Method and apparatus for handling liquid containers

B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G

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B65G 47/24 (2006.01) B07C 5/34 (2006.01) B07C 5/36 (2006.01) G07F 7/06 (2006.01)

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CA 2416905

Handling of liquid containers in horizontal position in the form of beverage packaging, for example, cans or or bottles of any cross-section, comprising a first and a second conveyor with respective belt, especially in connection with detection of features of the container. The belts are movable in a mutually parallel direction, and in a first, container-supporting position form an angle relative to each other, thereby forming an approximately V- shaped conveyor. The two conveyors can be moved apart to a second position thereof, thereby exposing in the space between the conveyor belts a pair of rotary rollers which have the same direction of rotation and having their axis of rotation in the direction of travel of the conveyor belts, whereby a container that is supported by the conveyor belts falls onto the pair of rollers and is rotated there in order to detect with the aid of a detector unit characteristic features of the container, for example, its contour, an identification code or the like, and means for moving the two conveyor belts from the second position back to the first position, whereby a container that is rotated on the rollers is lifted up and away from the rollers by the conveyor belts for support by the conveyor belts in said first position. The container may in said first position of the conveyors be caused either to be carried onwards to a point downstream in relation to the conveyors or be carried back to an upstream position.

Cette invention concerne un dispositif permettant de transporter en position horizontale des récipients pour liquides tels que des boîtes ou des bouteilles de section transversale quelconque. Ce dispositif, qui comprend un premier et un second convoyeurs avec leurs bandes transporteuses respectives, offre en particulier la possibilité d'identifier le récipient. Les bandes se déplacent parallèlement l'une à l'autre et, dans une première position de maintien des récipients, forme un convoyeur présentant approximativement la forme d'un V. Les deux bandes transporteuses peuvent s'écarter l'une de l'autre sur une seconde position, ce qui expose dans l'espace libéré entre les bandes une paire de galets tournant dans le même sens, selon un axe de rotation correspondant au sens d'avancement des bandes. Ainsi, un récipient reposant sur une courroie tombe sur la paire de galets et tourne sur lui même, ce qui permet de détecter, via un détecteur, des caractéristiques qui lui sont propres, en rapport par exemple avec sa forme, ou bien un code d'identification. On trouve également un dispositif permettant de ramener les bandes de la seconde à la première position, de soulever le récipient en train de tourner sur les galets et de le reposer sur les bandes transporteuses . Lorsque les bandes se trouvent sur la première position, le récipient peut être déplacé vers l'aval ou vers l'amont.

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