Patent ID: 6557693
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: B65B,B65G

Abstract:
An automatic commissioning unit arrangement, comprising:a filling station with a feed hopper and a filling position; a conveying track to and from the filling station for conveying containers, which are open at the top and are filled with articles or bulk material via said feed hopper in said filling station in a stopped filling position, said conveying track having, in an immediate area in front of, in and/or after said filling station, at least one circulating toothed belt or chain drive with a dynamic adjusting drive of its own and with container-engaging knobs located at spaced locations from one another and which grasp behind the containers arriving on said conveying track without a jerk and which accelerate the containers in a separated manner both into the filling position and out of the filling position after filling, said input-side conveying track has a container-blocking mechanism in front of said toothed belt or chain drive, said container-blocking mechanism can be placed into the path of movement of the containers being delivered and can release the path of movement of the containers being delivered.