DE509039C - Automatic prefilling device on automatic barrel cleaning machines - Google Patents

Description

Automatic pre-filling device on automatic drum cleaning machines With the so far mentioned automatic Vorfüllvorrichttingen the barrel in the Centered way, i.e. that it is set in rotation on rotating rollers and then automatically pushed into the center by side centering discs or centering rollers is, so # 1a11 the pre-fill pipe, which is located exactly in the center axis of the machine is to penetrate into the bunghole, hold the barrel and: 1 can fill with water.

Moving the barrel sideways takes some time, so that it happens that the l # ate makes a few turns before the filling tube in the bunghole penetrates. Since there is only a certain amount of time available for pre-filling, it comes it continues that the bunghole of the barrel is only at the last moment 1 before the further transport of the barrel is found or locked - and that little or even -; a water in <read the barrel.

13 ei .den further known gate directions, 1) -i which the barrel on the side is not automatically centered, but entered into a station from above - is, which has freely movable lateral directional organs, -which is not compulsory be corrected, it can happen that the lateral centering or (las svinmetrische Alignment not done at all.

This then happens, '-when the barrel is on one side, the barrel in Rotation displacing rollers is placed and the vorstelien, le tires on one The idler roller rises and thus prevents the symmetrical alignment.

In this case, of course, the pre-filling pipe cannot go into the bunghole either penetrate the barrel, and therefore no water gets into it.

The present innovation serves to avoid this disadvantage the drawing in Fig. 1 in elevation, in Fig. 2 in plan view and in Fig. 3 in side view is shown.

Contrary to the centering described above, in which the barrel after the pre-fill pipe, which is located exactly in the center axis, is centered here the pre-fill pipe centered after the drum, d. H. the barrel retains its position in the it comes on the rollers, at, and the pre-fill pipe goes towards the center of the keg aligned. The process is as follows: After the barrel on the rotating rollers i has reached, a lowers swinging on the machine frame arranged bow13 on the barrel. This bracket can also be moved sideways and carries the pre-filling tube in the middle, and to the left and right of it are two centering washers or centering rollers 5 arranged, which are equidistant from the pre-fill pipe move automatically.

The displacement of the centering rollers 5 or the lateral centering the barrel is done in such a way that a bracket below the pivot point 6 cles 3 attached rope which, on the other hand, is attached to a roller 5 is, by lowering .des bracket 3 loosens and the oarlocks 5 under the influence of a on .dem pin 8 located spring 9 and mediated by the racks io and the gear wheel i i to move along the - center axis of the machine.

So after the bracket has lowered itself to the barrel, these will lie down Centering rollers 5 on the barrel bottoms, and the pre-fill pipe q. is then exactly over aligned with the center of the barrel.

The demonstration tube now penetrates the bunghole and the valve 12 opens automatically and the barrel is filled with hot water.

Shortly before the barrel v is lifted off the rotating rollers i, the pre-fill pipe 4 by means of the swinging bracket 3, which through a suitable gate direction is actuated,. pulled out of the bunghole.

The valve 12 closes automatically, as are the centering rollers 5 pulled apart automatically. This is done in that the rope 7 through the Outward movement of the bracket 3 tensions. At the same time, the spring 9 tense.

In their maximum position take the bracket 3 and the centering rollers 5 the position as indicated by dashed lines in the drawing. Well will the barrel is lifted off the rollers i to make room for another.

The arrangement described above has the advantage that the bracket after lowering on the barrel immediately centered after the barrel, and the barrel then needs make at most one turn until the demonstration tube has found the bunghole, whereupon sem prefilling is started immediately.

The barrel does not have to rotate symmetrically on the rollers i here, rather, it can also be one-sided, i.e. asymmetrical, and still be the pre-fill pipe .I in the moment when it is on (read the barrel hangs up, exactly in the Lie in the middle of the barrel so that what happens afterwards? of the bunghole that The pre-fill pipe 4. must fall into the bunghole. So there is enough time available to safely pre-fill the keg.

Claims (1)

PATENT CLAIM: Automatic pre-filling device on automatic drum cleaning machines, characterized in that the pre-filling pipe is arranged to align itself automatically with the center of the drum.