Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for separating and bringing together series of container bodies

US6227348A · kind A · utility

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10References

13Claims

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Assignee

Elpatronic AG · CH

Inventors

Mathias Frei · Neuenhof, CH
Peter Bassler · Viernheim, DE
Peter Schreiber · Jena, DE
Peter Taiana · Neuenhof, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 23, 1998
Grant date	May 8, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 23, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB65G21/2018
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to separate can bodies carried by a first conveyor belt at a high speed, a second conveyor belt is taken close to the first conveyor belt and individual bodies are transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt. It is thus possible to separate a sequence of tin bodies into two sequences, thus facilitating further processing. The process can also be reversed to form a single sequence of bodies from two sequences.

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