Method and apparatus used to handle non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances

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PATENT NO 11117754
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16620038

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The invention includes a method (100) and an apparatus to handle irregularly conveyed and/or irregularly aligned and/or non-upright articles of an article stream under prevention of disturbances. The method (100) comprises the following steps: identifying at least one non-upright article in an article stream as an error; performing a correction step to resolve the error, the correction step comprising removal from the article stream of the at least one irregularly aligned article, or transfer to an upright orientation of the at least one irregularly aligned article, with a defined action being exerted temporally before and/or in temporal overlap with the correction step upon the at least one irregularly aligned article or upon regularly conveyed articles of the article stream.

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KRONES AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT93073 NEUTRAUBLING

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bauer, Martin Nussdorf am Inn, DE 104 542
Berger, Simon Koenigsbrunn, DE 12 90
Eschlbeck, Richard Vogtareuth, DE 16 60
Goetz, Georg Augsburg, DE 5 130
Hensel, Thomas Aying, DE 9 24
Kiefer, Lucas Augsburg, DE 4 3
Spindler, Herbert Niedermoosen, DE 40 112

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