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Conveyor system and installation for blow-moulding of containers

US6591967B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 14, 2002
Grant dateJul 15, 2003
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Expiry dateJun 14, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65G47/681
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A conveyor system for discrete entities, including a gathering member supplied by at least two upstream units (26, 27) each of which brings to the gathering member a series of entities (11, 13), and wherein the entities leave the gathering member in a single line. The gathering member includes a gathering wheel (36) driven in rotation and provided with several slots (38, 39) emerging radially at the periphery of the wheel for receiving each entity, and the slots of a common series have the same radial depth, the series of slots being differentiated by the depth of their slots, and each series of slots is associated exclusively with an upstream unit.

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