Krones Ag

Thomas Hensel

Herbert Spindler

Manuel Kollmuss

Juergen Werner

Thomas Wimmer

Kurt Perl

Thomas Stadler

Richard Eschlbeck

Wolfgang Huber

Peter Zeiner

Martin Bauer

Marcus Kreis

Lucas Kiefer

Johann Luber

Tobias Gut

Thomas Lehner

Christian Westermeier

Peter Kirschner

Georg Goetz

Andreas Gschrey

Falk Huppelsberg

Simon Berger

Marcus Seidl

Jürgen Werner

The invention discloses a method for producing packaging units and the produced packaging units, comprising at least two substantially similar articles, wherein the articles are held together by at least one packaging blank (). A main surface of the packaging blank () is applied to first end faces of an article grouping (), forming a connection between the articles and primary fixing element of the packaging blank (). The primary fixing element fixes the positions of the articles relative to one another. The side surfaces () of the packaging blank () are subsequently folded over, wherein secondary fixing element interacts with the shell surfaces of the articles. The secondary fixing elements are formed by strapping sections, which surround the article grouping () and fixes the articles in a substantially parallel alignment to one another. The invention also relates to a packaging device for carrying out the method.

Packaging device, packaging unit, and method for producing packaging units

The invention relates to a transport device () and a method for distributing a plurality of similarly shaped and dimensioned articles (). The transport device () comprises an infeed () for conveying articles () in a mass flow, and a distribution section () downstream of the infeed (), where the distribution section () leads into a row transport (), where the articles () are conveyed in at least two separate parallel rows (). The transport device () also comprises at least one sensor device () signal-coupled to a motor-driven actuator () assigned to the distribution section () In the event of detected gaps, interruptions, or in the event of a detected termination of the mass flow within the infeed () or within the distribution section () or within the rows (), the actuator () moves a movable steering device () adjoining the mass flow.

Transport device and method for distributing a plurality of similarly shaped and dimensioned articles

The invention relates to a handling device or layer forming device () and a method for forming piece good layers. Piece goods () are conveyed on a horizontal conveying device () to a grouping station and/or layer forming station () comprising a manipulator (). In a work cycle, the manipulator () seizes at least one piece good () and moves it into a target position or target alignment, in particular with regard to a piece good layer to be formed. The horizontal conveying device (), which is arranged upstream of the grouping station and layer forming station (), comprises at least one sensor device () for obtaining positional data or dimensional data or alignment data of the transported piece goods (). Based on the obtained data, the control device () controls the movements of the manipulator () within the movement range for the purpose of the layer formation.

Device and method for the treatment and/or handling of piece goods moved in at least one row

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 processing containers, wherein the containers are processed by. a first processing device in a first predetermined manner and are transported by. a transport device to a second processing device and are processed by this second processing device in a second predetermined manner, and wherein the processing devices are in each case controlled by at least control devices, wherein for the control parameters are used which are characteristic of the containers and/or the processing of the containers. According to the embodiment, predetermination parameters are output on at least one and preferably on several control devices, and said output predetermination parameters are compared with parameters required by at least one processing device, and it is checked whether the parameters required by the at least one processing device can be derived at least from the predetermination parameters.

Apparatus and method for processing containers having querying processing devices

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