EP2858942A1 - Multi-station packaging machine having a circular tray and device for filling vials - Google Patents
Multi-station packaging machine having a circular tray and device for filling vialsInfo
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- EP2858942A1 EP2858942A1 EP13733373.8A EP13733373A EP2858942A1 EP 2858942 A1 EP2858942 A1 EP 2858942A1 EP 13733373 A EP13733373 A EP 13733373A EP 2858942 A1 EP2858942 A1 EP 2858942A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
- B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
- B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
- B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
- B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
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- Multi-station packaging machine with circular plate and
- the invention relates to a multi-station packaging machine for liquid or semi-liquid or pasty products with a circular plate for transporting bottles. It allows the filling and the equipment of vials, and it has applications in the field of packaging / packaging and more particularly the bottling of fluid substances, in particular of liquid, semi-liquid or gel type, for example in perfumery, cosmetology or pharmacy.
- Automated product packaging machines in vials must have increasing rates in order to to reduce packaging costs. These machines are in themselves relatively expensive and it is also desirable that they are easily adaptable to various substances and flasks as in the field of cosmetology or health where various substances, perfumes, eau de toilette, aftershave , shampoos, after shampoo, bubble bath, shower bath, hair dye, liquid soaps, lotions, gels, cleansing milk, nail polish, sun milk, foundation ... can be packaged at different times in vials different on the same chain.
- the present invention relates to machines of the second type in which the bottles are transported on the periphery of a rotating circular plate. Indeed, these machines are more compact than those online.
- the automated machines may comprise several stations in which complementary filling operations take place sequentially, such as for example the introduction of a pump, a hoop or a bonnet and its screwing or depression. Some of these operations require that the bottle is at a standstill and therefore the circular tray for transporting the bottles is stopped. In addition, these operations being sequentially, the one that is the longest is the limiting factor of the rate of production. However, it is usually the filling of a bottle that takes the most time and it is then necessary to perform a filling in parallel on several bottles and to fill the bottles continuously as well when they are stopped and when they are moving.
- the filling device is mounted centrally on a support coaxial with the vertical axis passing through the center of the tray.
- the machine has an outer shape that is generally square or rectangular, the off-board surface of the machine is also increased and there is a certain space at the outer periphery of the circular plate, in particular in the corners of the machine.
- the applicant has developed a new filling device which is supported, no longer centrally, but peripherally, on the outside, of the tray without causing a significant loss of compactness of the machine due to this arrangement and which presents other advantages including high rigidity, a decrease in inertia and cantilever moving elements of said device. These latter advantages allow precise control of the mobile elements of the filling device even at high rates, 60 vials treated per minute or more, producing high speeds and accelerations / decelerations of these moving elements.
- the proposed device allows a simultaneous filling of several bottles during the stop and during the circular progression of the bottles in a packaging machine of a liquid or semi-liquid substance. It also allows filling beginning at the bottom, the filling spout having been lowered to the bottom of the bottle, and up the spout during filling to the outlet of the spout out of the bottle after filling is completed.
- the invention relates to a multi-station vial packaging machine with a horizontal circular vial transport tray, the tray being rotatably mounted on a fixed frame, the tray for transporting the vials at its periphery and causing a circular movement and intermittent flasks between stations, said machine allowing the simultaneous filling of a given number of bottles continuously during both the movements of the bottles and when the bottles are stopped, said machine comprising a first motorized means for raising and lowering filling nozzles and a second means motorized allowing the movement of the filling spouts back and forth following the bottles on a segment of their movements.
- the machine comprises a filling station comprising a filling device
- said filling device comprising
- a gantry having at least two vertical uprights fixed integrally to the frame and
- the carriage-mouthpieces being able to move vertically between the uprights of the gantry and the nozzle-holder being adapted to be movable against the guide plate in co-circular motion to the bottles transported by the plate,
- said gantry supporting the first motorized means acting on the guide plate of the carriage-mouthpieces in order to allow a vertical displacement in rise and descent of said guide plate with respect to the uprights, the guide plate supporting the second motorized means adapted to acting on the nozzle to produce the horizontal and circular co-circular displacement, intermittent, and back and forth of said nozzle holder along the guide plate.
- the first motorized means for raising-lowering the carriage that is to say the guide plate and the nozzle, is fixed.
- the second motorized means is movable on the other hand because it is fixed on the guide plate of the movable carrier carriage. This second motorized means acts on the nozzle to drive horizontally along the guide plate and parallel to the latter.
- the two motorized means are therefore functionally mounted in tandem to obtain a horizontal displacement co-circular, intermittent, and vertical filling nozzles mounted on the nozzle.
- the filling spouts can thus move both vertically and in an arc, co-circularly with the intermittent movement of the flasks which allows a filling starting from the bottom of the flasks and with progressive rising of the nozzles in the flasks all following the intermittent circular movement of the flasks over part of their circular path. It is called a co-circular displacement of the beaks with respect to that of the plate, a displacement of the beaks which follows that of the periphery of the plate; it is therefore circular and of the same center as that of the plateau. According to the invention, this movement of the nozzles is produced without them being mechanically connected to an articulated part on the axis of the plate.
- the gantry supports the first and second motorized means, a splined transmission shaft being extended between the second motorized means and the nozzle-holder in order to producing the horizontal and circular co-circular displacement, intermittent, and back and forth of said nozzle-holder along the guide plate,
- the first and the second motorized means are electric motors
- the electric motor is of the "brushless" brushless type
- the electric motor is of the "servo drive" servo type
- the gantry comprises two vertical lateral uprights
- the gantry comprises two vertical lateral uprights and a median upright, the median upright being shifted outwards in order to form a triangular gantry whose median upright does not interfere with the slider carriage,
- the gantry comprises four vertical lateral uprights, two on each lateral side of the gantry,
- the machine is intermittently moving the bottles, the bottles having to stop at one or more stations other than the filling station in order to undergo corresponding operations,
- the machine is continuously filling the bottles
- the machine is filled by the bottom of the bottles
- the filling is carried out by vacuum
- the filling is carried out under vacuum in the bottle
- the trolley-carrier is moved vertically upwards and downwards by means of a transmission comprising a vertical ball screw at each of the two lateral ends of the guide plate in relation to each of the two uprights, the two screws to vertical balls being rotated in a common manner by a horizontal transmission axis on which the first motorized means acts,
- the trolley-carrier is moved vertically upwards and downwards by means of a transmission with a belt at each of the two lateral ends of the guide plate in relation to each of the two uprights, the two belts being rotated in a common manner by a horizontal transmission axis on which the first motorized means acts,
- the horizontal transmission axis is a solid shaft
- the first motorized means actuates the horizontal transmission axis via a gearbox
- the first motorized means is fixed on one of the two uprights
- the gantry comprises an extended horizontal connection piece fixed between the two vertical lateral uprights towards their upper ends, the first motorized means being fixed on said connecting piece,
- the mouthpiece is arranged and moves in front of the guide plate, the mouthpiece is arranged and moves at the rear of the guide plate,
- the mouthpiece is arranged and moves on the guide plate
- the mouthpiece is arranged and moves under the guide plate
- the guide plate comprises a semicircular rail on which can move horizontally co-circularly said spout, the spout having a semicircular bearing portion complementary to that of the rail, a movable fastening means now the mouthpieces on the guide plate during its movements,
- the movable attachment means is a horizontal portion of the nozzle support bearing from above on a horizontal portion of the guide plate, preferably said horizontal portions respectively part of the bearing and the rail,
- the second motorized means acts on the mouthpiece via a meshing transmission, a gear of the second motorized means fixed on the guide plate engraining in a rack extended along the mouthpiece,
- the second motorized means acts on the mouthpiece via a belt transmission, the second motorized means fixed on the guide plate driving the belt which is fixed on the mouthpiece,
- the belt is a band
- the belt is a cable
- the belt is in a closed loop
- the belt is in an open loop
- the guide plate is symmetrical with respect to a median vertical plane and the second motorized means is fixed on the guide plate substantially on the median defining said median vertical plane,
- the uprights are hollow and the vertical ball screws are inside the uprights, the guide plate engaging on the ball screw through a slot / vertical opening of each upright,
- the vertical ball screws are on the outside, as opposed to being inside hollow uprights, uprights and arranged along said uprights,
- the vertical ball screws are arranged on the median plane side of the guide plate along said uprights,
- the device further comprises a rack integral with the nozzle-holder and disposed at a distance from said nozzle-holder and intended to maintain pipes and / or electric cables filling devices and / or second motorized means,
- the rack is arranged towards the axis of rotation of the machine plate
- the mouthpiece has between three and nine nozzles
- the nozzle has six nozzles, the nozzle-holder can move on a circular arc corresponding to a determined number of indexed positions / cavities of the filling plate,
- the machine plate has between 16 and 42 indexed positions
- the machine tray has 32 indexed positions
- the nozzle comprises a predetermined number of filling devices each comprising at their lower end a filling spout,
- each filling device comprises at least one of the following elements: a filling spout, a bottle neck centering means, a controlled valve, a suction means, a sensor, or any other useful element,
- a shutter device is arranged towards the lower end of each spout for opening or closing it
- a shutter device is arranged at the lower end of each spout for opening or closing it
- Bottle neck centering means is in relation with each filling spout, the spout passing through the collar centering means,
- the filling spouts are joined together by a horizontal blade, said horizontal blade being fixed to the spout by at least one rod,
- the filling spouts can slide through the horizontal blade
- Bottle neck centering means is disposed under the horizontal blade in relation to each filling spout, said blade then forming a collar centering bar,
- the distance between the guide plate and the horizontal blade is variable, the height of the rod or rods being variable,
- the distance between the guide plate and the horizontal blade is adjustable, the height of the rod or rods being adjustable by a removable locking means,
- the distance between the guide plate and the horizontal blade is adjustable, the height of the rod or rods being adjustable by means of automatic adjustment, preferably spring,
- the effector member is a piston
- the rod or rods comprise damping means
- the rod or rods comprise a compressible elastic means of helical spring type
- the rods or rods are passive, collar centering bar falling under its own weight and back by the push of the necks during the descent of the beaks,
- the machine further comprises at least one or more additional stations of the following types: inlet of a bottle in an indexed position of the tray, leveling, sealing, insertion of a pump, crimping or sinking of pump, frettings, bonnet installation, gearbox insertion, plug or pump screwing, capping or cap sinking, overcapping, quality control, defective bottle ejection, outlet of a bottle from an indexed position of the tray, or any other type of useful station, - the quality control type station is a level control station, - the quality control station is a broken bottle detection station,
- the quality control station is a pump pit presence detection station
- the filling devices of the nozzle-holder are connected to pumping means and / or flow meters of the machine by flexible lines,
- the filling devices of the nozzle are connected to pneumatic and / or electrical control means of the machine by pipes or flexible cables,
- the pipes and / or the cables are held by a rack secured to the nozzle-holder and disposed at a distance from said nozzle-holder,
- the rack is arranged towards the axis of rotation of the machine plate
- the machine comprises management means for controlling the first and second motorized means and that of a drive motor of the tray in at least one or more of the following modes: intermittent rotation of the tray, filling continuously by the bottom with progressive rise during filling, filling from above, continuous filling, volumetric filling, flow filling, filling with vacuum,
- the machine comprises computer management means for its operation in the form of a programmable logic controller or an industrial PC,
- the machine comprises between 24 and 36 indexed positions of the tray
- the nozzle of the filling device can move on a segment corresponding to between 6 and 16 successive indexed positions
- the machine has 32 or 36 indexed positions of the tray
- the nozzle of the filling device can move on a segment corresponding to at least 1 1 successive indexed positions
- the machine has 32 indexed positions of the tray and the nozzle of the filling device can move on a segment corresponding to 1 1 successive indexed positions.
- the invention also relates to a filling device for a filling station of a multi-station vial packaging machine with a circular tray for intermittent transport of bottles, said filling device having one or more of the technical characteristics described.
- FIG. 1 which represents a schematic view in perspective from the top and the outside of a filling device according to the invention
- FIG. 2 which represents a schematic view in perspective from the bottom and internally / centrally of the filling device of FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 which represents a schematic side view of the filling device of FIG. Figure 4 which is a schematic side view of the filling device of Figure 1 installed as a filling station in a packaging machine without its other functional stations,
- FIG 5 which shows the filling device in the machine of Figure 4 schematically in perspective from above and externally, bottles having been installed in buckets in the cells of the edge of the circular plate,
- FIG. 6 which represents a schematic view of the top of a packaging machine with the device of the invention for the filling station and other functional stations
- FIG. 7 which shows a schematic side view of the filling machine. conditioning of Figure 6.
- the machine of the invention is an automated packaging unit filled with vials by a liquid or semi-liquid substance installed in a packaging line.
- a packaging machine 27 is shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 with practically all of its functional stations and in FIGS. 4 and 5 with only the filling station comprising the filling device 1 which is shown in detail in FIGS. 2 and 3.
- the bottles arrive by an upstream line 28 one after the other in the machine, the necks of the bottles being upwards.
- the machine comprises a rotating circular plate 24 with a rotating cell 26 for transporting the bottles between functional stations of the unit, the rotation being intermittent to enable the stations to act on each of the bottles, the cells being disposed at the periphery of the plate 24. and being intended to receive and maintain each a bottle during transport.
- the filling device installed in the machine enables the continuous filling in parallel of a certain number of bottles, both at the stop and during the rotation of the bottles on such an intermittent rotary machine and by following the rotation of said bottles.
- each of the bottles is placed in a cup 25 in the packaging line, the cup comprising a bottle-receiving part which is adapted to each type of bottle and an identical functional part whatever the cups and bottles and which are it adapts to corresponding functional means of the packaging line which, for the packaging machine, the cells 26 of the periphery of the tray.
- the packaging line including the packaging machine, can be used with any type of bottle, the cups being changed depending on the bottles. The result is a versatile packaging machine, multiformat and multifunction, and requiring relatively reduced adaptation operations during a change of the type of bottle and / or product.
- the buckets remain in the cells of the packaging machine and the bottles, which are free on the upstream lines 28 and downstream 29 (30), are placed in said buckets in the first station of the machine which is a bottle receiving station and out of the buckets in the bottle outlet station or in that, if any, ejection flask defective.
- the first of the stations of the packaging machine is a receiving station of one of the bottles of the upstream line 28 in one of the cells of the tray, open neck / neck towards the top, and one of the last stations is a bottle outlet station to a downstream line 29. Between the two is implemented various positions including a filling station which acts on a segment of the plate in order to be able to fill in parallel a set of bottles at a time.
- the device 1 equipping the filling station comprises a part with filling spouts which is movable in rotation and synchronously follows the intermittent movement of the plate on a given segment of its circular path between two extreme positions, a starting position and a position arrival.
- the filling is carried out continuously on a set of bottles during the intermittent movement of the bottles, to go between the starting position and the arrival position, the filling nozzles returning to the return to the starting position after they filled said set of flasks.
- This intermittent rotation of the filling spouts is oscillating / reciprocating in contrast to the plate which always rotates in the same direction.
- the rotation in arc-of-the beaks of the filling station is also discontinuous / intermittent for be in synchronism with the plate but that during the return of the nozzles of the filling station, while the nozzles are outside the bottles, this return is preferably performed in a continuous manner and therefore fast.
- the filling is continuous both when stopped and during rotation of the tray.
- co-circular means that the filling spouts can follow the bottles on a segment of their circular path and that the spouts have a movement parallel to that of the flasks on this segment to allow the entry of the nozzles in vial necks and collar monitoring.
- the filling spouts are further movable vertically between two extreme positions, a low position in which the spout end of the spout is in the bottle to the bottom of said flask and a high position in which the spout is out of the bottle.
- the machine comprises means for at the beginning of a cycle of the filling station, said filling station is in the starting position and high position of the beaks then passes in the lower position of the nozzles, in the bottles, and starts the filling, the nozzles back during filling while synchronously following the intermittent rotational movements of the plate, then, after the end of filling, the nozzles being brought to the high position before the nozzles of the filling station return to their position of departure.
- the rising of the beaks can be regular or not according to the mode of implementation.
- the packaging machine which is one of the elements of a packaging line of a fluid in a bottle, is seen from above. It is in the form of a block closed by side walls of safety, preferably transparent, so that the staff can see the operation of the machine. These opening side walls are provided with opening detectors stopping the operation in case of opening. The operation of the machine is under the control of an industrial PC whose control panel 31 is accessible to the outside.
- the flasks arrive via an upstream line 28 in the packaging machine.
- the flasks are conveyed by the circular plate 24 indexed in peripheral cells comprising cups of bottles each comprising a bottle.
- the plate is rotated by a specific motor member (not shown).
- the plate rotates in a direction determined to bring the vials station.
- reception, end of line of upstream there is a first functional station called reception, end of line of upstream, and which receives one by one the bottles at each passage of a cell and its cup in front of the line d upstream.
- a filling station which implements the filling device of the invention.
- downstream positions of the filling station one can for example find: a dust blower station, a leveling station, then a pump insertion station, then a sinking station and crimping of pump, then a sinking station, then a screwing station, a fret setting station and fret driving, then a quasi-last post that is a broken collar or other fault and that is associated with a defective vial ejection station to a rebus line 30 and an outlet station vials to the downstream line 29.
- Other types of functional stations can be installed in the packaging machine as, for example, a crimping station or pre-crimping or sinking or pre-sinking pump or reducer or diffuser or other types of functional stations.
- the station is the station for ejection of defective bottles towards the rebus line 30, in alternative embodiments, the last station is the outlet station of the bottles towards the downstream line 29.
- the other stations act on one bottle at a time.
- one or more non-filling stations can act on several bottles at a time, for example on two bottles at a time.
- the filling station is extended in an arc on a number of cells of the tray so as to fill in parallel / at the same time several bottles while following said bottles along part of their path.
- the nozzles of the filling station move synchronously with the plate between two extreme positions, a starting position and an arrival position, on a sector of the plate.
- the return of the nozzles to the starting position, at the end of filling is free and can be very fast.
- the machine also comprises a fixed module (not shown) with a nurse and as many flowmeters as filling devices and which is arranged substantially opposite the filling station towards the center of the machine, flexible pipes connecting each nozzle to its flow meter or other fluidic components of the packaging machine.
- a flow filling filling is done under pressure of the substance, which allows a high reactivity.
- the invention can thus be implemented for the packaging of perfumes or cosmetic products.
- a closure device is preferably arranged at the end of each spout to open it (during filling) or close it.
- the closure device may be electrically controlled or, preferably, pneumatically.
- the filling device installed in the packaging machine is shown alone in Figures 1 to 3 and in connection with the packaging machine in Figures 4 and 5.
- the device is viewed from the outside relative to the center of the rotation plate (not shown) of the machine.
- the device is seen from the inside, by the side of the device which is on the side of the rotation plate (not shown) of the machine.
- the packaging machine has been simplified to facilitate understanding of the relationship of the device 1 with the tray 24.
- the filling device 1 comprises a frame formed by two vertical lateral uprights 2 connected to their upper ends by a horizontal connecting piece 3 in order to stiffen the frame which is intended to be fixed on a frame 23 of the packaging machine carrying the tray circular 24 vial transport.
- the two uprights 2 are fixed on the frame 23 at the edge of the periphery of the plate 24.
- a horizontal slider carriage 4 that can move vertically between the two uprights is slidably mounted at its two lateral ends on the two uprights 2.
- the slider carriage 4 is disposed above the tray so that the slats can, by the top, enter through the necks of the flasks, into the flasks.
- the trolley 4 consists of two main parts: a horizontal guide plate 6 which is the sliding element on the two uprights and a horizontal mouthpiece 21 which can move horizontally in a circular arc below the guide plate 6 and is maintained by the latter.
- the nozzle supports a number of substantially vertical fillers 5 terminating downwardly with fillers 16. As a result of this arrangement, the spouts 16 can move vertically and horizontally.
- a first motorized means 7 makes it possible to raise and lower the carriage by means of two vertical ball screws 10 whose balls engage with the lateral ends of the guide plate 6.
- the first means motorized 7 is secured to the connecting piece 3 and rotates the ball screws via a horizontal transmission pin 9 and two angle jacks 12.
- elastic couplings 22 are implemented on this transmission.
- the vertical ball screws, movable in rotation, are held fixed at their two ends on the uprights 2 and / or the connecting piece 3 and in this case, at the bottom, on a plate 13 secured to the upright and, in top, on the connecting piece 3.
- the first motorized means is preferably arranged towards the outside of the device.
- the connecting means which are connected to the device, in particular the pipes and / or others (not shown), are arranged on the inside / towards the center of the plate.
- a second motorized means 8 allows the arcuate movements and back and forth of the nozzle holder 21 under the guide plate 6.
- the second motorized means 8 is fixed to the guide plate 6 substantially median thereto.
- the guide plate 6 comprises, in this particular case on its lower face, means for guiding and sliding the holder-nozzle 21. Means facilitating the sliding of the nozzle under the guide plate, such as ball bearings or rollers, are preferably implemented.
- the fitting of the filling devices 5 fixed under the nozzle-holder 21 is stiffened, at the level of the jaws 16, by a horizontal blade 14 which is itself fixed to the nozzle-holder 21 by two vertical rods 17. Since a vial neck centering means 15 is disposed under the horizontal blade 14 in connection with each filling spout 16, said blade 14 then forms a collar centering bar.
- the spouts and collar centering bar are arranged in an arc to be in correspondence with the cells on the periphery of the plate and therefore with the bottles to be filled.
- the nosepiece moves in an arc and goes back and forth under the guide plate, the guide devices and collar centering bar follow the same path.
- the filling spouts 16 can slide through the collar blade / centering bar.
- the height of the rods 17 is constant or is made variable or adjustable, possibly with damping means and / or elastic.
- this height is variable, the rods comprising an elastic means that in the absence of a bottle, the collet centering bar 14,15 substantially descends against or very close to the plate 24 and / or cups 25 in the lower position of the spouts as shown in FIG. 4. It is understood that, in the presence of flasks, the descent of the collar centering bar 14, 15 will be stopped along the way by the flasks during the lowering of the spouts towards the spout. bottom of the bottles, the latter sliding through the neck centering bar 14,15.
- vials are seen in buckets 25 in the cells 26 of the periphery of the circular plate 24.
- a fixed circular horizontal table of diameter smaller than that of the horizontal plate 24 is disposed above the plate. The table can be used to secure some of the functional stations of the packaging machine.
- the filling device 1 is installed on the frame 23 of the packaging machine along the periphery of the circular plate 24, externally to this plate.
- the frame 23 comprises two superposed parallel horizontal plates on which the uprights 2 are fixed, which increases the rigidity and stability of the gantry.
- each of the filling apparatus 5 comprises various members including a means 18 as a valve opening / closing nozzle, fittings for product lines, pneumatic control, possibly suction, any sensors. ..
- the pipes and electrical cables for filling devices 5 are flexible to follow the movements of back and forth in rotation and up / down beaks and they are for example held together by a rack 19 secured to the holder beaks 21.
- the rack 19 is kept at a distance from said holder by tabs 20.
- the rack 19 is here arranged on the side inside the filling device. In variants, the rack may be omitted or arranged in a different manner.
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