Khs Gmbh

Khs Corpoplast Gmbh

Khs Ag

Wilfried Ehmer

Ludwig Clüsserath

Dieter Klatt

Frank Haesendonckx

Manfred Härtel

Andreas Fahldieck

Martin Schach

Thomas Matheyka

Alois Monzel

Thomas Lelie

Sascha Koers

Ulrich Scholz

Wolfgang Buchkremer

Karl Lorenz

Arne-Fritz Wiese

Ralph Pohl

Hans-Werner Holzer

Matthias Ringholt

Jan Becker

Matthias Niemeyer

An apparatus for transporting containers along a transport route includes first and second transport elements, at least one of which comprises grippers that are radially movable in relation to a vertical machine axis about which said first transport element rotates. The said first and second transport elements define a transport route that comprises first and second transport-route sections defined by circular arcs and a third transport-route section disposed between them. The third transport-route section comprises a transport-route region that defines a course having a kink-free transition-curve section having a curvature that either only increases or only decreases.

Device and method for transporting containers

A method and a device for producing a container filled with a liquid filling material from preforms made of a thermoplastic material, wherein each preform is thermally conditioned and subsequently, during a molding and filling phase, remolded into the container in a mold having at least one liquid filling material as a pressure medium. The filling material or parts of the filling material are supplied at at least two points in time and/or in at least two process phases with different contents of carbon dioxide and/or at different temperatures. In the second process phase, dry ice, particularly in form of pellets, is supplied.

Method and device for producing a container filled with a liquid filling material

A closure unit includes a closure head that closes a container by applying a closure onto a container opening thereof, a grouper that brings closed containers close together to form a bundle of closed containers, and an adhesive applicator that applies adhesive to a circumferential side wall of a container.

Method and device for forming packaging units

A closure for beverage containers that have a substantially cylindrical neck with an end opening and a closure cap includes a neck with an inside circumferential detent collar and a closure cap having an insertion shaft. A circumferential detent groove is provided on an outer circumference of the shaft. The detent groove corresponds to the detent collar, is profiled in a direction of insertion, and engages over the detent collar on a ring surface thereof that lies in the direction of insertion.

Closure for drink containers

A method and device for producing containers filled with a liquid filling material from preforms made of a thermoplastic material, wherein the respective preform is at least thermally conditioned and subsequently re-formed during a forming and filling phase into the container with at least one liquid filling material as a pressure medium having a filling pressure p. The filling material or portions of the filling material is/are supplied at at least two points in time and/or during at least two process phases having different carbon dioxide contents and/or different temperatures. The filling pressure pof the container formed in the first process phase is reduced to a pressure pand filling material is supplied in the second process phase, after which the pressure of the container is reduced to atmospheric pressure p. In the first process phase filling material that has been previously degassed and/or uncarbonated is supplied.

Method and device for producing containers filled with a liquid filling material

A method for treating packages includes ink jet printing designs on packages, arranging packages on a treatment position of a package transport path, and at least intermittently charging the packages, during printing thereon, with a gaseous sterilizing agent.

Method and device for treating packages

Method for producing tilled containers from parisons made from a thermoplastic material, wherein the respective parison is at least conditioned thermally and is subsequently shaped during a shaping and filling phase in a mold by the action of the pressure of the supplied filling substance into the respective container at a shaping and filling pressure, wherein, during the shaping and filling phase, the parison is guided at least temporarily through a stretching rod and/or is stretched in the axial direction, and wherein, at least at the end of the shaping and tilling phase, the respective container has an internal pressure which corresponds to the shaping and filling pressure (p2).

Method and device for producing containers which are filled with a liquid filling substance

A handling apparatus includes a container input, a furnishing carousel, a furnishing module, an application element, and a grouping device. The furnishing carousel rotates about a central axis and has the furnishing module and application element nearby. The furnishing module applies a furnishing feature to a surface of a container, and the application element applies adhesive to the container on a surface outside that surface of a container that is provided with a furnishing feature. The grouping device, which is either a compartmenting or compacting device, is immediately after the furnishing carousel and/or an outlet apparatus. The grouping device groups, compacts, or temporary presses together containers. The container input is either a single-track container feed, a multi-track container feed, a single-track container stream, or a multi-track container stream.

Apparatus for forming packaging units

A method and apparatus for the sterilizing of packaging material and/or packages is disclosed herein. The method comprises disposing the packaging material and/or packages in a sterilization device and pressurizing a pressure medium in the sterilization device to at least a pressure sufficient to at least inhibit reproductive capabilities of microorganisms disposed with the packaging material and/or packages. The apparatus is configured to receive packaging material and/or packages and a pressure medium in a sterilization device configured to pressurize the pressure medium in the sterilization device to at least a pressure sufficient to at least inhibit reproductive capabilities of microorganisms disposed with the packaging material and/or packages.

Method and apparatus for preparing and filling packages including pouches and containers, such as pouches and containers for food products

Method for producing containers which are filled with a liquid filling substance from parisons made from a thermoplastic material, wherein the respective parison is conditioned thermally and is subsequently shaped into the container during a shaping and filling phase in a mold by way of the filling substance as pressure medium, wherein, during the shaping into the container, the parison is preferably guided at least temporarily through a stretching rod and is stretched in the axial direction.

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

The present invention relates to a method and device for the detection or correction of defects in machines, whereby a defect is optically and/or acoustically displayed at its point of origin and/or correction by means of at least one reporting device (). According to the invention, the reporting device () is arranged independently from the location and is preferably centrally arranged. Furthermore, the reporting device () marks the point of origin and/or correction of the defect remotely and both in an optical and/or acoustical manner.

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Dortmund, Germany

Wilfried Ehmer