Beverage can filling plant for filling, closing, and packing beverage cans and a method of operation thereof

US7600357B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Jörissen · Schneppenbaum, DE
• Alexander Brüker · Kalkar, DE
• Thomas Nitsch · Kleve, DE
• Josef Düpper · Kleve, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 2006
• Grant date: Oct 13, 2009
• Expiry date: Aug 8, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B61/207
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of operating a beverage can packaging station in which the filled closed cans in a group of cans are individually spaced apart from one another at a distance sufficient to permit the lowering of a divider into the spaces between the individual cans substantially only by gravity.