US 11,738,979 B2
Arrangement for disinfecting can lids for closing cans
Christophe Riedel, Avignon (FR); and Ludwig Cluesserath, Bad Kreuznach (DE)
Assigned to KHS GmbH, Dortmund (DE); and Claranor SA, Avignon (FR)
Filed by KHS GMBH, Dortmund (DE); and CLARANOR SA, Avignon (FR)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/473,395.
Application 17/473,395 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/085,667, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2017/051459, filed on Jan. 25, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2016 104 859.3 (DE), filed on Mar. 16, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0403302 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B67B 3/00 (2006.01); B67B 3/06 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01)
CPC B67B 3/003 (2013.01) [B67B 3/06 (2013.01); A61L 2/10 (2013.01); B67B 2201/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An arrangement for disinfecting can lids and for closing cans, the arrangement comprising:
a feed device for conveying can lids in a conveyor region over a conveyor path from a feed point of the conveyor path to a discharge point of the conveyor path, said feed device including a transport star wheel formed with receiving recesses for holding individual can lids;
said feed device being arranged in a feed region of a can closing unit;
a first stacker device arranged at the feed point of the conveyor path for transferring can lids individually to said transport star,
a second stacker device arranged at the discharge point of the conveyor path and in the feed region of the can closing unit, said second stacker device for receiving can lids from the transport star, and
at least one sterilization device for the can lids that have been received individually in said receiving pockets, said sterilization device being arranged in a conveying region of said feed device, said sterilization device having a pulsed light device for irradiating light pulses in the UV range disposed above and below said transport star wheel the light pulses for contactless irradiation of individual lids received in the receiving recesses of the transport star wheel, the light pulses ensuring sterility of the can lids.