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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2009
Uwe Wolf, Bad Kreuznach, DE;
Stefan Freund, Bingen, DE;
Uwe Wolf, Bad Kreuznach, DE;
Stefan Freund, Bingen, DE;
KHS GmbH, Dortmund, DE;
Abstract
An inlet worm () for use in a treatment machine () for treating bottles or containers () of the like, having at least one distributing or inlet worm () which is provided to the side of a transport path (), is driven by a drive device so as to rotate about a worm axis, and forms a conveying path or helix for the containers () on at least one worm body which is provided on a worm receptacle, having at least one transport star () which is assigned to the inlet worm, can be driven so as to rotate about a transport-star axis and has a multiplicity of container receptacles which are provided distributed about the transport-star axis at uniform angular intervals which correspond to a machine gauge, and having a drive device for the synchronous and angularly accurate drive of the at least one inlet worm () and the at least one transport star ().