Patent ID: 7331441
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for pushing a number of packaging containers which are supported in cassettes in movement in a first direction in a packaging machine, said apparatus comprising: carriers which push the packaging containers from a first position to a second position in relation to said cassettes; at least one belt which, in a first portion of the apparatus, moves in a second direction and in a second portion of the apparatus moves in a third direction; a bending roller disposed between the first and the second portions; the second and third directions each making an angle α with the first direction; the carrier being connected to a shaft which is secured to the belt by a clamping device; and a centre point of the shaft being offset a distance from the pitch line of the belt in a direction substantially at right angles thereto inwards towards the bending roller so that a mutual distance between two shafts, measured in the first direction, is substantially of equal size regardless of whether both shafts are located in the first or second portion or whether the shafts are located one on either side of the bending roller.