Container conveyer device

Abstract

[Problems] To decrease the area for installing a container conveyer passage that has container hand-over devices on the way of the conveyer passage. [Means for Solution] A container conveyer device including a conveyer passage that has a container feed position d where containers are received and a container discharge position i where the containers are handed over, and for conveying the containers from the container feed position d up to the container discharge position i, the container conveyer device, further, having container hand-over positions f, h where the containers that are once taken out from the conveyer passage are returned back again to the conveyer passage on the way of the container conveyer passage. A conveyer wheel 4 includes an inner conveyer passage 9 and an outer conveyer passage 10 that rotate about a rotary shaft, and conveyer hand-over means 5, 6 that hand over the containers between the inner conveyer passage 9 and the outer conveyer passage 10, and works to return the containers back to the outer conveyer passage 10 at the hand-over position h after the containers are taken out from the inner conveyer passage 9 at the container hand-over position f.

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