Patent ID: 9296599
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: B67B

Claim Text:
1. Sampling control station ( 20 ) for a containers or bottles filling plant comprising at least one grasping and transporting group ( 22 ) for picking up containers or bottles ( 16 ) from conveying means ( 18 ) and transporting said containers and bottles so that they may be measured by a module ( 40 ) for measuring the removal torque and/or the reclosing angle of a cap ( 28 ) of a container ( 16 ) acting upon a container or bottle ( 16 ) wherein said grasping and transporting group ( 22 ) comprises a mobile support structure ( 30 ) which is a rotary support structure having a centre of rotation positioned above said conveying means ( 18 ), and in that said rotary support structure ( 30 ) comprises at least one further measuring module ( 21 ′, 21 ″, 21 ″), said at least one further measuring module ( 21 ′, 21 ″, 21 ′″) being arranged along a circumference traversed by said gripping means ( 23 ) by the movement of said rotary support structure ( 30 ), said containers or bottles ( 16 ) being provided with a body tapered into a neck and ending with a mouth, said mouth being clamped through said cap ( 28 ), characterised in that said module ( 40 ) for measuring the removal torque and/or the reclosing angle is such as to take up a first configuration engaged with said cap ( 28 ), in which said cap ( 28 ) can be set in rotation by said module ( 40 ) for measuring the removal torque and the reclosing angle, and a second configuration disengaged from said cap ( 28 ).