Method for monitoring a filled container and monitoring system for filled containers
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsKarl Aichinger, Reinhard Klinger
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Abstract
A method for monitoring a filled container, in particular a filled beverage container, which is conveyed on a conveyor, comprising the steps of taking up the container by a carriage, creating a spacing between the container and the conveyor, so that the entire weight of the container is retained by the carriage in a weighing region, and weighing the retained container in the weighing region using a load cell comprised by the carriage, the carriage being driven by a linear motor according to said method, and a monitoring system for filled containers, in particular filled beverage containers, for executing such a method.
Claims17
A method for monitoring a filled container which is conveyed on a conveyor, comprising:
- taking up the container by a carriage,
- creating a spacing between the container and the conveyor, so that the entire weight of the container is retained by the carriage in a weighing region,
- weighing the retained container in the weighing region using a load cell comprised by the carriage, wherein the carriage is controlled such that it takes up the container and guides it along the conveyor while measuring the weight of the filled container,
- the carriage being driven by a linear motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.