The Needle Capper is a single-cased 4 unit which houses used syringes 9/hypodermic needles 10. The Needle Capper is comprised of two plastic half-tubes 4 fitting around the syringe 9/hypodermic needle 10, hinged together at the bottom ends. A rubber cork 2 is located at the top of the hinge. The tip of the used needle 10 is inserted or depressed into the cork 2, causing the hinge of the two halves to raise and join together, thereby closing the case 4. When the case is closed, the connector butt...

A gripper includes grip members which are mounted on a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft, respectively, so as to be opened and closed. An engaging pawl is formed on an upper surface of the grip member. Both shafts are elevatable in an integral manner. A receptacle member is disposed below an exit star-wheel, and is arranged to rotate integrally with the star-wheel. The gripper is located below the flange of the vessel when receiving the vessel. Accordingly, the engaging pawl cannot co...

A screw capper includes a capping head which comprises a chuck for holding a cap, a motor for driving the chuck for rotation, a cam mechanism for elevating the chuck, and an air cylinder for imparting a load to the chuck. A load imparted by the air cylinder is controlled by a controller to be zero from the beginning of a screwing and tightening operation until an angle of rotation of the chuck exceeds a specific angle where the load is changed, and is controlled to a higher value upon detection ...

A capper chuck is disclosed for applying a closure cap to a container, the capper chuck having retaining jaws which are adapted to receive and support a closure cap therebetween and have cooperation with an internal torque release lever and torsion spring arrangement operative to release the jaws from the closure cap after a predetermined rotational torque is effected between the closure cap and a container.

A hand held capper that will engage a cap for tightening the cap onto a container is provided and includes a clutch mechanism that will sense the torque between the cap and a neck of the container and will allow a cap driver chuck with an elastic chuck insert thereon to stop rotating once the desired torque is reached while allowing a spindle shaft from a drive unit to continue to rotate.

A capper chuck device for applying a rotatable closure cap to a container wherein closure cap retaining jaws are movable by a toggle linkage arrangement to retain a closure cap therebetween responsive to an externally applied force, and wherein adjustable torque transfer means are adapted to release the jaws from the closure cap after a predetermined rotational torque has been applied to the cap in assemblying it onto the container.

A torque-sensing rotary tool for use in bottle-capping, and other such applications. The tool (10) is characterized by independent motors (30 and 40) means for gripping and rotating bottles or the like and a rotation-counter which forms means, with associated circuitry (FIG. 9), to determine when an object, e.g. a bottle cap, may be safely lifted by automatic machinery, e.g. by robot means.

An apparatus for mounting caps onto fluid containers in a predetermined particular orientation relative to the fluid containers. Caps are drawn from a source of caps and placed singly, in succession, on a cap seat which is in a particular known orientation. Each cap is taken, while on the cap seat, to a delivery position. During transfer to the delivery position, each cap is aligned into a known particular orientation. A device for picking up the caps takes each cap from the cap seat to a contai...

A strip for securing a protective disk on a paper roll end has one edge portion encircling a roll margin. The other strip portion is folded inwardly over the disk margin and tucked during rotation of the paper roll, first, by flicking portions of the strip edge with circumferentially spaced balls of a whirling rotor and, then, by creasing the inwardly folded edge portions with a follower presser roller.

Flanged musket percussion caps are stored and dispensed from a portable hand held capper which has a linear channel defined in a housing formed of sheet material. The housing has a through channel which has a floor which is parallel to two partial top walls with a central slot. The top walls are connected to the floor by side walls which are inclined outwardly from the floor. By this inclined wall shape of the housing, the flanged caps are accommodated, while at the same time the narrow flanges ...