Patent ID: 8701375

Claim:
Container treatment plant (B), comprising at least one discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT) working discontinuously with interrupting cycle standstills, at least one feed conveyor (Z) and/or at least one discharge conveyor (A), each for individual containers, in functional association to the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT), and in the feed conveyor (Z) and/or in the discharge conveyor (A), each at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means (F 1 , F 2 , F 1 ′, F 2 ′) supplying each other with individual containers are provided, one of the circulating conveyor means (F 2 , F 2 ′) of the at least two circulating conveyor means being located closer in the conveying direction to the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT) than another of the at least two continuously driven, circulating conveyor means having a shorter conveying pitch (T 2 ) than a wider conveying pitch (T 1 ) than the other circulating conveyor means (F 1 , F 1 ′) located further away from the discontinuously working container treatment machine (MT), the shorter and wider conveying pitches defining a conveying pitch difference (T 1 −T 2 ) of the circulating conveyor means (F 1 , F 2 , F 1 ′, F 2 ′) supplying each other individually with containers, wherein a container acceptance or transfer interruption caused by a respective cycle standstill of the discontinuously working container treatment machine is compensated for by the conveying pitch difference.