SUPPLYING DEVICE FROM CUP MANUFACTURING MACHINE TO PRINTING MACHINE IN CUP FULLY AUTOMATIC STOCK LINE AND ITS SUPPLYING METHOD

摘要

PURPOSE: To improve labor-saving and sanitariness of operation and reduce a cost by executing a process from the forming of a cup to the printing thereto without assistance. ;CONSTITUTION: After a plurality of empty cups formed by a cup manufacturing machine 1 are stacked up and delivered, a plural row of cup groups are separately stored in partitioned small chambers from the front of racks 3, and the racks 3 are carried by a conveyor 4 and temporary stored in a warehouse 6. The racks 3 are taken out in order of one loaded prior to the others in the warehouse 6 and sent on a turn conveyor 8 by the conveyor 4, and the front of the racks 3 are directed in an advancing direction by the turn conveyor 8 so as to be moved and placed on a conveyor 9 having a lift-up mechanism. After that, the racks 3 are lifted in the position of a predetermined height, the cup group stored in the racks 3 are pushed out from their back surfaces by a rod type delivering mechanism 80 so as to be delivered on a supplying conveyor, and sent to a printing machine 10 by the supplying conveyor, then printing working is executed on the circumferential surfaces of cup bodies.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO