Device for transporting cylindrical objects
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsKurt Burger, Johannes Rauschnabel, Bernd Goetzelmann
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Abstract
An apparatus for transporting cylindrical objects, in particular containers, has at least two shafts that rotate in the same direction, axially perpendicular to the transporting direction of the objects. While being transported, the objects come to rest with their cylindrical wall on one shaft and with one face end on an adjacent shaft. By means of the axial spacing and/or the respective diameters of the shafts a predeterminable angular position of the objects to the plane of the axes of the shafts and an intrinsic rotation of the objects can be effected.
Claims20
In an apparatus for transporting cylindrical objects (2), in which only two generally parallel transporting shafts with plane surfaces (3, 4), rotatable in the same direction axially perpendicular to the transporting direction of the objects (2);
- and in which the objects (2) while being transported rest with their cylindrical wall on one shaft (4) and with a face end on a respective adjacent shaft (3);
- wherein
- the radial spacing (10) and diameters (8, 9) of the respective shafts (3, 4) cooperate to provide a predeterminable angular position (β), other than zero, of the objects (2) relative to the plane which contains the axes of the shafts (3, 4), and wherein the rotation of the shafts (3, 4) effect an intrinsic rotation (6) of the objects (2).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.