Conveying device for conveying containers

US8919536B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KHS GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Berthold Paroth · Dortmund, DE
• Martin Backhaus · Paderborn, DE
• Christian Schmitz · Wilrijk, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 30, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2031

Classification

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

Abstract

A conveying device for conveying containers in a conveying direction, the containers having bottoms, each of which has a cross-section characterized by a standing-bottom diameter or a smaller and larger standing-bottom diameter. The device has conveyor belts extending along a conveying direction forming a closed loop. The conveyor belts form, with upper-loop lengths thereof, a sub-region of a conveying surface, the upper-loop lengths being disposed adjacent to each other in a rows offset in an axial direction. The containers stand on the upper-loop lengths on their bottoms. The conveyor belts have a width that, for containers having a circular cross-section, is smaller than half the standing-bottom diameter of the smallest container diameter to be conveyed, and, for containers having a non-circular cross-section, is smaller than half a smaller standing-bottom diameter of a smallest container diameter to be conveyed.