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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2004
Wolfgang Brixius, Neunkirchen, DE;
Dominik Gräfer, Dortmund-Wellinghofen, DE;
Albrecht Hoene, Lappersdorf, DE;
Wolfgang Brixius, Neunkirchen, DE;
Dominik Gräfer, Dortmund-Wellinghofen, DE;
Albrecht Hoene, Lappersdorf, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Abstract
A transport system for transport of containers has a switch with an entry zone, an exit zone with at least two different transport paths for conveying a container, and a switch mechanism for selectively controlling the transport of the container to the transport paths. During their travel, the containers are supported by a support assembly, and aligned and advanced in a controlled manner in the entry zone by an alignment and propulsion mechanism. A propulsion and guide assembly in the exit zone is rendered operative in response to a transport of the container along the transport paths and includes at least two modules which respectively cooperate with the transport paths and are disposed in the exit zone below the plane of the support assembly. The modules are hereby so controlled that only the one of the modules is raised into a plane above the plane of the support assembly, when the container is transported along the associated transport path.