Oval container treatment device

US9221613B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KHS GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jörg Koppers · Uedem, DE
• Thomas Nitsch · Kleve, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 29, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B43/52
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for treating containers includes an annularly closed guiding-and-carrying element, a chain of container carriers, and a central drive. Each container carrier receives a container and has a holding-and-centering unit, an individual drive, and guide unit. The drive is configured to turn the container about its axis. The guide unit circulates the container carriers on the guiding-and-carrying element. A vertical axis of the holding-and-centering unit and that of the drive are congruent with the container axis. The guiding-and-carrying element has straight sections and curved sections. Each holding-and-centering units is connected by connecting elements that are mounted or secured on it in a manner flush with its vertical axis or concentrically to the rotational axis of the holding-and-centering unit. As a result, all endlessly circulating axes of rotation of the holding-and-centering units and containers located therein move at a common speed in every section of the guiding-and-carrying element.