Patent ID: 6131720
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A device for separating individual rotationally symmetric containers from a stream of rotationally symmetric containers conveyed under backup pressure, comprising a first conveyor path for the stream of containers and a second conveyor path for removal of separated containers, the second conveyor path branching off at a separation point from the first conveyor path, a means for determining the speed of the containers on the first conveyor path upstream of the separation point, characterized inthat the first conveyor path bends at an acute angle at the separation point,that a dividing wedge is disposed between the first and second conveyor paths,that a first deflection slide is disposed at the separation point next to the first conveyor path at the side of branching of the second conveyor path and is extensible towards the tip of the dividing wedge that a second deflection slide is disposed at the separation pint next to the first conveyor path at the side of the bend of the first conveyor path and is extensible towards the tip of the dividing wedge, wherein, when the first deflection slide is extended, the containers continue to be conveyed on the first conveyor path and, for separating containers onto the second conveyor path, the second deflection slide is extended and the first deflection slide is retracted, and that the speed determining means control extension speeds of the deflection slides in accordance with the conveying speed of the containers.