US 12,410,018 B2
Carousel machine for processing containers
Luca Bonardi, San Giorgio Bigarello (IT)
Assigned to P.E. LABELLERS S.P.A., Porto Mantovano (IT)
Appl. No. 18/287,073
Filed by P.E. LABELLERS S.P.A., Porto Mantovano (IT)
PCT Filed Apr. 6, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/059147
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 16, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/223300, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 27, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102021000009941 (IT), filed on Apr. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0199347 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. B65G 47/84 (2006.01); B65C 9/02 (2006.01); B65G 17/32 (2006.01); B65G 54/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 47/846 (2013.01) [B65C 9/02 (2013.01); B65G 17/323 (2013.01); B65G 54/02 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0244 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A carousel machine for processing containers, comprising a rotating carousel, provided peripherally with pans for supporting individual containers to be processed, and means for loading/unloading the containers from said carousel, wherein said means for loading/unloading comprise at least one linear motor which has a stationary track with a closed path and handling carriages, which are mounted so that they can move slidingly and in mutual succession along said track and each support at least one respective jaw adapted to cooperate with a jaw supported by a contiguous carriage in order to engage, on mutually opposite sides, a container to be transferred or picked up from said carousel, control means for the control of said linear motor being provided which are adapted to actuate a variation of a mutual distance of mutually contiguous carriages in order to allow release or clamping of said container by corresponding said jaws;
wherein said track comprises at least one outgoing part which has at least one substantially rectilinear portion, which extends substantially tangentially to said carousel and extends substantially between at least one receiving station for receiving the containers to be transferred onto said carousel and at least one delivery station for delivering the containers picked up from said carousel.