EP3313774A1 - Gaiter seal and working head of a device or machine for producing and/or treating containers, said working head comprising such a gaiter seal - Google Patents
Gaiter seal and working head of a device or machine for producing and/or treating containers, said working head comprising such a gaiter sealInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a bellows or a bellows seal according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a working head according to the preamble of claim 10.
- Trinox method is set using the use of a Trinox tube on the filling elements, is currently the filling height adjustment or formation
- bellows whose length exceeds a certain amount, tend to buckle during movements. This behavior also occurs in particular when the bellows seal in question is subjected to changing pressures, in particular negative pressure, in the interior.
- Bellows seals which are optimally designed to withstand, for example, a negative pressure inside, usually have a specific
- a bellows seal according to claim 1 is formed.
- a process or working head with such a bellows seal is the subject of claim 10.
- the bellows seal according to the invention consists of at least two individual bellows modules, which in the direction of the bellows axis are then connected to each other in a sealed manner to the respective bellows seal, and e.g. be provided in a standard size.
- the length of the bellows seal can be adapted to the respective requirements, without affecting the stability of the
- At least one sliding and supporting element is provided between the ends of the bellows seal, which is provided in the interior of the bellows on the at least one of the bellows seal enclosed rod and / or tubular functional element or outside the
- the at least one sliding and supporting element is preferably arranged at the transition between the adjoining bellows individual modules.
- the supported with the at least one sliding and support element bellows individual modules can be easily prepared in terms of their axial length, on the inner diameter, on the size of the extendable length change, on the wall thickness, on the choice of material, etc., that they Use case withstand occurring loads. Therefore, it is also possible to use the bellows seal of any length by using a corresponding number of bellows seals. To produce individual modules, with the stability that for the im
- the at least one sliding and supporting element and in particular also the sliding and supporting element provided in the interior of the bellows seal is preferably a component of at least one individual bellows module or an independent component which, for example, has a disk-shaped or plate-like construction and in at least one of the bellows individual modules of the
- the sliding and supporting element provided in the interior of the bellows seal has, in addition to a first opening for the passage of the rod-shaped and / or tubular functional element, at least one of the bellows individual modules
- Sterilization medium for treating the inner surfaces of the bellows seal and the outer surface of the rod and / or rohrformigen functional element.
- This passage which is preferably formed by at least one second opening, is inclined with its relevant for the flow of the gas and / or vapor and / or liquid medium axis relative to the longitudinal axis of the Faltenbalgdichtung or the functional element such that within the Bellows seal when flowing through in particular with a cleaning and / or
- Sterilization medium results in a swirling motion in this medium
- a plurality of second openings are provided distributed around the first opening.
- the ends or end faces of the bellows-individual modules are designed so that they directly, z. via connecting or coupling sections, or indirectly, e.g. via connecting or intermediate pieces, with others
- Bellows individual modules are connected.
- the connection is preferably carried out by screwing on the end faces of the bellows-individual modules or on there formed connecting or coupling sections or by jamming or bracing at these sections.
- the sliding and Supporting elements are preferably formed by coupling sections or connecting or intermediate pieces.
- a flexible channel (for example annular channel or annular space) is formed around the rod-shaped and / or tubular functional element, which enables an axial adjustment of this functional element, for example a rod-shaped probe or a Trinox tube of a filling element without a sliding seal.
- a flexible channel for example annular channel or annular space
- the bellows seal for complete cleaning and / or disinfection, in particular for a CIP cleaning and / or disinfection of the inner surfaces over the entire length can be flowed through, in any length condition.
- tubular functional element and channel e.g., annulus or annulus
- tubular functional element and channel e.g., annulus or annulus
- a sterile gaseous medium having reduced operating pressure e.g. with an operating pressure of a maximum of 3 bar is applied.
- the rinsing of the flexible channel in the cleaning and / or disinfection then takes place, for example, involving process paths or channels of the working head, for example of the filling element, or the filling machine or else via its own connections, via which the cleaning and / or or disinfecting medium supplied and / or discharged.
- the bellows seal according to the invention has a high stability especially against buckling, it can also be used to the respective rod and / or tubular functional element in a starting position, for example against an upper, adjustable in height stop
- Bellows seal and / or by applying this seal with an internal pressure can also be an example externally arranged spring be provided. If the filling process creates a vacuum inside the
- containers are in particular cans, bottles, barrels, also KEGs, tubes, pourches, in each case of metal, glass and / or plastic, but also other packaging materials which are suitable for filling liquid or viscous products Sealing position with the treatment head or filling element befind Anlagen container "means in the context of the invention that the respective container in the manner known to those skilled with its container mouth tightly pressed against the treatment head or to the filling element or to a local seal.
- substantially or “approximately” or “approximately” in the sense of the invention means deviations from the exact value by +/- 10%, preferably by + 1-5% and / or deviations in the form of Function insignificant
- FIG. 2 in a simplified representation and in section a height-adjustable in its axial direction tubular functional element of the filling element of Figure 1 together with the surrounding this functional element
- FIG. 3 shows a plurality of bellows individual modules forming the bellows seal of FIGS. 1 and 2;
- Fig. 4 is a section along the line I - I of Fig. 3;
- FIG. 12 - 14 representations similar to Figures 2-4 in another
- FIG. 15 - 17 representations similar to Figures 2-4 in another
- FIG. 18 - 20 representations similar to Figures 2-4 in another
- 1 is a filling element for filling containers 2, for example in the form of bottles, with a liquid filling material.
- the filling element 1 is provided in a manner known to those skilled in the art together with a plurality of similar filling elements 1 on a rotor 3 of a filling machine or a filling system that can be driven circumferentially about a vertical machine axis and forms one
- Control valves 8 are controlled for different filling or filling processes.
- Each filling element 1 also comprises a in its axial direction, i. in a vertical Sportselementachse FA adjustable tubular functional element 10, which in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a filling height, i. the level of Gregutspiegels in the container 2 at the end of the filling process determining tube is, for example, a Trinox tube.
- This Trinox tube extends during filling through the container opening of the arranged in sealing position on the filling element 1
- the functional element 10 is sealed, but axially displaceable by the
- the Bellows seal 12 consists of several, ie, in the illustrated embodiment, three adjoining one another in the direction of the filling element axis FA and close to one another
- the bellows-individual modules 13 are formed identically and each have a in the illustration of Figures 2 and 3 upper annular connection or coupling portion 13.1 with internal thread, one in the
- Coupling section 13.1 matching external thread is formed, and an intermediate bellows section 13.3, which allows the change in length of the bellows seal 12.
- the bellows individual modules 13 are preferably made in one piece as a molded part of at least one suitable material, preferably plastic.
- Bellows section 13.2 having a central opening 14, with the coupling portion 13.2 and thus the bellows seal 12 is guided in total on the functional element 10 supporting this, so that each coupling portion 13.2 at the same time forms a sliding and supporting element of the bellows seal 12. Furthermore, a plurality of openings 15 are provided in the coupling portion 13.2 distributed around the opening 14, the passages form and in the following even closer
- the bellows individual modules 13 are using additional
- Sealing rings 16 by screwing a respective coupling portion 13.2 with a coupling portion 13.1 together to the bellows seal 12th
- the lower end of the Faltenbalgdichtung 12 in Figures 1 and 2 is also by using a sealing ring 16 by screwing with the Greelementgephaseuse 1 .1, in the illustrated embodiment by screwing the lower coupling portion 13.2 in an internally threaded opening 17 of a gas channel of the gas paths 9.
- the upper end of the bellows seal 12 is in the illustrated embodiment using a sealing ring 16 by screwing of the upper one
- Coupling portion 13.1 attached to a connector 18 on the valve block 1 1.
- Functional element 10 is a radial or lateral deflection or a
- the annular space 19 During normal filling operation prevailed in the annular space 19 preferably a normal ambient pressure corresponding or slightly above the normal ambient pressure lying pressure.
- the annular space 19 is separated in the normal filling operation of gas paths, but preferably filled with a sterile gas and / or vapor medium.
- the filling element 1 but is designed so that the annular space 19 during cleaning and disinfection of the filling machine and the filling elements 1, preferably in the so-called. CIP cleaning of the liquid cleaning and disinfecting medium used in this case
- valves 20 and 21 are provided in the filling element 1 in the valve block 1 1, via the corresponding arrow A and the height adjustment of the functional element 10 is provided, of which the valve 21 is closed during normal filling operation constantly and of which the valve 20th during normal filling operation then opens when over the
- Functional element 10 gas and / or filling material to be derived from the container 2 and returned to the Gregutkessel 5, for example in the
- both valves 20 and 21 are opened, so that the liquid cleaning and / or
- Disinfectant medium for example, via a gas path 9 in Medelementgeophuse 1 .1 enter the annular space 19, this flow and then on the two open valves 20 and 21 and connection 22, which is connected to the gas chamber 5.2 of the Gregutkessels, can flow back to this boiler.
- the annular space 19 delimiting surfaces, in particular on the folds of the Faltenbalgdichtung 12, the perfused by the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium openings 15 are preferably designed obliquely so that As a result, the cleaning and / or disinfection intensifying swirling movement of the liquid cleaning and / or disinfecting medium when
- Annular space 19 is not included in the gas processes, especially during production, there are no additional gas losses here.
- the bellows seal 12 is expediently brought into a state of minimum length before introducing the liquid cleaning and / or disinfecting medium into the annular space 19, ie in the illustrated embodiment, the valve block 1 1 is moved to its lowermost position. Subsequently, the annular space 19 is increasingly increasing with increasing the length of the bellows seal 12 with the cleaning and / or Filled disinfectant medium, so that also thereby the folds of the bellows seal 12 are optimally involved in the cleaning and / or disinfection process.
- the bellows seal 12 or its bellows individual modules 13 as well as the coupling sections 13.1 and 13.2 and the Faltenbalgabites 13.3 have a cross section which is significantly larger than the cross section of the functional element 10, so that the annular space 19 between the bellows seal 12 and the
- Functional element 10 has a sufficiently large cross-section and so during the cleaning and / or disinfection of the filling element 1 without pressure loss or substantially no pressure loss of the liquid cleaning and / or
- Disinfecting medium can be flowed through and the training of the
- the annular coupling portions 13.1 and 13.2 are substantially rigid, in any case, have a significantly lower elasticity than the intermediate bellows 13.3. In one-piece design of the bellows individual modules 13, this is achieved in that the coupling sections 13.1 and 13.2 compared to the
- Bellows section 13.3 have an enlarged material cross-section.
- valve block 1 1 forms in this embodiment also with the
- FIG. 5 shows in a representation similar to Fig. 1 as a further embodiment, a filling element 1 a, which differs from the filling element 1 essentially only in that in the valve block 1 1 only used as Trinox valve, i. the functional element 10 controlling valve 20 is provided and the upper end of the annular space 19 via a connection 22.1 and a gas path 9 is constantly in communication with an annular channel provided on the rotor 3 3.1, the e.g.
- a sterile gas or an inert gas eg CO2 gas
- FIG. 6 shows as another possible embodiment, a filling element 1 b, which differs from the filling element 1 a only in that the upper end of the annular space 19 via the connection 22.1 not with an annular channel 3.1 of the rotor 3, but with an additional, on the rotor 3 for all filling elements 1 b provided annular channel 3.2 is constantly in communication.
- FIG. 7 shows, as a further possible embodiment, a filling element 1 c, which differs from the filling elements 1, 1 a - 1 b in that the axially height-adjustable, i. in the direction of the Greelementachse FA movable rohrformige functional element 10 is a filling tube, which over the in the valve block 1 1
- valve 20 and a product line 22 controlled by the
- Liquid space 5.1 of the product container 5 is connectable.
- Bellows seal 12 is in this embodiment constantly connected to a rotor 3 formed on the channel 3.1 in connection, during the filling process
- Has ambient pressure preferably an inert gas at ambient pressure or with a reduced pressure leads, for example, with a pressure of at most 3 bar.
- the valve 21 is always closed so that the annulus 19 of process paths, i. is separated from the product line 23.
- the annular space 19 flows through the liquid cleaning or disinfecting medium, which is supplied, for example, from the product container 5 and removed via the annular channel 3.1 or vice versa.
- Fig. 8 shows in a representation similar to Fig. 1 as a further embodiment, a filling element 1 d, in which the rod-shaped functional element 10 is an electrical, the filling height determining probe, which in turn is axially adjustable (double arrow A) and the upper, from the Filler housing 1 .1 led out part length is enclosed by the bellows seal 12.
- the trained as an electrical probe functional element is, for example, within the bellows seal 12 or within the preferably of an electrically non-conductive material made connection piece 18 for connection to the not shown
- Control electronics contacted contact 28.
- FIGS. 9-11 show, together with the height-adjustable functional element 10 as a further embodiment, a bellows seal 12a which is likewise composed of a plurality of, e.g. in the illustrated embodiment consists of three in the direction of the Greelementachse FA successive and tightly interconnected bellows-individual modules 13a. These are different from the ones
- Bellows single modules 13 essentially only in that the bellows single modules 13a have at both ends in each case an annular coupling portion 13.1 with internal thread.
- annular provided with an external threaded coupling elements or spacers 13.4 are provided, which have the openings 14 and 15 and serve as sliding or supporting elements.
- Coupling element 13.4 are the successive in the axial direction
- Bellows single modules 13a connected by screwing together.
- the upper end of the bellows seal 12a is in turn connected to the port 18 of the valve block 11 by screwing on the upper coupling section 13.1.
- the lower end of the bellows seal 12a is connected by screwing the lower coupling portion 13.1 on an external thread of the Medelementgeophuses 1 .1 with this. Sealing rings 16 each ensure the tight connection.
- FIGS. 12-14 show in illustrations corresponding to FIGS. 2-4 as a further embodiment, inter alia.
- a bellows seal 12b which in turn consists of several axially, i. in the direction of the Greelementachse FA successive and tightly interconnected bellows single modules 13b consists.
- Bellows modules 13b differ from the bellows-single modules 13 essentially only in that each bellows-individual module 13b instead of the connecting or coupling sections 13.1 and 13.2 co-axially with the
- Bellows section 13.3 is formed and of which the coupling portion 13.6 is disc-shaped with the openings 14 and 15 and thus as a sliding and Supporting the bellows seal 12b for support on the functional element 10 acts.
- the coupling sections 13.5 and 13.6 are each designed with a radially projecting flange. On these flanges are the
- Bellows seal 12b forming, adjoining bellows single modules 13b connected by screwing (screws 24 and nuts 25) and clamped, using one each
- Sealing ring 16 for sealing the transition between two adjoining single bellows modules 13b. Similarly, by screwing (screws 24) also the upper end of the bellows seal 12b at the port 18 and the lower end of the bellows seal 12b on
- FIGS. 15-17 show in a representation similar to FIGS. 2-4 as further
- a bellows seal 2c which also consists of a plurality of axially adjoining bellows individual modules 13c.
- the bellows individual modules 13c are executed in the same way as the bellows individual modules 13b, the coupling sections 13.5 and 13.6, however, no
- FIGS. 18-20 show in a view similar to Figs. 2-4 as further
- Embodiment of a bellows seal 12d which also consists of several, ie in the illustrated embodiment of three axially adjacent and tightly interconnected bellows-individual modules 13d, which differ from the bellows-individual modules 13b substantially only thereby in that each bellows individual module 13d has the coupling sections 13.5 at both ends.
- a circular disk-shaped spacer 13.7 is provided, which is inserted into the adjoining bellows-individual modules 13d and forms a sliding and supporting element of the bellows seal 12d.
- the bellows seals 12 a - 12 d can in the same way as the
- Bellows seal 12 are used, in particular in the filling elements 1, 1 a - 1 c.
- the invention has been described above in various embodiments. It is understood that the invention is not limited to this
- Embodiments is limited.
- the bellows seal according to the invention is in principle also suitable for other machines or their treatment heads, in particular the beverage industry, where it is a matter of an axially movable or adjustable rod or tubular for a process as sterile as possible
- the rod or tubular functional element enclosed by the bellows seal may differ from the embodiments described a mandrel of a working head or a form of a stretch blow molding machine for producing containers made of plastic (PET) or a stretching filling mandrel of a working head of a so-called LBO machine ie a machine for stretch forming containers 2 using a liquid medium, for example a filling material.
- LBO machine a stretching filling mandrel of a working head of a so-called LBO machine ie a machine for stretch forming containers 2 using a liquid medium, for example a filling material.
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