Ferag Ag

Erwin Stauber

Roberto Fenile

Marcel Ramseier

Othmar Brunschwiler

Martin Keller

Marc-Andreas Benz

A device for emptying transport bags conveyed in a suspended manner, includes a conveying system via which transport bags may be supplied in a suspended manner along a conveying path. The transport bags have a pocket that is open at the top when in the filled state and a front side. A circulating conveyor belt for receiving piece good units transported in the transport bags is included, and in a contact section, the conveying paths of the conveying system and the conveyor belt are situated relative to one another in such a way that the distance between the conveying paths of the conveying system and the conveyor belt become continuously smaller, so that when a transport bag is conveyed along the contact section, the front side of the pocket of the transport bag contacts and comes to rest on the conveyor belt, and the transport bag is thereby pivoted backwards.

Device for emptying transport bags conveyed in a suspended manner

A conveying unit () for the suspended transport of transport elements () in a conveyor system, in particular a rail-guided () conveyor system or a conveyor-chain system, includes a support hook () attached to a conveying element (), in particular a carriage or a conveyor-chain link, a transport element (), and a suspension hook () attached to the transport element, wherein the suspension hook is mounted in a suspended manner in the support hook. The support hook is configured such that the suspension hook can take up two stable positions () in the support hook. The suspension hook () in a first stable position () has been turned through an angle with respect to the suspension hook in a second stable position ().

Device and method for turning, opening and filling transport bags conveyed in a suspended manner

A method and a device for opening a transport bag for loading and/or unloading, wherein the transport bag is conveyed along a conveying path by a conveyor system, in a suspended manner, to a device for opening the transport bag. The transport bag has a front and rear wall and a movable push element, which effects a relative movement of the front and rear wall with respect to one another between a closed bag state and an open bag state. An actively moved push device exerts a pushing force on a first end of the push element of the transport bag and the push element is converted from an idle conformation into a conformation subjected to a pushing force. The front and rear wall are thus moved relative to one another in the direction of an open bag state and the transport bag is opened for loading and/or unloading.

Method and device for opening a transport bag

A carriage for a rail-guided conveying system, in particular a gravity conveyor, in which a plurality of similar carriages are mounted one behind the other in the rail-longitudinal direction and displaceable in the rail-longitudinal direction, on a running rail extending in the rail-longitudinal direction. A first and a second set of upright rollers are arranged one behind the other for guiding the running rail in the rail-longitudinal direction and which in each case are rotatably mounted on a carriage body transversely to the rail-longitudinal direction about an associated axis and are spaced apart from one another along the associated axis.

Carriage for a rail-guided conveying system and conveying system comprising such a carriage

A conveying system including a conveying rail, at least one conveying vehicle, which is led along the conveying rail, wherein the at least one conveying vehicle forms a contact element, and also including a driver chain with at least one driver for driving the at least one conveying vehicle in the conveying direction. The driver forms a receiver for receiving the contact element for the purpose of forming a driving contact. The driver includes a deflecting member that forms a spatial limitation for the receiver. The deflecting member is elastically deflectable by the contact element while opening up the receiver.

Conveying system for conveying objects to be conveyed

A transfer device () for the separated transfer of product carriers (-) with holders (-) to an overhead conveyor is described, comprising a helical conveyor (), which defines a conveying section (F) for the holders (-) with a conveying portion (FF) and a transfer portion (FU), wherein the conveying section (F) in the conveying portion (FF) describes a linear path and in the transfer portion (FU) describes a transversely curved path superimposed on the linear path.

Transfer device for product carriers with holding means

The device for separating product parts of a multi-part, flat product includes a receiving unit for receiving the product, a device for separating the product parts and a retaining device for acting on one of the product parts for the purpose of maintaining the separation of the product parts. The receiving unit includes a first friction element and a second friction element, which is movable with respect to the first friction element. The two friction elements are arranged on the receiving unit such that the product can be firmly clamped between the friction elements. The friction elements are designed such that the static friction between the product part and the friction element assigned to this is greater than the static friction between the product parts, so that the product parts can be moved with respect to one another given a relative movement between the two friction elements firmly clamping the product.

Device and method for separating product parts of a multi-part product

A device for opening and further transporting of printed products with respectively at least two sheets held together over a fixed edge, including a conveying device with transport grippers driven in conveying direction (F) arranged with a distance between one another, which are designed to hold the printed products suspended on their fixed edge, as well as with an opening device arranged below the transport grippers, which is destined to open the printed products. The opening device includes an opening wedge capable of being inserted into a free edge zone between the sheets of the printed product, and the opening device furthermore includes a device for supplying blast air, by way of which the sheets of the printed product are capable of being fanned open in the edge zone, into which the opening wedge is inserted.

Device and method for opening printed products

A device and a method for taking over flexible, two-dimensional objects (), in particular printed products, at a take-over location (S). The objects () are received by receiver units (). Controllable narrowing elements () are present, in order to prevent a squashing and rebounding of the objects () on or from an abutment of the receiver unit (), with which narrowing elements, in an active condition, the opening width (W) of the receiver unit () in a middle region between an entry opening () of the receiver unit () and the abutment (), may be reduced compared to an inactive condition. These are controlled with a control device (). A more reliable positioning of the objects () in the receiver unit (), in particular at high feed speeds and with thin, elastically deformable objects (), may be achieved.

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Erwin Stauber