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Apparatus for conveying bottles to a bottle processing machine

US5038917A · kind A · utility

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16Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 2, 1990
Grant dateAug 13, 1991
Priority date—
Expiry dateAug 2, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB08B9/205
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A device for supplying bottles to a bottle washing machine which has an inlet and a transfer table in front of the inlet. The transfer table is partitioned into four major compartments which are each subdivided into individual passageways under which there are adjacent conveyor belts or bottles constituting the transfer table. The transfer table surface is inclined by about 4.degree. in the direction in which the bottles flow toward the inlet of the washing machine and this feature, among others, results in reducing the forces generated between bottles that have accumulated in the area from which they are transferred to the washing machine.

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