Device and method for the transfer of container fittings

US8844708B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Horst Winter · Karlsruhe, DE
• Heinz Humele · Thalmässing, DE
• Volker Kronseder · Neutraubling, DE
• Hartmut Davidson · Zeitlarn, DE
• Josef Scheck · Mangolding, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 2012
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 30, 2032

Classification

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

Abstract

A device for transferring fittings having at least two gripper units offset in the circumferential direction around a transfer axis of a transfer station. Each gripper unit can be activated in a clocked manner, whereby each gripper unit takes over from a feeder, via a movement around the transfer axis generated by an electric servomotor, at least one container fitting individually from a moving take-over position of a feeder and transfers it through the transfer station to a moving hand-over position offset in the circumferential direction of the transfer station. The gripper units are arranged such that they move around the transfer axis relative to one another. The transfer station includes the electric servomotors as drive motors of the gripper units for generating within one full revolution of each gripper unit individually periodically non-uniform movements of the gripper units in the circumferential direction.