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US 2012/0055758 A1Published application
Conveyor System
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsJohann Huttner, Martin Seger
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AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsJohann Huttner, Martin Seger
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A conveyor system having at least one variable capacity storage for a bottle treatment machine, at least two guides running laterally adjacent and at least one transfer guide are provided for a bottle carrier chain of curve-going coupled bottle carriers, with runs of the bottle carrier chain being transferable from one guide to the adjacent guide via the transfer guide are drivable along the guides. Each of the guides comprises at least one tension member drivable by at least one conveyor drive of the conveyor system, and a respective run of the automatically guided bottle carrier chain is arranged a certain distance along a tension member, separated there from the tension member by an air gap and is driven and guided by the respective tension member by means of a plurality of magnetic couplings which in the area of the transfer guide are automatically releasable and engageable.
Conveyor system, comprising at least one variable capacity storage, at least two guides running laterally adjacent and at least one transfer guide for a bottle carrier chain of curve-going coupled bottle carriers, the runs of the bottle carrier chain being transferable from one guide to the adjacent guide via the transfer guide are drivable along the at least two guides, each of the at least two guides comprising a continuous tension member drivable by at least one conveyor drive of the conveyor system, and a respective run of the bottle carrier chain along a certain distance along of a tension member is guided separated from the tension member and separated from the tension member by an air gap and is driven by the respective tension member by means of multiple magnetic couplings, which in the area of the transfer guide are automatically releasable and engageable.
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