Container conveying mechanism.

摘要

A star wheel generally used for guiding containers is improved so as to reliably constrain each container without being accompanied with a backlash when the container is transferred from a conveyor to the star wheel. The improvements reside in that the tip ends of the teeth of the star wheel are extended to the outside of a pitch circle and the contours of the extended portions are formed into a cycloid tooth shape so that guide of the containers can be carried out continuously over a predetermined interval. The tip end of the cycloid tooth shape could be cut and rounded.