US Patent Issued to KRONES on Aug. 25 for "Star wheel conveyor for conveying containers in a beverage filling system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,713, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Star wheel conveyor for conveying containers in a beverage filling system" was invented by Fabian Stoeckl (Neutraubling, Germany), Bruno Landler (Neutraubling, Germany), Markus Schoenfelder (Neutraubling, Germany) and Tobias Ehrismann (Neutraubling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A star wheel conveyor for conveying containers, for example for conveying containers in a beverage filling system, includes a conveyor segment rotatable about a central axis of rotation and at least one pair of pocket arms directed outward with respect to the axis of rotation...