Container treatment plant and method of treating containers
First Claim
1. Container treatment plant (B), comprising at least one discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT) working discontinuously with interrupting cycle standstills, at least one feed conveyor (Z) and/or at least one discharge conveyor (A), each for individual containers, in functional association to the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT), and in the feed conveyor (Z) and/or in the discharge conveyor (A), each at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means (F1, F2, F1′
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) supplying each other with individual containers are provided, one of the circulating conveyor means (F2, F2′
) of the at least two circulating conveyor means being located closer in the conveying direction to the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT) than another of the at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means having a shorter conveying pitch (T2) than a wider conveying pitch (T1) than the other circulating conveyor means (F1, F1′
) located further away from the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT), the shorter and wider conveying pitches defining a conveying pitch difference (T1−
T2) of the circulating conveyor means (F1, F2, F1′
, F2′
) supplying each other individually with containers, wherein a container acceptance or transfer interruption caused by a respective cycle standstill of the discontinuously working container treatment machine is compensated for by the conveying pitch difference.
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Abstract
A container treatment plant, with a discontinuously working container treatment machine and having a feed conveyor and/or a discharge conveyor each for individual containers, and in the feed conveyor and/or the discharge conveyor, at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means supplying each other with individual containers, and where the conveyor means being closer to the discontinuously working container treatment machine in the conveying direction exhibits a closer conveying pitch than the conveying pitch of the conveyor means which is further away. In this manner, a container acceptance and/or transfer interruption caused by the respective cycle standstill of the discontinuously working container treatment machine is compensated by the conveying pitch difference to be able to continuously supply individual containers for the discontinuously working machine or continuously discharge them from the discontinuously working container treatment machine.
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12 Claims
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1. Container treatment plant (B), comprising at least one discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT) working discontinuously with interrupting cycle standstills, at least one feed conveyor (Z) and/or at least one discharge conveyor (A), each for individual containers, in functional association to the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT), and in the feed conveyor (Z) and/or in the discharge conveyor (A), each at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means (F1, F2, F1′
- , F2′
) supplying each other with individual containers are provided, one of the circulating conveyor means (F2, F2′
) of the at least two circulating conveyor means being located closer in the conveying direction to the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT) than another of the at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means having a shorter conveying pitch (T2) than a wider conveying pitch (T1) than the other circulating conveyor means (F1, F1′
) located further away from the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT), the shorter and wider conveying pitches defining a conveying pitch difference (T1−
T2) of the circulating conveyor means (F1, F2, F1′
, F2′
) supplying each other individually with containers, wherein a container acceptance or transfer interruption caused by a respective cycle standstill of the discontinuously working container treatment machine is compensated for by the conveying pitch difference. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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