ES396539A1 - Aligning and erecting apparatus for articles - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for aligning and straightening bodies, especially hollow bodies, such as bottles, containers or the like, which contains a loading opening for introducing the bodies to be placed vertically, several ascending and arched transport channels in the longitudinal dimension, which start from this loading opening, transport means for the mentioned bodies, including several drag members that enter each transport channel in the area thereof and catch the bodies to be moved from behind, several alignment devices provided for each transport channel in the transition zone (inversion arc) between the ascending reception zone and a descending alignment zone, each of the aforementioned alignment devices having a collection part that moves in a pendulous manner around a horizontal axis and that, to invert the bodies, grip the provided appendix (neck) on a front side of the bodies or enter an opening The front side of the body, or it is tilted out of the body's movement zone due to the pressure of the body that reaches the bottom, a straightening surface arranged below said descending zone of alignment of the channels of transport, a thrust member subordinate to all transport channels below the descending alignment zone, which simultaneously acts on all the (fallen) bodies deposited vertically on the straightening surface and pushes the mentioned bodies towards a conveyor belt that it serves for evacuation and, in the area below the mentioned alignment device, at least one retaining wall that forms with the descending alignment part of the mentioned transport channels a drop conduit for each body that falls into position vertical with the bottom facing down, such as a movable cross plate up and down or a hatch subordinate to each transport and mobile channel around a vertical axis. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)