EP0366956A1 - Capsule-rolling device - Google Patents

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EP0366956A1
EP0366956A1 EP89118333A EP89118333A EP0366956A1 EP 0366956 A1 EP0366956 A1 EP 0366956A1 EP 89118333 A EP89118333 A EP 89118333A EP 89118333 A EP89118333 A EP 89118333A EP 0366956 A1 EP0366956 A1 EP 0366956A1
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    • 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
    • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/10—Capping heads for securing caps
    • B67B3/18—Capping heads for securing caps characterised by being rotatable, e.g. for forming screw threads in situ
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
    • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
    • B65C3/20—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to bottle closures
    • B65C3/22—Affixing metal foil coverings
    • 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
    • B67B5/00—Applying protective or decorative covers to closures; Devices for securing bottle closures with wire
    • B67B5/03—Applying protective or decorative covers to closures, e.g. by forming in situ
    • B67B5/032—Dies for securing overcaps

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  • the invention relates to a rolling device for rolling thin-walled capsules on the bottle neck of beverage bottles.
  • the devices in use today for rolling thin-walled and thus soft capsules, for example made of stanol or aluminum, onto the mostly conical shaft of beverage bottles, such as wine bottles, have rolling elements made of rubber-elastic material which circulate around the capsule at high speed.
  • the rolling elements are pressed against the bottle neck by means of tension springs encompassing the axes of the rolling elements, so that the capsules are placed on the bottle neck while the bottle neck is being immersed in the rolling device.
  • the bottles standing on the lifting plungers are pushed upwards into the rolling device by a lifting movement of the plungers and then removed again downwards from the device.
  • a disadvantage here is that a precisely fitting bottle guide is not possible because of the lifting movement of the bottles in the machine carousel, and the increase in the discharge rate per rolling device by means of a higher rolling speed is very limited. Furthermore, the lifting plunger hinder a cleaning-friendly design of the machine table, the lifting plunger having to be protected by means of sliding sleeves or bellows because they are exposed to the contents and fragments of the beverage bottles in the event of a bottle breakage. To compensate for differences in bottle heights, the tappets must be provided with spring-loaded escape elements, which are very complex and can only be carried out with a small compensation stroke, so that higher bottles are exposed to further risk of breakage due to the spring pressure and only bottles with a small height difference can be processed.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a rolling-on device which permits a substantial increase in the working speed, enables the compensation of even larger bottle height differences and ensures easy machine cleaning even when the bottle breaks.
  • the solution to this problem results from the characterizing features of patent claim 1.
  • the rolling device is designed so that it can perform a vertical lifting movement in addition to the rotary movement of the rolling elements, the bottles thus do not require any lifting movement, but rather are only on simple transport plates without a lifting plunger.
  • the bottles are held against the plates under light pressure during the rolling process. This ensures exact bottle guidance, with the possibility of increasing the starting speed and consequently shortening the starting process. If there should be a bottle break, the functionality will not be affected because all movable and therefore sensitive components are located above the bottle.
  • the device has a head piece 10 with a central roller 11, from which two rods 12 protrude, which slidably pass through an upper carousel plate 13 serving as a guide and hold a head 14 in a rotationally fixed manner at its free end.
  • a rolling sleeve 16 is rotatably mounted via ball bearings 15, on the outer surface of which rolling rods 16 bear axially and are fixed by rubber rings 17.
  • Mushroom-shaped rolling elements 18 made of rubber-elastic material sit on the free lower ends of the rods 16.
  • a drive sleeve 21 which is rotatably supported with its upper end via ball bearings 22 on the carousel plate 13 and with its lower end via ball bearings 24 on a lower carousel plate 25.
  • the drive sleeve 21 is wrapped in drive belts 26 which run over a motor-driven pulley 27.
  • the entire lower region of the device is penetrated centrally by a counterpressure axis 28 which carries a mushroom-like pressure piece 29 at its lower end and is screwed with its upper end into a weight 30 which penetrates the head piece 10 and which is at its top end on a counter bearing 31 has slidable slider 32.
  • the roller 11 of the head piece 10 runs on a lifting curve 33 which is arranged in a stationary manner, preferably on the machine housing.
  • the roller 11 is loaded in the rearward direction by a tension spring 34 clamped between the head piece 10 and the upper carousel plate 13, and is thus held on the stroke curve 33.
  • a conventional pre-folding head 36 which projects downward beyond the rolling elements 18, is held via two holding rods 35, which are also fastened to the head piece 10.
  • the holding rods 35 also pass through the upper and lower carousel plates 13, 25 and are guided through these plates.
  • a bottle head with an attached capsule 38 is indicated.
  • the device works as follows. If the rotary drive for the pulley 27 is switched on, the belts 26 are driven by the pulley 27 and in turn rotate the drive sleeve 21 which is rotatable in the ball bearings 22, 24.
  • the drive sleeve 21 transmits the rotation to the transmission sleeve 19 and thus to it via its strips 20 the roll-on sleeve 16 with the roll-on rods and roll-on elements 18 held thereon.
  • all other elements of the device are non-rotatable and are therefore not subjected to any rotation.
  • the roller 11 For the lifting movement of the device down, the roller 11 runs down on the lifting curve 33, with the result that under the action of the tension spring 34 and the weight 30, the entire device, with the exception of the upper and lower carousel plate 13, 25 down lowered towards the bottle head 37.
  • the rotary drive for the rolling sleeve 16 is not interrupted due to the strip-groove connection between the drive sleeve 24 and the transmission sleeve 19.
  • the lifting movement of the counterpressure axis 28 and the pressure element 29 ends, while the rolling sleeve with the rolling elements 18 carried by it moves further downward.
  • the rolling elements 18 are pressed outwards by the oblique flanks of the pressure element 29 and thus reach the neck of the bottle 37 and roll there under the pressure of the rubber rings 17 on the capsules 38, with which they are pressed against the bottle neck. After reaching the lowest point of the stroke curve 33, the stroke is reversed, and the rolling elements 18 move in a helical path upwards again, take the pressure element 29 upward with it until the uppermost point of the stroke curve 33 is shown again te position results.
  • Fig. 2 From Fig. 2 it can be seen that several, eight in the drawing, devices according to Fig. 1 are arranged on a circle, below which an eight-pointed central star for the bottles is located.
  • the rotary drive for all eight start-up devices is carried out via common belts 26 and the stroke control via a common, approximately sinusoidal endless stroke curve 33.
  • the drive and control as well as the synchronization with the central star are understandably very simple.

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Abstract

A capsule-rolling device for the rolling of thin-walled capsules onto the bottle-neck of drinks bottles, for example wine bottles, has rolling elements (18) made of rubber-type material, which, by means of a relative lifting movement between device and bottle, are brought to bear against the bottle-neck, provided with capsule, and roll over the neck, with pressure being applied, at great speed on a spiral path, the rolling elements being located on the free ends of rods (16) which are fixed on the surface shell of a rolling sleeve (16) in the axial direction of the latter by means of elastic holding elements (17). The rolling sleeve (16) is subjected, by means of a roller (11) rotating on a lifting cam, to a backward and forward movement in the vertical direction and, by means of a drive sleeve (21) surrounding it coaxially, set in rotation, a rotational connection, which consists of grooves and strips (20) running in an axial direction, existing between the rolling sleeve (16) and the drive sleeve which is driven by means of a drive belt (26). <IMAGE>

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Anrollvorrichtung zum Anrollen von dünnwandigen Kapseln an den Flaschenhals von Getränke­flaschen.The invention relates to a rolling device for rolling thin-walled capsules on the bottle neck of beverage bottles.

Die heute in Benutzung befindlichen Vorrichtungen zum Anrol­len von dünnwandigen und damit weichen Kapseln, z.B. aus Staniol oder aus Aluminium, auf den meist konischen Schacht von Getränkeflaschen, etwa Weinflaschen, weisen Anrollele­mente aus gummielastischem Material auf, welche die Kapsel mit hoher Drehzahl umlaufen. Dabei werden mittels die Achsen der Anrollelemente umgreifender Zugfedern die Anrollelemente gegen den Flaschenhals gedrückt, so daß die Kapseln während des Eintauchens des Flaschenhalses in die Anrollvorrichtung an den Flaschenhals angelegt werden. Dabei werden bei die­sen bekannten Vorrichtungen die auf Hubstößeln stehenden Flaschen durch eine Hubbewegung der Stößel nach oben in die Anrollvorrichtung eingeschoben und anschließend wieder nach unten der Vorrichtung entfernt. Ein Nachteil dabei ist, daß eine paßgenaue Flaschenführung wegen der Hubbewegung der Flaschen im Maschinenkarussell nicht möglich und damit die Erhöhung der Austragsleistung pro Anrollvorrichtung mittels höherer Anrolldrehzahl sehr begrenzt ist. Weiterhin behindern die Hubstößel eine reinigungsfreundliche Ausführung des Ma­schinentisches, wobei die Hubstößel mittels Schiebehülsen oder Faltenbalgen geschützt werden müssen, weil sie bei ei­nem Flaschenbruch dem Inhalt und den Bruchstücken der Ge­tränkeflaschen ausgesetzt sind. Zum Ausgleich von Unterschie­den von Flaschenhöhen müssen die Hubstößel mit federbelaste­ten Ausweichelementen versehen werden, welche sehr aufwendig und nur mit geringem Ausgleichshub ausführbar sind, so daß höhere Flaschen durch den Federdruck weiterer Bruchgefahr ausgesetzt sind und nur eine Verarbeitung von Flaschen mit geringem Höhenunterschied möglich ist.The devices in use today for rolling thin-walled and thus soft capsules, for example made of stanol or aluminum, onto the mostly conical shaft of beverage bottles, such as wine bottles, have rolling elements made of rubber-elastic material which circulate around the capsule at high speed. The rolling elements are pressed against the bottle neck by means of tension springs encompassing the axes of the rolling elements, so that the capsules are placed on the bottle neck while the bottle neck is being immersed in the rolling device. In these known devices, the bottles standing on the lifting plungers are pushed upwards into the rolling device by a lifting movement of the plungers and then removed again downwards from the device. A disadvantage here is that a precisely fitting bottle guide is not possible because of the lifting movement of the bottles in the machine carousel, and the increase in the discharge rate per rolling device by means of a higher rolling speed is very limited. Furthermore, the lifting plunger hinder a cleaning-friendly design of the machine table, the lifting plunger having to be protected by means of sliding sleeves or bellows because they are exposed to the contents and fragments of the beverage bottles in the event of a bottle breakage. To compensate for differences in bottle heights, the tappets must be provided with spring-loaded escape elements, which are very complex and can only be carried out with a small compensation stroke, so that higher bottles are exposed to further risk of breakage due to the spring pressure and only bottles with a small height difference can be processed.

Der Erfindung liegt deshalb die Aufgabe zugrunde, eine An­rollvorrichtung zu schaffen, die eine wesentliche Steige­rung der Arbeitsgeschwindigkeit erlaubt, den Ausgleich auch größerer Flaschenhöhenunterschiede ermöglicht und eine leich­te Maschinenreinigung auch bei Flaschenbruch gewährleistet. Die Lösung dieser Aufgabe ergibt sich aus den kennzeichnen­den Merkmalen des Patentanspruchs 1.The invention is therefore based on the object of providing a rolling-on device which permits a substantial increase in the working speed, enables the compensation of even larger bottle height differences and ensures easy machine cleaning even when the bottle breaks. The solution to this problem results from the characterizing features of patent claim 1.

Gemäß der Erfindung wird also die Anrollvorrichtung so ausge­bildet, daß sie zusätzlich zu der Drehbewegung der Anrollele­mente eine vertikale Hubbewegung auszuführen vermag, die Fla­schen somit keiner Hubbewegung bedürfen, vielmehr lediglich auf einfachen Transporttellern ohne Hubstößel stehen. Dabei werden die Flaschen während des Anrollvorgangs unter leich­tem Druck gegen die Teller gehalten. Damit wird eine exakte Flaschenführung gewährleistet, mit der Möglichkeit einer Er­höhung der Anrolldrehzahl und folglich einer Verkürzung des Anrollvorgangs. Sollte es doch einmal zu einem Flaschenbruch kommen, wird dadurch die Funktionstüchtigkeit nicht beein­flusst, weil sich alle beweglichen und damit gegenüber Ver­schmutzung empfindlichen Bauteile über der Flasche befinden.According to the invention, the rolling device is designed so that it can perform a vertical lifting movement in addition to the rotary movement of the rolling elements, the bottles thus do not require any lifting movement, but rather are only on simple transport plates without a lifting plunger. The bottles are held against the plates under light pressure during the rolling process. This ensures exact bottle guidance, with the possibility of increasing the starting speed and consequently shortening the starting process. If there should be a bottle break, the functionality will not be affected because all movable and therefore sensitive components are located above the bottle.

Besonders zweckmäßige Ausgestaltungen der Erfindung sind in den Unteransprüchen gekennzeichnet.Particularly expedient refinements of the invention are characterized in the subclaims.

Auf der Zeichnung ist eine Ausführungsform der Erfindung bei­spielsweise dargestellt. Es zeigen:

  • Fig. 1 die Anrollvorrichtung im Längsschnitt,
  • Fig. 1 A und Fig. 1 B in vergrößertem Maßstab Ausschnit­te aus Fig. 1 und
  • Fig. 2 einen Teilausschnitt in Draufsicht, teilweise geschnitten, auf eine Anordnung aus mehreren Vorrichtungen gemäß Fig. 1.
In the drawing, an embodiment of the invention is shown for example. Show it:
  • 1 the rolling device in longitudinal section,
  • 1A and 1B on an enlarged scale excerpts from FIG. 1 and
  • FIG. 2 shows a partial section in plan view, partly in section, of an arrangement of several devices according to FIG. 1.

Die Vorrichtung weist ein Kopfstück 10 mit zentraler Lauf­rolle 11 auf, von dem zwei Stangen 12 abstehen, die eine als Führung dienende obere Karussellplatte 13 gleitbar durchsetzt und an ihrem freien Ende einen Kopf 14 dreh­fest haltern. Auf dem sich nach unten erstreckenden Fort­satz des Kopfs 14 ist über Kugellager 15 eine Anrollhülse 16 drehbar gelagert, an deren Außenmantel Anrollstäbe 16 axial anliegen und durch Gummiringe 17 fixiert sind. Auf den freien Unterenden der Stäbe 16 sitzen pilzförmige An­rollelemente 18 aus gummielastischem Material. Auf dem obe­ren Mantelbereich der Anrollhülse 16 sitzt drehfest eine Übertragungshülse 19, die an ihrem Außenmantel Längsnuten aufweist. In diese Nuten greifen axiale Leisten 20, die von der Innenfläche einer Antriebshülse 21 abstehen, die mit ihrem oberen Ende über Kugellager 22 an der Karussell­platte 13 und mit ihrem Unterende über Kugellager 24 an einer unteren Karussellplatte 25 drehbar gelagert ist. Die Antriebshülse 21 ist von Antriebsriemen 26 umschlungen, die über eine motorisch angetriebene Riemenscheibe 27 laufen. Der gesamte untere Bereich der Vorrichtung wird zentral von einer Gegendruckachse 28 durchsetzt,die an ihrem unteren Ende ein pilzartiges Druckstück 29 trägt und mit ihrem obe­ren Ende in in ein das Kopfstück 10 zentral durchsetzendes Gewicht 30 eingeschraubt ist, das an seinem Oberende ein auf einem Gegenlager 31 gleitbares Gleitstück 32 aufweist.The device has a head piece 10 with a central roller 11, from which two rods 12 protrude, which slidably pass through an upper carousel plate 13 serving as a guide and hold a head 14 in a rotationally fixed manner at its free end. On the downwardly extending extension of the head 14, a rolling sleeve 16 is rotatably mounted via ball bearings 15, on the outer surface of which rolling rods 16 bear axially and are fixed by rubber rings 17. Mushroom-shaped rolling elements 18 made of rubber-elastic material sit on the free lower ends of the rods 16. A transmission sleeve 19, which has longitudinal grooves on its outer jacket, sits in a rotationally fixed manner on the upper jacket region of the roll-on sleeve 16. In these grooves engage axial strips 20, which protrude from the inner surface of a drive sleeve 21, which is rotatably supported with its upper end via ball bearings 22 on the carousel plate 13 and with its lower end via ball bearings 24 on a lower carousel plate 25. The drive sleeve 21 is wrapped in drive belts 26 which run over a motor-driven pulley 27. The entire lower region of the device is penetrated centrally by a counterpressure axis 28 which carries a mushroom-like pressure piece 29 at its lower end and is screwed with its upper end into a weight 30 which penetrates the head piece 10 and which is at its top end on a counter bearing 31 has slidable slider 32.

Die Laufrolle 11 des Kopfstücks 10 läuft auf einer Hubkurve 33, die ortsfest, vorzugsweise am Maschinengehäuse angeord­net ist. Durch eine zwischen Kopfstück 10 und oberer Karus­sellplatte 13 eingespannte Zugfeder 34 wird die Laufrolle 11 in Richtung nach hinten belastet, somit auf der Hubkurve 33 gehalten. Über zwei ebenfalls am Kopfstück 10 befestigte Haltestangen 35 ist ein nach unten über die Anrollelemente 18 hinausragender, üblicher Vorfaltkopf 36 gehaltert. Auch die Haltestangen 35 durchsetzen die obere und untere Karus­sellplatte 13, 25 und werden durch diese Platten geführt. Bei 37 schließlich ist ein Flaschenkopf mit aufgesetzter Kapsel 38 angedeutet.The roller 11 of the head piece 10 runs on a lifting curve 33 which is arranged in a stationary manner, preferably on the machine housing. The roller 11 is loaded in the rearward direction by a tension spring 34 clamped between the head piece 10 and the upper carousel plate 13, and is thus held on the stroke curve 33. A conventional pre-folding head 36, which projects downward beyond the rolling elements 18, is held via two holding rods 35, which are also fastened to the head piece 10. The holding rods 35 also pass through the upper and lower carousel plates 13, 25 and are guided through these plates. Finally, at 37, a bottle head with an attached capsule 38 is indicated.

Die Vorrichtung arbeitet folgendermaßen. Wird der Drehan­trieb für die Riemenscheibe 27 eingeschaltet, dann werden die Riemen 26 von der Riemenscheibe 27 angetrieben und drehen ihrerseits die in den Kugellagern 22,24 drehbare Antriebshülse 21. Die Antriebshülse 21 überträgt über ih­re Leisten 20 die Drehung auf die Übertragungshülse 19 und damit auf die Anrollhülse 16 mit den daran gehalterten An­rollstäben und Anrollelementen 18. Alle anderen Elemente der Vorrichtung sind dagegen drehfest und werden somit kei­ner Rotation unterworfen.The device works as follows. If the rotary drive for the pulley 27 is switched on, the belts 26 are driven by the pulley 27 and in turn rotate the drive sleeve 21 which is rotatable in the ball bearings 22, 24. The drive sleeve 21 transmits the rotation to the transmission sleeve 19 and thus to it via its strips 20 the roll-on sleeve 16 with the roll-on rods and roll-on elements 18 held thereon. In contrast, all other elements of the device are non-rotatable and are therefore not subjected to any rotation.

Für die Hubbewegung der Vorrichtung nach unten läuft die Laufrolle 11 auf der Hubkurve 33 nach unten, mit der Folge, daß sich unter der Einwirkung der Zugfeder 34 und des Ge­wichts 30 die gesamte Vorrichtung, mit Ausnahme der oberen und unteren Karussellplatte 13, 25 nach unten in Richtung auf den Flaschenkopf 37 absenkt. Der Drehantrieb für die Anrollhülse 16 wird dabei infolge der Leisten-Nut-Verbin­dung zwischen Antriebshülse 24 und Übertragungshülse 19 nicht unterbrochen. Sobald dann das Druckelement 29 auf dem oberen Flaschenrand aufsetzt, endet die Hubbewegung von Ge­gendruckachse 28 und Druckelement 29, während sich die An­rollhülse mit den von ihr getragenen Anrollelementen 18 wei­ter nach unten bewegt. Dabei werden die Anrollelemente 18 durch die Schrägflanken des Druckelements 29 nach außen ge­drückt und gelangen so auf den Hals der Flasche 37 und rol­len dort unter dem Druck der Gummiringe 17 auf den Kapseln 38 ab, womit diese an den Flaschenhals angedrückt werden. Nach Erreichung der tiefsten Stelle der Hubkurve 33 wird der Hub umgekehrt,und die Anrollelemente 18 bewegen sich in schraubenförmiger Bahn wieder in Richtung nach oben, nehmen bei Erreichen des Druckelements 29 dieses nach oben mit, bis sich am obersten Punkt der Hubkurve 33 wieder die dargestell­ te Position ergibt.For the lifting movement of the device down, the roller 11 runs down on the lifting curve 33, with the result that under the action of the tension spring 34 and the weight 30, the entire device, with the exception of the upper and lower carousel plate 13, 25 down lowered towards the bottle head 37. The rotary drive for the rolling sleeve 16 is not interrupted due to the strip-groove connection between the drive sleeve 24 and the transmission sleeve 19. As soon as the pressure element 29 touches the upper edge of the bottle, the lifting movement of the counterpressure axis 28 and the pressure element 29 ends, while the rolling sleeve with the rolling elements 18 carried by it moves further downward. The rolling elements 18 are pressed outwards by the oblique flanks of the pressure element 29 and thus reach the neck of the bottle 37 and roll there under the pressure of the rubber rings 17 on the capsules 38, with which they are pressed against the bottle neck. After reaching the lowest point of the stroke curve 33, the stroke is reversed, and the rolling elements 18 move in a helical path upwards again, take the pressure element 29 upward with it until the uppermost point of the stroke curve 33 is shown again te position results.

Aus Fig. 2 ist erkennbar, daß mehrere,auf der Zeichnung acht, Vorrichtungen gemäß Fig. 1 auf einem Kreis angeord­net sind, wobei sich unterhalb dieser Anordnung ein acht­strahliger Zentralstern für die Flaschen befindet. Der Drehantrieb für alle acht Anrollvorrichtungen erfolgt da­bei über gemeinsame Riemen 26 und die Hubsteuerung über eine gemeinsame, in etwa sinusförmige endlose Hubkurve 33. Antrieb und Steuerung sowie die Synchronisation mit dem Zentralstern sind damit verständlicherweise sehr einfach.From Fig. 2 it can be seen that several, eight in the drawing, devices according to Fig. 1 are arranged on a circle, below which an eight-pointed central star for the bottles is located. The rotary drive for all eight start-up devices is carried out via common belts 26 and the stroke control via a common, approximately sinusoidal endless stroke curve 33. The drive and control as well as the synchronization with the central star are understandably very simple.

Selbstverständlich kann die dargestellte Ausführungsform zahlreiche Abwandlungen erfahren, ohne den Bereich der Er­findung zu verlassen. Wesentlich jedoch ist, daß der Dreh­antrieb für die Anrollelemente unabhängig von deren Axial­verschiebung ist und daß der vom Gegendruckelement auf die Flasche ausgeübte Druck im wesentlichen lediglich durch das aufgesetzte Gewicht hervorgerufen wird.Of course, the illustrated embodiment can undergo numerous modifications without leaving the scope of the invention. It is essential, however, that the rotary drive for the rolling elements is independent of their axial displacement and that the pressure exerted by the counterpressure element on the bottle is essentially caused only by the weight attached.

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1. Anrollvorrichtung zum Anrollen dünnwandiger Kap­seln an den Flaschenhals von Getränkeflaschen, etwa Weinflaschen, bei der durch eine Relativ-Hubbewegung zwischen Vorrichtung und Flasche aus gummiartigem Material bestehende Anrollelemente zur Anlage an den mit der Kapsel bestückten Flaschenhals gebracht und auf einer Spiralbahn auf diesem unter Anwendung von Druck mit hoher Geschwindig­keit abrollen, wobei die Anrollelemente auf den freien En­den von Stäben stecken, die auf der Mantelfläche einer An­rollhülse in Axialrichtung derselben mittels elastischer Halterungselemente fixiert sind, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Anrollhülse (16) mittels einer auf einer Hubkurve (33) umlaufenden Laufrolle (11) in Vertikalrichtung hin- und her­bewegbar ist und mittels einer sie koaxial umgebenden An­triebshülse (21) drehbar ist, wobei zwischen der Anrollhülse (16) und der durch Treibriemen (26) angetriebenen Antriebs­hülse (21) eine Drehverbindung aus in Axialrichtung der Hül­sen (16, 21) verlaufenden Nuten und Leisten (20) besteht.1. Rolling device for rolling thin-walled capsules on the bottle neck of beverage bottles, for example wine bottles, in which, by means of a relative lifting movement between the device and the bottle, rubber elements made of rubber-like material are brought into contact with the bottle neck equipped with the capsule and are used on a spiral track on the latter unroll from pressure at high speed, the rolling elements being stuck on the free ends of rods which are fixed on the lateral surface of a rolling sleeve in the axial direction thereof by means of elastic holding elements, characterized in that the rolling sleeve (16) by means of a on a stroke curve (33) revolving roller (11) can be moved back and forth in the vertical direction and can be rotated by means of a drive sleeve (21) which coaxially surrounds it, with a rotary connection between the roll sleeve (16) and the drive sleeve (21) driven by drive belts (26) in the axial direction of the Hull sen (16, 21) extending grooves and ridges (20). 2. Anrollvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekenn­zeichnet, daß die Anrollhülse (16) drehbar auf ei­nem achsstummelartigen Fortsatz eines drehfesten Kopfs (14) sitzt, der über Stangen (12) mit einem die Laufrolle (11) tragenden Kopfstück (10) verbunden ist.2. Rolling device according to claim 1, characterized in that the rolling sleeve (16) rotatably sits on a stub-like extension of a non-rotatable head (14) which is connected via rods (12) with a roller (11) carrying head piece (10). 3. Anrollelement nach Anspruch 2, gekennzeichnet durch eine die Vorrichtung zentral durchsetzende Gegen­druckachse (28), die in ihrem Mittelbereich im drehfesten Kopf (14) gleitbar geführt, an ihrem unteren, der Flasche be­nachbarten Ende mit einem Druckstück (29) versehen und mit ihrem hinteren Ende mit einem Gewichtsstück (30) fest verbun­den ist.3. Rolling element according to claim 2, characterized by a device centrally penetrating counter-pressure axis (28) which is slidably guided in its central region in the rotationally fixed head (14), provided at its lower end adjacent to the bottle with a pressure piece (29) and with it rear end is firmly connected to a weight (30). 4. Anrollvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, da­durch gekennzeichnet, daß die Stangen (12) durch eine zwischen Kopfstück (10) und drehfestem Kopf (14) befindliche, Öffnungen aufweisende Karussellplatte (13) geführt sind.4. Rolling device according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the rods (12) through a between the head piece (10) and non-rotatable head (14) located, having openings carousel plate (13) are guided. 5. Anrollelement nach Anspruch 4, gekennzeichnet durch eine weitere, untere Karussellplatte (25), wobei die Antriebshülse (21) zwischen den beiden Karussell­platten (13, 25) diesen gegenüber drehbar eingespannt ist.5. rolling element according to claim 4, characterized by a further, lower carousel plate (25), wherein the drive sleeve (21) between the two carousel plates (13, 25) is rotatably clamped relative to these. 6. Anrollvorrichtung nach Anspruch 5, dadurch ge­kennzeichnet, daß zwischen Kopfstück (10) und oberer Karussellplatte (13) eine Zugfeder (34) eingespannt ist.6. A rolling device according to claim 5, characterized in that a tension spring (34) is clamped between the head piece (10) and the upper carousel plate (13). 7. Anrollvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß auf dem oberen Mantelbereich eine Längsnuten aufweisende Übertragungshülse (19) undrehbar sitzt, die Längsnuten aufweist, in welche die Antriebsleisten (20) der Antriebhülse (21) eingreifen.7. Rolling device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that on the upper casing area a longitudinal grooves having transmission sleeve (19) non-rotatably, the longitudinal grooves, in which the drive strips (20) of the drive sleeve (21) engage. 8. Anrollvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, gekennzeichnet durch weitere Haltestangen (35), die mit ihrem oberen Ende am Kopfstück (10) befestigt sind und an ihrem freien Unterende einen Vorfaltkopf (36) tragen.8. Rolling device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized by further holding rods (35) which are attached with their upper end to the head piece (10) and carry a prefolding head (36) at their free lower end. 9. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der maximale Durch­messer des Druckelements (19) geringfügig größer ist als der minimale diagonale Abstand zwischen zwei Anrollelementen (18), wobei Druckelement (29) und Anrollelemente (18) miteinander korrespondierende Schrägflächen aufweisen.9. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the maximum diameter of the pressure element (19) is slightly larger than the minimum diagonal distance between two rolling elements (18), the pressure element (29) and rolling elements (18) corresponding to each other Have inclined surfaces. 10. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, gekennzeichnet durch die Anordnung zusammen mit mehreren anderen gleichgestalteten Vorrichtungen auf einer Kreisbahn.10. Device according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized by the arrangement together with several other similar devices on a circular path.
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