摘要:
A cone dispensing apparatus a control system for monitoring and controlling the various components of the apparatus. The dispensing apparatus can include a first cam and a second cam, wherein the first cam and second cam are positioned parallel to each other in a housing. A first motor can be coupled to the first cam and a second motor can be coupled to the second cam, wherein the first and second motors are configured to rotate the cams around an axis. A first holdback plate and a second holdback plate can be coupled to a respective first linear motor and second linear motor. The hold back plates and cams can be synchronized to dispense a cone from the cone stack to the cams positioned below.
摘要:
A chocolate manufacturing machine includes a chocolate dispenser and a plurality of chocolate molding trays. There is a chocolate cooler downstream from the chocolate dispenser. A stacker assembles a plurality of vertical stacks of chocolate molding trays for cooling by adding each successive chocolate molding tray to a bottom of a corresponding vertical stack. An unstacker disassembles the plurality of vertical stacks of chocolate molding trays after cooling by removing successive chocolate molding trays from a top of a corresponding vertical stack.
摘要:
Container dispensing system sequentially dispense containers from a nested stack. The systems have a support frame for accepting multiple stack of nested containers aligned in a cross-machine direction having upper and lower opposed pairs of gates. The gates are coupled to the support frame and extend in the cross-machine direction. Each upper and lower opposed pairs of gates defines gate openings sized so as to capture and support a lowermost and a next lowermost container in the stack respectively. A controller (e.g., a programmable controller operatively coupled to pneumatic solenoid valves or the like) controllable moves the upper and lower opposed pairs of gates between their gated and released positions such that (i) the upper and lower pairs of opposed gates are each in the gated position so as to respectively capture and support the lowermost and next lowermost containers in the stack, (ii) the lower pair of opposed gates is moved into the released position while the upper pair of opposed gates remains in the gated position so as to allow the lowermost container to drop by gravity from the stack thereof, and thereafter (iii) the lower pair of opposed gates returns to the gated position before the upper pair of opposed gates moves to the released positions to allow the stack to drop onto and be supported by the lower pair of opposed gates. The system most preferably includes a container stripping assembly for stripping the lowermost container from the stack.
摘要:
A feeder for feeding edible cones which are enclosed within protective paper cones or sleeves. The enclosed cones are received from a suitable source of supply and formed into rows in receiving sockets on a machine where they are to be filled, treated and sealed. The feeder is such as to ensure feeding of both the protective sleeve and edible cone into the particular socket for receiving it, by providing means for ensuring the stripping of a preceeding sleeve from a following sleeve and the stripping of a preceding cone from a following sleeve in case it adheres thereto if its enclosing sleeve is stripped therefrom.
摘要:
A children's toy for making confections of preselected designs. The toy includes a base platform, and confection mold trays adapted to be stacked on the base platform. The base platform includes a vertical alignment structure for aligning the confection mold trays, as they are stacked on the base platform. The confection mold trays include at least one mold cavity for forming confections from a confection solution.
摘要:
A process and apparatus for the gelatin coating of medicaments which includes a continuous conveyer system to advance a plurality of pallets through a loading station, at least one dipping station, at least one dryer station, a reorientation station and an unloading station. Medicaments to be coated are loaded into pallets at the loading station and advanced to the first dipping station where a vacuum is applied to secure the medicament to the pallet. The pallet is inverted and a first portion of each of the medicaments is dipped into a coating mixture. The pallet is then returned to its upright position, the vacuum is removed and the coating is dried. The medicaments are then transferred from the first pallet to a second pallet by a reorientation mechanism. The second pallet is then advanced to a second dipping station which operates in the same manner as the first dipping station. The second pallet is advanced through the dryer station and the fully coated medicaments are ejected from the pallet into a container. The pallets used to hold the medicaments include a plate-like support member, on which rests a flexible mat having a rectangular array of receptacles including compliant diaphragm portions such that when a vacuum is applied to the pallet, the medicaments are secured thereto. The drying means includes air directing plates having sinusoidal rows of air directing apertures under which the medicaments to be dried are passed.
摘要:
Medicaments on a first pallet are transferred onto a second pallet, thereby reorienting the medicaments. The first pallet is received on a first lift plate and the second pallet is received on a second lift plate in vertical opposition to the first lift plate. A lift mechanism urges the first and second lift plates towards one another and the first and second lift plates are inverted so that the medicaments are transferred from said first pallet to said second pallet.