Appeal No. 2000-1856 Page 4
Application No. 08/527,671
comprising a movable chuck half 22 and a fixed chuck half 21.
The movable half 22 is connected to one end of a chuck driving
lever 23 such that, when the indexing member 10 is rotated,
the chuck driving lever 23 is swung under the guidance of a
cam groove 14 to move the movable
chuck half 22 toward and away from the fixed half 21 to open
and close the chuck. The rotation of the indexing member
moves each of the chucks 20 through a plurality of assembly
stations. In the first station A, the chuck 20 is stopped in
the open position and a barrel plate 30 is loaded thereinto
from a barrel plate guide 31. On the way to the second
station, the chuck is partly closed by the chuck driving lever
23 and subsequently opened before it reaches the second
station B, where a film is released from a pallet 37 into the
barrel plate 30. At subsequent stations, the film magazine
assembly is capped and calked and finally discharged at
station H.
Acton discloses a method and apparatus for inserting
liners 20 in closures 22. The closures 22 are guided from a
conveyor 30 by straight guides 58, 59 into slots of a rotating
star wheel 25 and prevented from coming out of the ends of the
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