US 11,742,642 B2
Cable fixing device for container handling system and method for setting a minimum bending radius for a connecting cable of a container handling system
Joerg Triebel, Neutraubling (DE); Reinhard Ortner, Neutraubling (DE); and Robert Scheibenpflug, Neutraubling (DE)
Assigned to Krones AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Appl. No. 17/45,038
Filed by Krones AG, Neutraubling (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/050582
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/192759, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 108 118.9 (DE), filed on Apr. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0226428 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. H02G 3/04 (2006.01); B67C 3/22 (2006.01); B67C 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H02G 3/0456 (2013.01) [B67C 3/225 (2013.01); B67C 7/004 (2013.01); H02G 3/0418 (2013.01); B67C 2003/227 (2013.01); B67C 2007/006 (2013.01); B67C 2007/0066 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable fixing device for a container handling system, comprising:
a base body,
a cable guide which is positioned around a part of the base body, and
a cover for covering an end of the cable guide in such a way that a connecting cable, which is pre-assembled with a plug device at each one of its both ends, can be introduced between the cover and the cable guide,
wherein the cable guide is configured at its other end for fixing of the connecting cable in such a way that a wrap angle of the cable fixing device and the connecting cable can be set variably.
 
7. A container handling system, comprising
at least one container handling machine for handling containers using at least two drive devices,
at least one cable fixing device which comprises,
a base body,
a cable guide which is positioned around a part of the base body, and
a cover for covering an end of the cable guide in such a way that a connecting cable, which is pre-assembled with a plug device at each one of its both ends, can be introduced between the cover and the cable guide,
wherein the cable guide is configured at its other end for fixing of the connecting cable in such a way that a wrap angle of the cable fixing device and the connecting cable can be set variably,
wherein the at least one cable fixing device is mounted on a connecting cable for connecting the at least two drive devices.
 
10. A method for setting a minimum bending radius for a connecting cable of a container handling system, wherein the connecting cable is pre-assembled with a plug device at each one of its both ends, in order to drive two drive devices of the container handling system, which are spaced apart from one another in a predetermined range, the method being carried out with a cable fixing device which comprises a base body, a cable guide and a cover and wherein the method comprises the steps of inserting the connecting cable at one of its two ends between the cover and the cable guide, which is suitably covered at one end by the cover for the insertion of the connecting cable and is at least partially positioned around the base body, and
fixing the other end of the cable guide and the connecting cable to one another such that a wrap angle of the cable fixing device and the connecting cable are set variably.