Method and device for formation of groups of articles to be packaged and a profiled thrust bar to use for this purpose

US8534450B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Juergen Werner · Bruckmühl, DE
• Herbert Spindler · Riedering, DE
• Peter Koch · Wulfen, DE
• Florian Kaestner · Rosenheim, DE
• Volker Drahuniak · Raubling, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 27, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 17, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 1, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/0244
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for formation of a compacted arrangement of articles to be packaged within a packaging machine, whereby the group of articles come into contact with and is guided through the packaging machine via at least one profiled bar, at least in a partial section of its transport route, which comes into contact with an end face of the group of articles and in doing so at least some of the articles of the group are pushed together in the compacted arrangement. A device for implementation of the method for formation of a compacted group of a plurality of the same type of articles to be packaged. A symmetrically or asymmetrically profiled thrust bar for transforming a group of articles being conveyed in a horizontal direction into a compacted arrangement.