Method and apparatus used to handle non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances

US11117754B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Simon Berger · Long Beach, US
• Richard Eschlbeck · Vogtareuth, DE
• Thomas HENSEL · Aying, DE
• Herbert Spindler · Riedering, DE
• Martin Bauer · Bismarck, US
• Lucas Kiefer · Augsburg, DE
• Georg Goetz · Taufkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 2018
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2021
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2811/0678
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention includes a method (100) and an apparatus to handle irregularly conveyed and/or irregularly aligned and/or non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances. The method (100) comprises the following steps: identifying at least one non-upright article in an article stream as an error; performing a correction step to resolve the error, the correction step comprising removal from the article stream of the at least one irregularly aligned article, or transfer to an upright orientation of the at least one irregularly aligned article, with a defined action being exerted temporally before and/or in temporal overlap with the correction step upon the at least one irregularly aligned article or upon regularly conveyed articles of the article stream.