EP0953535B1 - Method and apparatus for the supply and storage of cans - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a method according to the preamble of the claim 1 and an apparatus for performing this method.

Usually there are one for feeding empty cans to the filling head Line and for taking up the filled cans on the line roller conveyors provided (RIETER high-performance line RSB 951). The ones to be filled Jugs must be operated by an operator Removed dolly and placed on the roller conveyor, whereby the cans in particular because of the required inclination of the roller conveyor for placing on the end of the roller conveyor facing away from the line have to be raised relatively high. In the same way, the full Jugs lifted from a roller conveyor and onto a transport trolley to be spent. This procedure is therefore labor and labor intensive.

From US-A-4 227 848 is a method according to the preamble of Claim 1 known.

Furthermore, AT 343 047 describes a device for loading a Spinning preparation machine with jugs known. Empty cans stand initially on a dolly and then slide on one a route leading guideway. The pots are going there as well after the filling process on another trolley by means of a Chain with gripper arms pushed. One gripper arm is provided for each jug. After the first trolley has been emptied, it is moved using a Moving device moved. The disadvantage of this version is that the gripper arms must intervene between two cans. The For this purpose, cans must be positioned exactly at a distance, which is common in everyday spinning cannot always be guaranteed. For moving the dolly these must have steerable wheels. This is disadvantageous for pushing the wagons manually as this makes them difficult to steer. The displacement device is also due to the occurring Torques when moving the car heavily loaded and subject therefore high wear or must be designed accordingly strong his.

The object of the present invention is therefore a method and a To create device that avoid the disadvantages mentioned.

The stated object is achieved by the features of claim 1. Because the can carrier on the route or another band-releasing Textile machine remains while the cans are being filled and the cans after filling, they can be placed directly on a can carrier, is done by the operator or an automatic transport device work to be carried out on the feeding and removal reduced by pot carriers. The labor-intensive handover empty cans from the can carrier onto a roller conveyor or removing full cans from a roller conveyor and transferring them these now heavy cans on a can carrier are thus eliminated.

In order to hand over an empty jug to the belt-dispensing textile machine or when a filled jug is handed over by the person delivering the tape Textile machine safety is a procedure according to Claim 2 particularly advantageous.

A decoupling of the timing for feeding a can carrier to the filling head or for removing a can carrier from the exit of the filling head from the supply and removal of can carriers to or to reach from the route, is in further development according to the invention of the described method according to claim 3 as a buffer serving additional position for the can carrier.

In principle, a can carrier can be made from an empty can magazine, from which from the empty cans are fed to the filling head into a buffer position brought, from which it can be removed if necessary can be placed in the full can magazine. If, however, in a starting situation the in the empty can magazine located can carrier is filled and there is an empty in the full can magazine Can carrier is located, is a procedure according to claim 4 particularly advantageous because at the same time when the can carrier in the empty can magazine becomes empty, even the one in the full-can magazine Can carrier is full, so that an exchange of the can carrier both in Empty can magazine as well as in the full can magazine.

According to the invention, a device according to the invention is used to carry out the method Claim 5 provided. The receiving device for one Can carrier and its locking both at the inlet and at the outlet of the filling head lead to the above-mentioned ease of work. Due to the advantageous further development of the subject matter of the invention according to claim 6 is a high security when handing over a jug to or from the belt-dispensing textile machine.

The subject matter of the invention is preferably developed further, since this results in a particularly space-saving design of the subject matter of the invention is achieved.

Not every time the can carrier is on the feed side of the Filling head handed over all of its empty cans to the filling head or the can carrier filled with filled cans on the outlet side of the filling head is the operator or a transport device with a new one Can carriers with empty cans are available or for collection of the can carriers must be ready with filled cans, the subject of the invention advantageously formed according to claim 8. That way the provision of a can wagon with empty cans or collection a can carrier with full cans regardless of the expiry of the Filling process take place. The juxtaposition of the shelves according to claim 9 is usually both in terms of space and also particularly advantageous for handling the can carriers.

The empty cans must be fed to the filling station by the can carrier. So that an ejection device on the individual cans on their Filling station facing away from the filling station, it is advantageous if one Training of the device according to the invention provided according to claim 10 becomes.

To transfer can carriers from one shelf to another To be able to perform in a particularly simple manner can be advantageous A further development of the subject matter of the invention according to claim 11 be provided. This allows, after on the pickup side of the A can carrier has been picked up and thereby the one for the offset the can carrier required space has been created, now all can carriers along the route together around a footprint be transferred.

In principle, the can carrier in any way, for. B. formed as a pallet be, but the use of carts has turned out to be special proven advantageous. In such a case, training of the Device according to the invention according to claim 12 may be advantageous since the steerable role during the transfer of the car from one to the next floor space can be used for cooperation.

Regardless of whether just one end of the can-bearer or the whole Can carrier has been raised for the offset of the can carrier a development of the device according to the invention according to claim 13 proven to be particularly useful.

For simple and safe can handling during feeding to the filling head or during the recording of those emitted by the filling head filled cans is an embodiment of the device according to the invention according to claim 14 and / or 15 advantageous.

Depending on the application, cans of different sizes can be used Come into play. For example, with pitchers there are diameters between 250 and 600 mm common. In order not to be different for each jug size Having to build devices is the subject of the invention according to claim 16 further developable. In this way, a basic version can be made by simply adjusting or installing and removing guide elements u. Adapt to the desired jug size.

To ensure that the can carrier offset is only carried out If all the conditions for this are met, it is from Advantage if the subject of the invention is further developed according to claim 17 is.

To facilitate the handling of the jug when moving the jugs relative to the can carrier, it is advantageous if the can carrier according to Claim 18 and / or 19 is formed.

Avoid the method and apparatus according to the present invention the exhausting and accident-prone work in particular at the inlet to the filling head of the line and also prevent at the pick-up point the filling station a heavy handling of cans. About that it also prevents excessive wear at these points occurs as it is unavoidable on roller conveyors by placing cans is. The implementation of the invention is also independent of the Can shape and can in connection with round cans, but also in Connection with so-called flat or rectangular cans, application Find.

The term "rectangular can" is not to be understood as restrictive, but rather should include all pitcher shapes, one larger and one smaller Have cross-sectional dimensions regardless of the cross-sectional shape of the jug, d. H. regardless of whether the ends by a circular section or are formed by straight wall surfaces and are therefore independent of the size of any rounding radii provided at the transition from one Side surface of the jug into an end surface.

Fig. 1a) bis 1f):

eine erste Ausführung des Erfindungsgegenstandes in schematischer Darstellung;

Fig. 2a) bis 2e):

im Schema eine abgewandelte Ausführung der efindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung;

Fig. 3 und 4:

die bevorzugte Ausführung der erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung in der Draufsicht bzw. in der Vorderansicht;

Fig. 5:

in schematischer Darstellung eine weitere Abwandlung der erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung im Zusammenhang mit zwei Streckpassagen;

Fig. 6:

den Erfindungsgegenstand in schematischer Darstellung im Zusammenhang mit einer Anordnung der Kannenträger vor der Füllstation in zwei Reihen; und

Fig. 7

eine weitere Abwandlung der erfinderischen Vorrichtung im Zusammenhang mit sogenannten Flach- oder Rechteckkannen.

Exemplary embodiments of the invention are explained in more detail below with the aid of drawings. Show it:

1a) to 1f):

a first embodiment of the subject of the invention in a schematic representation;

2a) to 2e):

in the diagram a modified version of the device according to the invention;

3 and 4:

the preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention in plan view or in front view;

Fig. 5:

a schematic representation of a further modification of the device according to the invention in connection with two stretching passages;

Fig. 6:

the subject of the invention in a schematic representation in connection with an arrangement of the can carrier in front of the filling station in two rows; and

Fig. 7

a further modification of the inventive device in connection with so-called flat or rectangular cans.

Fig. 1, with the help of the inventive method first explained should be limited to the representation of the implementation basic elements required for this procedure.

From a tape-dispensing textile machine 8 (see Fig. 4), e.g. B. one 1, only the filling station 1 in the form of a dotted line Circle indicated schematically. This is assigned a can magazine 6, into an empty can magazine 3 for feeding empty cans 2 (Empty cans) to the filling station 1 and a full can magazine 4 for recording the cans 20 filled in the filling station 1 is divided. For feeding from empty cans 2 to filling station 1, empty cans magazine 3 is one Feeder 30 assigned while feeding the filled cans 20 into the full-can magazine 4 by ejecting it from the filling station 1 is effected.

The individual process steps are now explained in more detail with the aid of FIGS. 1a to 1f. In the starting situation shown in FIG. 1a, there is a can carrier 5 loaded with a predetermined number of empty cans 2 (empty cans) in the empty can magazine 3, while a further but empty can carrier 50 is available in the full can magazine 4. With the aid of the feed device 30, the empty cans 2 are brought down one after the other from the can carrier 5 into the area of the filling station 1 (see arrow f ₁ in FIG. 1b). There the can 2 is filled with sliver. Subsequently, the former empty jug now comes as a filled jug 20 onto the can holder 50 provided in the full jug magazine 4.

1b shows the point in time at which the can carrier 5 located in the empty can magazine 3 has been emptied and the can carrier 50 located in the full can magazine 4 has been loaded with the predetermined number of full cans 20. Now the can carrier 50 is picked up from the full-can magazine 4 (see arrow f ₂ ) and fed to a belt-processing textile machine (not shown) for processing (FIG. 1c). Then the previously emptied can carrier 5 is removed from the empty can magazine 3 (see arrow f3 in FIG. 1d) and fed to the full can magazine 4 (arrow f4 in FIG. 1e). A new can carrier 51 loaded with empty cans (empty cans 2) is placed in the empty can magazine 3 which has become empty in this way (see arrow f ₅ in FIG. 1 f), as a result of which the initial situation according to FIG. 1 a is restored and the described work cycle of can start at the beginning.

According to the above-described method, the can carriers 5, 10 are used a whole group of empty cans 2 is transported, simply into the empty can magazine 3 on the feed side of the filling station 1 the belt-dispensing textile machine 8 (Fig. 4) retracted and there during of the filling process. In this way, the operator remains physically very strenuous activities are spared because they do not empty Cans 2 need to remove from the can carrier 5 to the empty can magazine 3 to feed, even later the filled cans 20 from the Vollkannenmagazin 4 must take out to 50 on the can carrier remedy. The only one in the previously described version of the process the remaining work is the removal of can carriers 5, 50, 51 ... in the empty can magazine 3, the transfer of a cleared can carrier 5, 50, 51 ... from the empty can magazine 3 into the full can magazine 4 and the collection of such a can carrier 5, 50, 51 ... from the full can magazine 4.

But also the transfer of an empty can carrier 5 from the empty can magazine 3 into the full can magazine 4 can be carried out without human intervention by, as shown in FIG. 2 in a modified embodiment, the empty can carrier 5 located in the empty can magazine 3 after the full can magazine has become free 4 in the direct way, ie transversely to the feed or pick-up direction (see arrows f ₅ and f ₂ in FIGS. 2d and 2e), the can carrier into which the full-can magazine 4 is placed. The means for this will be explained in more detail later with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

In the embodiment previously described with the aid of FIG the removal of the can carrier 50 filled with filled cans 20 from the Vollkannenmagazin 4, the provision of an empty can carrier 5 in the full can magazine 4 and the provision of one with empty Cans 2 loaded can carrier 51 in empty can magazine 3 only after Loading of the can carrier 50 located in the full-can magazine 4 is carried out become. The inevitable interruption in production To keep it as short as possible, the operator must do this work immediately after loading the can carrier 50 with full cans 20 perform.

For the reason mentioned above, the method described above is described in modified in such a way that the provision of a can carrier 52 (Fig. 2d) with empty cans 2 in empty cans magazine 3, whether the can carrier 5 supplying the filling station 1 with empty cans 2 is already empty or not. The removal is also carried out in an analogous manner a can carrier 50 (FIG. 2e) loaded with full cans 20 independently whether the can carrier 5 operated by the filling station 1 is already partially or has been fully loaded with full cans 20 or Not. For this purpose, both the empty can magazine 3 and the Vollkannenmagazin 4 each as an additional storage space as a buffer station for another can carrier. So the empty jug magazine has 3 except for a feed shelf 32 for the can carrier 5, of which the mentioned feeder 30 the empty cans 2 individually and thus one after the other according to the filling sequence of the filling station 1 Filling supplies, a buffer or waiting area 31 upstream of it which a newly supplied, empty cans 2 with leading can carriers 51 arrives before it is fed to the feed shelf. The full-can magazine 4 in turn has a receiving surface 40 and a buffer or Pick-up area 41. The filled ones delivered by the filling station 1 Cans 20 reach a provided on the receiving surface 40, initially empty can carrier 50, which after loading the pick-up area 41 is fed where it is waiting for it to be picked up.

The four storage spaces (waiting space 31, feed space 32, receiving space 40 and pick-up area 41) of the empty can magazine 3 and Full can magazine 4, d. H. all storage spaces of the can magazine 6, are arranged side by side according to FIG. 2.

The individual steps of this modified procedure should also are explained in more detail below. In the starting position shown 2a, two can carriers 51, 5 are in the empty can magazine 3 empty jugs 2 ready. The first can carrier 51 with empty cans 2 is located is still on the waiting area 31 in its buffer or waiting position, while the other, with empty cans, 2 can carriers loaded 5 is already in its feed position on the feed surface 32 (Fig. 2a). In the full can magazine 4, however, is only on the receiving surface 40 an empty can carrier 50 is ready during the pickup space 42 is vacant.

The feed device 30 (see FIG. 1), which is designed in a manner known per se and can be arranged next to a can carrier or above a can carrier as required, now feeds an empty can 2 to the filling station 1 (arrow f ₁ ) grips the can 2 in a manner known per se and transports it under a filling head (not shown). This is where the actual filling process takes place, after the completion of which the now filled can 20 is conveyed further and finally ejected from the filling station 1 onto the can carrier 50 which is available in the receiving position on the receiving shelf 40. In this way, the feed device 30 gradually feeds all empty cans 2 from the can carrier 5 to the filling station 1. The full can 20 which is passed on to the can carrier 50 after the filling operation has been carried out and is ejected from the filling station 1 in each case runs onto the last can 20 of the row which has been ejected before and pushes this can row ever further away from the filling station 1 until the Can carrier 50 is filled (Fig. 2b).

Once the can carrier 5 placed in the feed position has been cleared and the can carrier 50 located on the receiving surface 40 of the full-can magazine 4 is loaded, all of the can carriers 51 located in the can magazine 6 are loaded by means of a transfer device 7 (FIGS. 3 and 4) to be described later , 5, 50 raised and laterally offset by such an offset path that the can carrier 5 passes from the feed shelf 31 to the receiving shelf 40 (see arrow f ₆ in FIG. 2c). The two can carriers 51, 50 adjacent to this can carrier 5 are brought in the same direction of movement onto the adjacent parking space, so that the can carrier 50 with the full cans 20 into the collection position on the collection surface 41, which was previously free, and in the waiting position provided can carrier 51 with the empty cans 2 reach the feed shelf 31.

The two middle shelves 32 and 40, which work together with the filling station 1, are again in the normal working state. The two outer shelves, on the other hand, are not involved in the filling process and form buffer stations. It is therefore irrelevant when a new can carrier 52 with empty cans 2 is fed in here (see arrow f ₅ in FIG. 2d) or when the can carrier 50 with the filled cans 20 is picked up (see arrow f _{3 in} FIG. 2e), as long as this happens in the period between two transfer offsets to be made. This can be done in a largely time-dependent decoupling from the filling process. It also does not matter whether this feeding or removal of can carriers is done manually by an operator or fully automatically using an automatic transport and transportation control device.

Before further process variants are described, reference should now be made 3 and 4, a device will be described with the help of which the method according to FIG. 2 can be implemented. Doing so on the representation of those not relevant for understanding the invention Elements waived.

In Fig. 3 is only part of the filling station 1 (see Figs. 1 and 2) a can changer 10 shown. This has an arcuate Can guide 100, which essentially from the feed footprint 32 to to the filling head of the filling station 1, not shown. The can changer 10 also has a rotating driver arm 11, of which in FIG. 3 only the free one with the jug to be transported (see with dash-dotted Contoured can 2a) cooperating end see is. Another arcuate can guide 101 of the can changer 10 extends from the filling head to the receiving surface 40. Another can guide 102 is assigned to the receiving surface 40 and has the task of filling a can 20 coming from the filling head the circular path of the can changer 10 away in the direction of which on the To steer receiving surface 40 located can carrier 50. The above Can guides 100, 101 and 102 are below the work area the rotating driving arm 11 arranged so that its Freedom of movement is not restricted.

The can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... can be designed in any suitable shape be, for example as a pallet or the like. In the one shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 Exemplary embodiment takes place as a can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... Can car application. This points at the can changer 10 opposite end on an upwardly extending handle 53, with the help of the can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... (can car) an operator can be handled. From the handle bar 53 to The jug car (can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ...) a can footprint 54, the side by two Guides 55 and 56 are limited to the cans 2 and 20 in series, respectively hold. The can footprint has between these guides 55 and 56 54 two or more support strips 540 and 541 to reduce the friction between the Jugs 2 and 20 and the jug cart (can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ...) to reduce.

The described features of the can car are clearly recognizable with the can carrier 50 located on the receiving surface 40.

The can car has on its underside two pairs of wheels 59 and 590, of which the pair of wheels 59 facing away from the handle bracket 53 is not is steerable or pivotable, while that arranged closer to the handle bar 53 Pair of wheels 590 steerable, d. H. the direction of movement of the car is adjustable by pivoting its bracket. Possibly can instead of one or the other pair of wheels 59 or 590 also apply a single role.

The can magazine 6 has the length of a can carrier 5 at a distance, 50, 51, 52 ... each on its and the can changer 10 and a locking means on its side facing away from the can changer 10 forming guide 60 or 61 to the can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... both on the feed shelf 32 and on the receiving shelf 40 to lock in a defined position with respect to the can changer 10. This securing of the 60 and 61 in the guide area can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... is for error-free function when feeding empty cans 2 to can changer 10 as well important when dispensing filled cans 20 from the can changer 10.

The can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... are on each of the parking spaces (waiting space 31, feed footprint 32, pick-up footprint 40 and pick-up footprint 41) associated with further locking means 62, which can support 5, 50, 51, 52 ... across the can movement when feeding to the can changer 10 or when recording the dispenser 10 delivered Secure cans 20. These locking means 62 can be designed differently be like a comparison of the parking spaces (waiting space 31 and remaining spaces 32, 40 and 41) shows. As can clearly be seen from FIG. 4, are in the three parking spaces 32 following the waiting area 31, 40 and 41 these locking means 62 are formed in a wedge shape (prism shape), while the waiting area 31 on its supply side (i.e. on its the Filling station 1 side facing) as a locking means two wedge-like positioning guides 620, with the help of which this waiting area 31st supplied can carrier 5 brought into a laterally exactly predetermined position becomes. For this purpose, the two positioning guides 620 are on the width of the can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 to be fed to the waiting position ... designed to be adaptable by setting. The waiting area 31 has also a threshold 310, over which the designed as a can car Can carrier 51 must roll away when placed in its waiting position becomes. In this case, one that is provided on the underside of the can car arrives Guide pin 510 into a stationary wedge-shaped guide 311, which aligns the can carrier 51 exactly. For performance reasons the guide pin 510 only in the one in the waiting position Can carrier 51 shown, but it goes without saying that all Can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... are of the same design. Threshold 310 together with the guide 311 forms a locking means for the can carrier 51 to fix its position in relation to the can changer 10.

The aforementioned feed device 30, which has a feed bracket 300, 3 and 4 is located between the feed shelf 32 and the receiving surface 40. The feed bracket 300 engages on the Filling station 1 facing away from the row of cans on the on the Feed shelf 32 deposited can carrier 5 is arranged, and pushes the cans 2 the can changer 10 in cycles in accordance with it Work too.

So that the feed bracket 300 securely to the end facing away from the filling station 1 can reach the row of cans is according to that shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 Device provided a stationary wedge 33 which extends from the the side of the feed shelf 32 facing away from the waiting shelf 31 up to immediate vicinity of the waiting area 31, d. H. across the full width of the Feed footprint 32 extends. If a can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... transferred from the waiting area 31 to the feed area 32, so runs the can 2 facing away from the filling station 1 of the one to be transferred Can carrier 5 located can row on the wedge 33. This now shifts the entire can row by one by its dimension predetermined distance in the direction of can changer 10 and thus creates the space necessary for the insertion of the feed bracket 300. For example is this feed bracket 300 initially in a swung up Starting position, from which he then for his feeding work in the in Fig. 3rd shown working position can be pivoted down.

If desired, however, it can also be provided that the feed bracket 300 takes over the described function of the wedge 33, so that there is no need for a separate element for this.

For the transfer of the can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... from a storage area to the neighboring storage area, a transfer device 7 is arranged below the bottom of the can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... According to the exemplary embodiment shown, this essentially consists of a carriage or slide 70 which can be moved transversely to the feed or pick-up direction of the can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... (see arrows f ₅ and f ₂ in FIG . 2e) and a support surface 700 for receiving can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 .... 3, the carriage 70 is connected to two drive pistons 71 which are connected to a medium supply and discharge line. This is indicated by lines 710, 711 and 712, which are connected to a control device 72, which in turn is connected to the filling station 1 for tax purposes (see line 720). The carriage 70 can be moved on rails 73 or the like, which are guided at their ends by means of guides 730 (FIG. 4) so as to be height-adjustable. For the sake of clarity, only a single guide 730 has been shown in FIG. 4, but it goes without saying that such a guide 730 is to be provided at each end of the rail 73. A hose 74 which is closed at its ends by means of clamping pieces 740 and 741 and which is connected to the control device 72 by means of lines 742 or 743 and 744 serves as the lifting drive for each of the two rails 73. 4, the clamping pieces 740 and 741 also each take one of the said guides 730.

To prevent the can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... relative to the Carriage or carriage 70 can move while being transferred from the transfer device 7 are offset, are on the support surface 700 of the carriage 70 analogous to the stationary locking means 62 of the can magazine 6 locking means 75 are also provided. It also shows the relative distance position the can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... to the filling station 1 not only when they are parked on the floor, but also during their offset movement from one footprint to the next through the mentioned Guides 60 and 61 secured.

At its end facing the can changer 10 is the feed footprint 32 of the empty jug magazine 3, a monitoring device 9 (FIG. 3) assigned, which determines whether the can carrier 5 located there cleared or whether there is still a jug 2 on it. The monitoring device 9 can be designed differently, e.g. B. as a counter preset to the number of cans 2 on a can carrier 5 and with every jug that passes this monitoring device, is reset by a value and when the value reaches zero reports this state to the control device 72. Alternatively, it can also a simple light barrier 90 can be provided, which can be is interrupted until the last can 2 has left the can carrier 5, and then via line 900 a corresponding signal to the control device 72 issues. The light barrier 90 can instead of transversely to the can advance direction can also be provided in parallel, for example by the light source or photodiode delimiting the light barrier 90 on the feed bracket 300 and the counter element at a suitable location the side of the feed shelf 32 facing the filling station 1 is.

Another, connected to the control device 72 by means of a line 911 Monitoring device 91 is the receiving shelf 40 of the full-can magazine 4 assigned, which - for example, again with the help of a Photoelectric switch 910 - determines whether the one in the receiving position Can carrier 50 is fully loaded with filled cans 20.

The via line 720 with a control device of the tape dispenser Textile machine 8 related control device 72 is correct Work of the can magazine 6 on the work of the belt-dispensing textile machine 8 from. So can the feed device 30, in a manner not shown is connected to the control device 72 only in on the work of the can changer 10 work in a coordinated manner.

On the representation of other monitoring devices that may be required has been omitted for the sake of clarity.

Are all the cans 2 from the one in the feed position Can carrier 5 the can changer 10 and from this the filling station 1 has been supplied and is also the one in the receiving position Can carrier 50 fully loaded again with newly filled cans 20, so must the loaded can carrier create 50 space so that the empty can carrier 5 from the feed position in the empty jug magazine 3 into the receiving position can be transferred in the full can magazine 4. At the same time a can carrier 51 with empty cans 2 reach the feed position, so that the filling work can be continued immediately. Thus, during three can carriers, namely the empty can carrier 5 and the adjacent can carriers 51 and 50 to move.

To make this change of can carriers 51, 5, 50 as time-saving as possible To be able to perform, the transfer device 7 is in a side-by-side arrangement the footprints of the can magazine 6 so designed and dimensioned that they offset all three can carriers 51, 5 and 50 at the same time. For this purpose, the support surface 700 of the carriage 70 extends over three adjacent spaces, d. H. about the width of a footprint reduced width of the total floor space. In the rest position shown the carriage 70 is in a lowered position, whereby the support surface 700 from the feed footprint 32 to over the pick-up footprint 41 extends.

Are the messages from the monitoring devices 9 and 91 on the Control device 72 before, this triggers the transfer of a can carrier from empty jug magazine 3 to full jug magazine 4. This overpass is therefore only permitted after the one in the empty can magazine 3 arranged can carriers 5 cleared and one with full cans 20 loaded can carriers were picked up from the full can magazine 4 is. First, the control device 72 causes the drive pistons to be emptied 71, which is now in its lowered position below the Can carrier 5 and 50 located carriage 70 from a rest or Waiting position moved sideways by the width of a footprint until the Carriage 70 is under the can carriers 51, 5 and 50 and thus extends from the waiting position to the reception position including. In this position, which is reached by a monitoring device, not shown, z. B. in the form of a limit switch, the control device 72 can be signaled, the control device 72 causes the two Tubing 74 air or other gaseous or liquid fluid is fed. The hoses 74 thus fill, lifting the two in the process Rails 73 and thus also the carriage 70. With this lifting movement the carriage 70 takes itself in its extent located three can carriers 51, 5 and 50 and lifts them out the area of action of the stationary locking means (guide 311, positioning guides 620 and locking means 62). The carriage 70 can now in its Starting position are retracted, taking the ones he has taken with him Can carrier 51, 5 and 50 offset in such a way that now the can carrier 51 equipped with empty cans 2 in the feed position, the empty can holder 5 in the receiving position and the one with full cans 20 equipped can carrier 50 is in the collection position. After reaching the carriage 70 is lowered again from its starting position by the fluid is drained from the two tubes 74.

During the transfer movement, those arranged on the carriage 70 are arranged Can carrier 51, 5, 50 against slipping sideways through the the carriage 70 arranged locking means 75 and opposite the can changer 10 secured by the two guides 60 and 61.

For illustrative reasons, the time of the very first was shown in FIG. 4 Start of work chosen, at which the people involved in the work through two shelves (feed shelf 32 and receiving shelf 40) Offset of the carriage or carriage 70 have been occupied and this still has not been lowered. The waiting position can already be carried out by a new can carrier 51 can be reassigned, as shown in FIG. 4.

If at a later time on the pick-up area 41 a full Cans 20 loaded can carriers are ready for collection, so the Carriage 70 temporarily from the position shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 moved to the left so that the carriage 70 releases the pick-up area 41. A switch 92 can be triggered at a suitable point to trigger this function (Fig. 3) can be provided with the aid of a line 920 to the control device 72 is in tax-related connection. Has the can carrier 50 the Leave pick-up area 41 (FIG. 2e), so switch 92 (or another switching device, e.g. a timer, a light barrier o. The like.) Are caused that the carriage or carriage 70 back in his rest or home position returns without for this return movement however, to be raised so that he is not a can carrier entraining. Since the carriage or carriage 70, when it is in its starting or rest position, the waiting area 31 can free there a can carrier 51 with empty cans 2 at any time to be provided.

Transfer of a can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... from one position (Footprint) to the next can in principle be done in any way, and depending on the design of the jug magazine 6 individually or together with other can porters.

Within the scope of the present invention, both the method and the device can also be modified in many ways, in particular by exchanging individual characteristics with equivalents or with others Combinations of features. So the transfer of the can carriers brings in a single direction with regard to the formation of the transfer device 7 special advantages, but is still not the only way for the transfer of can carriers 5 from one of the shelves the next to be filled in terms of the work cycle Footprint comes into question. So Fig. 6 shows an arrangement that is particularly close arrangement of adjacent filling stations 1 is preferable. there it does not matter whether the neighboring filling stations 1 are different belt-dispensing textile machines 8 (Fig. 4) belong or always in pairs Form part of a so-called double-head section. So in such a way Case with unchanged close arrangement of the filling stations 1 nevertheless both a waiting area 31 and a pick-up area 41 - in addition to the feed shelf 32 and the receiving shelf 40 with the Filling station 1 cooperating can carriers - to be able to provide these two additional spaces are not in the same row as that Feed shelf 31 and the receiving shelf 40 arranged, but in a row in front, H. on the side facing away from the filling station 1. The Empty can magazine 3 thus comprises the two left parking spaces (waiting space 31 and feed footprint 32), while the full can magazine 4 the two shelves on the right (receiving shelf 40 and pick-up shelf 41). Depending on the design of the belt-dispensing textile machine 8 and their filling station 1 is of course also a mirror image arrangement for this possible.

The work phase according to FIG. 6 corresponds to the work phase according to FIG. 2d). The empty cans 2 are with the help of a feed device, not shown 30 (see FIGS. 1 and 3) fed to the filling station 1 and arrive after the filling process as filled cans 20 on the in the receiving position Can carriers located 5. During this time the can carrier 50 can be picked up from the pick-up area 41 in order to make it available for later use Release the can carrier 5 release. If the can carrier 5 is loaded, so he will move from his shooting position to the one that has since become free Pick-up space 41 transferred. The empty can carrier 51 is then moved from the feed shelf 32 to the receiving shelf 40 transferred. As a result, the feed footprint 32 is free, on which the can carrier 52 previously deposited on the waiting area 31 is brought. The waiting area 31 is now ready to accommodate another, with empty Jugs of 2 filled can carriers ready.

For the transfer of a can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... from one position to the next, for example, a not shown, height-adjustable carriage or carriage can be provided, on which there is another carriage or carriage, the directions of movement of the superimposed carriages or sleds can be set at right angles to each other. If the lower carriage or carriage is movable, for example, transversely to the feed or pick-up movement of the can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... (arrows f ₅ and f ₂ in FIGS. 1c and 1f), the upper carriage or carriage is can be moved in parallel.

The can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... can also be locked in such a way Training is done in a similar way as this is related 3 and 4 has been described (locking means 62, guides 60 and 61, locking means 75, threshold 310, guide 311, positioning guide 620).

However, the locking means can also deviate from those previously described Be trained. It is possible instead of the can carrier to lift out of the sphere of action of the locking means Locking device from the range of motion of the can carrier for the duration the transfer movements or during delivery to the empty can magazine 3 or 3a or the collection from the full-can magazine 4 or 4a to move away from the range of motion of the can carrier (not shown).

In connection with FIGS. 3 and 4, various locking means described (locking means 62, positioning guides 620, guides 60 and 61, threshold 310, guide 311 ...). It goes without saying that not all of these locking means mentioned simultaneously and in the training shown must be used. It is also possible to use this locking device or some of them by feet - instead of the pairs of wheels 59 or 590 - the can carrier 5, 50, 51, 52 ... to replace, so that the locking already ensured by the friction between the feet and the surface is. On the other hand, it was stated above that the locking means on the size used to transport the cans 2 or 20 Can support 5, 50, 51, 52 ... be adjusted. This happens through Relocation or exchange of such locking means. To avoid unnecessary space to waste, it is advisable not to consider a can magazine 6 for everyone coming sizes adjustable, but this adjustability only to a certain extent, i.e. H. for not too far apart deviating can diameters to be provided.

In principle, instead of a height adjustment of the one shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 Carriage 70 or one suitable for a device according to FIG. 6 Alternatively, only a height adjustment of the carrying surface is possible 700 relative to the carriage 70 are provided, this height adjustment and also the carriage drive by means of motors, racks etc. can be carried out.

It is not necessary that the transfer device 7 is below the Can carts or carriers; rather, the transfer device 7 can also be formed elsewhere and in a different way. For example are at the two ends of their working position in the Jug magazine 6 engaging can carrier conveyor belts or - chains (not shown). Each of these can be guided by a belt or chain be guided and have one or more drivers, with its or whose help the can bearers are brought to the band or Chain movement to follow. A controllable clutch ensures the establishment or removal of the entrainment connection.

According to the exemplary embodiments described above, this is assumed been that the can carrier to be moved within the can magazine 6 5, 50, 51, 52 ... should always be raised completely. However, this is not necessarily required. Alternatively, e.g. B. can also be provided that in the case of a can carrier designed as a can carrier with a single, steerable roller or a pivotable pair of rollers or wheels 590 (see FIG. 3) and a single, non-steerable roller or a second, non-pivotable pair of rollers or wheels 59 only the end of the car can be lifted off the floor, that of the direction of movement adaptable pair of wheels 590 (or a corresponding steerable Roller) is turned away from the can wagon for the transfer movement the can car from one footprint to another. The other pair of wheels 590 (or the corresponding individual roller) can keep in touch with the ground and move in the direction of movement orient the can car and support the can car.

It is also possible that the pot holder at both ends with one transport device each, for example one chain with grippers, are detected and to be transferred essentially torque-free. At this Execution of the can carrier if all roles are steerable are not raised. In the case of non-steerable castors, the can carrier becomes raised at least at the end of the non-steerable rollers. Due to the essentially torque-free transport, the transport device can largely wear-resistant and especially light Execution can be designed.

As already described above, the can carriers 5, 50, 51, 52 ... in be formed in different ways. So, not least in Depending on the design and operation of the feeder 30, which also the empty cans 2 of the filling station facing End of a can carrier can be cleared out without the entire row of cans to have to move u. U. special guide means (guides 55 and 56 - see Fig. 3) omitted. The same applies to those who reduce glide Means (support strips 540 and 541 - see Fig. 3) too, for example due to a particularly low-friction material, e.g. B. plastic, are formed. If necessary, there are no friction-reducing measures at all required, especially if the feed device empty cans 2 when they are fed to the can changer 10.

In the previous embodiments were always both for the empty can magazine 3 as well as two storage spaces for the full can magazine 4 (Waiting and feeding space 31 and 32 or pick-up and pick-up space 40 and 41) are provided. The embodiment shown in Fig. 5 shows that it can make sense to have more buffer space for the two magazines (empty jug magazine 3 and full jug magazine 4) to be provided.

Fig. 5 shows two successive filling stations 1 and 12, of which, for example, the first filling station is part of a first route (not shown) and the second filling station 12 is part of a second line 80. The first stretch with the filling station 1 forms a first stretch passage I, while the second stretch 80 forms a second stretch passage II. The Can magazine 6 of this second stretch passage II can be formed in this way be, as previously explained with the aid of FIGS. 2 to 4. On on the entrance side of this second stretch II there are two can carriers 57 and 58 with full cans 20, the bands (not shown) of the Route 80 are fed. On one side next to these two can carriers 57 and 58 there are two further can carriers 570 and 571 with full cans 20, which take the place of the can carriers 57 and 58 as soon as their cans 20 have been emptied. On the other On the side of the can carriers 57 and 58 there are two more can carriers 580 and 581, the cans 2 of which were already emptied on the line have been.

The first stretch passage I points as a buffer in its empty can magazine 3a a total of two waiting areas 31 and 31a and in their full can magazine 4a two pick-up shelves 41 and 41a.

For the work of the second stretch passage II, the second stretch 80 two can carriers 57 and 58 are always available at the same time. For this purpose, it is conceivable to correspond to the route 80 of the second stretch passage II Allocate magazines to collect the can carriers in pairs. 5 is done differently by ensuring that the Line 80 the required can carriers 57 loaded with full cans 20 and 58 always supplied in pairs and accordingly also in pairs by her be discharged again. That from route 80 of the second stretch II delivered can carriers 582 and 583 thus go in pairs Empty can magazine 3a of the first stretch I where it is on the two Waiting areas 31 and 31a are parked. A can carrier after the other is then individually within the can magazine 6 by one Floor space transferred to the next. In the full can magazine 4, the Can carrier collected and only when a pair is complete as Couple are forwarded again to the second stretch II.

As a rule, the two route passages I and II do not work synchronously. For this reason, as indicated in Fig. 5, between the distance of the first stretch I and stretch 80 of the second stretch II a distribution track 81 is arranged which enables can carriers as required from different sections of the first stretch I different Routes 80 of the second stretch passage II are fed can.

Due to the formation of the two stretching passages I and II described above However, the possibility does not have to be excluded, can bearer only individually from a stretch of the first stretch passage I one Route 80 of the second stretch passage II to be able to carry can carriers of different sections of the first section I of a section To be able to submit 80 of the second stretch II simultaneously, for example to be able to mix different quality slivers.

Exemplary embodiments for handling and filling round cans 2, 2a, 20 have been described above, but the invention is not restricted to such designs. FIG. 7 shows a further modification which is particularly suitable for feeding so-called flat or rectangular cans 21 to a filling station 13 and for providing such filled rectangular cans 21a for collection. In this exemplary embodiment, the filling station 13 is designed in such a way as is customary for flat or rectangular cans 21 that the rectangular can 21 receives a traversing movement (see double arrow f ₇ ) in the direction of its larger axis during filling, while a reciprocating movement (see double arrow f ₈ ) is superimposed transversely to the traversing movement.

There is an empty can magazine on the feed side of the filling station 13 34 with a waiting area 340 and a feed area 341, which a feed device 342 is assigned. On the pick-up side of the filling station 13 there is a full-can magazine 42 with a receiving surface 420 and a pickup area 421.

The four shelves 340, 341, 420 and 421 of the two can magazines 34 and 42 are arranged essentially along a line in the exemplary embodiment shown. In parallel there is a transfer device 76, for example in the form of a conveyor belt, in the extension of which, in the exemplary embodiment shown, there is a can carrier feed path 82 on the feed side, while a can carrier discharge path 83 is located on the discharge side. Both the can carrier feed path 82 and the can carrier discharge path 83 can be designed in such a way that the can carriers are automatically transported in a manner known per se; However, a path can also be provided in the form of a path without any special marking or training, along which an operator brings a can carrier 500 into a standby position 820 (see arrow f ₁₇ ), from which it is transferred to the waiting area 340 after it is cleared what can be done in any way by the operator or an automatic device. In an analogous manner, a can carrier 503 provided for pick-up on the pick-up area 421 is suitably transferred from the pick-up area 421 to a pick-up standby position 830, from where it is picked up by the operator or a suitable transport device (e.g. self-driving car, etc.) Arrow f ₁₈ ).

Depending on the design of the can feed path 82, the standby position can 820 are formed by the waiting area 340. In an analogous way can also the pick-up area 421 with the pick-up standby position 830 coincide.

7 operates as follows:

First, it is assumed that the situation shown in Fig. 7 is given. Thus, through the work of the feed device 342, a rectangular can 21 has been fed from a can carrier 501 located on the feed shelf 341 to the work area of the filling station 13 (see arrow f ₉ ) and can be filled. Here, the rectangular can 21 is given a traversing movement within the filling station 13 in a manner known per se (see double arrow f ₇ ) and, if necessary, a pendulum movement is superimposed on this traversing movement (see arrow f ₈ ). If the rectangular can 21 is filled, it is pushed out of the filling station 13 in the direction of the arrow f _9a onto the can carrier 502, where the filled cans 21a are collected, by an ejector device (not shown) which is part of the filling station 13 or is assigned to it until the can carrier 502 is filled. The filling station 13 can also be arranged outside the transfer carriage. In this embodiment, another can changer is required.

During the filling of the rectangular cans 21a to be placed on the can carrier 502, the can carrier 503, which was loaded at an earlier point in time, is picked up from the pick-up area 421, whereby it is either transported directly from here or, if provided, previously transferred to the ready-to-pick-up position 830 (see arrow f ₁₀ ).

When the can carrier 502 is completely filled, the pick-up area 421 is thus free for its reception. The can carrier 502 is now transferred from the receiving shelf 420 in the direction of the arrow f ₁₁ to the pick-up shelf 421 that has become free.

While the last rectangular can 21 removed from the can carrier 501 and fed to the filling station 13 is still in the filling station 13, this empty can carrier 501 is transferred in the direction of the arrow f ₁₂ to the transfer device 76 in a suitable manner, not shown (see transfer position 760). , which brings the can carrier 501 in the direction of arrow f ₁₃ into a waiting position 761.

Since the feed shelf 341 is now empty, the empty rectangular cans 21 located on the waiting shelf 340 can be transferred to the feed shelf 341 with the can carrier 500 (see arrow f ₁₄ ). This happens during the time during which the last rectangular can 21 of the previously emptied can carrier 501 is still in the filling station 13, so that after the mentioned rectangular can 21 has been filled, a new rectangular can 21 - now from the can carrier 500 - of the filling station is immediately removed again 13 can be supplied.

As soon as the can carrier 502 has been loaded with full rectangular cans 21 and brought from the receiving shelf 420 to the pick-up shelf 421, the previously emptied can carrier 501 is transferred from the waiting position 761 to the receiving shelf 421 (arrow f ₁₅ ). This takes place during the time when the first rectangular can 21 of the can carrier 500 which has been moved inward is being filled, so that the filling station 13 can dispense the filled rectangular can 21a to the can carrier 501 which has meanwhile been made available on the receiving shelf 420 without interrupting production.

While the rectangular cans 21 are fed from the can carrier 500 to the filling station 13 for filling, a new can carrier (not shown) which has meanwhile been provided in the ready position 820 is transferred from the ready position 820 to the waiting area 340 in the direction of arrow f ₁₆ .

The special design of the transfer devices (not shown) the can carrier 500 to 503 from or into one of the mentioned Positions 820 or 830 or the placement of one of the can carriers one or the other of the shelves 340, 341, 420 or 421 can be in any Be solved constructively. The relative arrangement also plays a role of the shelves 340, 341, 420 or 421 and / or the provision of the Positions 820 and 830 are not essential. So are orders 1, 2, 5 or 6 also in connection with Flat or rectangular cans possible.

Claims (20)

1. Procedure for feeding empty cans to a filling station of a textile machine with band output and for placing filled cans in a full can magazine, from which the filled cans are taken, where there is a specified number of empty cans (2, 20, 21) on a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) of the textile machine with band output, the can (2, 21) to be filled is fed from the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) to the filling station (1, 13), from which the filled can (20, 21 a) is fed to an initially empty can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) which, after accepting the specified number of filled cans (20, 21 a) from the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) is moved away, consequently the in the meantime empty can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) is transferred to the emptied full can magazine (4, 4a, 42), characterized such that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) is transferred from the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) by at least a partially lifting motion and/or essentially free of torque.
2. Procedure in accordance with Patent Claim 1, characterized such that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) is locked in position in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) and/or in the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42).
3. Procedure in accordance with Patent Claim 1 or 2, characterized such that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) with the empty cans (2, 21) within the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) is initially set in a waiting position (31, 31a, 340) before it is transferred to a feed position (32, 241) to facilitate individual feed of the empty cans to the filling station (1, 13) and/or that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) with the filled cans (20, 21a) within the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) is set from a take-up position (40, 420), in which it accepts the filled cans (20, 21 a) output one after the other by the filling station (1, 13) in a fetch position (41, 41a, 421) ready for delivery.
4. Procedure in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 1 to 3, characterized such that following delivery of the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) accepting the filled cans (20, 21a) the emptied can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) is moved transversely with respect to the feed and delivery direction of the can carriers (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42).
5. Device for feeding empty cans to a filling station of a textile machine with band output and for placing filled cans in a full can magazine, from which the filled cans are taken for executing the procedure in accordance with the Patent Claims 1 to 4 with a feed device (30, 342) assigned to the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34), with the aid of which the cans (2, 20, 21) located on a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) arranged in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) can be fed individually to the filling station (1, 13), characterized such that a transfer device (7, 76) for transferring an emptied can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) from the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) such that the transfer device (7, 76) at least partially raises the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) and/or the transfer action is essentially free of torque.
6. Device in accordance with Patent Claim 5, characterized such that there is a locking facility (310, 311, 60, 61, 62, 620) for one can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) each in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) and/or in the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42).
7. Device in accordance with Patent Claim 5 or 6, characterized such that the transfer device (7, 76) is moveable beneath the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583).
8. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 7, characterized such that the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) features at least one waiting area (31, 31a, 340) for accepting a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) carrying empty cans (2, 21) and a feed area (32, 341) for accepting a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583), from which the empty cans (2, 21) can be fed to the filling station (1, 13) and/or the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) is divided into an take-up area (40, 420) for accepting a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583), to which the filled cans (20, 21a) output from the filling station (1, 13) are fed and at least one fetch area (41, 41a, 421) for preparing a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) with filled cans (20, 21a) for delivery.
9. Device in accordance with Patent Claim 8, characterized such that the placement areas (31, 31a, 32, 340, 341, 40, 41, 41a, 420, 421) of the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) and of the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) are arranged next to each other.
10. Device in accordance with Patent Claim 9, characterized by an up-feed ramp (33) that extends up to the waiting area (31, 31a, 340), against which the empty can (2, 21) facing away from the filling station (1, 13) can be made to move up during transfer of a can carriage (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) from the waiting area (31, 31a, 340) to the feed area (32, 341).
11. Device in accordance with Patent Claim 9 or 10, characterized such that the transfer device (7, 76) extends over the total placement area of the placement areas (31, 31a, 32, 340, 341, 40, 41, 41a, 420, 421) arranged next to each other of the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) and of the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42), reduced by the width of one placement area, and, in its one movement direction without carrying can carriers (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) to an take-up position and in its other movement direction while carrying all can carriers (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in its extension range, can move over the width of a placement point in such a way that a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in the empty can magazine (3, 31, 34) is transferred to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42).
12. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 11, characterized such that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) is designed as a can carriage and features at least one roller (590) that can be orientated in the movement direction and, for the purpose of releasing the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583), the transfer device (7, 76) features a lifting device (74) for at least one end of the can carriage facing away from the adjustable roller (590).
13. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 12, characterized such that a vertically adjustable guide (73) with a lifting device, particularly in the form of an inflatable tube (74), is assigned to the transfer device (7, 76).
14. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 13, characterized such that common guides (60, 61) which extend parallel to the movement direction of the transfer device (7) and secure the relative spacing of the can carriers (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) and in the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) with respect to the filling station (1, 13) both while discharging and accepting cans (2, 20, 21, 21a) as well as during the transfer of a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) from the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) are assigned to the empty can magazine (3, 31, 34) and the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42).
15. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 14, characterized such that the transfer device (7, 76) features adjustable locking facilities (75) for locking the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) in position.
16. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 15, characterized such that the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) exhibits a guide (62, 620) adjustable do the width of the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) for the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) that can be fed to it.
17. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 16, characterized such that a first monitoring facility (9) is assigned to the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) and a second monitoring facility (91) is assigned to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) that do not permit transfer of a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) from the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) to the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) before the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) located in the empty can magazine (3, 3a, 34) has been cleared out and a can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) previously prepared in the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42) for delivery has left the full can magazine (4, 4a, 42).
18. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 17, characterized such that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) features guide facilities (55, 56) to hold the cans (2, 20, 21, 21a) in rows.
19. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 18, characterized such that the can carrier (5, 50, 500, 501, 502, 503, 51, 52, 57, 570, 571, 58, 580, 581, 582, 583) features slip-reducing facilities (540, 541).
20. Device in accordance with one or several of the Patent Claims 5 to 19, characterized such that a can changer (10) that accepts the cans supplied by the feed device (30, 342) and/or transfers the filled cans to the full can magazine (4, 41, 42) is arranged in the filling station (1, 13).

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