Apparatus and method for discharging containers from container streams

    公开(公告)号:US11492209B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US17076744

    申请日:2020-10-21

    申请人: KRONES AG

    发明人: Wolfgang Hahn

    摘要: An apparatus for treating containers with a first treatment device configured to treat the containers in a predetermined first manner, with a transport device which transports the containers in a predetermined transport direction, wherein the transport device transports the containers in a transport stream extending in the transport direction, and with a reject device arranged after the first treatment device, which is configured to reject a plurality of containers arranged one after the other in the transport direction from the transport stream, wherein the apparatus has a second treatment device which is arranged before the first treatment device in the transport direction of the containers. The apparatus has a gap generating device which is arranged in front of the first treatment device in the transport direction of the containers and which generates at least one gap in the transport stream of the containers.

    CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SINGULATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220089379A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-24

    申请号:US17543307

    申请日:2021-12-06

    摘要: A control system for an automated singulation system is provided. The control system detects a presence of a first item on a first conveyor and detects a presence of a second item on a second conveyor while the first item is present on the first conveyor. The second conveyor transfers items onto the first conveyor and is at a lower height than the second conveyor. The first conveyor is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the second conveyor. In response to detecting the presence of the second item, a location of the first item along a length of the first conveyor is determined. The first conveyor and the second conveyor are controlled based at least on the location of the first item.

    Control system for automated singulation system

    公开(公告)号:US10781053B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US16219655

    申请日:2018-12-13

    摘要: A control system for an automated singulation system is provided. The control system detects a presence of a first item on a first conveyor and detects a presence of a second item on a second conveyor while the first item is present on the first conveyor. The second conveyor transfers items onto the first conveyor and is at a lower height than the second conveyor. The first conveyor is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the second conveyor. In response to detecting the presence of the second item, a location of the first item along a length of the first conveyor is determined. The first conveyor and the second conveyor are controlled based at least on the location of the first item.

    Device and method for conveying lumpy products

    公开(公告)号:US09409724B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-09

    申请号:US14394052

    申请日:2012-04-12

    摘要: The invention creates a single-track or multiple-track device and a corresponding method for conveying lumpy products in such a way that the products are separated from a product stream on each of the tracks and are subsequently conveyed further spaced apart uniformly and/or in groups. For this purpose, arrangements for supplying the products as a single-row product stream are provided in each track as well as arrangements for discharging the separated products distanced from one another in a row, wherein the products are transferred from the supplying arrangements to the discharging arrangements. Arrangements for conveying the products are provided in each track in the area of the transfer from the supplying arrangements to the discharging arrangements and have driver arrangements, which are mounted so as to be pivotable in a controlled manner in the conveying direction of the products and which intervene between two successive products in the supplied product stream in such a way that said arrangements guide the products during the transfer from the supplying arrangements to the discharging arrangements in such a way that the products are separated from the product stream and are conveyed further at uniform distances from one another and/or in groups, and are discharged, in a controlled manner in each case. The multiple-track conveying device additionally comprises arrangements for controlling the conveying devices in the tracks, such that the product streams on the tracks are synchronized with one another in such a way that a product on a track, following the separation from the respective product stream, is substantially aligned with the products on individual selected other tracks or all of the other tracks, such that the products on the tracks in question are arranged side by side substantially in a row in a direction perpendicular or at an incline to the conveying direction of the products.

    Conveyor installation for hanging items
    8.
    发明授权
    Conveyor installation for hanging items 有权
    输送机安装挂件

    公开(公告)号:US08561787B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-22

    申请号:US13040883

    申请日:2011-03-04

    IPC分类号: B65G17/20 B65G19/02 B65G47/29

    摘要: A conveyor installation for conveying and accumulating hanging items comprises a drive chain which is mounted to a guide rail, and retaining members which are mounted on rollers below the drive chain. The retaining members—together with the items to be transported which are suspended therefrom—are conveyed by the drive chain in a direction of conveyance and, if required, stopped and accumulated by means of a stopping device, with the drive connection being released between the drive chain and the retaining members by displacing the drive chain upwards due to a particular design of coupling members arranged on the lower side of the drive chain.

    摘要翻译: 用于输送和堆积悬挂物品的输送机装置包括安装在导轨上的驱动链和安装在驱动链下方的辊上的保持件。 保持构件与被悬挂的待运输物品一起被驱动链条沿输送方向传送,并且如果需要,通过止动装置停止和累积,驱动连接被释放在 驱动链和保持构件通过由于设置在驱动链的下侧上的联接构件的特定设计而向上移动驱动链。

    Food stack aligning device for conveyor
    9.
    发明授权
    Food stack aligning device for conveyor 失效
    食品堆垛机用于输送机

    公开(公告)号:US07874246B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-01-25

    申请号:US11454144

    申请日:2006-06-15

    IPC分类号: B65G47/00 B65G47/29

    摘要: A food product alignment device for a conveyor includes a plurality of upright pins that act in pin pairs to align respective food products that approach the pin pairs on a moving conveyor. Particularly for round food products or food product stacks, a misaligned round food product will slightly pivot on the moving conveyor when contacting a first pin to be evenly positioned between the two pins of the respective pin pair. The pins are retractable to a position beneath the conveyor after the food products are aligned to allow the aligned food products to continue proceeding on the conveyor.

    摘要翻译: 用于输送机的食品对准装置包括多个直立销,其以销对形式对齐,以使在接近销对的相应食品对齐在移动的输送机上。 特别是对于圆形食品或食品堆叠,当接触第一销以均匀地位于相应销对的两个销之间时,不对齐的圆形食品将在移动的输送机上稍微枢转。 在食品对齐之后,销可伸缩到输送机下方的位置,以允许对准的食品继续在输送机上行进。

    ACCUMULATION-AND-RELEASE CONVEYOR
    10.
    发明申请
    ACCUMULATION-AND-RELEASE CONVEYOR 有权
    累积和释放输送机

    公开(公告)号:US20100193329A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-05

    申请号:US12666408

    申请日:2008-07-15

    IPC分类号: B65G47/29

    CPC分类号: B65G17/24 B65G47/29

    摘要: An accumulation-and-release conveyor using a roller belt with rollers arranged to rotate in the direction of belt travel. The rollers extend through the thickness of the belt. A movable stop is positioned along the carryway just downstream of a bearing surface that is movable into and out of contact with the rollers. When the bearing surface is out of contact with the rollers, they are freely rotatable; when the bearing surface contacts the rollers, they roll on the bearing surface to propel articles in the direction of belt travel. The stop is selectively moved between a blocking position preventing articles from passing and accumulating them with low back line pressure on the freely rotatable rollers and a release position allowing articles to pass to the accumulation zone where they are propelled forward and separated from each other by the rotation of the rollers rolling on the bearing surface.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有辊子的滚筒带的堆积和释放输送机,其布置成沿着皮带行进方向旋转。 辊子延伸穿过皮带的厚度。 可移动止动件沿着可移动进入和离开辊的支承表面的下游的运送轨道定位。 当轴承表面与辊不接触时,它们可自由转动; 当轴承表面与辊接触时,它们在轴承表面上滚动以沿着带行进方向推进物品。 止动件选择性地在防止物品通过的阻挡位置和在可自由旋转的辊之间以低的背线压力积聚的阻挡位置之间移动,并且允许物品通过向前推动并且彼此分离的积聚区域的释放位置 滚子在轴承表面滚动的旋转。