System for transporting loose sterile closure elements
AssigneeSyntegon Technology GmbH
InventorsStefan Nagler, Ulrich Krauß, Markus Ilgenfritz, Albrecht Kühnle
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system (10) for transporting loose sterile closure elements (12) from the surroundings (14) of an isolator (16) into an interior (18) of the isolator, comprising a container (24) for storing a stock quantity of closure elements in the surroundings of the isolator, an isolator opening (20) and a collecting device (56) for collecting the closure elements and for providing the closure elements in the interior of the isolator, with a metering device (46) for controlling a target quantity of closure elements to be transported from the container through the isolator opening and into the collecting device.
Claims18
A system (10) for transporting loose sterile closure elements (12) from an environment (14) of an isolator (16) into an interior (18) of the isolator (16), comprising a receptacle (24) for storing a stock quantity of closure elements (12) in the environment (14) of the isolator (16), an isolator opening (20), and a collecting device (56) for collecting the closure elements (12) and for providing the closure elements (12) in the interior (18) of the isolator (16), and further comprising a metering device (46) for controlling a target quantity of closure elements (12) to be transported from the receptacle (24) through the isolator opening (20) and into the collecting device (56), and
- wherein the metering device (46) comprises at least one conveyor unit (66) with a conveyor chamber (82) whose volume is greater than a volume of an individual closure element (12).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.