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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
May. 03, 2013
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Marc Hurni, Schaffhausen, CH;
Hansruedi Wanner, Gächlingen, CH;
Philipp Kathan, Langwiesen, CH;
Markus Landolt, Hallau, CH;
Alfred Wipf, Jestetten, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A feeding device for feeding products (-) and/or stacks of products (-) to a packaging process of a packaging machine (-), in particular of a horizontal tube packaging machine, comprises a guide unit (-) which is disposed as a closed loop (-) and on which a plurality of arranged conveyor elements (-) are arranged so as to be drivable mutually independently in a speed- and/or position-controlled manner at least along at least one working section (--) of the guide unit (--). At least one conveyor element (-) has a holder (-), and at least one conveyor element (-) that follows contrary to a conveying direction (-) has a counter holder (-).