Device for removing or twisting off caps from vessels

US5819508A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Kraft · Kassel, DE
• Horst Menzler · Bad Schandau, DE
• Hans Schels · Munich, DE
• Peter Wenzig · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 4, 1996
• Grant date: Oct 13, 1998
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67B7/02
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Device for pulling out or twisting off caps from vessels, wherein the vessel is held, and the cap is removed by means of a cap-holding device; the cap-holding device executes both a linear movement in direction of the vessel axis as well as a rotating movement around the vessel axis. The cap-holding device advantageously has several clamping jaws that are pressed against the circumference of the cap.