Abstract: Containers, such as pharmaceutical containers, are held in an apparatus for processing containers by a holding device. The holding device has a main body and a container receptacle with at least one abutment element for the container. The containers have a direction of extent extending in a receptacle direction of the container receptacle. The container is positionable against the abutment element to assume a defined position. A holding element can hold the container in the container receptacle. The holding element is movably mounted on the main body between a release position, in which the container is insertable into the container receptacle in an insertion direction oriented transversely to the receptacle direction, to a holding position, in which the holding element engages behind the container and acts upon the container with a holding force oriented in the direction of the container receptacle to hold the container with clamping action.

Abstract: A transport apparatus for pharmaceutical containers includes a drive body, a drive device actuatable by a control device for implementing a timed movement of the drive body, and holding elements operatively connected to the drive body. Each holding body has at least one container receiving area for receiving a respective container. The transport apparatus also has first and second transfer regions for containers in the circulating direction of the drive body, and a deflecting region between the transfer regions in the running direction of the drive body. The first transfer region has a receiving region, and the second transfer region forms a hand-over region. The first transfer region and/or the second transfer region extends in a linear manner with respect to the running direction of the drive body. The transport apparatus can be used with a transport system for containers and a processing machine for processing containers.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus for temporarily fixing a container to a weighing apparatus includes a holding device and a support device. The holding device has a container receptacle and a contact body. The container is insertable into and removeable from the container receptacle. At least one holding element holds the container in the container receptacle. The support device has a support body and a connection body connected to the support body, for connecting to the weighing apparatus. The holding device rests on the support body via the contact body. The contact body is movable relative to the support body based on a force acting on the holding device, in particular on the at least one holding element, when the container is inserted into the container receptacle and/or when the container is removed from the container receptacle. A system for processing containers, in particular pharmaceutical containers, can include the fixing apparatus.

Abstract: A transport system, apparatus and method are used to transport and process containers, such as pharmaceutical containers. The transport system has a transport path defining a transport direction. At least one station for the containers is positionable on the transport path. The station includes or defines container locations. Two or more transport devices are positioned one behind the other along the transport direction, each transport device having container receptacles and being designed to move back and forth along the transport direction in a clocked manner independently of one another and to transfer containers to and/or from the station. A control device controls the transport devices. A range of movement of the transport devices overlaps along the transport direction in such a way that at least some of the container locations of the station are reachable by two or more transport devices.

Abstract: A gripping device for gripping a pharmaceutical container, in particular a pharmaceutical container which is non stable, includes a first gripping element and a second gripping element, each gripping element having a respective gripping member for contacting the container in particular from opposite sides. The gripping elements receive the container between one another in a container receptacle and grip the container in a mutually approximated gripping position, and release the container in a mutually spaced release position. At least one gripping element comprises two gripping members which are mutually spaced apart in a spacing direction, and between which a recess is formed on the gripping element. A holding device includes at least one gripping device.

Abstract: System comprising a clean room (50), a transport element (10) movable inside the clean room (50), and a drive element (30) of the transport element (10), which is arranged outside the clean room (50), wherein the transport element (10) is not connected to the drive element (30) and is only coupled to the drive element (30) or driven by the drive element (30) via contactless remote forces, wherein the transport element (10) is a separate element, in particular separate from the floor, ceiling, walls and/or other parts of the clean room (50), and in particular has no positive connection acting in any spatial direction to the floor, ceiling, walls and/or other parts of the clean room (50) and/or other elements. The invention also relates to a corresponding transport element (10).

Abstract: A device for receiving objects from a support on which the objects are arranged so as to lie side-by-side, in individual receptacles, in an axially parallel manner in rows. The device comprises a receiving zone. The device comprises a feed device for moving the support equipped with the objects through the receiving zone such that the objects arrive, in the sequence, at the receiving zone to be removed at the receiving zone, in the sequence, from the support; The device comprises a receiving wheel comprising grippers, the grippers being arranged around a periphery of the wheel and protruding outwards, wherein the receiving wheel is rotatable such that the grippers past the receiving zone one after another to receive, at the receiving zone, the objects, in sequence, from the support provided, wherein each gripper of the grippers is associated with a respective counterhold for securing a received object on the gripper.

Abstract: System comprising a clean room (50), a transport element (10) movable inside the clean room (50), and a drive element (30) of the transport element (10), which is arranged outside the clean room (50), wherein the transport element (10) is not connected to the drive element (30) and is only coupled to the drive element (30) or driven by the drive element (30) via contactless remote forces, wherein the transport element (10) is a separate element, in particular separate from the floor, ceiling, walls and/or other parts of the clean room (50), and in particular has no positive connection acting in any spatial direction to the floor, ceiling, walls and/or other parts of the clean room (50) and/or other elements. The invention also relates to a corresponding transport element (10).