Patent ID: 6962291
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
1. A device in equipment for automatically receiving, scanning and handling containers which are essentially rotationally symmetrical about their longitudinal axes, the equipment being arranged in such a way that the containers are carried and/or rotated in a lying position, by means of a conveyor, through a recognizing chamber past at least two detectors for scanning information about the properties of the container, the scanned information being transferred from there to a control unit, which decides the conveying path downstream and further processing of the container, wherein the conveyor is arranged in such a way that relative to the direction of rotation of the conveyor, the container is forced at an angle against a supporting device, whereby the container is simultaneously carried along and rotated about its own longitudinal axis in a helical movement, and the device is provided with an image processing system comprising a camera which is arranged, in cooperation with backlighting from a light plate, to recognize the appearance of the container, a bar code reader being arranged to read essentially simultaneously a bar code present on the container, the helical motion of the container being such that in one turn of the container a complete bar code will be readable to the bar code reader.