Jar stabilizer for pick-up assembly
First Claim
1. A jar pick-up assembly adaptable for use with case unloading apparatus and operable for gripping and holding upon mouth jars while being lifted from a case and transferred to another location, said assembly including a shell type housing movable vertically relative to a jar to be picked up and having an actuator reciprocally operable therein, a plurality of elongate opposed finger-like members pivotally attached to and depending from said housing, said members being actuable by said actuator to rock the lower portions thereof from a closed abutting position to an open expended position, said lower portions when closed being transportable through the mouth of a jar by the movement of said housing and when expanded within a jar being urged into bearing contact with opposed interior surface areas thereof, and an annular stabilizing member carried by said housing and disposed around the lower extremities of said finger-like members in a horizontal plane to yieldingly engage an external surface area of said jar while said finger-like members are engaging said interior surface thereof, said finger-like members and said stabilizing member coacting to grip said jar there-between and provide stability therefor while being lifted and transferred by said assembly from one location to another, said stabilizing member being supported by a plurality of headed pins slide fitted in said housing and yieldingly extended relative thereto by a spring fitted therebetween.
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Abstract
A jar pick-up assembly having a plurality of pivotal fingers insertable into the mouth of a jar when in a closed retracted condition and expandable within the jar to engage interior jar surfaces is provided with an annular stabilizing member adapted to bear on an exterior surface area of the jar and in cooperation with said fingers to grip the jar in clamp-like fashion as the jar is being lifted and carried from one location to another.
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- 1. A jar pick-up assembly adaptable for use with case unloading apparatus and operable for gripping and holding upon mouth jars while being lifted from a case and transferred to another location, said assembly including a shell type housing movable vertically relative to a jar to be picked up and having an actuator reciprocally operable therein, a plurality of elongate opposed finger-like members pivotally attached to and depending from said housing, said members being actuable by said actuator to rock the lower portions thereof from a closed abutting position to an open expended position, said lower portions when closed being transportable through the mouth of a jar by the movement of said housing and when expanded within a jar being urged into bearing contact with opposed interior surface areas thereof, and an annular stabilizing member carried by said housing and disposed around the lower extremities of said finger-like members in a horizontal plane to yieldingly engage an external surface area of said jar while said finger-like members are engaging said interior surface thereof, said finger-like members and said stabilizing member coacting to grip said jar there-between and provide stability therefor while being lifted and transferred by said assembly from one location to another, said stabilizing member being supported by a plurality of headed pins slide fitted in said housing and yieldingly extended relative thereto by a spring fitted therebetween.
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