Device and method for removing a closing element

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for removing a closing element from a transport section, in particular a supply section, of a filling and/or closing machine, in particular for the pharmaceutical industry, using a manipulator (3), the device comprising an end effector (2), which can be connected to the manipulator (3) releasably without tools or not releasably without tools for a handling for removing the closing element (4), and a needle (20), wherein the end effector (2) has a holder (22) on which the needle (20) is attached and/or which is produced integrally with the needle (20), and/or wherein the end effector has gripper elements so that the needle (20) can be gripped by the end effector, and wherein the closing element (4) can be speared by the needle (20) and the speared closing element (4) can be removed from the transport section. The invention further relates to a method for removal of a closing element from the transport section using a needle (20), and a use of a needle (20) for removal of a closing element from a transport section of a filling and/or closing machine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.