EP1170210A1 - Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschliessen von Behältern, insbesondere Tuben - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschliessen von Behältern, insbesondere Tuben Download PDF

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EP1170210A1
EP1170210A1 EP01115624A EP01115624A EP1170210A1 EP 1170210 A1 EP1170210 A1 EP 1170210A1 EP 01115624 A EP01115624 A EP 01115624A EP 01115624 A EP01115624 A EP 01115624A EP 1170210 A1 EP1170210 A1 EP 1170210A1
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Maurizio Marchesini
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/14—Closing collapsible or resilient tubes, e.g. for tooth paste, for lighter fuel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B3/16—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles for filling collapsible tubes

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  • This invention relates to filling known containers such as tubes made from, for example, aluminium or synthetic material, with products in paste form.
  • the tubes are produced with a cylindrical shape, open at the bottom and with a relative pre-sealed cap at the other end. They are fed upside-down onto the tube filling machine line to enable the product dispensing means in an infeed station to fill said tubes with the product.
  • the tube is closed and undergoes any subsequent processes such as coding before being discharged from the line and packaged.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a tube filling machine which is made is such a way as to keep free, as far as possible, the conveying line zone along which the tube containers are carried upside down, so as to make minimal any risk of contaminating the product already inserted into the tubes.
  • a further object of the invention is to propose a machine conceived in such a way that cleaning and sterilising operations of the product dispensing means are made easier and require the machine being stopped for a shorter time, with respect to the known machines.
  • Yet a further object of the present invention is to propose a machine designed in optimal way with reference to its management by operators, easy maintenance operations and limited volume occupied.
  • Machine M is equipped with an endless close-looped conveyor line 1 extending in a horizontal plane with grippers 2 a certain distance apart to support the relative vertical upturned tubes 3.
  • the tubes 3 are transferred to the conveyor line 1 by a known type of transfer means, not illustrated, located in a loading station S1, which pick them up from the infeed means 4 at a pre-established pickup zone.
  • the conveyor line 1 follows a substantially oval route and is operated in a clockwise direction with an alternating movement with a pitch double that of the grippers 2.
  • the infeed means 4 comprises two conveyors 4a and 4b which each feed a tube 3, open at the bottom 3a, into said pickup zone.
  • the tubes 3 are thus conveyed by line 1 to an infeed station SA equipped with product dispensing means 5 to insert a given quantity of paste product into each tube 3 through the open bottom 3a.
  • the product dispensing means 5 essentially comprises a hopper 50 from which the product is taken and inserted into dosing units 51, for example the syringe type, communicating with the relative nozzles 53 located over the open bottoms 3a, facing upwards, of the corresponding tubes 3.
  • the plungers of the dosing units 51 are operated, by means of rods 54, by respective actuators 55 mounted on the structure 100 of the machine M and connected to said rods 54 by means of known rapid couplings not illustrated.
  • the product dispensing means 5 are mounted on a plate 100a constrained to the structure 100 of the machine M by a known type of quick locking means 10, not illustrated in detail, which engages a collar 56a formed centrally by the casing 56 supporting said product dispensing means 5.
  • At least one closing station S2 equipped with means 6, for example grippers, to close the bottoms 3a of the tubes 3.
  • the machine may have a certain number of closing stations S2.
  • the number of these activated depends on the material of tube 3 and the way it is to be closed..
  • the closing stations S2 are arranged in a straight section 1a of the conveying line 1 and are consecutive and aligned with each other.
  • one of the closing stations S2 is equipped with devices to code said tubes 3.
  • the structure 100 of the machine M in the zone corresponding to the closing stations S2 may advantageously be of the so-called "abutment" type.
  • the gripper-type closing means 6 have an "overhang" configuration so as to keep the number of mechanical parts operating in the work zone 90 above the tubes 3 during the tube closing phases to a minimum.
  • the driving means of said grippers 6 are housed inside a compartment 200 formed by the structure 100, generally known by those skilled in the art as the "grey zone”.
  • figure 4a shows one embodiment of the proposed closing station S2 in which the gripper-type closing means 6 have a pair of opposing grippers, first 61 and second 62, operating in the work zone 90 to close the bottoms 3a of the tubes 3.
  • the grippers, first 61 and second 62, are moved alternately along an axis W, substantially transversal to the infeed direction Z of the conveyor line 1, in the region of said closing stations S2.
  • first 61 and second 62 are constrained to respective horizontal rods, first 63 and second 64, which partially protrude from a drum 60 fixed to a vertical wall 101 of the structure 100 near compartment 200.
  • the rods, first 63 and second 64 slide in substantially horizontal respective guide holes, first 63a and second 64a, made in said drum 60, by means of respective bushings, for example, of the "self-lubricating" type.
  • Said rods, first 63 and second 64 extend inside compartment 200 formed by the "abutment" portion of structure 100 where they are associated with respective linkages, first 610 and second 620, operated by appropriate movers of the tube filling machine M designed to impose synchronised pre-established axial movements to said rods, first 63 and second 64, along axis W, first in one direction, then the other.
  • the rods, first 63 and second 64 are parallel and guided by the relative guide holes, first 63a and second 64a.
  • the first rod 63, associated with the first gripper 61, is positioned at a lower level than the second rod 64, which is longer and associated with the second gripper 62.
  • the first rod 630 and the second rod 640 are in coaxial relation with each other and the second rod 640 is longer than the first one and is guided slidably within a guide housing 650 formed coaxially in the first rod 630, which is therefore tubular.
  • first linkage 610 and the second linkage 620 move in synchrony and drive the respective first rod (63, 630) and second rod (64, 640) so that the respective first gripper 61 and second gripper 62 can correctly perform the closure of the bottom parts 3a of the tubes 3.
  • closing station S2 in both the proposed embodiments, advantageously permits to hold within the compartment 200 of the structure 100 all the mechanical means which necessitate lubrication, and the sliding bushing are self-lubricating.
  • a download station S3 Downstream of the closing station S2 there is a download station S3, in which the tubes 3 are removed from the conveying line 1 and placed on an outlet line 7, by transferring means similar to the ones provided at the loading station S1.
  • outlet line 7 is located alongside the conveyors 4a, 4b, so that the tubes 3 enter and exit the machine on the same side.
  • the tubes entering and exiting directions are parallel to each other and are lined up with the machine; this allows to perform feeding of the tubes to the machine and removal of the already filled tubes from the machine in optimal way.
  • each closing station S2 reduces to a minimum, in fact it eliminates, possible contamination of the product contained in the tubes 3 with polluting substances, while they are being closed.
  • first and second linkages 610 and 620 of the operative gripper means 6, which usually cause most of the soiling, are located inside the compartment 200, hermetically separated from the zone 90 where the filling process is performed and the first and second grippers 61 and 62 operate, these gripper being made basically in overhanging fashion.
  • closure means 6 operate in a process zone which can be easily included in an isolation system fed with germ-free air, kept practically aseptic, e.g. by means that creates an air, preferably downward, laminar flow.
  • the general configuration of the machine is designed to make easier maintenance operations, both in the conveying line area, due to its oblong shape, and in the mechanical means area, due to the so-called "shoulder structure".
  • another advantageous feature of the machine includes the possibility of removing the product dispensing means 5 from the machine when they are to be cleaned and/or sterilised because the product is changed or other reasons.
  • the machine M is stopped, all the openings (such as nozzles, hopper outlets and so on) are closed by means of suitable plugs to prevent the product from coming out, the rapid connection coupling are released as well as the quick locking means 10, the product dispensing means 5 to be cleaned and sterilised are removed and replaced by product dispensing means 5 already cleaned and sterilised.
  • the openings such as nozzles, hopper outlets and so on
  • the machine M can be re-started (so the production is resumed) with a very limited loss of production time, without soiling any other part of the machine.
  • the soiled product dispensing means 5 are easily taken to another suitable place, away from the machine M, to be cleaned and sterilised in the most proper way.

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  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
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EP01115624A 2000-07-06 2001-07-03 Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschliessen von Behältern, insbesondere Tuben Expired - Lifetime EP1170210B1 (de)

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IT2000BO000404A IT1321315B1 (it) 2000-07-06 2000-07-06 Macchina per il riempimento e la chiusura di contenitori, inparticolare tubetti.

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EP1561473A1 (de) * 2004-02-03 2005-08-10 Tonazzi S.r.l. Vorrichtung zum Reinigen und/oder Sterilisieren einer volumetrischen Abfüllanlage
EP1561686A1 (de) * 2004-02-03 2005-08-10 Tonazzi S.r.l. Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschliessen von Tuben
CN107826280A (zh) * 2017-12-19 2018-03-23 新乡华青药业有限公司 膏剂灌装生产线的自动插管机及生产***
EP2700613B2 (de) † 2012-08-23 2019-05-29 Krones AG Getränkeabfüllanlage umfassend eine Verstellvo0rrichtung sowie Verfahren zur Reiniung einer Getränkeabfüllanlage

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US2310413A (en) * 1940-08-02 1943-02-09 Sun Tube Corp Collapsible tube filling and sealing machine
US2568794A (en) * 1947-08-01 1951-09-25 Bristol Myers Co Sealing apparatus
FR1326506A (fr) * 1962-03-28 1963-05-10 Procédé et appareil pour la fermeture de tubes
US3760853A (en) * 1970-05-13 1973-09-25 Pneumatic Scale Corp Container-filling apparatus
US4545507A (en) * 1982-06-04 1985-10-08 Hibar Systems Ltd. Metering pump
US5295523A (en) * 1992-04-09 1994-03-22 Aliseo Gentile Adjustable stroke multiple package filling apparatus
DE29907459U1 (de) * 1999-04-27 1999-07-29 Norden Pac Development Ab, Kalmar Verpackungsmaschine
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US2310413A (en) * 1940-08-02 1943-02-09 Sun Tube Corp Collapsible tube filling and sealing machine
US2568794A (en) * 1947-08-01 1951-09-25 Bristol Myers Co Sealing apparatus
FR1326506A (fr) * 1962-03-28 1963-05-10 Procédé et appareil pour la fermeture de tubes
US3760853A (en) * 1970-05-13 1973-09-25 Pneumatic Scale Corp Container-filling apparatus
US4545507A (en) * 1982-06-04 1985-10-08 Hibar Systems Ltd. Metering pump
US5295523A (en) * 1992-04-09 1994-03-22 Aliseo Gentile Adjustable stroke multiple package filling apparatus
WO2000020278A1 (en) * 1998-10-07 2000-04-13 Norden Pac Development Ab Machine for processing packaging tubes
DE29907459U1 (de) * 1999-04-27 1999-07-29 Norden Pac Development Ab, Kalmar Verpackungsmaschine

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1561473A1 (de) * 2004-02-03 2005-08-10 Tonazzi S.r.l. Vorrichtung zum Reinigen und/oder Sterilisieren einer volumetrischen Abfüllanlage
EP1561686A1 (de) * 2004-02-03 2005-08-10 Tonazzi S.r.l. Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschliessen von Tuben
US7134255B2 (en) 2004-02-03 2006-11-14 Tonazzi Vasquall S.R.L. Machine for filling and closing tubes
US7395826B2 (en) 2004-02-03 2008-07-08 Tonazzi Vasquali S.R.L. Machine for washing and/or sterilizing supplying-batching devices
EP2700613B2 (de) † 2012-08-23 2019-05-29 Krones AG Getränkeabfüllanlage umfassend eine Verstellvo0rrichtung sowie Verfahren zur Reiniung einer Getränkeabfüllanlage
CN107826280A (zh) * 2017-12-19 2018-03-23 新乡华青药业有限公司 膏剂灌装生产线的自动插管机及生产***
CN107826280B (zh) * 2017-12-19 2019-05-07 新乡华青药业有限公司 膏剂灌装生产线的自动插管机及生产***

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DE60124034D1 (de) 2006-12-07
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