Lescha Maschinenfabrik Gmbh & Co. Kg

Dieter Schmid

Peter Kasberger

In the case of a device for mechanically accepting empties, more particularly bottles subject to a deposit, with a conveying device and a sensing device associated therewith, a high degree of reliability and a simple design are made possible inasfar as such conveying means comprises a conveying passage which comprises two parallel sections which are offset in relation to each other in the direction of conveying and have conveying belts placed side by side and arranged to be driven at different speeds, and an intermediate member extending obliquely in relation to the direction of motion of the conveying belts so as to bridge over a gap between the adjacent conveying belts, an outlet end part of the section with the more rapid conveying belt under it extending past the sensing means, which has a number of vertically offset sensing elements, aligned so as to be generally parallel to the plane of conveyance and adapted to sense the diameter of the empties.

Device for mechanically accepting empties

In the context of a device for mechanically receiving empties in the form of bottle crates and other containers for bottles subject to a deposit, comprising a frame, at least one conveying device forming the lower limit of a conveying passage and which is adapted to move the empties past a sensing device improved functional reliability is achieved by an arrangement in which the sensing device comprises a sensing head extending over the conveying device, said sensing head being able to be raised and lowered by means of an actuator operated by the passage of an article moved by the conveying device and cooperating with a measuring device responding to its stroke, said sensing device comprising sensing elements arranged in the form of a row arranged to extend perpendicularly to the direction of conveying and arranged in relation to a fixed plane of an aligning device aligning the passing articles so as to be parallel to the conveying direction, said sensing elements being arranged to be actuated by articles under them and cooperating with a counting device.

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Aystetten, Germany

Dieter Schmid