US 11,834,217 B2
Modular treatment apparatus for containers
Bernhard Domeier, Pentling (DE); Benedikt Boettcher, Bruckmühl (DE); Eduard Handschuh, Donaustauf (DE); and Klaus Voth, Obertraubling (DE)
Assigned to KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Filed by KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Filed on Sep. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/031,982.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 126 289.5 (DE), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0094718 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. B65B 59/04 (2006.01); B05C 13/02 (2006.01); B65B 55/02 (2006.01); C23C 16/04 (2006.01); C23C 16/54 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 59/04 (2013.01) [B05C 13/02 (2013.01); B65B 55/02 (2013.01); C23C 16/045 (2013.01); C23C 16/54 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for coating containers comprising:
a main transport device which is suitable and intended to transport the containers along a predetermined transport path,
a container treatment unit, wherein the container treatment unit has at least two container coating devices for coating a wall of the containers, which are suitable and intended to coat the containers in a predetermined manner,
a feed and discharge unit which is suitable and intended to feed containers to be coated to at least a first container coating device of the at least two container coating devices and to discharge containers already coated from the first container coating device, and
a media supply unit which is suitable and intended to feed media to at least the first container coating device,
wherein the apparatus is modular and/or freely expandable in such a way that at least one further container coating device can be added which has a treatment transport device which is suitable and intended to transport the containers along the predetermined transport path and has at least two coating stations which are suitable and intended to coat the containers in predetermined manner, and
wherein the apparatus has a container turning device suitable and intended to turn the containers, so that the containers are delivered with an opening facing upwards to the feed and discharge unit and the coating process is performed in an upside down condition of the containers in which the opening is facing downwards.