Arrangement for centering containers in bottle treatment machines

US4461329A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Holstein und Kappert Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Knabe · Dortmund, DE
• Dieter Unger · Waltrop, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 1982
• Grant date: Jul 24, 1984
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C2003/266
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement for centering containers in a bottle treatment machine, particularly in a bottle filling machine, has centering elements arranged to be located below filling valves and movable in vertical direction, bottle lifting organs having a receiving plane and movable below the centering elements in the vertical direction, and a curved guiding element arranged to guide the bottle lifting organs so as to lower the latter in an outlet region and thereafter, after taking over a bottle and passing an inlet region, to raise them again, wherein the guiding element is formed so that the receiving plane of the lifting organs prior to a contact point between a filling path and an inlet star path, as considered in a supply direction of the bottles, coincides with a bottle supply plane of the inlet star, and during further rotation in direction toward the contact point the receiving plane of the lifting organs is located higher than the bottle supply plane of the inlet star.