Device for compressing containers, in particular beverage cans or tin cans from the food sector, with two pressure rollers which are arranged to form a gap at a parallel distance from one another, which are each rotatable about their axis of rotation and rotate in opposite directions, the outer surface of which has several essentially strip-shaped elements which extend longitudinally from one end face to the opposite end face of the pressure rollers, the strip-shaped elements of each pressure roller being strip-shaped active elements which diverge at an angle of incidence to a reference line running parallel to their axis of rotation in the lateral surface.
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