Device for treating container closures

US11577948B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Markus Schoenfelder · Neutraubling, DE
• Klaus Buchhauser · Deuerling, DE
• Angela Grünwald · Neutraubling, DE
• Sebastian Klepatz · Zeitlarn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 6, 2018
• Grant date: Feb 14, 2023
• Expiry date: May 1, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L2202/23
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for treating container closures, for example for disinfecting container closures in a beverage bottling plant, includes a transport disk, rotatable about a vertical rotational axis, for transporting the container closures, and a helical closure guide, arranged above the transport disk, for laterally guiding the container closures, wherein the closure guide has a ceiling guide for guiding the container closures from above.