Seitz-Werke Gmbh

Wolfgang Probst

An arrangement for a low-noise speed reduction of a one-track bottle flow in a bottle distributing station, especially in bottling plants, according to which a flow of bottles arranged in spaced relationship to each other in conformity with a desired bottle spacing is supported by and transferred by way of a guiding rail or guiding wall from the first moving conveyor section onto a second moving conveyor section adjacent and substantially parallel to the first conveyor section. The bottle flow or advancing speed of the bottles on the second conveyor section where it forms a closed-up bottle flow corresponds to the speed v.sub.2 or slightly higher speed of the closed-up bottle flow on the second conveyor section. Subsequently, the now closed-up bottle flow is transferred by a following guiding rail or wall onto one or more leading-off conveyor sections the speed of which is considerably reduced over that of the last mentioned closed-up bottle flow. The guiding rail or wall effecting a bottle transfer onto a slower conveyor section defines with the direction of movement of the pertaining conveyor section a relatively great angle .phi. and is so designed as to release the bottle flow directly after transferring a bottle flow onto the last mentioned slower conveyor section.

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Hohenbrunn, Germany

Wolfgang Probst