Arrangement for disinfecting can lids for closing cans

An arrangement for disinfecting can lids and for closing cans, the arrangement comprising:

• a feed device for conveying can lids in a conveyor region over a conveyor path from a feed point of the conveyor path to a discharge point of the conveyor path, said feed device including a transport star wheel formed with receiving recesses for holding individual can lids;
• said feed device being arranged in a feed region of a can closing unit;
• a first stacker device arranged at the feed point of the conveyor path for transferring can lids individually to said transport star,
• a second stacker device arranged at the discharge point of the conveyor path and in the feed region of the can closing unit, said second stacker device for receiving can lids from the transport star, and
• at least one sterilization device for the can lids that have been received individually in said receiving pockets, said sterilization device being arranged in a conveying region of said feed device, said sterilization device having a pulsed light device for irradiating light pulses in the UV range disposed above and below said transport star wheel the light pulses for contactless irradiation of individual lids received in the receiving recesses of the transport star wheel, the light pulses ensuring sterility of the can lids.