Method and device for processing beverage containers
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsAlexander Kasarin, Armin Pueschner
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Abstract
Provided is a method and a device for processing containers, the containers being transported along a predefined transport path and being combined with at least one product that can be defined in terms of its amount, such that the product is supplied to each individual container in a predetermined supply region of the transport path, the product being guided to the supply region along a supply path.
Claims11
The method for processing containers, wherein the containers being transported along a predefined transport path and being combined with at least one product that can be defined in terms of its amount, such that the product is supplied to each individual container in a predetermined supply region of the transport path, wherein the product being guided to the supply region along a supply path,
- comprising,
- in a detection region, which is arranged along the supply path of the product or upstream of the supply region in a transport direction of the containers, at least one characteristic state which is individually determined, prior to the processing, and/or at least one further characteristic state is determined by a detection unit, which characteristic state and/or further characteristic state is representative of an output fitting amount of the product to be supplied in relation to at least one fitting device,
- wherein the further characteristic state is calculated by the detection unit such that a mathematical average of the characteristic state and of an expected value, not determined by the detection unit, is determined, it being possible to assign the expected value, uniquely, to the particular product and/or the particular fitting device and wherein
- a remaining amount of the product to be supplied, on the fitting device, being determined on the basis of said characteristic state and/or said further characteristic state during operation, and
- a representative signal for a fitting changeover being emitted on the basis of said remaining amount.
A device for processing containers, wherein the containers can be transported along a predetermined transport path and can be combined with at least one product that can be defined in terms of its amount, such that the product is supplied to each individual container in a predetermined supply region of the transport path, the product being guided to the supply region along a supply path,
- wherein
- in a detection region, which is arranged along the supply path of the product or upstream of the supply region in a transport direction of the containers, at least one characteristic state which is individually determined, prior to the processing, and/or one further characteristic state can be determined by a detection unit, which characteristic state and/or further characteristic state is representative of an output fitting amount of the product to be supplied in relation to at least one fitting device,
- wherein the detection device is configured to calculate the further characteristic state such that a mathematical average of the characteristic state and of an expected value, not determined by the detection unit, is determined, it being possible to assign the expected value, uniquely, to the particular product and/or the particular fitting device, wherein the detection unit includes a memory apparatus and wherein
- it being possible to determine a remaining amount of the product to be supplied, on the fitting device, on the basis of said characteristic state and/or said further characteristic state during operation, and
- it being possible to emit a representative signal for a fitting changeover on the basis of said remaining amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.