Patent ID: 7661250
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: B65C

Abstract:
1. Installation for fitting sleeves on products such as bottles, in which the products are fed upright, one behind the other, along a conveyor line and the sleeve is drawn from a sleeve supply by means of transfer elements from above the product, comprising a single supply of sleeves drawn from a sheath, two pairs of transfer elements, each comprising two transfer elements mounted on either side of the conveyor line of products and operating in alternation, a means for synchronising the products and the carriage, wherein the carriage is guided on a fixed track and bears the transfer element by means of an arm pivoting between a position in which it effects its active travel path and its return path by means of a control track accommodating a pulley borne by the transfer element, this track being displaced between an advanced position and a retracted position, which advanced position corresponds to the active travel path of the transfer element as the carriage descends along the side of the product to be fitted with a sleeve, whilst the retracted position corresponds to the return path of the transfer element as the carriage ascends towards the start of the next active travel path of the transfer element, a means for displacing the control track, and a driving means for displacing the carriage along its track.