Arrangement for converting a multi-track stream of bottles into a single-track stream of bottles

US4708234A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Born · Bingen, DE
• Klaus Kaiser · Markgröningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 1985
• Grant date: Nov 24, 1987
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G47/683
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement for converting a multi-track stream of bottles to a single-track stream of bottles. An intermediate conveyer is disposed between a feeding mechanism, which is provided with guide rails, and a withdrawal mechanism, which is provided with guide rails. The upper sides of the conveyer belts of the intermediate conveyer form a conversion region in which the conveyer belts are disposed flushly adjacent one another in the shape of an inclined plane which is inclined transverse to the direction in which bottles are conveyed from the upper side of the feeding mechanism to the upper side of the withdrawal mechanism. The conversion region is formed by the upper sides of the conveyer belts of the intermediate conveyer and of the withdrawal mechanism. The track width of the conversion region corresponds to the track width of the heating mechanism, with the conversion region being disposed downstream of the feeding mechanism and essentially coinciding in level and track with the latter. The conversion region is provided with a linear guide rail.