Patent ID: 6419076
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: B65B,B65G

Abstract:
An intermittent container discharge device which is, in a continuous-filling packaging system, for converting a movement of full containers continuously fed in a single row into an intermittent movement of a plurality of rows, wherein said device is provided with:a container holding member conveying device in which container holding members disposed at equal intervals are moved in one direction along a ring-form track which has a pair of parallel sections, so that said container holding members are moved continuously at a constant speed on a first side of said parallel sections and moved intermittently a certain distance, which is an integral multiple of an attachment spacing of said container holding members, on a second side of said parallel sections, and said intermittent container discharge device continuously receives full containers by means of said continuously moving container holding members on said first side of said parallel sections and discharges full containers in a plurality of rows from said container holding members, which are stopped, on said second side of said parallel sections.