Bottling machine with bottle flow including transfers and star wheel guidance

摘要

The surface of the feed table (1) is at a slant towards the centre axis of the bottle fill-and-seal machine or else the table surface slopes in roof fashion in several directions, the angle of the slope or slant to be sufficient to run fluid and dirt etc. away in the required direction. The table can be furnished with a number of inclined table surfaces, all tilted in the same direction for fluid etc. removal. In a variant, the table plate is seen to taper by 20% towards the machine centre axis and the table is fitted with a run-off gutter (7), again laid in this same slope direction. The table surface should either to be rimmed or fitted out with flush-off devices (8) which point in the table angle sense and ensure total fluid etc. removal, e.g. bottle fragments etc..