EP0403259A1 - Aufschrauben und Abschrauben der Verschlüsse von Kunststoffflaschen - Google Patents

Aufschrauben und Abschrauben der Verschlüsse von Kunststoffflaschen Download PDF

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EP0403259A1
EP0403259A1 EP90306450A EP90306450A EP0403259A1 EP 0403259 A1 EP0403259 A1 EP 0403259A1 EP 90306450 A EP90306450 A EP 90306450A EP 90306450 A EP90306450 A EP 90306450A EP 0403259 A1 EP0403259 A1 EP 0403259A1
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capping
bottle
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Denis Leslie Atkinson
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MCG INDUSTRIES Pty Ltd
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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
    • B67B7/00—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers
    • B67B7/18—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers for removing threaded caps
    • B67B7/182—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers for removing threaded caps power-operated
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/06—Devices for presenting articles in predetermined attitude or position at labelling station
    • B65C9/065—Devices for presenting articles in predetermined attitude or position at labelling station for orienting articles having irregularities in their shape, the irregularities being detected by mechanical means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/0223—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by shape
    • B65D1/023—Neck construction
    • 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
    • B67B3/20—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying and rotating preformed threaded caps
    • B67B3/2013—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying and rotating preformed threaded caps by carousel-type capping machines
    • B67B3/2033—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying and rotating preformed threaded caps by carousel-type capping machines comprising carousel co-rotating capping heads
    • 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
    • B67B3/20—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying and rotating preformed threaded caps
    • B67B3/206—Means for preventing rotation of the container or cap

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  • This invention relates to the capping and de-capping of bottles, more particularly plastic bottles.
  • Blow moulded or blow formed plastic bottles with volumes of 1,5 or 2 litres have traditionally been used for carbonated beverages as disposable bottles. However, they are today being used as returnable bottles, for economic reasons. Because of their size, bottles of this kind usually have a flange on their necks to facilitate handling of the bottles. These bottles are relatively thin walled and when they are not under pressure they are flexible to lateral forces. This presents a problem in the case of automatic de-capping of the bottles in a de-capping apparatus since the bottles cannot effectively be gripped by strapping in the de-capping apparatus as in the case of glass bottles. Because of the flexibility of plastic bottles to lateral pressure, problems can even be experienced in the capping of such bottles.
  • a plastic bottle according to the invention which has a flange on its neck is characterized in that a recess is formed in the flange, the recess being shaped to engage a stop member on a star wheel when the bottle passes through a capping or de-capping station to prevent rotation of the bottle and to permit it to be capped or de-capped.
  • the recess is preferably in the form of a cut-out in the flange extending to the neck of the bottle in a radial direction and extending approximately one quarter of the circumferential length of the flange.
  • the cut-out preferably has radiused ends adapted to trap against the stop member on the star wheel.
  • the recess is preferably one of a pair of diametrically opposed recesses formed in the flange.
  • the recess may be formed underneath an annular shoulder located on the upper side of the flange.
  • the invention also concerns capping or de-capping apparatus having a star wheel with a plurality of bottle neck receiving notches provided along its periphery, characterized in that a stop member is provided adjacent each notch which co-operates with a recess in a flange of a plastic bottle as defined above to prevent rotation of the bottle and to permit the bottle to be capped or de-capped.
  • Each stop member is preferably located to one side of each notch in the star wheel.
  • Each stop member preferably projects above the upper surface of the star wheel and is spring loaded to enable it to be depressed.
  • Each stop member may be spring loaded by means of a leaf spring mounted on the underside of the star wheel.
  • the invention further concerns a method of capping or de-capping bottles as defined above comprising the steps of providing a capping or de-capping apparatus as defined above, feeding the bottles into the apparatus so that consecutive bottles engage consecutive notches in the star wheel of the capping or de-capping apparatus, causing consecutive capping or de-capping heads to descend on to the bottles whereby they are rotated until the recess in the flange of each bottle engages the stop member adjacent the notch on the star wheel to trap the bottle against rotation, and completing the capping or de-capping operation.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a de-capping apparatus 1 of conventional construction having a bottle receiving star wheel 2 for receiving plastic bottles. From the star wheel 2 the bottles are transferred to a bottle neck receiving star wheel 4. Above the star wheel 4 is a rotating unit carrying de-capping heads 5 which descend sequentially to de-cap the bottles whilst they are engaged with the star wheel 4.
  • This kind of apparatus is well-known and widely used and needs no further elaboration.
  • FIGS 2 and 3 illustrate the star wheel 4 of the apparatus in greater detail and in a form modified in accordance with the invention.
  • the star wheel 4 is in the form of a circular metal disk with a plurality of bottle neck receiving notches 6 along its periphery.
  • Each stop member 7 is in the form of a pin passing through the star wheel and is spring loaded by means of a leaf spring 8 on the underside of the star wheel, permitting the pin to be depressed. Any other form of spring loading may of course be used.
  • a bottle 10 is shown which is made in accordance with the invention, for use with the de-capping apparatus 1.
  • the bottle 10 has a neck 11 terminating in a mouth 12.
  • a threaded finish 14 surrounds the mouth 12.
  • a flange 15 is provided on the bottle to facilitate handling thereof.
  • the flange 15 has an integral shoulder 16 on its upper side which serves the purposes set forth in our South African patent 87/4560.
  • the bottle 10 normally carries a plastic cap 17 ( Figure 5).
  • Each recess 18 is in the form of a cut-out extending to the neck of the bottle 10 in a radial direction and extending approximately one quarter of the circumferential length of the flange 15.
  • empty bottles 10 with caps 17 thereon are advanced into the de-capping apparatus 1 along the path indicated by arrow 20 ( Figure 1).
  • the flange 15 of the bottle comes to rest on the upper surface of the star wheel 4. It may for example come to rest with the flange 15 positioned as shown in Figure 6.
  • the flange 16 will depress the stop member 7.
  • a de-capping head 5 next descends on to the cap 17 on the bottle, grips it and rotates in an anti-clockwise direction. If the cap is applied to the bottle with sufficient torque the bottle will rotate with the cap.
  • the stop members 7 will be provided on the right-hand side of the notches 6 in the bottle neck receiving star wheel 4.
  • the invention provides a useful means of overcoming exisitng problems with the capping or de-capping of plastic bottles.

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EP90306450A 1989-06-13 1990-06-13 Aufschrauben und Abschrauben der Verschlüsse von Kunststoffflaschen Withdrawn EP0403259A1 (de)

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EP0869067A1 (de) * 1997-04-01 1998-10-07 Femit Plastic Ag Blasgeformte Kunststoff-Flasche
EP0842857A3 (de) * 1996-11-15 1999-07-21 Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft Behältnis und Verfahren zu seiner Herstellung
WO2004007291A1 (en) * 2002-07-12 2004-01-22 Alcoa Closure Systems International, Inc. A method to prevent container rotation associated with a capping machine
JP4550158B1 (ja) * 2008-12-22 2010-09-22 昭和電工株式会社 陳列システム、陳列装置、容器陳列システム、容器、およびフィルム
JP2012076758A (ja) * 2010-09-30 2012-04-19 Yoshino Kogyosho Co Ltd キャップ付き容器
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US8935904B2 (en) 2011-02-22 2015-01-20 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Method of stabilizing a plastic aerosol container
WO2017110310A1 (ja) * 2015-12-25 2017-06-29 株式会社吉野工業所 二重容器
JP2019069824A (ja) * 2019-02-08 2019-05-09 株式会社吉野工業所 合成樹脂製ブロー容器
WO2021064246A1 (fr) * 2019-10-03 2021-04-08 Société Anonyme Des Eaux Minérales D'evian Et En Abrégé "S.A.E.M.E" Col de bouteille

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EP0842857A3 (de) * 1996-11-15 1999-07-21 Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft Behältnis und Verfahren zu seiner Herstellung
EP0869067A1 (de) * 1997-04-01 1998-10-07 Femit Plastic Ag Blasgeformte Kunststoff-Flasche
WO2004007291A1 (en) * 2002-07-12 2004-01-22 Alcoa Closure Systems International, Inc. A method to prevent container rotation associated with a capping machine
JP4550158B1 (ja) * 2008-12-22 2010-09-22 昭和電工株式会社 陳列システム、陳列装置、容器陳列システム、容器、およびフィルム
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JP2012076758A (ja) * 2010-09-30 2012-04-19 Yoshino Kogyosho Co Ltd キャップ付き容器
US9221596B2 (en) 2011-02-22 2015-12-29 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Plastic aerosol container
US8935904B2 (en) 2011-02-22 2015-01-20 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Method of stabilizing a plastic aerosol container
WO2012115710A1 (en) * 2011-02-22 2012-08-30 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Plastic aerosol container
US9745118B2 (en) 2011-02-22 2017-08-29 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Method of stabilizing a plastic aerosol container
US10202233B2 (en) 2011-02-22 2019-02-12 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Method of making an aerosol container
US10442604B2 (en) 2011-02-22 2019-10-15 Graham Packaging Company, L.P. Method of stabilizing a plastic aerosol container
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