STAR-SHAPED CONVEYOR FOR FEEDING OR DISCHARGING EMPTY PLASTICS CONTAINERS OR BOTTLES TO OR FROM A MACHINE AND ORIENTING AND ALIGNING MACHINE HAVING SAID STAR-SHAPED CONVEYOR

摘要

Star-shaped conveyor adapted to feed or discharge empty plastics bottles to or from a machine. Preferably, the machine which the star-shaped conveyor is connected to, is a machine for orienting and aligning empty plastics bottles or containers. The star-shaped conveyor is provided with a plurality of recesses (4), a negative pressure is established in each recess for an arc between 90° and 180°, said arc starts in correspondence of a machine and ends in correspondence of a conveyor (7) for transferring the bottles to a filling apparatus or to feed a bottle processing machine.