US 12,338,026 B2
Transfer device and process
Andrea Biondi, Bologna (IT); Luca Cavazza, Bologna (IT); Umberto Zanetti, Bologna (IT); Enrico Campagnoli, Bologna (IT); and Antonio Gigante, Bologna (IT)
Assigned to G.D S.P.A., Bologna (IT)
Appl. No. 18/006,491
Filed by G.D S.P.A., Bologna (IT)
PCT Filed Jul. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/IB2021/056719
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 23, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/029547, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020000019318 (IT), filed on Aug. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294857 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B65B 7/28 (2006.01); B65B 7/01 (2006.01); B65B 29/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 7/2807 (2013.01) [B65B 7/01 (2013.01); B65B 29/022 (2017.08)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transfer device for discrete elements, the transfer device having an inlet, wherein discrete elements are fed to the inlet in a row with a predetermined spacing, the transfer device comprising:
a carousel-like transport device comprising receiving members, wherein the receiving members are configured to move position within the carousel-like transport device and to move along a closed line transport path, the closed line transport path comprising a receiving segment defined where each receiving member receives a respective discrete element; and
a release device, wherein the discrete elements are configured to be transported along a release path with a linear development, the release device comprising a release segment and intersecting said closed line transport path at said receiving segment;
wherein, in said receiving segment, movement of the receiving members within the carousel-like transport device is synchronized with movement of the discrete elements in the release segment of the releasing device, allowing the discrete elements to be released to a respective receiving member.