Abstract: An unpacking system having a folding-out device for folding outwards an initially folded-in packaging portion of an item of packaging for an object, and having a stretching device for stretching an item of packaging for an object. The item of packaging herein is in particular a pouch, and the object is in particular a pharmaceutical or cosmetic object. The unpacking system furthermore has a transportation installation for transporting the object in a transportation direction. The packaging portion in the stretching device is stretched parallel with the transportation direction. A filling system is disclosed having such an unpacking system, and methods are disclosed for folding outwards, for stretching, and for unpacking.

Abstract: An unpacking system having a folding-out device for folding outwards an initially folded-in packaging portion of an item of packaging for an object, and having a stretching device for stretching an item of packaging for an object. The item of packaging herein is in particular a pouch, and the object is in particular a pharmaceutical or cosmetic object. The unpacking system furthermore has a transportation installation for transporting the object in a transportation direction. The packaging portion in the stretching device is stretched parallel with the transportation direction. A filling system is disclosed having such an unpacking system, and methods are disclosed for folding outwards, for stretching, and for unpacking.

Abstract: An unpacking system having a folding-out device for folding outwards an initially folded-in packaging portion of an item of packaging for an object, and having a stretching device for stretching an item of packaging for an object. The item of packaging herein is in particular a pouch, and the object is in particular a pharmaceutical or cosmetic object. The unpacking system furthermore has a transportation installation for transporting the object in a transportation direction. The packaging portion in the stretching device is stretched parallel with the transportation direction. A filling system is disclosed having such an unpacking system, and methods are disclosed for folding outwards, for stretching, and for unpacking.

Abstract: An apparatus for opening a packaging in which a transport tub for objects is packaged, the packaging having a packaging portion which extends in an extent direction away from the transport tub, the apparatus having a cutting-open device for cutting open the packaging in order to generate an opening in the packaging, the cutting-open device being designed to cut off a first part of the packaging portion in order to generate the opening in the packaging, and having an inflating device for inflating the packaging through the opening generated in the packaging. The apparatus furthermore relates to a system for opening a packaging, and to a method.

Abstract: A device for filling and closing pharmaceutical objects disposed in parallel rows in nests that are removably inserted into a substantially tub-shaped tub requires a conveying device with conveying sections for processing the objects, wherein individual processing stations for the objects are disposed along the conveying sections, a lifting station provided at an inlet of the conveying device for removing the nests from the tub, a removal station for removing an object row from the nest and transferring the object row to the conveying device, and an insertion station. Objects removed from the nest are fed by the conveying device to the individual processing stations for the processing. The objects are returned to the nest, tub or individually removed from the conveying device.

Abstract: A device for filling and closing pharmaceutical objects disposed in parallel rows in nests that are removably inserted into a substantially tub-shaped tub requires a conveying device with conveying sections for processing the objects, wherein individual processing stations for the objects are disposed along the conveying sections, a lifting station provided at an inlet of the conveying device for removing the nests from the tub, a removal station for removing an object row from the nest and transferring the object row to the conveying device, and an insertion station. Objects removed from the nest are fed by the conveying device to the individual processing stations for the processing. The objects are returned to the nest, tub or individually removed from the conveying device.

Abstract: An unpacking system having a folding-out device for folding outwards an initially folded-in packaging portion of an item of packaging for an object, and having a stretching device for stretching an item of packaging for an object. The item of packaging herein is in particular a pouch, and the object is in particular a pharmaceutical or cosmetic object. The unpacking system furthermore has a transportation installation for transporting the object in a transportation direction. The packaging portion in the stretching device is stretched parallel with the transportation direction. A filling system is disclosed having such an unpacking system, and methods are disclosed for folding outwards, for stretching, and for unpacking.

Abstract: A filling device for filling nested containers, which are arranged in at least one row in a nest and are conveyable by means of a conveying device, having a filling station for simultaneously filling the containers of one row, having at least one weighing station for weighing a row of containers, having a first gripping device for simultaneously removing a row of containers to be filled and for transferring said containers to a first weighing station of the at least one weighing station and for transferring the weighed containers from the at least one weighing station back into the nest or into a different nest.

Abstract: A device for filling and closing pharmaceutical objects disposed in parallel rows in nests that are removably inserted into a substantially tub-shaped tub requires a conveying device with conveying sections for processing the objects, wherein individual processing stations for the objects are disposed along the conveying sections, a lifting station provided at an inlet of the conveying device for removing the nests from the tub, a removal station for removing an object row from the nest and transferring the object row to the conveying device, and an insertion station. Objects removed from the nest are fed by the conveying device to the individual processing stations for the processing. The objects are returned to the nest, tub or individually removed from the conveying device.

Abstract: A method for filling and closing pharmaceutical objects disposed in parallel rows in nests includes removing the objects from the nests at an inlet of a conveying device in a removal station and placing the objects into the conveying device. In the conveying device, the objects are fed in succession to a first weighing station and weighed, to filling station and filled and to a second weighing station and again weighed and to a closing station and/or crimping station and closed. After closing, the objects are removed from the conveying section. In every case, pre-sterilized objects are processed in an aseptic manner.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting containers to at least one processing station, in particular a filling and/or sealing station, having a number of container carriers that accommodate the containers and having two parallel guides spaced apart from each other and extending in the transverse direction, which are used for the advance and return of the container carriers and have turnaround devices at their ends that perform the function of switching the container carriers from one guide into the other guide; pinions are also provided for transporting the container carriers and are situated between the guides and engage the container carriers. The turnaround devices each have arc guides that adjoin the ends of the two guides and are connected to them and that also transition in the arc from one guide to the other guide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for removing a cover from a storage box that is closed using a lid-like cover attached thereto at the edges. For removal, the adhesive strength of the cover is reduced in the region of a few of the sealed edges and the cover is then removed by peeling it off the storage box, whereby the cover is peeled off by rolling it onto a roller.

Abstract: A treatment machine for pharmaceutical products formed as a filling and closing machine has an insulator which surrounds a sterile treatment region, a substantially plate-shaped partition which separates the sterile treatment region from an unsterile drive region, at least one movable drive member for driving treatment functions, the drive member is drivable from the unsterile region for its movement, extends through the partition into the sterile treatment region and is surrounded over at least one longitudinal portion by a passage through which a medium is supplied, the passage in an end region which extends in the sterile treatment region is open by at least one opening toward the sterile treatment region, so that a sterilization medium is aspirated from the sterile treatment region through the at least one opening into the passage and is aspirated through the passage in direction toward the unsterile drive region.

Abstract: A centrifugal sorter has a horizontally inclined rotatably driven feed plate and a ring drivable about an approximately vertical axis by means of a ring drive device, which surrounds the feed plate in a substantially horizontal orientation and provides a delivery location for the workpieces fed outwardly and upwardly from the container under the influence of centrifugal force approximately in the vicinity of its highest peripheral section The wall of the ring is spherical sector shaped The ring has an approximately horizontal ring surface at a lower outer edge, with which the ring bears on several rollers which are equally spaced from each other around the circumference of the ring surface and which form a friction drive together with the ring surface. At least one of the rollers is driven rotatably by a drive device and the others can be coupled to it for example by belt drive devices.

Abstract: The conveying apparatus for transporting elongated objects having a radially protruding flange, particularly injectors, injecting containers and the like, includes two conveying tracks (18, 19) over which the objects move in a conveying direction and in a suspended position with the flanges (13) contacting bearing surfaces of the tracks; two vertical buffer storage devices (21, 22) consisting of a vibrating conveyor having one or more substantially spiral guideway (51, 52, 56) for conveying objects vertically downward; and/or an adjustable connecting guide device (20). A connecting guide device (20) is positioned between opposing ends of the conveying tracks (18, 19) and conveys the objects around a curved path between the two conveying tracks (18, 19). The adjustable connecting guide device (20) is adjustable to convey different sized elongated objects (11, 11a, 11b) between the two conveying tracks (18, 19) and the conveying tracks are designed to carry the different sized objects (11, 11a, 11b).

Abstract: An arrangement for transporting objects, in particular tubes composed of glass, plastic and the like, has a circular rotating support having an edge and provided with a plurality of outwardly open receptacles on the edge spaced from one another for receiving individual objects so that the objects can be received into the receptacles and removed from them, and each of the receptacles is formed as a clamping holder formed for clampingly holding a corresponding object received in the receptacle.

Abstract: An arrangement for closing bottles comprises a rotor arranged to move bottles over a partially circular path, a flanging device provided with a flanging element arranged to engage with lower edges of caps to be placed on the bottles, bottles gripping elements connected with the rotor and arranged to rotate the bottles about their own axes and also to disengage the bottle from the flanging element, the flanging element including a centrally arranged disc having a ringshaped part with a peripheral edge engageable with the cap, the disc having an axis which extends parallel and is eccentric relative to an axis of the rotor, and the disc being arranged so that the partially circular path of the bottles extends around the peripheral edge of the disc.

Abstract: A process for the sterilization of pumps for liquid or pasty pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foodstuffs or similar products, preferably for pumps in which the piston can be driven to slide longitudinally in a cylinder and, at the same time, to rotate about its own axis. The piston contains a recess that reaches as far as the circular cylinder wall and the working face of the piston and communicates with a suction connection in the cylinder wall during a suction stroke and with a pressure connection in the cylinder wall during a pressure stroke and where, further, a closable drainage aperture is preferably provided in the bottom end of the cylinder. A sterilization medium is fed to a pump connection while the pump is being driven. Consequently, the pump does not have to be dismantled for sterilization purposes.