Abstract: The temporary store has circulating continuous chains on both sides of the product conveyor section, said continuous chains running through vertical chain loops via upper and lower deflections. Product carrier gondolas with product carriers are suspended on the chains, said product carriers being used to receive incoming products and convey the products to a product outlet. Each chain runs through an inlet-side and an outlet-side vertical loop. The upper deflections of the chain loops can be moved vertically in opposite directions.

Abstract: The buffering device serves to temporarily accept products from a product flow in the event of a downstream disruption obstructing the product flow and to deliver the accepted products after the disruption has been eliminated. As conveyor it uses an endless flat top chain, which passes through several loops formed by horizontal deflections in an upper and a lower level. The deflections are arranged in an alternately fixed and horizontally displaceable manner, such that the lengths of the loops are variable.

Abstract: In order to clean the webs in a belt buffer having a plurality of belts arranged one above the other, a cleaning medium is applied to a running belt by means of a cleaning device and vacuumed off together with the loosened contamination. A device for carrying out this cleaning has a cleaning head for applying and vacuuming off the cleaning medium and a device for adjusting the height of the cleaning head to the level of the web to be cleaned and to move the cleaning head over the web to be cleaned.

Abstract: An unloading device is used for unloading products located on product carrier trays, which in turn are provided in product carrier shuttles of a chain store, onto outfeed conveyor belts. To increase unloading performance, at least two vertically pivotable outfeed belts are provided one above the other on the outlet side. For simultaneously unloading a plurality of trays, a pusher includes a corresponding plurality of pushing bars.

Abstract: A buffer device for temporary storage and flow control in a product conveying system includes a plurality of vertically movable product holders at an inlet end and outlet end, and an elevator system for placing product holders in a conveying plane of the conveying system and vertically moving the product holders. The elevator system preferably includes a chain loop at the inlet end and a chain loop at the outlet end, both of which are equipped all around with product holders, and the chain loops can move in opposite directions.

Abstract: A product flow regulator for temporary storage of products includes a frame, a conveying mechanism, and product carrier gondolas, which are conveyed with products from a product inlet area to a product outlet area and back empty. The frame includes a stationary guide track, along which the product carrier gondolas circulate self-controlled. The gondolas includes a drive mechanism and electrical control devices, which enable individual independent circulation.

Abstract: A buffer device for temporary storage and flow control in a product conveying system includes a plurality of vertically movable product holders at an inlet end and outlet end, and an elevator system for placing product holders in a conveying plane of the conveying system and vertically moving the product holders. The elevator system preferably includes a chain loop at the inlet end and a chain loop at the outlet end, both of which are equipped all around with product holders, and the chain loops can move in opposite directions.

Abstract: The row-grouping device for moving rows of products relative to a stationary or moving base consists of two guide tracks of a linear transport system, said guide tracks circulating on both sides of the base and having individually driven drivers. In each case two successive drivers are connected to one another in pairs by a joint rod, and in each case two pairs of drivers positioned opposite from one another on the guide tracks are connected to one another mechanically in a transverse direction over the base.

Abstract: A product flow regulator for temporary storage of products includes a frame, a conveying mechanism, and product carrier gondolas, which are conveyed with products from a product inlet area to a product outlet area and back empty. The frame includes a stationary guide track, along which the product carrier gondolas circulate self-controlled. The gondolas includes a drive mechanism and electrical control devices, which enable individual independent circulation.

Abstract: A product distribution unit removes rows of products from a production flow conveyed on a main conveyor and conveys them by a distribution device to a packaging machine. A waiting belt, which is arranged beneath the main conveyor and can be displaced in the main direction of conveyance, is used for taking over rows of products from the main conveyor and delivering the rows of products to a discharge belt desynchronized from the main conveyor.

Abstract: The product flow regulator is used for decoupling an incoming flow of piece-goods from a downstream device for further processing. It comprises a stationary intermediate storage with a plurality of store levels, an infeed-side elevator with one or more transport levels for taking products arriving on conveyors to intermediate storage and a discharge-side elevator for removing the temporarily stored products and delivering them to forwarding conveyors. A buffer device is arranged upstream from these elevators on the infeed side and downstream from these elevators on the discharge side.

Abstract: The product flow regulator is used for decoupling an incoming flow of piece-goods from a downstream device for further processing. It comprises a stationary intermediate storage with a plurality of store levels, an infeed-side elevator with one or more transport levels for taking products arriving on conveyors to intermediate storage and a discharge-side elevator for removing the temporarily stored products and delivering them to forwarding conveyors. A buffer device is arranged upstream from these elevators on the infeed side and downstream from these elevators on the discharge side.

Abstract: A module conveying device including a main conveying mechanism conveying products in a main conveying direction between an input location and an output location of the main conveying mechanism. The output location can be swiveled between two vertically arranged first transfer positions. A transverse mechanism accepts the conveyed products that likewise includes an input location and an output location, which input location is positioned in one of the two first transfer positions and the output location of the transverse conveying mechanism is positioned in a second transfer position. The output location of the main conveying mechanism can be swiveled between at least one additional first transfer position and the two first transfer positions. Each additional first transfer position is positioned in the event of one input location of an additional transverse conveying mechanism.

Abstract: A store-feeding device including a feeding conveyer with a belt catch that can be positioned in an infinitely variable fashion in a horizontal and/or vertical direction. The belt catch can be controlled by a controller such that products can be conveyed from a production station directly to the packaging station by a conveyer. If the packaging station is fully utilized or stopped, the belt catch can be positioned such that the products can be placed in the store. A further conveyer can be loaded with rejected or faulty series of products. For this purpose, the belt catch can be retracted and lowered.

Abstract: An intermediate storage including an intake station and an output station, two vertical conveyors, and two horizontal conveyors forming a conveying circuit with the two vertical conveyors. All conveyors are in a form of chain conveyors. The two vertical conveyors each include chains including catches and are arranged in pairs, each with an individual chain drive. Level differences which occur in operation between transferring edgers of unit load suppliers and carrier plates can be identified and corrected immediately. To keep a mutual gap between successive gondolas small, the gondola of a gondola pair that is running ahead is deflected sideways in the region of the deflection. A collision with the following gondola is thus reliably avoided.

Abstract: A module conveying device including a main conveying mechanism conveying products in a main conveying direction between an input location and an output location of the main conveying mechanism. The output location can be swiveled between two vertically arranged first transfer positions. A transverse mechanism accepts the conveyed products that likewise includes an input location and an output location, which input location is positioned in one of the two first transfer positions and the output location of the transverse conveying mechanism is positioned in a second transfer position. The output location of the main conveying mechanism can be swiveled between at least one additional first transfer position and the two first transfer positions. Each additional first transfer position is positioned in the event of one input location of an additional transverse conveying mechanism.

Abstract: The store arranged between production and packaging having an endless, circulating pair of chains on which the product-carrying gondolas are suspended for swinging action. The pair of chains, which are guided on a vertical section and on a horizontal section, are guided over an upper deflecting arrangement and a lower deflecting arrangement. Each deflecting arrangement is mounted so it can be displaced in a linear guide. A tensioning cable has its ends fastened on the two deflecting arrangements and keeps the pair of chains tensioned in each operating position. As they pass through the upper deflecting region, the filled gondolas are deflected radially by crank-like suspension mechanisms arranged on both sides, so adjacent gondolas can be operated with spacing between them, which in the vertical regions of the gondola path, corresponds to the spacing between two adjacent shelves.

Abstract: A chain store comprising a plurality of intermittently movable gondolas which serve for receiving products to be stored and are suspended and fastened on at least one articulated chain running vertically over a plurality of deflection rollers, and a plurality of shelves which serve for receiving the products, and at least one unloading station which is arranged on an upward- or downward-moving outer side of the chain store and has transfer means for ejecting the products onto a horizontal discharge belt leading away from the unloading side, wherein the transfer means has two ejectors for simultaneously ejecting products from in each case two shelves one on top of the other, wherein a storage plate which is fastened with its end facing away from the gondola train to a retaining apparatus and is pivotable from a horizontal into a skew position inclined toward the discharge belt and is displaceable away from the gondola train is provided above the discharge belt, wherein the storage plate has rake-like or comb-l