A capping unit (100) for articles such as containers and/or bottles in general, of the type including at least one capping group (3) bearing one or more capping heads (8) for screwing caps (6) or capsules on the articles moved by at least one transport line (4). It includes at least one capping heads store (19), adapted to retain a series of capping heads (8), in order to allow the rapid and automatic exchange and substitution of the spindles (25) of the capping group (3); the capping group (3) being moved by an associated motorization, up to reaching the store (19) such to store and pick up, automatically from the group (3) itself the suitable capping head (8) as a function of the size of the caps (6) or capsules to be screwed.

An apparatus for filling containers comprises a filling station, with a plurality of filling heads which are supplied by supply ducts supplying a filling fluid and are each provided with a dispensing nozzle. The apparatus has a number of collection cups for collecting washing fluids for washing the filling heads and the supply ducts, equal to the number of said filling heads.

Bottling plant comprising a first transport system which moves containers through different machines, and a storage apparatus, which comprises a storage unit, a second transport system which extracts the containers from the first transport system to feed the storage unit, and a third transport system which picks up the containers in the storage unit to feed the first transport system. The first transport system comprises an upstream conveyor actuated at a first operative speed, and a downstream conveyor actuated at a second operative speed. The plant further comprises a control unit programmed with: a by-pass mode, in which it commands the conveyors with equivalent operative speeds, a storage mode, in which it commands the conveyors with the first operative speed greater than the second operative speed, and a recovery mode, in which it commands the conveyors with the first operative speed lower than the second operative speed.

The present invention relates to a compact bottle processing device comprising: an automatic bottle conveyor unit for moving a plurality of bottles along a closed circuit, a gripping area enabling an operator to place a bottle from the plurality of bottles on the conveyor unit and/or to pick up a bottle from the plurality of bottles on the conveyor unit, a bottle cleaning station, a bottle filling station, a bottle encapsulation station,
each of these stations being arranged along the closed circuit, so that a bottle passes successively through the cleaning station, the filling station and the encapsulation station as it is moved by the conveyor unit, wherein a length of the closed circuit is less than or equal to 20 m, preferably less than 15 m.

The invention also relates to a method of processing bottles using the device described above.

The present disclosure provides a fully automated filling line for tissue culture flasks and a control method therefor. The line covers stations for material loading, flask loading, flask sorting, flask righting, degreasing, cleaning, filling, cap screwing, material unloading, transferring, sterilization, etc. Through the collaborative operation of a mechanical arm and a conveying line, an automatic processing flow of tissue culture flasks is achieved. The flask righting station accurately detects and processes a fallen flask through an image recognition algorithm. A visual detection mechanism includes steps of image collection, preprocessing, and feature extraction and matching, where camera parameters are optimized according to a conveying speed and a light intensity, image quality is improved through a composite filtering and correction algorithm, and a plurality of feature group vectors are extracted and input into a model to recognize a flask posture.

A device for transporting containers along a transport path having: a base chain with a plurality of chain links lined up in a row along the transport path and connected to one another in a correspondingly pivotable manner via chain joints, wherein the chain links are at least partly displaceable relative to one another in the direction of the transport path, so that the distance between adjacent chain joints is at least to some extent variable; a plurality of container carriers provided on at least some of the chain links and configured to receive a respective container and carry it along the transport path; a chain track configured to guide the base chain along the transport path; and a toggle lever mechanism attached to the base chain and configured to effect the displacement of the chain links relative to one another in cooperation with the chain track.

The present disclosure provides a fully automated filling line for tissue culture flasks and a control method therefor. The line covers stations for material loading, flask loading, flask sorting, flask righting, degreasing, cleaning, filling, cap screwing, material unloading, transferring, sterilization, etc. Through the collaborative operation of a mechanical arm and a conveying line, an automatic processing flow of tissue culture flasks is achieved. The flask righting station accurately detects and processes a fallen flask through an image recognition algorithm. A visual detection mechanism includes steps of image collection, preprocessing, and feature extraction and matching, where camera parameters are optimized according to a conveying speed and a light intensity, image quality is improved through a composite filtering and correction algorithm, and a plurality of feature group vectors are extracted and input into a model to recognize a flask posture.