Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having a bottle closing device, and a closure applying machine for closing of containers, such as bottles, cans, canisters, or the like, by way of screwing on of screw caps

US7162849B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG · DE

Inventor

• Herbert Bernhard · Wolfsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 5, 2004
• Grant date: Jan 16, 2007
• Expiry date: Nov 5, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67B3/26
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a closure applying machine for closing of containers, such as, for example, bottles, cans, canisters, or the like, by way of screw caps that are screwed on, with a plurality of closure applying positions that are provided at the circumference of a rotatable machine rotor that rotates about a vertical machine axis, to which positions the containers to be closed are transferred at a container input and the closed containers are removed therefrom at a container output, whereby each closure applying position is having a container carrier, a container support and a screw unit, said screw unit having at its lowermost end a screw head and that can rotate about a vertically directed axis and being configured to be rotated by a drive and wherein the screw head during rotation of the rotor remains at a height level, with provision being made that the container support comprises means that assuredly effectuate an assured separation of the screw closure and screw head.