Beverage bottle and container handling arrangement for handling beverage bottles, cans, or similar containers, and a method of operating a beverage bottle and container handling arrangement
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsSiegmar STANG, Andreas KRIEG
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Abstract
A beverage bottle and container handling arrangement for handling beverage bottles, cans, or similar containers, and a method of operating a beverage bottle and container handling arrangement, and an adjustment arrangement configured to adjust components of the beverage bottle and container handling arrangement and a method therefor.
Claims20
A container handling arrangement configured to handle and move containers, comprising beverage bottles, cans, and similar containers, along a container handling path in a container manufacturing machine, said container handling arrangement comprising:
- at least one container handling component being disposed at a position on or along the container handling path;
- a framework to which said at least one container handling component is detachably connected;
- said at least one container handling component comprising at least one container handling section configured to handle a handling portion of a container having an actual container geometry manufactured in accordance with a proposed container geometry;
- said at least one container handling section comprising an actual section geometry unsuitable for handling the handling portion of a container;
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- at least one processing arrangement being configured and disposed to physically change said at least one container handling section to adapt the actual section geometry to a proposed section geometry suitable to handle the handling portion of a container.
A method of operating a container handling arrangement configured to handle and move containers, comprising beverage bottles, cans, and similar containers, along a container handling path in a container manufacturing machine, said container handling arrangement comprising at least one container handling component being disposed at a position on or along the container handling path, and a framework to which said at least one container handling component is detachably connected, which said at least one container handling component comprises at least one container handling section configured to handle a handling portion of a container having an actual container geometry manufactured in accordance with a proposed container geometry, said method comprising the steps of:
- determining that said at least one container handling section comprises an actual section geometry unsuitable for handling the handling portion of a container;
- and
- adapting, using at least one processing arrangement being configured and disposed to physically change said at least one container handling section, the actual section geometry to a proposed section geometry suitable to handle the handling portion of a container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.