Patent ID: 6848565

Claim:
Device for container alignment having a transport device that conveys containers, wherein the transport device comprises at least a first and a second pivoting arm pair wherein each pair comprises at least a first and a second pivoting arm, said pivoting arm pairs are arranged facing one another on either side of a transport path, wherein the first and the second pivoting arms of each pivoting arm pair are arranged one atop the other, wherein the first and second pivoting arms have at least a first and a second pivoting axis, respectively, and wherein said first pivoting arm penetrates a U-bracket, of which a lower shank is connected with the first pivoting axis and of which an upper shank carries the first pivoting arm associated with the first pivoting axis, wherein the first and second pivoting arm pairs being synchronously drivable and the first and second pivoting arms, corresponding to each pivoting arm pair, have at one end the corresponding first or second pivoting axis, the other, free end being swingable out into substantially the middle of the transport device.