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Pierre-Francois Langlois

Pierre Heuzebroc

Stephane Morin

Daniel Nguyen Van

Daniel Nguyen

The invention relates to a device for conveying vessels of the bottle type, characterized in that it comprises: a primary wheel for conveying the bottles including a plurality of transfer arms; at least two secondary conveying wheels respectively capable of conveying the bottles fed by the primary wheel; the conveying path of the bottles grasped by the clamps of the transfer arms of each secondary wheel being at one point tangential to the conveying path of the bottles grasped by the transfer arms of the primary wheel, whereby the main flow of bottles conveyed by the primary wheel is divided into at least two secondary flows of bottles respectively conveyed by the secondary conveying wheels.

Vessel conveying device separating a main vessel flow into a plurality of secondary flows

Device () for switching containers rotating about a fixed axis () of rotation and comprising, arranged peripherally around the axis () of rotation, a plurality of arms () for gripping at least one container, each gripping arm () comprising a cam follower () for engagement in a cam raceway (), the raceway () comprising at least one fixed section () and at least one removable section () for a retractable cam, said device being characterized in that it comprises at least one rotary transverse plate () on which are fixed the radially mobile gripping arms () and at least one fixed transverse plate () containing the raceway () of the cam follower () of the gripping arm (), and in that the removable section () is retractable in a direction approximately parallel to the axis () of rotation by means of an actuator () mounted on the fixed transverse plate ().

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Octeville sur Mer, France

Pierre-Francois Langlois