Krones AirCo PET Bottle Air Conveyor System Components

There have been quite some articles published about the AirCo air conveyour system from Krones for gentle conveying of empty PET bottles within filling and packaging lines. Today we put some light into some of the system components again, especially the neck ring guides and the conveyor rails as well as the air conveyor gates, the infeed and transfer segments and the new designed PET bottle rejection unit.

Krones AirCo Air Conveyor Neck-Ring Guides

It is important to realize that the design of the neck-ring guides of any empty PET bottle air conveyor system has an important influence on the overall performance of the conveyor system. If a supplier of air conveyors get´s this point wrong, the complete system will remain a bottleneck for the complete filling line for years to come. Krones AirCo neckring guides cover the following features:

¦ Mounting of neck-ring guides via a special slip-on, or clip system. Screw-mounting is no longer required.

¦ Optimized neck-ring guides with ideal geometry that can be designed and provided for each and every empty neck portable plastic container type.

¦ Testing of different conveyor sections can be done easily due to their modularized easy exchangeability.

¦ Fast and easy change of wear and tear parts is already built-in.

¦ After a change-over no further adjustments are required.

¦ The gliding material is based on an extremely well gliding PE material. This enables high effeciency with and basically trouble-free operation of the air conveying system. Even with a low quality of preforms that the bottles have been made of or more difficult container shapes, the line still achieves respectable performance.

Automatic Neck Ring Diameter Guide Adjustment System

The neck ring diameter adjustment system erases one of the major problem conventional PET bottle air conveyors have been oposed to. If a bottler needs to run different container types with different bottle neck ring diameters within the bottling line, he can now do so.

For straight chutes and for curve segments Krones is now offering an automated neck-ring adjustment guide system as an option. Therefore it is now possible to run different neck finishes and neckring diameters on one and the same air conveying system. Changeover therefore requires minor changes only that can be executed quickly. The neck-ring guide adjustment system is a huge time-saver and is done by means of pneumatic actuated cylinders.

PET Bottle Air Conveyor Rails

The most important design features of the Krones AirCo air conveyors and air conveyor rails:

General Conveyor Design:

¦ Robust design.
¦ Highly wear-resistant brushes or sliding rails.
¦ Universally adjustable container height and diameter.
¦ When adding new container types to the product range, retrofitting of guide rails is possible at any time.