Conveyor system for containers
CA 2102438 A1 · Owner: Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik · Inventors: Klenk, Klaus
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Rows of bottles are conveyed on parallel running belts. Closed loop flexible members such as roller chains, run in vertical planes along the longitudinal edges of the belts in the same direction as the belts. The closed loop chains have stabilizing devices mounted to them for stabilizing the bottles in each row as they move along on the belts beyond a bottle infeed region. The stabilizing devices each constitute a pair of fingers that are pivotally mounted to pins that stand up from the closed loop chains and are spring biased so that they diverge at a predetermined angle from each other when they are not restrained from doing so. As the sets of fingers are carried around on the chain, they …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 4, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 4, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 4, 2015.
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