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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G15/00—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration
  • B65G15/10—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface
  • B65G15/12—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G15/00—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration
  • B65G15/30—Belts or like endless load-carriers
  • B65G15/50—Endless load-carriers consisting of a series of parallel ropes or belt strips
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G17/00—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface
  • B65G17/30—Details; Auxiliary devices
  • B65G17/38—Chains or like traction elements; Connections between traction elements and load-carriers
  • B65G17/40—Chains acting as load-carriers
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
  • B65G47/52—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices
  • B65G47/66—Fixed platforms or combs, e.g. bridges between conveyors
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
  • B65G2201/02—Articles
  • B65G2201/0235—Containers
  • B65G2201/0244—Bottles

Definitions

• Transport device for transporting containers
• the invention relates to a transport device or to a conveyor for transporting containers according to the preamble of claim 1, 2 or 3.
• the conveyor belts can not be made in any length, since too large a length between the respective conveyor belt and the sliding frictional forces would exceed the maximum tensile strength of the conveyor belts, especially in a continuous operation of the transport device. For this reason, it is customary in particular for transporters greater length to provide several in the transport direction adjoining conveyor belts, which then also the
• transporters of this type then inevitably have transitions between the conveyor belts which follow in the direction of transport.
• the gaps formed at these transitions are usually bridged at the transport surface by transfer or container sliding elements, for example in the form of sliding plates.
• these transitions constitute a disruption to the transport surface, ie the containers are at best only incomplete on the upper one when passing through such transitions
• Lengths of the conveyor belts including the disadvantage that the container when emptying a transporter or a conveyor having this transporter, for example, in a product change, ie when changing the system of containers of one type to containers of another type and / or To store a product of one type on a product of another type containers on the transfer or container sliding elements and manual intervention is required to remove these containers.
• the object of the invention is to show a transport device or a conveyor for transporting containers, which avoids the above disadvantages.
• a transport device according to claim 1, 2 or 3 is formed.
• Container on the transport surface is of particular importance. For containers with round Be concernederquerschnirt is therefore the
• Stand diameter usually the distance hiss two furthest apart areas of the stand.
• Stand diameter usually the distance hiss two furthest apart areas of the stand.
• the width of the conveyor belts of the first aspect of the invention is the width of the conveyor belts of the first aspect of the invention.
• Container cross-section is smaller than half the smaller stand diameter each of the containers to be transported with the transport device, which have the smallest container diameter or the smallest floor diameter.
• the transitions which are each formed between two transport belts following one another in the transport direction, are offset from one another on the transport surface in such a way that the distance between in each case two such transitions in the transport direction and / or in the transport direction
• Axial direction transverse to the transport direction at least equal to half
• Container cross section is greater than half the larger floor diameter of each of the container to be transported with the transport device, the largest container diameter or the largest shelf diameter
• the invention is based, inter alia, on the finding that the width of the conveyor belts already selected based on the shelf diameter and / or the distance of the transitions of the containers on the conveyor belt
• a weighting device for transporting containers at least in a partial region of the
• Transport device whose transport surface of the transversely to the axial direction
• the invention is i.a. the recognition that by the narrower conveyor belts of the first type and by the greater width of the conveyor belts of at least one other type, a reduction in the total number of conveyor belts, at a given
• Fig. 1 in a schematic perspective partial representation of one of several
• Conveyor belts (preferably transport or hinge tape chains) formed transport plane or surface of a conveyor or a transport device for containers, such as containers in the form of bottles;
• Fig. 2 in a simplified schematic representation of the transition between two successive in a transport direction TR or subsequent conveyor belts, together with on the transport surface of this
• Fig. 3 in a simplified schematic representation of a section through the upper loop lengths of the conveyor belts and by the associated
• Container guide in a sectional plane perpendicular to the
• Transport direction TR together with a arranged on the transport surface bottle
• FIG. 4 shows a representation similar to FIG. 3, but in the region of a transition or a deflection of one of the conveyor belts;
• Fig. 6 in a simplified partial view and in vertical section perpendicular to
• FIG. 7 and 8 in a perspective partial view of a further embodiment of the conveyor according to the invention in an operating state for Transporting bottles with a larger floor diameter ( Figure 7) or with a smaller floor diameter.
• the transport device serves to transport containers, e.g. in the form of bottles 2 in a transport direction TR oriented in the X-axis.
• the transport device 1 comprises a plurality of conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 in the form of transport or
• Hinge strap chains each forming a closed loop and this are both ends on a respective deflection or a deflection or sprocket 4 are guided so that the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 with their respective upper
• Loop length is a horizontal, i. form in the XY plane arranged transport surface 5, on which the with their bottle axes FA in the Z-axis direction
• the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 are each on the second in the transport direction TR
• the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 are each slidably mounted on a sliding guide, which is generally denoted by 6 in the figures and is provided on a machine frame 7.
• the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 are arranged at least with their upper loop lengths in a plurality of rows offset perpendicular to the transport direction TR, ie in the Y-axis, ie in the illustrated embodiment in four rows R1-R4 such that the upper loop lengths of adjacent conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 in the Y-axis close together.
• the (tensile forces) mainly resulting from the friction between the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 and the slide 6 and at least to an excessively high wear
• each conveyor belt 3.1 and 3.2 extends only one
• each row R1 - R4 each includes a conveyor belt 3.2 to one with respect to the transport direction TR preceding conveyor belt 3.1, namely at a transition 8, from the local adjacent and in the X-axis from each other
• the sprockets 4 are each mounted for rotation about axes parallel to the Y-axis on the machine frame 7. At each transition 8 is to bridge the local, between the
• the conveyor 1 furthermore has at least lateral, container guides 11 extending in the direction of the X-axis.
• FIG. 3 shows a section through the upper loop lengths of FIG
• Transport direction TR ie in one of the YZ plane corresponding cutting plane.
• the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 each have the same width B.
• the bottles 2 are at their base or bottle bottom 2.1 in the illustrated embodiment with projections and depressions lying therebetween shaped so that they each stand only with subregions 2.1.1 of the bottle bottom 2.1 on the transport surface 5.
• the bottom diameter of the bottle 2 is referred to, in the illustrated embodiment of the bottle 2 at her Bottle bottom 2.1 that distance is the two farthest apart and each forming a footprint sections 2.1 .1 have.
• the width B which has the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 in the Y-axis, is many times smaller than the stand diameter SD, specifically smaller than half the shelf diameter SD of the smallest transportable on the transport device 1 Bottles 2, ie the bottles 2 with the smallest container or bottle diameter. This is u.a. ensures that even the bottles 2 with the smallest container or bottle diameter during transport constantly with at least half
• Stand bottom diameter SD preferably with more than half
• the container diameter more common, especially in the beverage industry
• the width B of the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 is thus at least 10 mm and a maximum of 25 mm, preferably the width B is dependent on the container or bottle diameter or depending on the
• Width grid for example, the width grid of 85 mm. This results in widths of about 42.5 mm or 28.3 mm or 21, 2 mm or 17.0 mm or 14, 1 mm or 12, 14 mm, depending on the stand diameter SD.
• the transitions 8 are spaced apart both in the direction of the X-axis and in the Y-axis, namely in FIG
• Transport direction TR i. in the Y-axis at least equal to half
• the distance between the transitions 8 then
• Figures 4 and 5 show a section through the upper lengths of
• Adjacent transitions 8 have for this purpose also transversely to the transport direction TR and in the Y-axis the distance which is at least equal to half of
• Stand diameter SD is. As a result, not only a trouble-free transport of the bottles 2 is ensured at the transitions 8, but it may possibly even be dispensed with the container sliding elements 10 at the transitions 8.
• the transport device according to the invention provides u.a. the advantage of a
• the transport device 1 or the transport path formed by it can be moved completely empty in a product change, without manual intervention is necessary. This is especially true for the smallest, with the transport device 1 to
• the conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 are for example the same
• Transport speed or driven at different transport speed for example, a container inlet and / or a
• Container outlet of the transport device 1 forming conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 with different transport speed and / or with a comparison with the transport speed of other conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 different transport speed.
• FIG. 6 shows in a partial view and in vertical section perpendicular to FIG
• Transport direction i. in a representation similar to Figure 3 a feed dog 1 a, which differs from the feed dog 1 in that the
• Transport surface 5a only partially from the narrower conveyor belts 3.1 and 3.2 (Conveyor belts of the first type) is formed with a width B1, which is equal to, for example, the width B of the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 of the conveyor 1.
• the horizontal or substantially horizontal, ie arranged in the XY plane transport surface 5a is also formed by conveyor belts 12 of a second type with respect to the width B1 much larger width B2, ie in the illustrated embodiment with a width B2, the one is integer multiple of the width B1 and, for example, equal to three times or four times the width B1.
• the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 and 12 are in turn transport or Scharmierbandketten and arranged so that they form the transport surface 5a in a plurality of adjacent rows in the Y-axis and also in each row in the transport direction to at least one conveyor belt 3.1 another conveyor belt 3.2 and also connect to at least one conveyor belt 12, a further conveyor belt 12, in each case at not shown transitions corresponding to the transitions 8.
• These transitions are in turn preferably in the transport direction and perpendicular to the transport direction, ie in the direction of the Y axis offset from one another such that each transition of each further transition has a distance which is at least equal to half
• the conveyor belts 12 of the second type having the larger second width B2 form, for example, at least one side region or part of at least one side region of the transport surface 5a, i. in the direction of the Y-axis is the
• Transport surface 5a e.g. at least one outer group of the conveyor belts 12 of the second type, then at least one group of the
• Conveyor belts 12 of the second type formed. At least in terms of the number and type of conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 and 12, the transport surface 5a is then, for example, mirror-symmetrical to a arranged in the XZ plane
• Stand bottom diameter SD only the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 form the effective part of the transport surface 5a.
• bottles 2 or other containers with the smaller stand diameter SD are reliably and smoothly conveyed in the transport direction, especially at transitions between in the transport direction contiguous conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2, especially is ensured that at the transitions each bottle 2 with a sufficiently large part their stand diameter SD on at least one of the
• the width B1 of the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 corresponds to the width B.
• the width B1 in the transport direction 1a is preferably one fifth of the width
• the width B2 in the transport direction 1 a two-fifths of
• Figures 7 and 8 show a conveyor 1 b whose horizontal or im
• transport surface 5b Essentially horizontal, i. in the XY plane arranged transport surface 5b in turn is formed by a plurality of conveyor belts of different width, of the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 of the first type with the width B, (conveyor belts) form a central region of the transport surface 5b, of external conveyor belts 12 of the second type with the width B1, which (conveyor belts) form the edge region of the transport surface 5b respectively directly on the lateral container guides 1 1, and conveyor belts 13 of a third type whose width B3 is greater than the width B1, but smaller than that Width B2 and which are respectively provided between the central region and an edge region of the transport surface 5a.
• the arrangement of the conveyor belts in the embodiment shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is selected so that in an axial direction parallel to the Y-axis, i. perpendicular to the transport direction TR starting from a longitudinal side of the transport surface 5b on an outer conveyor belt 12 three conveyor belts 13 then ten conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2, then three conveyor belts 13 and then one of the lateral container guide 1 1 immediately adjacent conveyor belt 12 follow. All conveyors 3.1, 3.2, 12 and 13 in turn each form a closed, peripherally drivable loop whose upper loop length is part of the transport surface 5b. Furthermore, all are
• Conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2, 12 and 13 in turn preferred transport or
• Conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2, 12 and 13 is the transport surface 5b turn
• the conveyor 1 b is particularly suitable for conveying bottles 2 or other containers with very different container or shelf diameters SD in the transport direction TR and in this case conveying them into lanes 14 in which the bottles 2 or container then each form a single-lane bottle or container stream and fed as parallel single-lane bottle or container streams of a processing machine, such as a cleaning machine for cleaning the bottles 2 or a Packer for inserting the bottles 2 in transport aids, for example in transport or crates or in transport boxes, etc.
• a processing machine such as a cleaning machine for cleaning the bottles 2 or a Packer for inserting the bottles 2 in transport aids, for example in transport or crates or in transport boxes, etc.
• the bottles 2 with the larger or largest stand diameter SD which are for example the bottles with the largest with the conveyor 1 b to be processed stand diameter SD, according to the figure 7, the entire width or almost the entire width of the conveyor 1 b or the transport surface 5b used for feeding the bottles 2.
• the lanes 14, the width of which is adapted to the diameter of the bottles 2, i. is slightly larger than this diameter, are each bounded laterally by guide elements 5, for example by guide elements in the form of separation or guide plates and also separated from each other.
• the guide elements 1 5 extend in the transport direction TR and are arranged with their surfaces accordingly in the XZ plane.
• Lanes 14 are outside lying bounded by the outer guide elements 1 5, which form the continuation of the lateral container guides 1 1 in the operation shown in Figure 7.
• the transport surfaces in the lanes 14 are each formed by different conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2, 12 and 13. Due to the large floor diameter SD of the bottles 2, a reliable transport of these bottles 2 is ensured even within the lanes 14.
• FIG. 8 shows the conveyor 1 a together with bottles 2, which have a bottle size which is greatly reduced compared with the bottles of FIG. 7 or a reduced shelf diameter SD and, for example, bottles with the smallest shelf diameter SD to be processed with the conveyor 1b.
• the two outer container guides 1 1 are each adjusted so far to the center of the transport surface 5 b that they laterally limit the average, formed exclusively by the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 region of the transport surface 5 b, as indicated in Figure 8 with 1 1 .1 is.
• the width B1 of the conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2 again corresponds to the width B, which have these conveyor belts at the conveyor 1.
• the width B1 is selected so that it corresponds to about one-fifth of the stand diameter SD of the smallest, with the conveyor 1 b to be processed bottles 2 or containers.
• the conveyor 1 b and bottles 2 or other containers whose bottle or container size or
• Conveyor belts 13 preferably selected so that the width B3 corresponds to about one-fifth of the stand diameter SD of the time-smallest, with the conveyor 1 b to be processed bottles 2 or containers .
• a major advantage of the conveyor 1 b in turn is that with this conveyor bottles 2 or container with very different bottles or container size or with a very different stand diameter SD can be safely transported, namely at reduced production costs for the conveyor 1 b, in particular by minimizing the number of required conveyor belts 3.1 / 3.2, 12 and 13.
• the conveyor belts 3.1, 3.2, 12 and 3 are for example the same
• Transport speed or driven at different transport speed preferably the one container inlet and / or a container outlet of the transport device 1, 1 a and 1 b forming conveyor belts 3.1, 3.2, 12, 13 with different transport speed and / or with one of the

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