Row-forming device, row-forming methods and bottle handling installation

US12162636B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUTEFA SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Kuhn · Neuss, DE
• Jan Schneider · Diedorf, DE
• Lorenz Sailer · Friedberg, DE
• Peter Obert · Hennhofen, DE
• Peter Knobloch · Großaitingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 24, 2021
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2024
• Expiry date: Sep 9, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/0258
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A row-forming device (10) together with processes form a bottle row (8) from a bottle layer (7). The row-forming device (10) is configured to pick up and transport away, in rows, the respectively frontmost layer row (61) of the bottle layer (7) moved in a conveying direction (60), in a transverse transport direction (72). One or more layer conveyors (59) moves the bottle row (7) in a conveying direction (60) and adjoins the transport device (62), which has a plurality of parallel conveyor belts (63, 66) that extend in the transport direction (72) and are driven independently and also exhibit mutually different transport speeds. The transport device (62) has a guide strip (68) oriented obliquely to the transport direction (72). The guide strip (68) extends over a part of the conveyor belts (63, 66) and is arranged downstream of the layer conveyor (59) in the transport direction (72).