Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik

Franz Haring

Karl Griesbeck

Hermann Kronseder

Wolfgang Ruppelt

Willibald Altweck

Hans-Ulrich Braunling

Method and apparatus for filling a liquid volume into receptacles

In order to permit a method of determining the shape of a body, which comprises the step of detecting a contour of said body, to be executed rapidly and with little computing effort, the contour of the body is converted into a contour function which is independent of the position of said body, and said contour function is compared with a predetermined reference contour function for a known shape.

Method of determining the shape of a body

Bottle inspection machine

First, second and third linear conveyors are arranged in alignment with each other in the stated order. Bottles to be inspected are conveyed standing on their bottoms on the first linear conveyor through an inspection station followed by an ejector for those bottles which fail to match specified characteristics of an acceptable bottle model. The second conveyor has spaced apart parallel translating conveyor belts for frictionally gripping the bottles by their bodies between them to make their mouth ends and bottoms clear for inspection. The bottle discharge end region of the first conveyor and the bottle inlet end region overlap to achieve an overall shorter machine. The second conveyor has a bottle discharge region that overlaps the bottle inlet end region of the third conveyor to achieve a shorter machine. Bottles determined at the first conveyor inspection station to have one or more characteristics that do not match acceptable bottles are ejected and remaining bottles go on to be inspected for other characteristics at a station adjacent the second conveyor and those found to have one or more unacceptable characteristics differing from an acceptable bottle are ejected upon discharge from the second conveyor to the third conveyor.

Inspection machine for bottles or the like

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Neutraubling, Germany

Franz Haring