Patent ID: 9586768
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: B65G

Claim:
1. An apparatus for positioning containers, comprising: a conveyor device having alignment compartments moving along a closed circuit, where each alignment compartment comprises a lower compartment section and an upper compartment section vertically aligned with one another, and where each lower and upper compartment section is sized for housing a container upright on its base; and a loading device placing containers upright inside lower and upper compartment sections of the alignment compartments; characterized in that it comprises: a rotating transfer wheel having on its periphery lower transfer recesses and upper transfer recesses receiving containers from the lower and upper compartment sections, respectively, of the alignment compartments of the conveyor device; and an intercalation device receiving the containers from said upper transfer recesses and transferring them to said lower transfer recesses in intercalated positions between the containers previously transferred to the lower transfer recesses of the transfer wheel, from where all the containers are transferred to an output conveyor; deflecting elements being arranged which transfer the containers from the conveyor device to the transfer wheel, from the transfer wheel to the intercalation device, from the intercalation device to the transfer wheel, and from the transfer wheel to said output conveyor.