US 11,987,484 B2
Device for supplying a container closure, and closing device
Klaus Buchhauser, Neutraubling (DE)
Assigned to KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Filed by KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Filed on Jul. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/857,814.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 117 469.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0010462 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. B67B 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC B67B 3/06 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for supplying a container closure to a closing device configured to close a container with the container closure comprising:
a rotatable carrier wheel configured to transport the container closure from a supply position, at which the container closure is supplied by a closure supply, to a transfer position, at which the transported container closure is received by the closing device, wherein the rotatable carrier wheel is further configured to be displaceable between an operating position corresponding to the transfer position and a retracted position at which the rotatable carrier wheel is spaced from the transfer position; and
wherein: the rotatable carrier wheel is rotatable about a rotational axis,
a displacement direction of the rotatable carrier wheel between the operating position and the retracted position is oriented substantially horizontally,
the displacement direction is oriented perpendicularly to the rotational axis, and/or
the displacement direction, viewed in a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis, is oriented in a region of ±90° to a straight line that extends through the transfer position in a radial direction relative to the rotational axis.