Method and apparatus for providing pieces of flexible material from a length thereof
CA 2113679 C · Owner: Guinness Brewing Worldwide Limited · Inventors: Croombs, Denis
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A method and apparatus for providing pieces of flexible material from a length thereof (such as tubes 30 from plastics tubing 4) has a rotor 6 with a port 9 through which the tubing 4 is fed. Rotation of the rotor about its axis 7 displaces an end 4' of the tubing over a cutter 15 to cut the tube piece. The tube piece 30 may be gripped by jaws 23 on a turret 20 and carried to a transfer station 31 at which the tube piece 30 may be picked up by jaws 71 on a vertically displaceable head 60 of a locating unit 3. The head 60 rotates with a turret 56 and is displaced vertically under cam control 62 63, for fitting an end 30A of the tube piece into a component such as an open topped container 40, …
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- Filed January 18, 1994 and granted July 18, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 18, 2014.
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