EP0261250A1 - Machine à sélectionner les bouteilles de hauteurs différentes - Google Patents

Machine à sélectionner les bouteilles de hauteurs différentes Download PDF

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EP0261250A1
EP0261250A1 EP83402452A EP83402452A EP0261250A1 EP 0261250 A1 EP0261250 A1 EP 0261250A1 EP 83402452 A EP83402452 A EP 83402452A EP 83402452 A EP83402452 A EP 83402452A EP 0261250 A1 EP0261250 A1 EP 0261250A1
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Roger Vasseur
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/04—Sorting according to size
    • B07C5/10—Sorting according to size measured by light-responsive means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/04—Sorting according to size
    • B07C5/12—Sorting according to size characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for
    • B07C5/122—Sorting according to size characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for for bottles, ampoules, jars and other glassware

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  • the present invention relates to a machine for selecting bottles of different heights brought by a conveyor and evacuated by at least two conveyors, the selection being effected by a wheel with a vertical axis comprising cells corresponding to the vertical bottles, each of the cells comprising a means intermittent retention of its bottle actuated by a height detector of said bottle.
  • Bottlers from returnable bottles, or at least to reuse, have to face difficulties caused by the different heights of bottles. Indeed, in addition to the difficulties encountered during the bottling of the corking and the capping, the bottles are grouped in packages or cardboard boxes which must contain bottles of the same heights under penalty of encountering difficulties in stacking loads.
  • the bottles are brought, on a conveyor, to scroll one by one in front of an apparatus which grabs it and directs it on at least two different conveyors according to its height detected by light rays at appropriate height which come to activate photosensitive cells which emit a signal likely to place the bottle on the conveyor which corresponds to its height.
  • a first system consists of a mechanical ejection pusher.
  • the disadvantages of these pushers are numerous, they require a relatively large lateral clearance so that the pushbutton arrives with a certain speed on the side of the bottle. This causes bottles to fall or even breakage; in any case, the selection speed is relatively low.
  • a second system provides for the referral of the bottles by jets of compressed air; this has the disadvantage of unbalancing the bottles which fall sometimes this system is suitable for bottles of low height, like cans, but is not suitable for normal bottles.
  • a third system uses a wheel with a vertical axis comprising cells with, at the bottom of each cell, a suction cup connected, by pipes and valves, to a vacuum pump.
  • the wheel therefore has mechanical systems which weigh it down and which are fragile.
  • the wheel is therefore positively driven by its axis and it is this which determines the flow rate of the machine to be selected.
  • This system allows a large flow but the mechanics placed inside the cell wheel is fragile and bulky, which requires the use of a large diameter cell wheel. In any case, this mechanism is expensive and is not suitable for medium-sized bottling plants.
  • the present invention is intended to remedy the drawbacks of the devices briefly described above by improving the wheel system with vertical axis with the cells.
  • Another characteristic of the invention resides in the fact that the selection of vacuum suction cups is done by shutters integral with the stationary part of the bearing and which come to plug, respectively open holes relating to each of the suction cups opening onto the upper flank of the cell wheel to establish respectively breaking, the vacuum in the corresponding suction cup.
  • each suction cup can be achieved from a vacuum pump and it is broken by shutters which open openings relating to each suction cup at the desired time.
  • it is caused by a venturi where we admit compressed air normally escaping through holes which can be closed by shutters in which case the corresponding suction cup blows air at instead of sucking it up.
  • the height detector of the invention lies in the fact that it is of the type with a pair of optical fibers, one of the groups of fibers emitting a radiation which, after possible reflection on the top of the bottle, returns partially to the second group of fibers which directs it towards a photosensitive element which determines a current which is amplified appropriately and controls or not the suction of the suction cup.
  • the machine of the invention obviously avoids the disadvantages of all devices with mechanical pushers and pushing by air jets. It also avoids the drawbacks of the cell wheel (sometimes called "star") since here said wheel can be made very slightly since it contains no mobile mechanics. Therefore, it does not include any mechanical drive means. It is driven by the bottles themselves which are pushed by the transporter of a Congresso
  • the machine of the invention selects bottles brought by the conveyor (1) according to the arrows (2, 3), and evacuated by the conveyors (4) and (5) according to the arrows (6, 7).
  • the selection is made by a wheel (8) with a vertical axis (9) rotating in a bearing (10) comprising bearings (11, 12).
  • the wheel (8) has cells such as (13) corresponding to the vertical bottles.
  • a suction cup such as (14) made of elastic material.
  • Each suction cup (14) is screwed by a nozzle ( 1 5) into the wheel hub (8) and has a hole coaxial with the suction cup (14) which opens into a vertical hole ( 1 6) corresponding to the bottom of each cell (13).
  • each suction cup (14) is connected to the part of small section of a venturi (17) placed in the hole (16).
  • the hole (16) receives, at its lower part, compressed air from radial holes such as (18), (181) which radiate from an axial hole (19) leading to a rotary joint (20 ) whose the fixed part is connected to a compressed air pipe (21).
  • the top of the vertical holes (16) opens onto the upper flank of the wheel hub (8) and, when it is not closed, the compressed air passing through each venturi (17) causes vacuum in the suction cup ( 14).
  • This vacuum can be broken by a movable (22) or fixed (23) shutter.
  • the fixed shutter (23) automatically closes the top of the holes (16) when they slide against its lower part.
  • the shutter (22) does the same when the lower portion (2 4) is at the top of the hole (16). However, the plate (24) can be lifted in the direction of the arrow (25) from a jack (not shown) which lifts the shutter (22) by sliding it in appropriate vertical slides. At this time, the shutter has no effect and the vacuum is "broken" in the corresponding suction cup (14).
  • the shutters (22) and (23) are screwed onto the bearing housing (10) at angular locations determined by the place where one wishes to make the selection and at a height which is adjustable to ensure correct operation.
  • the action of the double-acting cylinder controlling the movement of the shutters (22) is done automatically using a solenoid valve which is controlled, from strong currents emitted in a control box which receives light signals coming from a detector which is shown schematically in Figure 4.
  • a solenoid valve which is controlled, from strong currents emitted in a control box which receives light signals coming from a detector which is shown schematically in Figure 4.
  • detectors which are shown schematically in Figure 4.
  • detectors one upper (26) and the other lower (27)
  • each comprising two groups of optical fibers one bringing in light radiation (28) the other bringing back any reflected radiation ( 2 9) .
  • These two optical fiber pairs are indicated by (281) and (291) in the sensor (2 7). If the light emanating from the fiber (28) dissipates in a vacuum along the ray (30), there is no ray brought back by the fiber (29).
  • a photosensitive cell located in the at the other end of the fiber junction box, determines a current that is supplied to a f icateur amplified to produce a strong current that will be used in the control solenoid of the movable shutter (22).
  • the bearing housing ( 1 0) has facets (34, 35, 36) intended to fix there either the shutters (22) or (23), or a support (37) or (38) having an axis such as (39 ) that can be blocked in a yoke (40) fixed to the end of a movable arm (41) that can also be blocked in a yoke (42) secured to the frame of the machine.
  • the conveyors (4) and (5) are of the chain type with flat shoes and are obviously bordered by lateral guides shown diagrammatically by the lines (43).
  • the conveyor (1) brings the bottles along the arrows (2) and (3) which are thus pushed into each of the cells (13), helped in this by the elastic blade (44) which pushes although thoroughly the bottle against the sucker (14) corresponding to ante.
  • This suction cup, in each of the cells turned on the side of the conveyor (1), is still in the suction stage since there is no shutter in this sector.
  • the machine of the invention can also operate with a vacuum pump, in which case a fixed shutter would be placed on the entire underside of the bearing housing (10) except in the places where there are the two shutters ( 22) and (23). In place of the shutter (23) there would be nothing. In place of the shutter (22) there would be a movable shutter which would act opposite the shutter (22) which has been described, that is to say which would rise to let the bottles leave in the transporter (4) and which would lower to drive them to the transporter (7), which is the reverse of what has been described above. The advantages would be the same Since there is no movable selection member on or in the wheel (8).

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US2821302A (en) * 1954-04-29 1958-01-28 Gerald I Fowler Bottle sorter
US3351198A (en) * 1965-02-25 1967-11-07 Owens Illinois Inc Glass container sorting
GB1156628A (en) * 1966-02-11 1969-07-02 Barry Wehmiller Co Container Conveying and Handling Apparatus
DE2738570A1 (de) * 1976-11-04 1978-05-18 Ind Dynamics Co Unterdruck-sternrad

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US2821302A (en) * 1954-04-29 1958-01-28 Gerald I Fowler Bottle sorter
US3351198A (en) * 1965-02-25 1967-11-07 Owens Illinois Inc Glass container sorting
GB1156628A (en) * 1966-02-11 1969-07-02 Barry Wehmiller Co Container Conveying and Handling Apparatus
DE2738570A1 (de) * 1976-11-04 1978-05-18 Ind Dynamics Co Unterdruck-sternrad

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