wherein said hanging step and said vessel neck pressing lever and said holding spring have a same pitch as that of grippers of said continuously rotating rotary filling apparatus, andat a feeding position of the mouth-plugged irregular-formed vessels to said continuously rotating rotary filling apparatus, a holding release cam for swinging said vessel neck pressing lever in a holding release direction of the mouth plug flange part is mounted on said continuously rotating rotary filling apparatus.