Krones Ag

Guenter Frankenberger

Klaus Buchhauser

Josef Knott

Markus Schoenfelder

Manfred Ziegler

Hans Scheuren

Erwin Knieling

Sebastian Klepatz

Andreas Dewert

Juergen Soellner

Jochen Krueger

Thomas Albrecht

Volker Stammel

Holger Mueller

Roland Laumer

Patrick Engelhard

Tino Sickert

Harald Wels

Martin Watter

A method for operating an apparatus for sterilizing containers where the containers are each held and are transported along a predefined path by means of a movable carrier, and a plurality of sterilization units are arranged on the carrier, each having rod-like bodies that are introduced into the containers and apply charge carriers onto an internal wall of the containers. The charge carriers exit through an exit window of the rod-like bodies, as the charge carriers move in a longitudinal direction relative to the rod-like bodies.

Method for sterilising plastic containers having a protection device

An apparatus for treating containers includes a housing, inside which a sterile chamber is formed. A treatment element is arranged inside the housing and is rotatable about a predefined axis. The treatment element is arranged on a carrier inside the housing, and has a drive device for driving the treatment element. The drive device is arranged at least partially outside the sterile chamber and includes at least a first drive element arranged outside the sterile chamber for generating rotational movements, and a second drive element arranged inside the sterile chamber. The first drive element and the second drive element cooperate in a contactless manner to generate rotational movement of the treatment element. The drive elements in each case have at least one magnetisable element and preferably at least the second drive element is displaceable in the direction of its axis of rotation relative to the sterile chamber.

Apparatus for treating containers with contactless torque generation

A closure sterilization arrangement for container closures comprises a conveying device that conveys the container closures separately along a conveying path so that they avoid touching one another. An irradiation device generates a radiation sterilizing the container closures and acts upon the container closures with the radiation during the conveying thereof by the conveying device. A rotating device rotates the container closures about a pre-set axis of rotation at least for a time period during their conveying by the conveying device. The irradiation device is arranged with respect to the conveying path of the container closures so that the radiation issuing from the irradiation device strikes both an external peripheral wall of the container closures and an internal region of the container closures, and the irradiation device irradiates the container closures from at least two different radiation directions.

Apparatus and method of radiation-based sterilization of container closures

The invention relates to an apparatus for disinfecting container closures, comprising a housing and comprising a transport path which is arranged inside the housing and along which the closures are transported, wherein the transport path has at least partially a spiral configuration. According to the invention, the apparatus comprises a supply device for supplying to the housing a gaseous medium for disinfecting the container closures, and at least one displacement device is provided which can move with respect to the housing and which transports the container closures along the spiral transport path.

Apparatus for disinfecting container closures

An apparatus for sterilizing at least a segment of an inner wall and a segment of an outer wall of containers by accelerated charge carriers, includes at least one first external application device for sterilizing at least a segment of an outer wall of containers and an internal application device for sterilizing at least a segment of an inner wall of containers. The internal application device at least in portions is arranged to be introduced through an opening into the container in order to apply the emitted charge carriers to an inner wall of the container. The containers are transported along a transport path during their sterilization, wherein along a segment of the transport path of the containers between the first external application device and the internal application device is arranged a pitch change device to change a distance between two containers succeeding each other along the transport path.

Device for internal and external sterilisation of plastic containers by means of charge carrier beams

An apparatus for closing containers includes a movable closing head for applying closures to the containers and is arranged in the interior of a sterile chamber of the apparatus and arranged to move in a longitudinal direction (L) of the containers to be closed. At least one wall is provided which delimits the sterile chamber, wherein the closing device is arranged on a carrier which is arranged partially inside the sterile chamber and partially outside the sterile chamber, and extends through the wall and moves in the longitudinal direction (L) relative to the wall. Arranged in the interior of the sterile chamber is a first sealing element which is elastic in the longitudinal direction (L) and which seals off from the sterile chamber a region of the outer periphery of the carrier.

Closing apparatus for containers

The invention relates to a device for closing containers with closures comprising a closing head () that attaches the closures to the containers, wherein said closing head () can be moved relative to the closures with a first movement type and is arranged within a sterile space () with a first movement unit () for producing a movement of the closure with the first movement type, wherein said first movement unit () is arranged at least partially outside the sterile space (), wherein the sterile space () is bounded by at least one first wall () and the device comprises a ring-shaped channel () into which said first wall () protrudes, wherein the ring-shaped channel () can be moved relative to the first wall () and can be filled with a fluid medium, and wherein the first movement unit () is arranged within the channel () at least in sections.

Closing device for containers having a sterile space

Apparatus for closing containers with contactless torque generation

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Koefering, Germany

Guenter Frankenberger