EP2942321A1 - Abfüllanlage und Linie zur Führung von Behältern - Google Patents

Abfüllanlage und Linie zur Führung von Behältern Download PDF

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EP2942321A1
EP2942321A1 EP14167076.0A EP14167076A EP2942321A1 EP 2942321 A1 EP2942321 A1 EP 2942321A1 EP 14167076 A EP14167076 A EP 14167076A EP 2942321 A1 EP2942321 A1 EP 2942321A1
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Roberto Germiniasi
Tommaso Tegoni
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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
    • B67C7/00—Concurrent cleaning, filling, and closing of bottles; Processes or devices for at least two of these operations
    • B67C7/0006—Conveying; Synchronising
    • B67C7/004—Conveying; Synchronising the containers travelling along a circular path
    • B67C7/0046—Infeed and outfeed devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/26—Applications of control, warning, or safety devices in capping machinery
    • B67B3/262—Devices for controlling the caps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/26—Applications of control, warning, or safety devices in capping machinery
    • B67B3/262—Devices for controlling the caps
    • B67B3/265—Devices for controlling the caps presence of a cap
    • 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
    • B67C3/007—Applications of control, warning or safety devices in filling machinery

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  • the present invention relates to a bottling plant.
  • the present invention relates to a bottling plant of the type comprising a blowing unit to blow the containers starting from relative preforms; a filling unit to feed a product into the containers; a capping unit to close the containers with relative caps; and a labelling unit to label the containers with relative labels.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a line for conveying containers, in particular bottles, to feed the containers through the bottling plant.
  • number 1 indicates, as a whole, a bottling plant for bottling products, in particular, in PET bottles 2.
  • the plant 1 comprises, in sequence and in this order, a blowing unit of the known type (not shown) to blow the bottles 2 starting from relative preforms (not shown); a filling unit 3 to feed a product into the bottles 2; a capping unit 4 to close each bottle 2 with a relative cap 5; and a labelling unit 2 to label the bottles 2 with relative labels (not shown).
  • a blowing unit of the known type to blow the bottles 2 starting from relative preforms (not shown)
  • a filling unit 3 to feed a product into the bottles 2
  • a capping unit 4 to close each bottle 2 with a relative cap 5
  • a labelling unit 2 to label the bottles 2 with relative labels (not shown).
  • Each unit 3, 4, 6 comprises a starwheel 7, which is mounted so as to continuously rotate around a rotation axis 8 that is substantially vertical and perpendicular to the plane of the sheet of figure 1 .
  • the starwheels 7 of units 3 and 4 are connected to one another by a starwheel 9, which is mounted so as to continuously rotate around a rotation axis 10 that is parallel to the axes 8.
  • the bottles 2 are transferred from the unit 4 to the unit 6 along a path P and in a feeding direction 11 by means of a conveying line 12.
  • the line 12 comprises a plurality of starwheels 13 (in particular, four starwheels 13), which are mounted so as to continuously rotate around respective rotation axes 14, which are substantially vertical and parallel to the axes 8, 10, and are connected to one another in correspondence to relative transfer stations 15.
  • starwheels 13 in particular, four starwheels 13
  • respective rotation axes 14 which are substantially vertical and parallel to the axes 8, 10, and are connected to one another in correspondence to relative transfer stations 15.
  • Each starwheel 13 is provided with a plurality of grippers 16, which are uniformly distributed around the relative axis 14 and are configured to each receive and hold a relative bottle 2.
  • Each gripper 16 comprises two jaws 17, which are mobile between a clamping position and a release position, in which they clamp and release, respectively, a relative bottle 2, and are moved to - as well as kept in - their clamping position by a spring (not shown).
  • the plant 1 comprises, furthermore, two control and discard units 18a, 18b, which are mounted along the path P so as to control the correct application of the caps 5 on the relative bottles 2 and discard defective bottles 2.
  • the first unit 18a comprises a first control device 19a, which is mounted in correspondence to the capping unit 4 immediately upstream of the transfer station 15 between the cupping unit 4 and the following starwheel 13.
  • the control device 19a is configured so as to control the presence of the caps 5 on the relative bottles 2.
  • the first unit 18a further comprises a first discard device 20a, which is mounted in correspondence to the starwheel 13 that follows the capping unit 4 so as to discard bottles 2 without caps 5 in response to a signal of the device 19a itself.
  • the second unit 18b comprises a second control device 19b, which is mounted in correspondence to a first starwheel 13 (hereinafter referred to as starwheel 13a) so as to control the correct application of the caps 5 on the relative bottles 2, and a second discard device 20b, which is mounted in correspondence to a second starwheel 13 (hereinafter referred to as drum 13b) so as to discard defective bottles 2 in response to a signal of the device 19b itself.
  • a second control device 19b which is mounted in correspondence to a first starwheel 13 (hereinafter referred to as starwheel 13a) so as to control the correct application of the caps 5 on the relative bottles 2, and a second discard device 20b, which is mounted in correspondence to a second starwheel 13 (hereinafter referred to as drum 13b) so as to discard defective bottles 2 in response to a signal of the device 19b itself.
  • starwheel 13b is mounted downstream of the starwheel 13a in the direction 11.
  • the first control device 19a preferably comprises a fibre optic sensor for detecting the presence of the caps 5 on the relative bottles 2 in the capping unit 4.
  • the second control device 19b preferably comprises a video camera 21, which is mounted in a position facing the path P and is arranged so as to control the correct application of the caps 5 on the relative bottles 2.
  • the devices 20a, 20b comprise, for each gripper 16, a respective cam follower 22, which is supported by one of the relative jaws 17 and is mounted so as to rotate around a rotation axis 23 that is parallel to the axes 14.
  • Each device 20a, 20b comprises, furthermore, a vertical upright 24, which extends upwards in a direction 25 that is parallel to the axes 14 and supports two guide pins 26 that project from the upright 24 in a direction 27 that is substantially horizontal and transverse to the direction 25 itself.
  • the two pins 26 are engaged in a sliding manner by a plate 28, which is mounted perpendicular to the direction 27 and is moved in the direction 27 itself by an actuating cylinder 29, which is fixed to the upright 24 and has an output rod 30 connected to the plate 28.
  • Each device 20a, 20b comprises, finally, a cam 31, which is fixed to the plate 28 and is moved by the cylinder 29 between a forward operating position, in which the cam 31 projects into the feeding path of the cam followers 22 so as to move the jaws 17 of a given gripper 16 to their release position in which they release the relative bottle 2, and a backward rest position, in which the cam 31 is arranged outside the feeding path of the cam followers 22 so as to allow the grippers 16 to remain in their clamping positions in which they clamp the relative bottles 2.
  • each discard device 20a, 20b is removed and replaced with a discard device 32 comprising the cam followers 22 and comprising, furthermore, a support plate 33, which is fixed to a frame (not shown) of the starwheel 13b perpendicular to the direction 25.
  • the device 32 comprises, furthermore, a cam 34, which is hinged to the plate 33 so as to rotate, relative to the plate 33 itself, around a fulcrum axis 35 that is parallel to the direction 25.
  • the cam 34 is moved between its forward operating position and its backward rest position by an actuating cylinder 36, which is mounted on the plate 33 and has an output rod 37 that is coupled to the cam 34 itself in a rotary manner.
  • control and discard units 18a, 18b operate can easily be deduced from the description above and, therefore, does not require further explanations.
  • the first control and discard unit 18a allows bottles 2 that were not capped to be detected and immediately rejected from the bottling plant 1.
  • the second control and discard unit 18b allows bottles 2 that have caps 5, but are not capped correctly to be discarded upstream of the labelling unit 6 in the direction 11, thus avoiding the application of labels (not shown) on the bottles 2 to be discarded.
  • the configuration of the conveying line 12, defined by a succession of starwheels 13, allows the bottles 2 to be transferred from the capping unit 4 to the labelling unit 6 in a relatively quick fashion and along a relatively short path P. Moreover, in this way, possible intermediate storage hoppers or baskets to store the bottles 2 can be eliminated.

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DE2549144A1 (de) * 1975-11-03 1977-05-12 Enzinger Union Werke Ag Verfahren zum behandeln von flaschen, dosen und aehnlichen behaeltern und behandlungseinheit hierfuer
EP0353534A1 (de) * 1988-07-19 1990-02-07 Rudolf Zodrow Flaschenbehandlungsmaschine für Bügelverschlussflaschen, insbesondere Schliessmaschine in Kombination mit Etikettiermaschine
DE19513064A1 (de) * 1995-04-07 1996-10-10 Khs Masch & Anlagenbau Ag Verfahren sowie System zum Füllen von Behältern mit einem flüssigen Füllgut sowie Füllmaschine und Etikettiereinrichtung zur Verwendung bei diesem Verfahren oder System
JP2000158527A (ja) * 1998-11-30 2000-06-13 Daiwa Can Co Ltd 無菌充填ボトル製造工程における検査方法
JP2003285926A (ja) * 2002-03-28 2003-10-07 Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd 容器搬送装置の分別リジェクト装置
EP2279952A1 (de) * 2008-05-20 2011-02-02 Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Verfahren und vorrichtung zur verpackung von getränken
WO2011020520A1 (de) * 2009-08-18 2011-02-24 Khs Gmbh Automatisches testverfahren für inspektionseinrichtung
DE102010012214A1 (de) * 2010-03-19 2011-09-22 Khs Gmbh Deckelsichttulpe
EP2799347A1 (de) * 2013-04-30 2014-11-05 Theegarten-Pactec Gmbh & Co. Kg Steuerungseinrichtung für Produkt-Halteeinrichtungen und Verpackungsmaschine mit einer solchen

Cited By (1)

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WO2020007535A1 (de) * 2018-07-02 2020-01-09 Krones Ag Verfahren zum kommissionieren von paletten mit getränkegebinden

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