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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2007
Hans-juergen Schoenke, Boehme, DE;
Hans-Juergen Schoenke, Boehme, DE;
Silgan Holdings, Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A device for conveying closures (D) made from metallic sheet in an essentially vertical direction from a collecting point () to a release point () is proposed. The closures are selected to be in correct position during conveying in order to release at the release point () only same-lying closures in a row of closures following one another closely. A conveyer belt () serves for the transport (v, v) of the closures. A sensor and discharge device () serves for detecting wrong-position closures and for lateral discharge (q, q) of individual wrong-position closures. In the course of the conveyer belt () upstream of the sensor and discharge device, a bar () is arranged above the conveyer belt, which terminates after the sensor and discharge device (). More than one row (R, R) of closures next to one another may be supplied separately to the sensor and discharge device (). The performance itself is thus increased if the speed of the belt () is reduced. Performance is understood to mean the number of conveyed lids/minute which hitherto reached an order of magnitude of about 800 lids/minute.