Device and method for emptying containers
OwnerRohi Shalatiinventor
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Abstract
Producing cost-effective, protein-rich and sustainable sources for the food and feed industries is one of the challenges of the new millennium, especially given the world's ever-growing population. The object of the invention presented here is to ensure the assignability and traceability of material flow during the emptying of containers. This object is achieved with the apparatus according to the invention in that it has a measuring device, by means of which data about the at least one container to be emptied and/or the container contents can be collected prior to, during and/or after the emptying process.
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An apparatus (1) for emptying individual or palletized containers (2), comprising a container inserting device (4) for inserting at least one container (2) to be emptied, a container emptying device (7) for emptying the at least one container (2), a container ejecting device (13) for ejecting the at least one emptied container (2), a container conveying device (3) for transporting the at least one container (2) to be emptied and/or emptied, and a conveying device (14) for transporting a container content emptied from the at least one container (2) and/or a collecting device for collecting the container contents emptied from the at least one container (2), characterized in that the apparatus (1) has at least one measuring device (5), by means of which data about the at least one container (2) and/or the container contents can be collected prior to, during and/or after the emptying of the at least one container (2), and the data collected by the at least one measuring device (5) can be assigned to the container contents emptied by the container emptying device (7) onto the conveying device (14) or into the collecting device.
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