Patent ID: 8807330

Claim:
A device for transporting containers and in particular plastic containers with a main carrier rotatable about a pre-specified main axis (D), with a multiplicity of transport elements for transporting the plastic containers, wherein each of these transport elements is arranged on an arm and swivelable in relation to the main carrier about a pre-specified geometric pivot axis (S 1 , S 2 ), and a multiplicity of independently controllable first drive devices is provided to generate swivel movements of the transport elements, wherein each transport element is also mobile linear in relation to the pivot axis (S 1 , S 2 ) about which it is swivelable, and a multiplicity of independently controllable second drive devices is provided to generate linear movement of the transport elements, wherein the first drive devices and the second drive devices are independently controllable electric motor drives, whereupon linear movement and swivel movement of the transport elements are controllable independently of each other.