Fuji Seal International, Inc.

Stijn Antonius Petrus Verhoeven

Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink

Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck

The present disclosure relates to a discharge apparatus for discharging an assembly of interconnected guiding elements, having a support having at least one support section configured to support the assembly of interconnected guiding elements and the flexible pouch containers carried therein; a gripping unit configured to grip a first guiding element of the guiding element assembly and displace the first guiding element together with one or more interconnected further guiding elements of the guiding element assembly in a transport direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the first guiding element; and a disconnection unit configured to disconnect at least the gripped and displaced first guiding element from a neighboring second guiding element, the disconnection unit having a movable wedge and a wedge drive unit configured to move the wedge between the first and second guiding elements, thereby disconnecting the first guiding element from the second guiding element.

Apparatus and method for discharging guiding elements

The invention relates to an assembly for storing a plurality of flexible containers () with dispensing spouts, the assembly comprising one or more elongated guiding elements () configured to carry rows of dispensing spouts, wherein the guiding elements () are configured to be maintained in a substantially tubular arrangement while storing the containers in the interior formed by the tubular arrangement. The guiding elements () may be straight elements arranged in a parallel manner to form a tube-like arrangement. The guiding elements are also arranged to allow the containers to be attached in such a manner that they are positioned along a generally helical trajectory in the interior of the tubular arrangement.

Assembly and method for storing containers

The application relates to a discharge system () for discharging a plurality of flexible containers from a tubular storage assembly, comprising: &#x2014;a storage assembly support () configured to support the tubular storage assembly; &#x2014;a discharge device () configured to remove the containers from the tubular storage assembly and move the containers one by one from the second end of the tubular storage assembly towards a discharge region (), wherein the discharge device comprises: &#x2014;a gripper unit (); &#x2014;a drive () configured to cause the storage assembly and the gripper unit to rotate relative to each other; wherein the gripper unit is configured to grip dispensing spouts of containers successively passing by the gripper unit, to transport the gripped dispensing spouts and associated containers in a substantially axial direction and to collect the dispensing spouts in the discharge region.

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Bakel, Netherlands

Stijn Antonius Petrus Verhoeven