DE6610379U - DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS WASHING AND DRYING OF FILLED AND CLOSED BOTTLES. - Google Patents

Description

Vf

.:. ^: .. ^: ' ^: ·· "". ·· 5 * -. Cologne, September 9, 1968

PETER OiäiSfliW villain L

PATENT ENGINEER Note: Dr. Hermann Datz C /

5 COLOGNE Miesenheixa

OVBRSTOLZENSTR. 19th

My reference: 686

Device for the continuous washing and drying of filled and closed bottles

The invention relates to an apparatus for continuous Washing and drying in particular of filled and closed bottles.

It is necessary to remove bottles, especially drinks bottles, to prepare for labeling after pulling and sealing, because when passing through the filling and closing stations. Sometimes sugary liquids can get on the bottles. The wetting of the bottle surface with the bottle contents adversely affects the exterior of the bottle, is unhygienic and diminishes the reputation of the filling company.

The object on which the invention is based is to create a device by means of which the filled and closed Bottles outside and also in the area of the closures continuously washed and dried and thus prepared for labeling can be.

66103792ifii. 73

9.9.1968

according to the invention achieved by the fact that within a tunnel-shaped housing in a washing compartment on both sides of a continuous on the bottom of the housing moving conveyor belt for transporting the bottles in parallel

cylindrical brushes are arranged with bristles reaching far into the profile of the bottles, the axes of which are approximately are stored at half the height of the bottles to be cleaned, and that is parallel to the conveyor belt above the bottles a driven rotating roller-shaped brush is located, the bristles of which extend into the profile of the bottle head and into single or multi-start spiral rows arranged for conveying, with between the upper brush and the side brushes directed at the bottles for spraying nozzles the bottles with washing liquid are attached, and that in the conveying direction behind the washing compartment inside

Drying compartment Torge vision is _f in the supported, processed and conveyed by means of a ^ s fan air to the brushes, analogous to the former by means of brushes and the conveyor belt, it is transported bottles strahlbar. In an embodiment of the invention, two driven brushes are arranged on both sides of the conveyor belt on both sides of the conveyor belt, one above the other and parallel to the conveyor belt, parallel to the conveyor belt.

~ 5-9.9.1968

In a further embodiment of the invention is on an intake port Connected to the blower is a pipe for supplying heated air.

The device according to the invention can also be used as an individual tunnel-shaped, adjustable via an appropriately long conveyor belt, be formed at the bottom open housing.

A container for washing liquid is arranged below the washing station, from which the washing liquid is fed to the nozzles by means of a pump can be supplied, in which the sprayed washing liquid can be collected and which is controlled by a float. one

It is necessary that the peripheral speed of the upper

adjustable as required by means of a "known gear" is.

According to the invention is reached in that filled and closed! Bottles, also in _5ereich the closure z, B * _e UEB Drahii- or Kronenkorkrersciilttsses, washed tmü getroclaiet the Stikettiervorrichtung are outside zuführoar at sparsaseiü consumption of ifaschfiüssigkeit ;. "For the treatment of smaller, lower bottles, it is sufficient on both sides

661037929.11.73

f.9.1968 vJ /

to arrange a brush each, while it is two-way, at Higher bottles should be provided with two brushes on each side.

In the drawing, the according to the invention is based on an embodiment Vorrichtimg explained, it shows:

Fig. 1 in section in side view of the device with the washing compartment on the left side and through the Aprons separate the drying compartment;

Fig. 2 in the front view a section through the washing compartment

Fig. 3 is a front view of a section through the drying compartment.

1 with the tunnel-shaped housing is referred to in the Auaführungsbeispiel stands on feet 15, can be adjusted in height in a manner known per se and is continuously filled by one and sealed bottles 3 transporting items driven conveyor belt 2 is passed through. On both sides of the conveyor belt 2 are arranged around in the longitudinal direction Axes 5 parallel to the conveyor belt 2 and parallel to each other, driven by a motor 14, rotating roller-shaped Brushes 4. The axes 5 of the brushes 4 are approximately half the height of the axes to be cleaned on the conveyor belt 2 Bottles 3. The rotating brushes 4 »whose bristles are wide in

-5-

661037929.11.73

the profile of the bottles hiB.eifix-eieh.en, öaait the bottles can be brushed on all sides, cause the bottles to slow down, making them tend to move towards each other the conveying direction of the conveyor belt, i.e. to be laid backwards. In order to counteract this tilting of the bottles, is in the longitudinal direction above the conveyor belt 2 and above the zn cleaning Bottles arranged a parallel to the conveyor belt also driven rotating brush 6, the bristles in the Area of the bottle head bsw. the wire connection or the crown cap of the bottle. The bristles of the brush 6 have the function of preventing the bottles from falling over to secure and on the other hand to clean the bottle heads. The bristles of the brush 6 are conveyed in single or multiple threads arranged spiral rows and are expediently shorter and harder than the borates of the brushes 4 ·. !The The circumferential speed of the brush 6 is expediently higher be than the belt speed of the conveyor belt 2, so that the rotating brushes 4 in their course through the Device braked bottles are prevented from doing so while the bristles run transversely to the conveying direction to lean backwards. Due to the spiral arrangement of the rows of bristles of the brush 6, the bottles experience the head side a drive, which in its effect the drive of the conveyor belt 2, but for the purpose of overcoming the through

-6-

661037929.11.73

9.9 * 1968

Brushes 4 applied braking force increased «corresponds to Daa means that the forces acting on the bottles must be in equilibrium. To establish that balance too can be done in a way that is not described in more detail by varying the rotating axes of the brushes and, if necessary, also by making changes of the contact pressure, especially of the upper brush 6, 2. B. by changing the distance between the upper brush and the Piaschenkopf, influenced. Invention companies are the Slide closures, crown caps, porcelain stoppers and Wire locks cleaned and polished.

According to the invention, the housing 1 is divided into two compartments. The first compartment 10 is designed as a washing compartment, the second compartment 16 as a drying compartment. Between the upper brush 6 and the side brushes 4 is from above by means of nozzles 7 washing liquid, ζ. B. water with a pressure τοη 3-4atü, sprayed on the bottles. The ash liquid is

management example by means of a pump 8 to the collecting container 13 taken and fed to the nozzles 7 via pipes. In the washing compartment 10 sprayed washing liquid is collected in the container 13 in the exemplary embodiment. By means of one with one Valve cooperating float is regulated in a manner not shown, the liquid level in the container 13, which is connected to a supply pressure line, or

'. 6610379 29. ⁷ il.73

Sd

-7- "" "** '" * 9.9.1368

to a freely running reserve tank, if it is not cleaned with clear water, but with a prepared washing liquid εοΐΐ. The bottles arrive in the washing compartment 10 in the drying compartment 16, whereby these pass through a neutral zone arranged in the two compartments, in which the washing liquid can drip off the bottles. The bottles pass through an apron 9 or several aprons made of elastic material that separates the two compartments 10 and 16 in the neutral zone. In the drying compartment 16, too, the bottles, corresponding to the brushes 4 and 6, brushes 4 'and 6', which are also driven, are exposed to a powerful air flow, which is generated in a blower 11 generally arranged above the housing 1. Residues of washing liquid still adhering to the bottles are removed by the air flow, the drying process being effectively supported ^{by the rotating brushes 4 * and 6 1.} Drying can be accelerated |] niet be, which is essential particularly for increasing dor \ ^ i schinen- performance by the blower 11 is supplied with heated air in ■ a conventional manner. Appropriately, the device, not shown, for heating the air by means of a pipe with the intake port 12 of the fan 11 is used.

-8th-

661037929.11.73

θ.9.1963

The device according to the invention can also be used as a Conveyor belt section formed individually attachable tunnels be.

The brushes 4 and 4 * as well as 6 and 6 * can easily be arranged in the same waves. Έϋτ the drive of the brushes 4, 4 * and

the brush S, 6 'can each be provided with a motor. It is conceivable that the Piaschsn srdtteis 2Vfoier ocior Eehroror parallel sxsn Fora-erbami etv / s in Ealshöiie zn both sides of the Pl & schcn angoor-äneter »slch! With pressure from several cushioned solions on the

Bottles applying driven USe bottles conveyor Zaisr Bandor su etütson »

661037929.11.73

Claims (6)

-2- £ γΛ claims: 1. Device for continuous washing and drying τοη gefüllton and closed bottles, characterized in that within a tunnelfSrmigen housing (1) in a washing compartment (10) su both sides of a conveyor belt (2) moving continuously on the bottom of the housing (1) Sum transport of the bottles (3) parallel to the conveyor belt \ 2) _f in the longitudinal direction, driven rotating roller-shaped brushes (4) with bristles that extend far into the profile of the bottles (3) and whose axes (5) are approximately halfway up the bottles to be cleaned are stored, and that parallel to the conveyor belt (2) above the bottles there is a driven rotating roller-shaped brush (6), the bristles of which extend into the profile of the bottle head and are arranged in single or multi-start spiral rows suitable for conveying, with between the upper brush (6) and the side brushes (4) nozzles (7) directed at the bottles for "BeeprUkea of the bottles with washing liquid are attached and that in the conveying direction behind the 9.9.1968 if Waschabtoil (10) within the housing (1). Aprons (9) of elastic material separated by a drying compartment (116) is ^(r 4, 6 ") in the means of a fan (11) air to the sound brush analogous to the former brushes (4, 6) supported processed ,, and supported bottles transported by means of the conveyor belt (2) are radiant. 2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that on both sides of the conveyor belt (2) one above the other and to Conveyor belt and one behind the other parallel in the longitudinal direction two each driven rotating brushes (4) are arranged. 3. Device according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that that a pipe for supplying heated air can be connected to an intake port (12) of the fan (11). 4. Device according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the with the compartments (10 _e 16) and the arrangements of the brushes (4 _t 6, 4 ··, 6 ') of the nozzles (7) and the fan (11 ) provided tunnel-shaped housing (1) is detachably adjustable via a correspondingly long ι bottles continuously transporting conveyor belt (2). 5 * Device according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that that below the Wasohabteils (10) a container (13) -3- 661037929.11.73 -3- " ^: ·" 9.9.1968 for washing liquid is arranged by this means a pump (8) can be fed to the nozzles (7) into the sprayed Washing liquid can be collected and is connected to a supply line by means of a float controlled Valve is refillable. 6. Device according to claims 1 to 5, characterized in that that the peripheral speed of the brushes (6, 6 ·) compared to the belt speed of the conveyor belt (2) in itself known way is arbitrarily adjustable. 7. Device according to claims 1 to 6, characterized in that that the device through running! bottles by means of two more parallel to the conveyor belt at about the height of the neck Suited on both sides of the bottles and attached to the bottles under the pressure of several spring-loaded oars applied driven- the bottles conveying iS.tne2ime.r-belt cr are sustainable. 661037929.11.73