Patent ID: 7261512
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. Machine for orienting and aligning plastics vessels of a type comprising: a cylinder vessel ( 1 ) rotating around a vertical axis in which plastic vessels are randomly inserted, internally provided with a fixed or rotating tapered base ( 3 ) in order to enable the plastics vessels to roll towards an internal side wall of the rotating cylinder vessel; orienting and aligning means for the plastics vessels placed outside the rotating cylinder vessel in an hollow space between the rotating vessel and a fixed external cylinder wall coaxial thereto; a plurality of elevators ( 6 ) arranged between the tapered base and the internal side wall of the rotating cylinder vessel and integrally rotating with the vessel and vertically moving from a loading position that is slightly lower than the tapered base to an unloading position that is slightly higher than the cylinder vessel edge in order to take the plastics vessels to slide into the orienting and aligning means, characterised in that it provides for a device to automatically adjust a size of the plurality of elevators depending on a bottle format comprising, for every elevator, at least one reduction element ( 9 ), housed inside the elevator and adapted to vertically go out of the elevator itself after being driven therefor by lifting means that simultaneously or sequentially operate on said reduction elements, in order to reduce the elevator receiving capacity depending on the plastics vessels format.