Abstract: The invention pertains to a transport system for transporting containers or products within and along an essentially vertical tube with concurrent rotation of the containers on the axis of the tube. In order to facilitate simple construction despite conditions of limited space, it is proposed that the tube be designed as a vertical rotary tube, to which a rotatably retained worm sleeve is connected at the end of the transport path. Provided within the rotary tube are longitudinal guide grooves, in which dogs carried by the containers engage. These dogs also engage in the screw thread of the worm sleeve. On their upper and lower sides, the containers have couplings, e.g., an end toothing, which, during the transport of a group of adjoining containers, impart a rotary movement from container to container but also make possible a separation of one container from another in the direction of the axis of the tube.

Abstract: A transmission for driving a swivel joint between two elements which are rotatable relative to each other. Cam disks are moved by means of a multiple eccentric, each such cam disk having an outer edge in the form of a closed cycloidal path and being arranged so that it can be rolled off in a central wheel in a positive engagement with a gearing formed by pins or the like. A driving element engages by means of driving pins, with the cam disks by way of bores arranged being in it, the driving element being subdivided into two driving disks which, are spaced from one another and from the cam disks at a distance of at least the central wheel and are combined by means of the driving pins, the driving disks and the central wheel being rotatably movable relative to one another.