公开(公告)号：US12043533B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-23

申请号：US17455604

申请日：2021-11-18

Applicant: Krones AG

Inventor： Sascha Bauer ,  Christian Holzer ,  Bruno Landler ,  Christian Stoiber ,  Franz Lautenschlager ,  Konrad Senn ,  Johannes Bauer ,  Stefan Poeschl ,  Ludwig Scheidler ,  Juergen Koller

IPC: B67C3/24 ,  B29C49/24 ,  B29C49/36 ,  B65C3/08 ,  B67C3/00 ,  B67C7/00 ,  B29K67/00 ,  B29L31/00 ,  B67C3/22

CPC classification number: B67C3/24 ,  B29C49/24 ,  B29C49/36 ,  B65C3/08 ,  B67C3/007 ,  B67C7/004 ,  B29K2067/003 ,  B29L2031/7158 ,  B67C2003/227 ,  B67C2007/006 ,  B67C2007/0066

Abstract: A system and method for filling liquid products into bottles are described. The system comprises a machine block with a blow-molding machine for providing a flow of bottles, with a labeler for labeling the flow of bottles, with a first and second transport stretch, each comprising a filler for filling the bottles, and with a distribution unit dividing the labeled flow of bottles to the transport stretches when the transport is fully populated at all circulating labeling positions of the labeler and all circulating filling positions of the fillers. The filling system comprises outflow conveyors downstream of the fillers, with a combining device for combining the transport stretches to form a common outflow for the flow of bottles, thereby reducing the transport speed during filling and subsequent handling of the bottles, as well as problems due to the product in the bottles spilling over during the closure process.

公开(公告)号：US20240210929A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18393447

申请日：2023-12-21

Applicant: Krones AG

Inventor： Benedikt BOETTCHER ,  Konrad SENN ,  Andreas MEYER ,  Markus STUBENHOFER ,  Robert AUST

IPC: G05B19/418

CPC classification number: G05B19/41875 ,  G05B2219/32368

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for quality assurance of a container processing plant, wherein the container processing plant comprises at least two container processing components, wherein a malfunction in at least one of the at least two container processing components is detected by means of a quality assurance device on the basis of a periodicity with which a deviation of a parameter from a target value in a first container processing component is determined.

公开(公告)号：US20240208745A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18391288

申请日：2023-12-20

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Peter LINDNER

IPC: B65G47/74 ,  B65G43/08

CPC classification number: B65G47/74 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G2203/0208 ,  B65G2203/042

Abstract: A method for inspecting containers filled with liquids, wherein the containers is transported along a predetermined transport path by a transport device, and, wherein in a first identification step, at least one identification element is arranged on the container being inspected and/or an identification element being to the container, and at least one first parameter being detected is based on the identification element, which first parameter is characteristic of the filled container, wherein the at least one parameter is characteristic of the liquid desired in the container, wherein at least one further parameter characteristic of the liquid actually located in the container is determined in an inspection step.

公开(公告)号：US20240200276A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18545622

申请日：2023-12-19

Applicant: Krones AG

Inventor： Frank WINZINGER ,  Thomas ALBRECHT ,  Daniel PETER ,  Andreas MEYER ,  Eduard HANDSCHUH ,  Andreas HIPPEL

IPC: D21J3/10 ,  A61L2/10 ,  A61L2/26 ,  B65B3/02 ,  B65B7/16 ,  B65B61/26 ,  D21C9/08 ,  D21F1/66 ,  D21F13/00 ,  D21G9/00

CPC classification number: D21J3/10 ,  A61L2/10 ,  A61L2/26 ,  B65B3/02 ,  B65B7/16 ,  B65B61/26 ,  D21C9/08 ,  D21F1/66 ,  D21F13/00 ,  D21G9/0018 ,  D21G9/0027

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for simultaneously producing a plurality of containers comprising fibers, using fiber-containing pulp. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for simultaneously producing a plurality of containers comprising fibers, using fiber-containing pulp by means of the device.

公开(公告)号：US20240199299A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18537433

申请日：2023-12-12

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Jochen FORSTHOEVEL ,  Martin LOISTL

IPC: B65D79/00 ,  B65D21/02

CPC classification number: B65D79/0084 ,  B65D21/0209 ,  B65D2501/0036

Abstract: A plastics material container for holding liquids, in particular beverages, having a bottom section, a main body adjoining the bottom section that forms a holding volume that extends in a longitudinal direction of the plastics material container, a shoulder region adjoining the main body in the longitudinal direction, in which a cross-section in the longitudinal direction is reduced and with a mouth region which adjoins the shoulder region in the longitudinal direction, in which a mouth is formed, via which a liquid can be supplied to the container, wherein the shoulder region and the mouth region are arranged in an upper section of the plastics material container in relation to the longitudinal direction. The container has a deformation section in the upper section and in the longitudinal direction below the mouth section, in which deformation section the plastics material container is elastically deformable with respect to its longitudinal direction.

公开(公告)号：US20240190692A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18535118

申请日：2023-12-11

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Andreas Hippel ,  Stefan Elsperger ,  Michael Neubauer

IPC: B67D1/00 ,  B67D1/08

CPC classification number: B67D1/0021 ,  B67D1/0894

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the free-jet filling of a container with a filling product, for example a beverage. The apparatus includes several product components. The method includes holding the container by means of a container holder; and introducing the product components into the container so that the product components span a free-jet region in one jet in each instance. The product components span the free-jet region in separate jets, so that the product components mix only in the container. The container has a container wall and a container bottom, and is held obliquely by the container holder during filling, so that the product components impinge on the container wall after spanning the free-jet region.

公开(公告)号：US11987484B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-21

申请号：US17857814

申请日：2022-07-05

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Klaus Buchhauser

IPC: B67B3/06

CPC classification number: B67B3/06

Abstract: A device for supplying a container closure, for example a crown cap, to a closing device for closing a container with a container closure, includes a rotatable carrier wheel for transporting a container closure from a supply position, at which the container closure to be supplied is supplied from a closure supply, to a transfer position, at which the transported container closure is received by a closing device, wherein the carrier wheel is configured so as to be displaceable between an operating position corresponding to the transfer position, and a retracted position in which the carrier wheel is spaced from the transfer position. A closing device including the device is also described.

公开(公告)号：US11964826B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US17415700

申请日：2019-11-22

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Wolfgang Hahn ,  Stefan Schober

IPC: B65G43/00 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/51 ,  B65G47/71

CPC classification number: B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/5104 ,  B65G47/71 ,  B65G2201/0235 ,  B65G2203/0258 ,  B65G2203/041 ,  B65G2203/042

Abstract: Container treatment system for containers, with a transport device for transporting the containers, at least one treatment assembly for treating the containers at a first transport section of the transport device, at least one robot unit for channeling individual treated containers out and/or in at a second transport section of the transport device downstream of the first transport section, and with at least one inspection device for inspecting the individual treated containers, where the second transport section is configured to transport a container flow that is widened as compared to the first transport section so that the individual treated containers can be transported there at reduced speed and/or with reduced dynamic pressure when channeled out and/or in.

公开(公告)号：US11958232B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US17054122

申请日：2019-05-09

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Peter Christiansen ,  Markus Haller

IPC: B29C49/42 ,  B29C49/36 ,  B29C49/64 ,  B29C49/78

CPC classification number: B29C49/4205 ,  B29C49/36 ,  B29C49/4236 ,  B29C49/6409 ,  B29C49/78

Abstract: An apparatus for forming plastic material preforms into plastic material containers has a transport device which transports the plastic material preforms along a predetermined transport path, wherein this transport device has a plurality of transport devices preferably adjoining one another for transporting the plastic material preforms, with a heating device, which heats the plastic material preforms, and with a forming device which is arranged along the transport path of the plastic material preforms downstream of the heating device, wherein the apparatus has a first transport device which feeds the plastic material preforms individually to the heating device, wherein the heating device has a second transport device which transports the plastic material preforms during their heating. The first transport device has a first drive device and the second transport device has a second drive device and the first drive device and the second drive device can be controlled independently of one another.

公开(公告)号：US20240083694A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-14

申请号：US18463908

申请日：2023-09-08

Applicant: Krones AG

Inventor： Helmut SCHUESSLBURNER ,  Michael BEYER ,  Wolfgang ROIDL ,  Christian HOLZER ,  Günter FRANKENBERGER ,  Konrad SENN

IPC: B65G47/31

CPC classification number: B65G47/31 ,  B65G2811/0631 ,  B65G2811/095

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for forming container groups with a predetermined container piece count from a continuous container stream in a transport area of a filling plant, comprising an infeed conveyor belt, an outfeed conveyor belt, a conveyor belt interposed between the infeed conveyor belt and the outfeed conveyor belt, and a drive station for introducing separating elements and forming container groups. Here, the speed of a separating element introduced into the region of the transport belt is controlled to no more than the first speed, in particular to a speed lower by no more than 2% than the first speed, as long as the following container group has not been fully moved onto the transport belt. The disclosure further relates to a method for forming container groups.