Gripping device for combined container alignment and transport device

Abstract

A gripping device includes a carrier; a gripping element which is movable with respect to the carrier for gripping a container during transport thereof along a transport path arranged at least in portions inside a clean room; a first drive device for rotating a shaft connected to a gripping element; and at least one second drive device for shifting the gripping element with respect to the carrier. The first drive device and the second drive device are arranged outside the clean room, wherein a clean room boundary extends between the carrier and the gripping element which boundary is formed at least in portions by an at least partially movable sealing device which allows the transmission of a movement pulse generated outside the clean room from both the first drive device and the second drive device to the gripping element arranged inside the clean room while maintaining the clean room boundary.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.