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Richard Eschlbeck

Manuel Kollmuss

Wolfgang Huber

Herbert Spindler

Juergen Werner

Thomas Wimmer

Kurt Perl

Thomas Stadler

Christoph Klenk

Martin Osterhammer

Thomas Hensel

Johannes Kirzinger

Christian Napravnik

Martin Bauer

Lucas Kiefer

Markus Gabler

Peter Zeiner

Tobias Gut

Heiner Schaefer

Christian Westermeier

Christian Hastreiter

Peter Kirschner

Kai Wegener

Andreas Fritsch

Georg Goetz

Simon Berger

Dennis Fritsch

Erhard Beer

Huber Wolfgang

The invention includes a method () and an apparatus to handle irregularly conveyed and/or irregularly aligned and/or non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances. The method () comprises the following steps: identifying at least one non-upright article in an article stream as an error; performing a correction step to resolve the error, the correction step comprising removal from the article stream of the at least one irregularly aligned article, or transfer to an upright orientation of the at least one irregularly aligned article, with a defined action being exerted temporally before and/or in temporal overlap with the correction step upon the at least one irregularly aligned article or upon regularly conveyed articles of the article stream.

Method and apparatus used to handle non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances

Provided is a method for packaging piece good groupings, in which a plurality of piece goods, particularly containers, are at least partially interconnected by a first connector, wherein at least two-piece goods of this plurality are directly interconnected by the connector. According to the embodiment, this plurality of piece goods connected by the connector is packaged with a second connector in the form of a second wrapping element, and said plurality of piece goods connected by a first connector is conveyed by a conveyor device to a packaging device and enclosed, particularly wrapped, with the second wrapping element by said packaging unit.

Method and device for forming container groupings

The invention relates to a palletizing apparatus () and a method for conveying articles (), piece goods, and/or bundles () and/or palletizable article layers, piece good layers, and/or bundle layers () with at least two conveyor line sections (), each in a particular conveying direction (). Each conveyor line sections include consecutive handling stations, grouping stations, and/or transfer stations (), which lead to a central loading station (), where the article layers, piece good layers, and/or bundle layers () are stacked on top of each other and/or palletized in a common loading place (). The loading station () is located between at least two vertically adjustable support surfaces and/or conveying surfaces (). The common loading place () is supplied with article layers, piece good layers, and/or bundle layers ().

Method and apparatus for conveying articles, piece goods and/or bundles within at least two conveying path sections

A method for resorting piece goods assortments and in particular packaging unit assortments, includes the steps of supplying a first type of piece goods to a redistribution unit; supplying a second type of piece goods, which is different from the first type, to the redistribution unit; and picking up individual piece goods or groups of piece goods using a pick-up element of the redistribution unit, wherein the pick-up element picks up both piece goods of the first type and also piece goods of the second type and deposits these piece goods in such a way that a piece goods assortment consisting of piece goods of the first type and piece goods of the second type is formed.

Apparatus and method for resorting piece goods assortments

A device and a method for deflecting and aligning goods, which are transported in at least two approximately parallel longitudinal rows, in a first conveying direction to a transfer and alignment unit, from where they are transported further in a second conveying direction perpendicular to the first conveying direction. The transfer and alignment unit is coupled with a stop that is movable in or against the first conveying direction. The stop, in the process of transferring the front transversal row of articles or piece goods to the transfer and alignment unit, is brought into a position that is aligned with the flush front or back side of the first transversal row of articles or piece goods or profiled according to the orientation of the front or back side of the first transversal row of articles or piece goods.

Method and device for deflecting and aligning piece goods or articles

A receiving, holding and/or handling device for two-dimensional objects, with at least two controllable suction grippers. The suction grippers are arranged and connected to free ends of movable cantilever arms, which are elastically deformable at least in some sections. The cantilever arm are mounted and supported on a bridge. The cantilever arms each include at least one lower pull and one upper pull which meet at the free end of the cantilever arm and are connected there. An actuating device is assigned to the upper pull. The actuating device generates a pulling force with at least one horizontal direction component which is approximately parallel to the longitudinal extension direction of the cantilever arm. A method is also disclosed.

Device and method for receiving, holding and/or handling two-dimensional objects

The invention provides a device () having at least one inlet conveyor belt () for loose, un-grouped articles (), and at least one grouping device () for the loose, un-grouped articles () for the orderly composing of articles. An outlet conveyor belt () is associated with the grouping device (), said outlet conveyor belt () feeding the articles thereon grouped without containers to a packaging device (). The invention also provides a method for composing packages for a packaging machine.

Device and method for composing packages for a packaging machine

An apparatus for resorting piece goods assortments comprises a supply device, which transports along a first predefined transport path a piece goods assortment containing a plurality of piece goods arranged in predefined geometric positions, and at least one redistribution unit arranged at least partially downstream of the supply device along the transport path of the piece goods assortment. The redistribution unit comprises at least one pick-up element for picking up an individual item of piece goods of the piece goods assortment or a group of piece goods of the piece goods assortment, and a discharge device which is arranged downstream of the redistribution unit along the transport path. The pick-up element of the redistribution unit is movable in at least two different directions. The pick-up element removes individual piece goods or groups of piece goods from the piece goods assortment and transfers said piece goods to the discharge device.

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Richard Eschlbeck