An apparatus of selecting articles. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

An apparatus for selecting articles, comprising a system for transporting articles in series along a horizontal transport path disposed at an angle with respect to said path, at an intermediate point thereof and to which such articles can be transferred directly from said path. path, a translation wheel in continuous rotation with niches in its periphery having its axis extending vertically and located at the point of junction of said conveyor belt and said path to perform such transfer of articles, an annular series of suction cups corresponding to the number of niches and mounted in the niches carried by the wheel, said suction cups opening radially outwardly of said wheel to connect with the articles that move along said path, a vacuum supply conduit, a rotary distributor of vacuum forming part of the wheel and establishing communication between the conduc and said suction cups, one after the other in a previously determined arc of the path of rotation of said suction cups, a normally closed solenoid valve in the vacuum supply line, and a system acted in response to the presence of a predetermined external surface formation of the article that comes into contact with a suction cup to momentarily open said solenoid valve so that the air in the cup is extracted and the article in contact with said horizontal path is thereby extracted . (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)