Apparatus for widening and slowing down a stream of upright bottles

US4496040A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Krones AG Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Kronseder
• Egon Schneider · Neutraubling, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 1983
• Grant date: Jan 29, 1985
• Expiry date: Jul 18, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G47/715
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A container rearranging station wherein bottles or other containers enter in single file and are discharged with several of them abreast of each other. The station is comprised of three parallel running conveyor sections. All the sections are tilted at the same angle so as to provide a smooth inclined plane. A supply conveyor on which the bottles arrive in single file is the highest of those on the inclined plane and runs at the highest speed of any of them. The adjacent intermediate conveyor runs at a slightly slower speed and the adjacent lower most discharge conveyors run at a uniform but still slower speed. Inclination angles of the conveyors between the input region of the station and the output region where the containers are abreast are preferably adjustable between 8.degree. and 11.degree. so that the containers drift from the supply conveyor through the intermediate conveyor to the discharge conveyor. On the highest supply conveyor side there is a guide surface or deflector which is operative to deflect the containers off of the supply conveyor if they do not drift off early enough. Only bottles with exceptionally rough bottoms generally reach the deflector. Most of the co…