DEVICE FOR CHARGING AND/OR DISCHARGING OF CONTAINERS Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: industrial transportation facilities. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to continuous charging of containers, such as plastic bottles, into treatment chamber and discharge of bottles from said chamber. Proposed device contains at least one sluice rotor set into rotation, with sluice chambers on its outer surface open outside, at least one pair of sprockets installed on outer surface of sluice rotor for rotation together with rotor and arranged at a distance from each other in direction of periphery of sluice rotor, and container gripping-and- holding mechanisms arranged in sluice chambers and on sprockets for interaction. Container pushout zone is found on outer surface of sluice rotor between sprockets of at least one pair. One pushout element for each pushout zone is provided being installed for displacement from initial position into sluice chamber to container knockout position. EFFECT: improved reliability of device in operation. 16 cl, 4 dwg