Container feeding means, and treatment machine having a feeding means of this type

US8490778B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KHS GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Wolf · Magdala, DE
• Stefan Freund · Gaggenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G47/847
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An inlet worm (11) for use in a treatment machine (1) for treating bottles or containers (2) of the like, having at least one distributing or inlet worm (11) which is provided to the side of a transport path (3), is driven by a drive device so as to rotate about a worm axis, and forms a conveying path or helix for the containers (2) on at least one worm body which is provided on a worm receptacle, having at least one transport star (12) which is assigned to the inlet worm, can be driven so as to rotate about a transport-star axis and has a multiplicity of container receptacles which are provided distributed about the transport-star axis at uniform angular intervals which correspond to a machine gauge, and having a drive device for the synchronous and angularly accurate drive of the at least one inlet worm (11) and the at least one transport star (12).