Transport system for container processing machines

US7743907B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Volker Weinbrenner · Schierling, DE
• Karl-Heinz Achhammer · Geisingen, DE
• Roland Laumer · Regensburg, DE
• Heinrich Bielmeier · Landau an der Isar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 24, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C7/002
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A transport system for container processing machines, particularly for bottle fillers, with inlet and outlet stars, which can be driven and are arranged on columnar support housings, and define a star configuration, in which the inlet and outlet stars define container transport paths which are linked with the machine. Each support housing presents at least one, preferably lateral, connection interface, to which a joining end of a connection strut is attached, in a removable manner. The other joining end of the connection strut is connected, in a detachable manner, to a connection interface of an additional support housing or of a machine substructure. In each case, in such manner, the star configuration can be changed as desired in a modular manner.