Method and device for filling a container with products

US11760521B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) · DE

Inventors

• Dennis Arthur Schmidt · South Burlington, US
• Andreas Prahm · Templin, DE
• Andreas Neufeld · Minden, DE
• Frank Sachs · Saterland, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 23, 2019
• Grant date: Sep 19, 2023
• Expiry date: Aug 9, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G47/681
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for filling containers with products, in which the products are successively conveyed horizontally to a filling installation in which the products, while being combined to form individual product groups, are grouped, and an offered-up container, which is conveyed horizontally to the filling installation, is filled in a single track with one or a plurality of product groups, wherein the filled containers subsequently are in particular horizontally transported away. The method includes conveying the products in multiple tracks to the filling installation, grouping the products to form product groups, feeding the product groups in multiple tracks to a common revolving vertical conveyor of the filling installation, conveying the product groups to an ejection position from which the product groups are conveyed onward in a single track to an offered-up container, and filling the offered-up container with at least one of the product groups.