Apparatus for Packing Cans into Boxes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
Apparatus for Packing Cans into Boxes.
GUILLERMO ANTONIO FARINI 10 Henrietta Street Covent Garden Author
Inventor and Impressario do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of a machine to put cans or rollers into boxes by gravitation,
rolling them direct into boxes.
The cans enter an inclined railway of a sufficient length to hold the cans that
accumulate while changing a full box for an empty oue.
The inclined railway comes into contact with two short fixed railway tracks
that leads into a box. This box bas a cover to which there is attached a projection
that divides the box equally, which keeps the ends of the cans in a line, while half
of the box is filled. The track is then shifted, and the other half of the box filled,
a stop is put down to hold the accumulating caus on the railway, while the box is
tipped up and removed-the division withdrawn, and inserted into an empty box,
which is placed where the full one was; the box is placed with sufficient incline to
cause the cans to run down the box as they fall in.
To better understand the working of the machine, I will now refer to the
drawings:-
Fig. 1. is a double railway leading into the incline box.
Fig. 2. is the division frame to keep the ends of the cans in line.
Fig. 3. is a general view of the machine, with a single track leading into a double
track, which leads into the box, showing box standing on the tipping platform that
holds it at the proper angle, the box showing the dividing frame in it ready to
receive the cans.
Fig. 4. is a double railway showing the ends that are inserted into the box, and
the notch in the middle division that receives the dividing frame.
Fig. 5. is a single railway to conduct the cans into the box without the aid of
the double track, the ears on the dividing frame performing the same office.
Fig. 6. is the dividing frame that is inserted in the box to keep the cans from
overlapping one another, the ears sending the cans into the opening from the single
railway, which is shifted from one to the other opening.
Fig. 7. sbows the angle the single railway makes when moved from one track to
the other, and the widening of the double track at the end allow of the can turning
to turn into it, which acts as a stop to end of the single railway.
Fig. 8. is a dividing frame shown upside down.
The caus drop into the opening o. and run down the track b. to the shut off
bar h. which is put down until they fill the track back to o. where they were dropped
in, the last can forms a bridge that carries the cans into the track b. which fills up,
when the box . is lifted, the whole box is filled at once, the shut off box h. is
again put down to catch another box full, while an empty box is put in place of
the full one; the cover n. acts as a bridge to carry the cans across to the track b.
Fig. 2. is a dividing frame that is placed on top of the box which suspends the
divider y.
c. is the
a. Fig. 3 is the single modification railway attached to labelling machine, or
other place which can be moved to tracks either b. or 6' leading into box d.
division frame that keeps the ends of the first rows of cans in line, e. is a rocking
platform that holds the box d. at its proper angle, to cause the cans to run to the

page_text: lower end of the box, as they enter the box at the aperture 1. 1. k. is the axle that
the platform e. revolves on, when the box is tipped on m. to be drawn away.
h. is the stop bar, which when let down keeps the accumulating cans on the track a.
while an empty box takes the place of the full one. i. i. are the thumb screws that
fasten the double platform b. b to frame j. to allow it to be replaced one for another
sized can. See Fig. 4. which shows the end of double track that enters the box
up to the dotted lines, and the opening u. to receive the middle of the dividing
frame in line with the middle division of the double track which forces the cans to
run straight into the box.
Fig. 5. is another modification, and shows single track a. leading direct into box c.
The ears of the dividing frame ax. x. performs the same function as the ends of the
double track in Fig. 3. as shown in Fig. 7. i.e. turns the cans into a direct line
from the angle given to the track a. by moving it from . to Fig. 5. or vice versa.
The slot v. in the divider t. allows the track a. to move from one to the other.
Fig. 7. shows the angle the single track a. takes when moved from b. to 6', or
vice versa, showing also the widened ends p. p. of the sides of the tracks b. and b¹
that guides the cans straight into them.
Fig. 8. shows the divider and frame upside down. t. is the dividing piece that
is inserted into the box, c. is the frame that supports the divider l. and are the
apertures where the cans roll into the boxes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A device for packing cans into boxes; a false side or plate apertured to
admit the cans, and a dividing wall attached thereto, and acting to prevent
displacement in the box.
2nd. A device for packing cans into boxes, comprising a false side or plate
apertured at one end to admit the cans, a depending middle dividing wall, and a
chute adapted to deliver the cans into the aperture of the cover.
3rd. A device for packing cans into boxes, comprising a rocking support for the
box, an apertured false cover, a dividing wall depending therefrom into the box,
and a chute for delivering the cans into the aperture of the cover.
4th. A device for packing cans into boxes comprising a frame adapted to hold
the boxes. A false apertured cover having a dividing wall depending therefrom
into the box, and a charger for delivering the cans into the aperture of the
cover.
Dated this 14th of 1900
G. A. FARINI.