Khs Gmbh

Khs Maschinen- Und Anlagenbau Ag

Ulrich Scholz

Thomas Stienen

Sebastian Götze

Volker Till

Wilfried Ehmer

Olaf Muszinski

Berthold Paroth

Horst Böcker

Herbert Menke

Karl Lorenz

Rolf Füssmann

Ralph Pohl

Thorsten Kahe

Gunnar Clausen

Jan Becker

A container transport device for transporting containers in a container handling system includes a chassis for supporting the container transport device on a track. The chassis is equipped with a frame on which at least one tray for transporting the containers is provided in a vertically adjustable manner. The at least one tray has a transport surface with multiple transport elements arranged in a substantially parallel manner for temporarily storing and conveying containers in rows, and each transport element is drivable in a controlled and/or closed-loop manner independently of one another in two different conveying directions.

Container transport device and container handling system

An apparatus for shaping a narrow container stream, into a wide container stream includes container guides and a shaping region that extends between an inlet and an outlet. Transport bands connecting laterally to each other and define a transport plane along which the containers are transported. The container guides are constrained to be between defined limit curves defined by second and third order polynomials. As a result, the container guides are cambered in a way that promotes interruption-free widening of the container stream.

Device for shaping a narrow container stream into a wide container stream

A transport device includes a first transport-element that comprises rotatable transport-element sections and that defines a transport path for transporting materials between front and rear deflection-devices. The path has successive sections along a transport direction and extends between drive-arrangements spaced apart along the transport path. The drive-arrangements interactively connect to the transport-element at different locations along the transport path. Rotatable transport-element sections are repositioned relative to one another in such a way to change an overall length of the first transport-element. Targeted controlling of adjacent transport path sections at a differential speed by way of the first and second drive-arrangements creates an accumulation or a gap of transport material on a transport-path section.

Transport device and transport method comprising such a transport device

A method of monitoring, controlling, and optimizing operation of a container filling plant, in which image data of different areas of the container filling plant is obtained using an electronic, image-detection arrangement. The image data is then analyzed by a computer to determine if a person, a machine, or a container is in an unwanted condition sufficient to cause at least one of: disruption in the operation of the plant, injury to a person, damage to a machine, or damage to a container. A signal is then generated for either automatic correction or manual correction of the unwanted condition based on the image data.

Method for the monitoring, control and optimization of filling equipment for foods and beverages, such as, for beverage bottles

A storage device for products includes parallel transport elements configured to convey product in opposite directions, and storage sections formed on corresponding transport elements and defining a transport plane. A transfer element includes a transfer section that extends over the transport elements. An actuating drive is arranged beneath the transport plane and coupled to the transfer element to change receiving capacities of the storage sections. The actuating drive is configured to adjust the transfer element by movement along the transport elements. At least one of the transport elements is controllable independently of adjustment of the transfer element.

Storage device

There is now provided a beverage bottling plant for filling beverage bottles or other beverage containers with a liquid beverage filling material and an arrangement for dividing and separating of a stream of beverage bottles or other beverage containers, which arrangement reduces noise, wear and toppling of containers. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. &#xa7;1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. &#xa7;1.72(b), 'A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading 'Abstract of the Disclosure.' The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims.' Therefore, the abstract is not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

Beverage bottling plant for filling beverage bottles or other beverage containers with a liquid beverage filling material and an arrangement for dividing and separating of a stream of beverage bottles or other beverage containers

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Lüdinghausen, Germany

Ulrich Scholz