US Patent Issued to KRONES on Jan. 13 for "Container supply device and method for operating the container supply device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,446, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Container supply device and method for operating the container supply device" was invented by Christian Depner (Silberstedt, Germany), Jens Luecke (Flensburg, Germany) and Niels Clausen (Steinbergkirche, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a container supply device for supplying containers to a mass flow conveyor, comprising: -an at least single-track input conveyor, which can be driven in a first direction and is designed to convey containers in the first direction; adjoining the at least single-track input conveyor parallel to th...