Container-treatment machine
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsHeinrich-Dieter Froehlich, Thomas Matheyka
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Abstract
A method for treating kegs in a container-treatment machine includes passing a first keg through a first set of treatment stations on the container-treatment machine and passing a second keg through a second set of treatment stations on the container-treatment machine. The first and second sets depend on a condition of the first and second kegs.
Claims30
An apparatus comprising a container-treatment machine for treating kegs that have valve closures that are pressed by a ram during treatment of said keg, said apparatus comprising parallel first and second transport devices for transporting said kegs, a filling station and a cleaning station arranged between said first and second transport devices and being configured to use a ram to press a valve closure of a keg, and first and second intermediate conveyors that convey said kegs to said filling and cleaning stations respectively and that extend between said first and second transport devices, wherein said intermediate conveyors convey said kegs in contrary directions.
A method comprising
- using a container-treatment machine for treating kegs in a container-treatment machine that have valve closures that are pressed by a ram during treatment of said keg, said container-treatment machine having
- parallel first and second transport devices for transporting said kegs,
- treatment stations that include a filling station and at least one cleaning station arranged between said first and second transport devices and being configured to use a ram to press a valve closure of a keg, said treatment stations being arranged between parallel first and second transport devices, wherein at least one of said treatment stations is configured to use a ram to press a valve closure of a keg, and
- first and second intermediate conveyors that convey said kegs to said filling and cleaning stations respectively, wherein said conveyors extend between said first and second transport devices, and wherein said intermediate conveyors convey said kegs in contrary directions,
- said method further comprising passing kegs through different treatment stations based on a condition of said kegs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.