Retractable device for holding containers, and a container-processor installation fitted with such devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8628068
APP PUB NO 20100065152A1
SERIAL NO

12559058

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A device for holding a bottom portion of a container in a container-processor installation, the device comprising a support core provided with a stationary abutment for a lateral surface of the bottom portion of a container, and with a shoe mounted to pivot about a substantially horizontal axis between a holding position in which the shoe extends in the vicinity of the abutment to co-operate with the bottom portion of the container, and a disengaged position in which the shoe is retracted to allow the bottom portion of a container to be inserted in the device and to be extracted from the device along a direction that is substantially coplanar with a direction in which the bottom portion of the container bears against the abutment. An installation including such a device.

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SERAC GROUP72400 LA FERTE BERNARD

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Graffin, André Jean-Jacques Winfield, US 7 2

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