ARTICLE GROUP STOWING DEVICE Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: food industry; canned fish and food packing lines. SUBSTANCE: device has rotor secured on horizontal shaft, with radial grips, article, feeder, container support and drive. Each grip is rigidly secured on end of driven (output) member of cam-and-lever mechanism other end of which being hinge-connected with pusher of driving cam. Driving cam is secured on additional shaft. Driven member in its middle part is mated with guide secured on axle. The latter is arranged in parallel with additional shaft and is hinge- coupled with rotor. Additional shaft is mounted on bearing supports inside rotor. Lock for engagement with brake disk and gear for meshing with toothed sector are mounted on end of additional shaft. Brake disk is secured on rotor shaft support, and toothed sector is mounted on brake disk. Driving cam is made in form of disk provided with closed shaped slot on side surface. Pusher has roller for engagement with cam slot. EFFECT: reduced impact loads, increased efficiency of device. 3 cl, 6 dwg