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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1991
Filed:
May. 31, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hans J Karass, Dortmund, DE;
Assignee:
Holstein und Kappert Aktiengesellschaft, Dortmund, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ; B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
406 88 ; 406 86 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for transporting plastic bottles which have a support collar near the opening. The bottles are suspended by the support collars on a guide track. Compressed air nozzle ducts are arranged on both sides of the bottles underneath the support collars. The air nozzle ducts have a nozzle surface in which at least one row of compressed air nozzles directed in the direction of movement of the bottles are arranged. At least one additional row of nozzles is provided whose effective direction of flow is obliquely and/or perpendicularly upwardly.