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US 2012/0180429 A1Published application
Device for aseptic or sterile treatment of packaging elements
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorThomas Niehr
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for treating packaging elements, in particular in the form of bottles or similar containers (2), comprising a transport route formed by a transporter (5), on which transport route the packaging elements (2) are moved at least by means of a sub-area of the packaging elements having a packaging element opening (2.1) within a sterile interior (3) bounded from the surroundings by an enclosure (9).
Claims21
1-10. (canceled)
An apparatus for treating a packaging element having a sub-area that includes a packaging element opening, said apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor forming a transport route along which said packaging element is moved along a transport direction with said sub-area that includes said packaging element opening being disposed inside a sterile interior defined by an enclosure, said enclosure including an outer load-bearing structure having load-bearing elements, a wall structure held in said load-bearing structure and isolated by said load bearing structure from loads, wherein said load-bearing structure includes supports oriented transversely to said transport, said supports being connected to a longitudinal chord oriented along said transport direction to form said load-bearing structure, wherein a first subsection of said enclosure is provided on and moved with said conveyor, and wherein a second sub-section of said enclosure is provided on a device frame and not moved with said conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.