Joseph A Reilly

US Patent:

39373150, Feb 10, 1976

Filed:

Dec 26, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/536416

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B65G 4738

US Classification:

198131

Abstract:

A process for handling workpieces by sequentially loading them into holder portions of continuously moving carrier assemblies, simultaneously abruptly shifting a group of such holders to workpiece-release positions at a discharge station while continuing movement of the carrier assemblies back toward the loading stations, and resetting the holders prior to arrival at the loading station in order to receive additional workpieces. The apparatus includes a holder trip mechanism portion of each carrier assembly, means supporting such assemblies for sequential movement along an endless path, an actuating assembly for simultaneously triggering the trip mechanisms of a group of the carrier assemblies at the discharge station and reset means for returning the holders to workpiece-engaging positions. The process and apparatus is especially adapted for use in combination with a system for temperature-conditioning elongated molded parts.

US Patent:

39496287, Apr 13, 1976

Filed:

May 23, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/472638

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT
Lars G. Schon - Bloomfield CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B23B 100
B23B 514

US Classification:

82 48

Abstract:

In trimming moils from plastic articles with a blade interposed in a path along which the articles are moving while engaged with fixed and moving guides, the improvement is provided of a retractable blade assembly movable between operative and inoperative positions by fluid motor power to permit passing articles through the path either while being trimmed or not, depending on up or downstream conditions. Means may also be included for shifting one of the guides, preferably the stationary one, into and retracted from its operative position on one side of such path.

US Patent:

39320847, Jan 13, 1976

Filed:

Dec 16, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/533238

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B29D 2302

US Classification:

425182

Abstract:

In inflating a parison via a hollow needle carried on a piston slidably reciprocable with respect to a blow mold cavity, the improvement comprising means accessible through the forward end of the needle for releasably securing the needle to the piston.

US Patent:

40131645, Mar 22, 1977

Filed:

Jul 24, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/598563

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B65G 1732

US Classification:

198655

Abstract:

A process for handling workpieces by sequentially loading them into holder portions of continuously moving carrier assemblies, simultaneously abruptly shifting a group of such holders to workpiece-release positions at a discharge station while continuing movement of the carrier assemblies back toward the loading stations, and resetting the holders prior to arrival at the loading station in order to receive additional workpieces. The apparatus includes a holder trip mechanism portion of each carrier assembly, means supporting such assemblies for sequential movement along an endless path, an actuating assembly for simultaneously triggering the trip mechanisms of a group of the carrier assemblies at the discharge station and reset means for returning the holders to workpiece-engaging positions. The process and apparatus is especially adapted for use in combination with a system for temperature-conditioning elongated molded parts.

US Patent:

40601641, Nov 29, 1977

Filed:

Dec 29, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/645052

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B65G 3700

US Classification:

198424

Abstract:

Apparatus for charging heated preforms to moving loading hoppers of a blow molding machine comprises support assemblies for the preforms, a series of laterally adjacent slide assemblies at the outlet of a temperature-conditioning chamber and above the plane of movement of moving loading hoppers of a blow molding machine, conveying means for linearly transporting the support assemblies through the chamber and above the slide assemblies and means for sequentially actuating the slide assemblies according to a predetermined sequence. The method comprises linearly continuously advancing such preforms supported in side-by-side relationship above circularly moving loading hoppers of a blow molding machine and removing supports from beneath the side-by-side positioned preforms according to a predetermined sequence to permit each preform to drop by gravity into a particular one of such hoppers then passing beneath it.

US Patent:

39983315, Dec 21, 1976

Filed:

Feb 18, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/550537

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT
Lars G. Schon - Bloomfield CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B07C 534

US Classification:

2091115

Abstract:

In apparatus for handling molded plastic articles, some of which are to be segregated, the improvement comprising a rotatable screw conveyor and adjacent, opposite support bar forming a path for the articles between them, such bar having a retractable portion to allow articles to either move out of or proceed along the path depending on the position of the retractable portion, and a reciprocable plunger operable with the retractable portion on receipt of a suitable control signal generated by a temperature sensing controller upstream of the retractable portion.

US Patent:

39629384, Jun 15, 1976

Filed:

May 23, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/580538

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT
Lars G. Schon - Bloomfield CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B23B 100
B23B 514

US Classification:

82 47

Abstract:

In trimming moils from plastic articles with a blade interposed in a path along which the articles are moving while engaged with fixed and moving guides, the improvement downstream of the blade is provided of a rotatably driven moil discharge wheel and an opposite cooperating anvil forming a moil discharge path between them. The process improvements involve engaging the moil after cutting by the blade with the surfaces of the wheel and anvil and conveying the engaged moil along a path away from that taken during cutting by means of the revolving wheel.

US Patent:

40667278, Jan 3, 1978

Filed:

Jun 14, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/695943

Inventors:

Joseph R. Reilly - Naugatuck CT
Leonard J. Witkowski - Windsor Locks CT

Assignee:

Monsanto Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

B29C 1707

US Classification:

264 94

Abstract:

Method for continuously forming molecularly oriented articles using a multi-station rotary stretch-blow molding machine wherein a plurality of partible blow molds angularly spaced about a continuously rotating support are provided with means for moving the mold sections of said molds between open and closed positions in synchronization with rotation of said support, additional means to longitudinally reciprocate a stretch rod within a cavity of each of said molds and further means for projecting the rod into the cavity and retracting it therefrom, said rod moving means being operable in combination and in synchronization with said mold movements. Another feature involves continuously and simultaneously feeding workpieces to and discharging articles from a stretch-blow mold machine. The workpiece, while at molecular orientation temperature, is held temporarily or stored at each moving mold while an article is being formed in the cavity of such mold from a prior preform.