A conveyor system includes a rail having one or more channels therein and one or more sleds operatively associated with the rail. A sled can include a body and one or more wheels mounted on the body and configured to move through the one or more channels in the rail. A sled can also include a holding device connected to the body. The holding device can be configured to engage a packaging container to move the packaging container along the rail. Multiple sleds can be used to secure a packaging container therebetween and move the packaging container along the rail. The conveyor system may also include a queue system that dynamically moves packaging containers to packaging stations.

Systems may include a storage location and a bladder. The storage location may have a volume. The bladder may be selectively inflatable and deflatable to change an amount of the volume of the storage location that is occupied by the bladder. Fluid communication between the bladder and an inflation network may change an amount of pressurized fluid present in the bladder so as to change the amount of the volume of the storage location occupied by the bladder. For example, this may cause the bladder to press against an item in the storage location, such as to secure the item or to facilitate a determination of an amount of space that is occupied in the storage location and/or an amount of space that is available for receipt of additional items.

A method and arrangement for loading a driverless transport vehicle for individual products with an individual product, wherein the individual product is transferred from a delivery station to the driverless transport vehicle, and the driverless transport vehicle is in motion during the acceptance, wherein the individual product is accelerated for the transfer from the delivery station and leaves the latter at such a speed and the spacing of the driverless transport vehicle from the delivery station is so great that the individual product passes through a flight phase between leaving the delivery station and landing on the driverless transport vehicle moving at a normal transport speed.

A device for orienting a packaging, such as a sterile packaging. Orienting the package comprises one or more of folding open or tightening at least one edge of the packaging in a substantially horizontal plane. The device arranges the packaging into a working position in which the packaging is oriented. The device comprises a brush station having at least one substantially horizontally oriented rotating brush designed and arranged to come into frictional contact with the at least one edge of the packaging.

Disclosed is a device for transporting plastic-container preforms, the device including an endless circulating element having an outer surface and being capable of moving the preforms along a path by rubbing against the preforms, the device including a stationary mounting defining a planar bearing surface for the preforms, the circulating element having a series of brushes which extend projecting from the outer surface, capable of engaging with the preforms in order to move same by rubbing.

A conveyor mechanism and system are described that provide for conveyance of objects from a first position to a second position. The conveyor mechanism includes a torus-shaped flexible membrane having a central axis, the torus-shaped flexible membrane elongated along a direction parallel to the central axis and having an external surface, center channel, and an enclosed cavity. The conveyor mechanism also includes a first roller assembly disposed within the enclosed cavity of the torus-shaped flexible membrane, a second roller assembly that applies a force against the external surface and the first roller assembly to cause the torus-shaped flexible membrane to rotate longitudinally around the enclosed cavity to convey objects along the center channel, and an adjustment device that adjusts a position of the second roller assembly along a direction parallel with the central axis.

A roller brush bed and drive system includes a motor, a motor drive shaft mechanically coupled to the motor, the motor drive shaft extending orthogonal to the roller brush, at least one gearbox mechanically coupled to the motor drive shaft, the at least one gearbox configured to mechanically couple to the roller brush and transmit torque from the motor drive shaft to the roller brush.

A belt having a first cover layer with a first top surface and preferably also a second cover layer with a second top surface, wherein the first cover layer and, if present, the second cover layer are made of a foam having a thermoplastic or thermoplastic elastomer, in particular a TPU or PEBA. The belt is suitable e.g. as a machine tape in mail sorting machines and for power transmission.

A conveyor mechanism and system are described that provide for conveyance of objects from a first position to a second position. The conveyor mechanism includes a torus-shaped flexible membrane having a central axis, the torus-shaped flexible membrane elongated along a direction parallel to the central axis and having an external surface, center channel, and an enclosed cavity. The conveyor mechanism also includes a first roller assembly disposed within the enclosed cavity of the torus-shaped flexible membrane, a second roller assembly that applies a force against the external surface and the first roller assembly to cause the torus-shaped flexible membrane to rotate longitudinally around the enclosed cavity to convey objects along the center channel, and an adjustment device that adjusts a position of the second roller assembly along a direction parallel with the central axis.

The invention relates, inter alia, to a damping element for a container receiving pocket of a container transport starwheel. The damping element has an elastically deformable damping section which has a contact face for contacting a container. The damping element has a preferably elastically deformable mounting section for mounting the damping element in the container receiving pocket of the container transport starwheel. The damping section and the mounting section are formed from a plurality of adjacent, preferably additively manufactured, material layers.