公开(公告)号：US11117754B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16620038

申请日：2018-06-12

Applicant: Krones Aktiengesellschaft

Inventor： Simon Berger ,  Richard Eschlbeck ,  Thomas Hensel ,  Herbert Spindler ,  Martin Bauer ,  Lucas Kiefer ,  Georg Goetz

IPC: B65G47/24 ,  B65G47/244 ,  B65G47/256 ,  B65G47/91

Abstract: The invention includes a method (100) and an apparatus to handle irregularly conveyed and/or irregularly aligned and/or non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances. The method (100) comprises the following steps: identifying at least one non-upright article in an article stream as an error; performing a correction step to resolve the error, the correction step comprising removal from the article stream of the at least one irregularly aligned article, or transfer to an upright orientation of the at least one irregularly aligned article, with a defined action being exerted temporally before and/or in temporal overlap with the correction step upon the at least one irregularly aligned article or upon regularly conveyed articles of the article stream.

公开(公告)号：US12234101B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18010345

申请日：2021-06-09

Applicant: Krones Aktiengesellschaft

Inventor： Thomas Hensel ,  Martin Bauer ,  Herbert Spindler ,  Juergen Werner ,  Marcus Seidl

IPC: B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/14 ,  B65G47/71 ,  B65G47/76 ,  B65G47/82

Abstract: The invention relates to a transport device (1) and a method for distributing a plurality of similarly shaped and dimensioned articles (10). The transport device (1) comprises an infeed (2) for conveying articles (10) in a mass flow, and a distribution section (3) downstream of the infeed (2), where the distribution section (3) leads into a row transport (4), where the articles (10) are conveyed in at least two separate parallel rows (5). The transport device (1) also comprises at least one sensor device (6, 8, 11) signal-coupled to a motor-driven actuator (14) assigned to the distribution section (3) In the event of detected gaps, interruptions, or in the event of a detected termination of the mass flow within the infeed (2) or within the distribution section (3) or within the rows (5), the actuator (14) moves a movable steering device (16) adjoining the mass flow.