公开(公告)号：US20220281697A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17631345

申请日：2020-07-30

Applicant: Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A.

Inventor： Philippe Jean Marie DUPERRAY ,  Marcelo PETRAMALE ,  Wim DEKOCKER

IPC: B65G54/02 ,  B67C3/24 ,  B65G47/68

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a beverage plant comprising a conveying system (100), said conveying system comprising: at least one driving surface (102) including at least one planar tile (112) equipped with at least one coil; at least one mover (104) equipped with at least one permanent magnet for magnetically coupling the at least one mover to the at least one planar tile, the at least one mover is placed over the at least one tile of the at least one driving surface in a contactless manner and is configured to be moved, displaced and/or rotated in at least two degrees of freedom of movement; and wherein the at least one mover is configured to support at least one beverage container (203) or at least one package containing at least one beverage container placed over the at least one mover for being moved, displaced and/or rotated in at least two degrees of freedom of movement, as the at least one mover is moved, displaced and/or rotated while being magnetically coupled to the at least one planar tile. In addition, the present invention is directed to the use of the conveying system described earlier for conveying carbonated beverage containers, and in particular closed beverage containers.