Object carrier and packaging system
AssigneeMultivac Sepp HaggenmüLler SE & Co. KG
InventorsLars Ickert, Alireza Taghipour
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Abstract
The invention relates to an object carrier comprising a two-dimensional array of receptacles for trays having n rows and m lanes, with n and m each being integers equal to or greater than 2. The object carrier includes a plurality of notch elements provided on one or two mutually parallel outer sides. The invention further relates to a packaging system comprising a packaging machine, a transport system, at least one processing unit, and several multi-row object carriers. Several stop systems are provided along the transport system and are configured to stop an individual object carrier in an intermittent mode at consecutive notch elements of the object carrier in order to have at least one row of trays be processed by the processing unit.
Claims14
Object carrier comprising:
- a carrier plate;
- at least two parallel outer sides;
- a two-dimensional array of receptacles provided in said carrier plate for receiving packaging trays, wherein said receptacles are arranged in n rows and m lanes, and wherein n and m are integers and are each ≧2;
- and
- a plurality of notch elements disposed on at least one of said outer sides.
Packaging system comprising:
- a packaging machine;
- a transport system;
- at least one processing unit;
- a plurality of object carriers, each said object carrier including a plurality of notch elements and a plurality of rows of receptacles for receiving packaging trays;
- and
- one or more stop systems provided along said transport system and configured to stop an individual object carrier intermittently at consecutive notch elements of said object carrier to have at least one said row of trays be processed by said at least one processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.