Cover view gripper
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsJürgen Herrmann, Marius Michael Herrmann
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising a container handling device comprising a centering device having a standing surface and a container gripper having a head side, a foot side, inspection openings on both said head side and said foot side, light-conducting elements, and a gripper bell having an inner area, a light source arranged to couple light into said light-conducting elements, a detection-and-control system comprising an optical system, and wherein said inner area can be illuminated by emerging light so that a cover side arranged at said foot side can be inspected by said optical system through said container gripper and by said light-conducting elements.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising a container handling device comprising a centering device having a standing surface and a container gripper having a head side, a foot side, inspection openings on both said head side and said foot side, light-conducting elements, and a gripper bell having an inner area, a light source arranged to couple light into said light-conducting elements, a detection-and-control system comprising an optical system, and wherein said inner area can be illuminated by emerging light so that a cover side arranged at said foot side can be inspected by said optical system through said container gripper and by said light-conducting elements.
A method for inspecting containers by a container handling device having a centering device having a standing surface and a container gripper, and a detection and control system having an optical system, said method comprising applying a closer element onto a container in a closer, transporting said container to a labeling device, using said centering device, centering said container by standing said container on said standing surface using said container gripper, using said optical system through said container gripper, inspecting a cover seat, wherein inspecting comprises illuminating an inner area of a gripper bell of said container gripper, and aligning said container according to a required nominal position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.