US 11,738,896 B2
Application unit, method for operating an application unit, and packaging machine having an application unit
Manfred Van Triel, Xanten (DE); and Thomas Jöhren, Bocholt (DE)
Assigned to KHS GmbH, Dortmund (DE)
Appl. No. 18/10,662
Filed by KHS GMBH, Dortmund (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077218
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/078787, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 126 782.7 (DE), filed on Oct. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0159201 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B65B 17/02 (2006.01); B65B 49/12 (2006.01); B65B 65/02 (2006.01); B65B 59/04 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 17/025 (2013.01) [B65B 49/12 (2013.01); B65B 59/001 (2019.05); B65B 59/04 (2013.01); B65B 65/02 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An application unit for a packaging machine for applying a material blank to containers assembled to form a container group, the application unit comprising:
at least one pressing element having a tool plate for connecting the material blank to containers of the container group to be conveyed along a transport plane; and
a drive unit configured to move a pressing element to adjust the tool plate between an out-of-engagement position and an in-engagement position with the containers;
said drive unit including a first drive disk, being rotatable about a first axis of rotation, and a second drive disk, arranged parallel to and at a distance from said first drive disk, and being rotatable about a second axis of rotation, said first and second axes of rotation being aligned horizontally and at an equal height but not coaxially with one another; and
said pressing element having first and second articulated axles, and said pressing element being connected by way of said first articulated axle in a jointed manner to said first drive disk and by way of said second articulated axle in a jointed manner to said second drive disk, so that, with a rotation of said first and second drive disks about said respective axes of rotation, said tool plate is aligned horizontally.