EP0477341B2 - Vorrichtungen und maschine zum behandeln von flaschen - Google Patents

Vorrichtungen und maschine zum behandeln von flaschen Download PDF

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EP0477341B2
EP0477341B2 EP91908215A EP91908215A EP0477341B2 EP 0477341 B2 EP0477341 B2 EP 0477341B2 EP 91908215 A EP91908215 A EP 91908215A EP 91908215 A EP91908215 A EP 91908215A EP 0477341 B2 EP0477341 B2 EP 0477341B2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • the present invention relates to devices bottle treatment, intended to be part a bottle processing machine with devices mobile treatment units, mounted for example on a carousel.
  • the present invention also relates to a such bottle processing machine.
  • each device of which comprises a pliers grabbing the bottle by the neck to make it rotate substantially 180 ° until the neck of the bottle be directed down over a nozzle injection of a treatment product.
  • the product sprayed into the bottle, after hitting and licking the inner wall of the bottle falls into a basin formed under all the devices. From this basin, the liquid is either sent to the sewer, for example, or sent to a recycling circuit.
  • Bottle processing operations must meet severe hygienic conditions.
  • the presence of a recovery basin under the machine is unsatisfactory.
  • This pool of large dimension is poorly protected from dirt. It is therefore at the origin of an unsanitary environment around the machine.
  • its soiling presents direct disadvantages in case the liquid has to be recycled.
  • liquid is sprayed upwards the absence of bottles, and falls so uncontrolled, not necessarily in the pelvis. The liquid falling back into the basin may have previously been in contact with the outside of the machine and have collected dirt.
  • This device includes a tulip open upwards which receives the neck of a bottle in inverted position.
  • a cannula that crosses the bottom of the tulip enters the interior of the bottle and projects inside it sterilization liquid which falls back into the tulip and accumulates at the bottom of it around the neck of the bottle before being discharged by an overflow.
  • a joint ring is provided around the opening of the tulip to ensure tight contact around the neck of the bottle.
  • the neck of the bottle rests on the bottom tulip.
  • the lower end of the cannula is integral with a valve which controls the arrival of the liquid sterilization.
  • This device cannot be installed on a machine of the aforementioned type comprising for each device treatment forceps gripping the bottle by the neck to rotate it substantially 180 °.
  • the object of the invention is thus to remedy the drawbacks of the known processing devices and processing machines, and to provide a simple, robust and reliable treatment device suitable for treatment machines high-speed bottles, and in particular a device and a machine for treatments in which the guidance of the injected fluid is optimized in terms of hygiene and percentage of product recovered after each injection.
  • the receptacle is located just below the neck of the bottle when the latter is in the inverted position, the clamp rotating the bottle to pass it from a region below the receptacle when the bottle is in the upright position, to a region above the receptacle when the bottle is in the inverted position.
  • the receptacle can be small which limits the surface of liquid exposed to dirt, which can be significantly limited to the opening surrounding the nozzle.
  • the machine for treating bottles in position overturned includes on a rotating carousel a series of treatment devices according to the first aspect of the invention, these devices are distributed circumferentially and attached to the rotating carousel.
  • the machine shown in Figures 1 and 2 is intended to be inserted in a processing chain bottles. It includes an input conveyor 1 receiving bottles 2 from the upstream part of the chain and an outlet conveyor 3 which conveys the bottles 2 towards the downstream part of the chain.
  • a spacer screw 4 of known type, which gives the bottles 2 successive spacing and scrolling speed predetermined so as to synchronize the bottles 2 with cells 6 formed at the periphery of a star input 7.
  • the cells 6 scroll above the conveyor 1 and receive successive bottles 2 for propel along a defined semicircle trajectory by a guide edge 8 of a guide plate 9.
  • This semi-circular trajectory, along which the bottles slide by their bottom on a floor 11, done pass the bottles 2 from the inlet conveyor 1 to bottle treatment devices 12 mounted according to a distribution in a crown on the side wall exterior of a rotating carousel 13.
  • the processing devices have a corresponding circumferential spacing between them at the interval between successive bottles on the star 7.
  • the devices 12 pass successively through a station 14 of gripping bottles, a station 16 for overturning bottles, a station 17 for injection, a station 18 for straightening of the bottles and draining and a post 19 transfer of treated bottles to a star of output 21 which is analogous to input star 7 and makes pass the treated bottles from transfer station 19 to outlet conveyor 3 along a semi-circular path along which the bottles slide by their bottom on floor 11 and follow another curved edge of guide 22 of plate 9.
  • the output conveyors 2 and 3 physically consist of a single conveyor above which the plate 9 is fixed.
  • peripheral panels 23 of which at least some are transparent and / or can be opened to allow maintenance and detailed inspections.
  • each treatment device comprises a clamp 24 which has for function of grabbing the bottle 2 by the neck present to her at the gripping station and then to manipulate the bottle during overturning and straightening, and finally releasing the bottle at the post transfer 19.
  • Each gripper thus has a clamp body 26 ( Figures 5 to 7) in the form of a yoke comprising two arms 27 articulated along a common axis 28 substantially horizontal at two opposite sides of a body 29 of the processing device.
  • the body 29 is fixed to the frame rotary 31 of the carousel ( Figures 2 and 3) and it is elongated radially outward from the rotary frame 21 relative to the substantially vertical axis of rotation 32 of the carousel 13.
  • the axis 28 is located in the vicinity of the radially outer end of the body 29.
  • the axis 28 is called inversion axis because it is around this axis that the bottles 2 rotate for their movements of rollover and turnaround.
  • the body of tongs 26 carries a finger 30 terminated by a fork 33 preferably made of plastic with low coefficient of friction and good wear resistance.
  • a control bar of movement 34 In the fork 33 is engaged a control bar of movement 34.
  • the motion control 34 extends around the carousel 13 and, as shown in figure 3, it is fixed by example by legs 36, to the fixed frame 37 which is located under the rotary frame 31 and supports the latter in rotation.
  • the ramp of motion control 34 is seen as if, from the section plane of Figure 3, the direction of the gaze of the observer was not a line perpendicular to the plane of the figure but a curve centered on the axis of carousel rotation. This is how part 34a of the ramp 34 which controls the overturning movement of the bottles 2, and which is actually an axis propeller circular, appears in Figure 3 as being a semicircle centered on the reversal axis 28.
  • the clamp 24 includes two plastic jaws 38 each attached to a rigid branch 39.
  • the two branches 39 are articulated to the body 26 along two axes 41 parallel between them and perpendicular to the reversal axis 28.
  • the jaws 38 are thus movable between a position of gripping (upper part of figure 6), in which they are relatively close to each other and can hold the neck of a bottle between them, and a release position (lower part of FIG. 6), in which they are relatively distant one of each other and allow the neck of a bottle of engage them from the star of entry 7 or to disengage from them to be captured by the star of exit 21.
  • the clamp further comprises a slide actuator 42 consisting of a material cap plastic slidably mounted on a cylindrical end piece 43 of the clamp body 26.
  • the cap 42 carries two laterally opposite ears 43 which themselves rigidly bear each a pin 44 extending parallel to the axes 41.
  • Each of the pins 44 is engaged in a groove 46 of one of the branches 39.
  • Each groove 46 has edges opposite longitudinal 46a and 46b which are parallel, rectilinear, and inclined with respect to the axis 47 of movement of the actuating slide 42.
  • the branches 39, and in particular the jaws 38, axes 41 and grooves 46 are arranged symmetrically with respect to the axis 47.
  • the edges 46a and 46b of the inclined grooves 46 form jaw actuating ramp 38 by tenons 44 when the slide 42 moves along its axis 47, so that the jaws 38 pivot to their position of gripping and respectively towards their position of loosening.
  • the tilt grooves 46 relative to direction 47 varies during pivoting of the branches 39, but still remains oriented in the same direction. In other words, in the example shown, we see in Figure 6 that whatever either the position of the jaws 38 the grooves 46 converge towards the axis 47 in the direction opposite to the jaws 38.
  • the two stud systems 44 and grooves 46 constitute irreversible means of transmission between the slide 42 and the jaws 38. This means that it is impossible to move the slide 42 by exerting a effort on the jaws 38.
  • the irreversibility is particularly sought with regard to the spacing of jaw 38 from the gripping position shown at the top of figure 6.
  • An F1 force exerted on the jaws 38 in the direction of spreading from the position gripping point creates a support point P between the edge 46a and tenon 44 and tends to move this point P in the direction D which is circumferential with respect to to axis 41 of branch 39.
  • the angle B between the direction D and the normal N at edge 46a from point P is an angle acute of low value while the angle C between the direction D and the axis of movement 47 is close to 90 °.
  • the means of transmission are irreversible in all positions jaws and with respect to their two directions of movement.
  • a return spring 45 ( Figure 7) is mounted in the tubular end piece 43 of the body of clamp 26 and permanently requests the slide 42 towards a projecting position corresponding to the position of gripping the jaws 38.
  • the processing machine further comprises a cam 48 produced in the form of a profiled flat iron (see also figure 1) which cooperates with the free end of the slide 42 to push slide 42 against the action of the return spring 45 when the jaws 38 must be moved from their gripping position to their release position, as shown at the bottom of the figure 6.
  • a cam 48 produced in the form of a profiled flat iron (see also figure 1) which cooperates with the free end of the slide 42 to push slide 42 against the action of the return spring 45 when the jaws 38 must be moved from their gripping position to their release position, as shown at the bottom of the figure 6.
  • the cam 48 is not present only in the region around the carousel 13 in which the gripper jaws of each device treatment should be moved from the position of grip in the release position ( transfer 19), held in the released position (passage from the transfer station to the gripping station), then brought back to the gripping position ( grip 14).
  • the return spring 45 holds the slide 42 in the position in which the jaws 38 are pressed against the neck 2 of a bottle being processed.
  • the spring 45 does not need to be very powerful: it is enough be able to bring the jaws 38 with certainty contact with neck 2, without necessarily exerting tightening on the neck of bottle 2: indeed, thanks to the irreversibility of the transmission means 44, 46, the bottle 2 cannot, under the action of its own weight or of its inertia during handling, causing the mutual spacing of the jaws 38 nor disengage from the jaws 38.
  • each gripper 24 is capable of gripping a bottle 2 in position erect under the body 29 and rotate it 180 ° around the free end of the body 29 under the control of the control bar 34 to bring the bottle into one inverted position (figure 4) in which its neck is located just above a fluid injection nozzle 49.
  • the nozzle 49 is connected by means of a valve 51 fixed to the body 29, to a supply device under pressure 52 installed inside the carousel 13 and which may for example include a pump 53 (FIG. 2) discharging into an annular pipe 54 to which are connected all connections 56 to valves 51 of all 12 machine processing devices.
  • Each valve 51 is controlled by a lever 57 which is movable between a closed position of the valve, shown in Figure 3, and a position the valve shown in Figure 4.
  • the lever carries at its end a roller 58 which is engaged in a control rail 59, U-shaped, which is fixed to the fixed frame 37 of the machine and extends around it last, as shown in Figure 1.
  • the rail of command 59 is circular centered on axis 32 of rotating carousel except along injection station 17, from so as to move each valve 51 into position opening at injection station 17 and keeping it in closed position along all other posts in the processing machine.
  • the nozzle 49 sends a jet of fluid inside the bottle 2 overturned, through its neck. This fluid hits the inside wall of bottle 2 and trickles along it before leaving the bottle 2 to through the neck of the latter.
  • the fluid which flows in this way is collected at through a chute 61 which is located just below the neck of the bottle 2 and which surrounds the nozzle 49 with a some radial spacing between the outer wall of the nozzle 49 and the inner wall of the chute 61.
  • the opening defined by the chute 61 gives access to inside the body 29 which constitutes a receptacle individual for collecting the fluid falling from the bottle 2.
  • individual receptacle we intends to designate a relatively small receptacle size assigned to a single processing device and turning with carousel 13 to stay under the neck bottles 2 being processed, especially along from the injection station 17.
  • the receptacle 29 communicates with an annular collector 62 mounted in the rotating carousel 13 to collect from all receptacles 29 the falling liquid bottles 2.
  • this fluid is a liquid. It can be a rinsing liquid such as the water which, from the collector 62 will be led to taste. It can also be a coating liquid bottles of relatively high monetary value, and which, from the collector 62, will be led via a filtration and recycling device to pump 53 (figure 2). Not shown, the injected fluid via nozzle 49 can be an unwanted gas spread in large quantities in the atmosphere, to which case the collector 62 is connected to a suction source.
  • the receptacle 29 has a closure upper 63 in which are arranged, in addition to the opening defined by the chute 61, an opening 64 in which is engaged the base of the valve 51, and a drip collection opening 66.
  • the latter is fitted in the radially outer end of the receptacle 29, that is to say the end of receptacle 29 which is surrounded by the path of the clamp 24 and the bottle 2 which it carries between the erected positions and overturned from the latter.
  • a position 2a taken by the bottle 2 during its return journey from position overturned to the upright position along the straightening of the bottles 18 of FIG. 1.
  • the position 2a inclined at less than 90 ° to the position overturned, promotes bottle draining due to the injection undergone along the injection station and the receptacle 29 collects the product of this drainage at through opening 66.
  • a cap 67 is carried above the chute 61 by a arm 68, which, at its end opposite to the cap 67, is rotatably supported in a bearing 69 clamped in a collar 71 welded on one side of the receptacle body 29.
  • the cap 67 is thus movable between the position shown in Figures 5 and 8, in which it is located just above nozzle 49, and a position of release of the nozzle 49 and of the chute 61, shown in Figure 9.
  • a spring helical 72 working on winding, which reminds the cap 67 to the position in which it is located above nozzle 49. If a liquid injection has place in the absence of bottles 2, for example at the start of operation of the machine, injection takes place at the inside of the cap, which is shaped so that return to the receptacle 29 through the chute 61 the fluid thus injected. When a bottle reaches the inverted position (figure 9) it abuts against the cap 67 or arm 68 and push them back into position clearing the chute 61 against the effect of return spring 72. The injection is therefore made into the bottle.
  • a lug 73 is linked in rotation to the cap 67 and arm 68 inside the bearing 69 and flows in a circumferential slot 74 of the bearing 69, the circumferential ends of this slot forming a stop limiting the angular travel of the cap 67 around the axis defined by the bearing 69.
  • the valve 51 comprises a fixed half-body 76 of general tubular shape which is fixed to the receptacle body 29 by means of a collar 77 and a tab 78. At one of its ends, the fixed half-body 76 is tightly connected to connection 56. The other end of the fixed half-body 76 is shaped like a skirt 91 in which a movable half-body 79 is mounted so axially sliding.
  • the two half-bodies 76 and 79 together form a valve body defining a path flow 81 between an opening 82 belonging to the fixed half-body 76 and making it communicate with the connection 56, and an opening 83 formed through the side wall of the movable half-body 79, the end of which opposite the fixed half-body 76 is closed by a wall end 84.
  • the valve 51 further comprises a shutter spherical 86 mounted in the fixed half-body 76 between the opening 82 of the latter and a seat 87 of form general conical formed on the inner wall of the half body fixed 76 so as to flare towards the opening 82, that is to say in the opposite direction to the other half-body.
  • the spherical shutter 86 is rigidly fixed to one of the ends of an axial rod 88 the other end of which is tightly screwed into a tapped hole 90 of the end wall 84 of the movable half-body 79.
  • the shutter 86 has a slot 89 on the side facing the opening 82 in which we can introduce the end of a screwdriver when the connection has not yet been made with connection 56.
  • the rod 88 thus extends to through part of the fixed half-body 76 and through the entire axial length of the movable half-body 79.
  • the shutter 86 is movable between the closed position shown in the Figure 10, in which it is pressed tightly against seat 87, and an open position shown in Figure 11 in which it is moved away from seat 87 while the movable half-body 79 is in a retracted position inside the skirt 91.
  • the valve 51 further comprises means for reminder of the shutter 86 in the closed position and sealing means between the two half-bodies 76 and 79.
  • These return and sealing means consist of the same part, namely a plastic sleeve silicone 92 which is mounted around the rod 88 with between them an annular spacing defining part of the flow path 81.
  • the sleeve is inserted axially between an annular shoulder 93 of the fixed half-body 76 and an annular shoulder 94 of the movable half-body 79.
  • the sleeve 92 is compressed elastically in the axial direction between shoulders 93 and 94, which has the effect of press it tightly on each of the two shoulders 93 and 94, and to stress axially one to away from each other the two half-bodies 76 and 79, so apply the shutter 86 on its seat 87 under a effort which corresponds substantially to the effort of elastic compression of the sleeve in this position relative of the two half-bodies.
  • Each half-body 76 and 79 has around its shoulder 93 and respectively 94 a surface of centering 96 cooperating with the corresponding end of the outer lateral surface of the sleeve 92 for centering this on the general axis of the valve 61.
  • the sleeve 92 has a cylindrical inner surface 97 extending over its entire axial length and which has the same diameter as bores 98 and 99 adjacent to the sleeve and belonging to the half-bodies 76 and respectively 79.
  • said inner surface 97 connects continuously with the bores 98 and 99 to give the flow path, between shutter 86 and aperture 83 a configuration smooth annular section, the rod 88 being itself cylindrical with a diameter smaller than the diameter inside the wall 97 and the bores 98 and 99.
  • a clearance 101 is provided around the sleeve 92 between the two centering surfaces 96 to allow sleeve 92 to inflate slightly outward when, as shown in Figure 11, it is compressed axially to move the shutter 86 into position opening hours.
  • the sleeve 92 has a outer surface which is cylindrical and coaxial with its cylindrical inner surface 97, so that the sleeve 92 can be made by cutting a simple tube in silicone plastic.
  • the actuating lever 57 is axially integral with a cam 102 which causes selectively moving a lever 103 which has an axis 107 integral with receptacle 29 and which is supported on distance from the axis 107 on a shoulder 104 of the half-body mobile 79.
  • a conduit 106 which connects the nozzle 49 to the opening 83 extends freely inside the receptacle body 29.
  • the valve 51 has the advantage of having a path 81 smooth flow, very little conducive to accumulations deposit, and not include dynamic sealing for controlling the valve, i.e. not require that one of the half-bodies be crossed by sealingly by a shutter control member.
  • Cam 48 controls closing of each clamp 24 at the moment when the input star 7 has placed a bottle between its jaws.
  • the guide bar 34 controls by its helical region 34a the reversal progressive of the bottle 2 considered, this reversal ending at the start of injection station 17, shortly before the control rail 59 does not control the opening of the valve 51 and therefore the injection of fluid through the nozzle 49.
  • the command bar 34 controls the straightening of the bottle along the straightening 18 until the bottle comes stay in one of the cells of the exit star 21, at following which the cam 48 controls the opening of the clamp to allow the bottle to be driven from transfer station 19 to the output conveyor 3.
  • a tube 201 is mounted through the receptacle 29 of so as to have an outlet end 202 opening out to the base of the receptacle 29 and an inlet end 203 opening out opposite the neck of the bottle 2 when tilted approximately 110 to 120 ° from its upright position.
  • a suction nozzle 204 to the machine opposite which is the end 202 when the bottle 2 at the aforementioned inclination during the return movement towards the upright position.
  • Nozzle 204 operates continuously and the aspiration it produces is thus transmitted to the end 203 at the time the last drops 206 fall from bottle 2. These drops are discharged to through tube 201 and nozzle 204 to a container of collection or to the sewer.
  • the grooves 46 of the forceps instead of being straight, could have a curvature which compensates for the pivoting of the branches 39 around of their axes 41 so that the region of the grooves 46 in which the tenons are located 44 always has the same inclination with respect to axis 47.

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  1. Vorrichtung zum Behandeln von Flaschen in umgekehrter Stellung, mit einem Karussell, an dem wenigstens eine Zange (24) angebracht ist, um die Flasche (2) an ihrem Hals zu fassen und sie um im wesentlichen 180° um eine im wesentlichen waagrechte Umkehrachse (28) zu kippen, wobei die Zange die Flasche während des gesamten Behandlungsvorgangs an ihrem Hals hält, diese Vorrichtung auch eine Düse (49) zum Einspritzen von Fluid in die umgekehrte Flasche und einen radial angeordneten einzelnen Aufnehmer (29) zum Sammeln des aus der Flasche austretenden Fluids hat, dieser Aufnehmer mit einem ringförmigen Sammler (62) verbunden ist und an seinem oberen Abschnitt eine Öffnung (61) aufweist, die die Düse (49) umgibt und so angeordnet ist, daß sie sich unmittelbar unter der Flasche (2) in umgekehrter Stellung befindet, wobei die Zange zum Greifen (24) von Flaschen von wenigstens einem schwenkbaren Arm (27) getragen ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der schwenkbare Arm (27) an der waagrechten Achse (28) an einer der gegenüberliegenden Wände des einzelnen Aufnehmers (29) gelenkig angebracht ist,
    dadurch, daß der Aufnehmer (29) an seinem vom Weg der Zange umgebenen äußeren radialen Endbereich eine Öffnung (66) zum Sammeln des flüssigen Fluids aufweist, das bei einer Bewegung zum Wiederaufrichten der Flaschen (2) aus der umgekehrten Stellung bis in die aufgerichtete Stellung abtropft,
    dadurch, daß der innere radiale Endbereich des Aufnehmers mit dem Sammler verbunden ist,
    und dadurch, daß der Sammler (62) geschlossen und in dem drehbaren Karussell (13) angebracht ist.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Aufnehmer (29) an einem von oder Bewegungsbahn der Zange umgebenen Ende eine Öffnung (66) zum Sammeln des flüssigen. Strömungsmittels aufweist, das bei der Rückkehrbewegung der Flaschen (2) aus der umgekehrten Position bis in die aufgerichtete Position entströmt.
  3. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Aufnehmer (29) oben zumindest teilweise geschlossen ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie oberhalb der Strömungsmitteleinspritz düse (49) eine Kappe (67) aufweist, die so beweglich angebracht ist, daß sie von den an der Einspritzposition ankommenden Flaschen (2) entgegen Rückstellmitteln (72) wegbewegt werden kann, wobei diese Kappe so geformt ist, daß das einsgespritzte Strömungsmittel bei Abwesenheit von Flaschen in den Aufnehmer (29) zurückgeleitet wird.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet daß der Aufnehmer ein Ventil (51) zum Steuern des Einspritzens trägt.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Düse (49) fest mit einem beweglichen Teil (79, 86, 88) des Ventils (51) zum Steuern des Einspritzens verbunden ist.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Flaschengreifzange (24) von wenigstens einem schwenkbaren Arm (27) getragen ist, der an einer der Seiten des Individuellen Aufnehmers (29) gelenkig gelagert ist.
  8. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Düse (49) im wesentlichen in der Mitte der Öffnung (61) angebracht ist.
  9. Maschine zum Behandeln von umgekehrt angeordneten Flaschen mit einer Reihe von Behandlungsvorrichtungen (12) gemäß einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche an einem drehbaren Karussell (13), wobei diese Vorrichtungen in Umfangsrichtung verteilt und am drehbaren Karussell (13) befestigt sind.
  10. Maschine nach Anspruch 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Flaschengreifzange (24) jeder Vorrichtung (12) von wenigstens einem schwenkbaren Arm (27) getragen ist, der an einer der Seiten des individuellen Aufnehmers (29) gelenkig gelagert ist.
  11. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 oder 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Aufnehmer (29) eine längliche Form mit radialer Erstreckung von einem drehbaren Rahmen (31) des Karussells (13) nach außen hat wobei die Zange (24) um das radial äußere Ende des Aufnehmers (29) schwenkt.
  12. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 11, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jeder Aufnehmer (29) in einem von dar Bewegungsbahn der Zange umgebenen Bereich deine Öffnung (66) zum Sammeln des flüssigen Strömungsmittels aufweist, das bei der Rückkehrbewegung der Flaschen aus dem umgekehrten Position in die aufgerichtete Position entströmt.
  13. Maschine nach Anspruch 12, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Sammelöffnung (66) nahe der Bewegungsbahn des Halses der Flasche liegt und mit Absaugmitteln verbunden ist.
  14. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 13, dadurch gekennzeichnet daß der Aufnehmer (29) eine obere Teilabdeckung (63) aufweist.
  15. Maschine nach Anspruch 14, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Düse (49) jeder Vorrichtung (12) im wesentlichen in der Mitte einer Öffnung (61) angebracht ist, die in der Oberseite des Aufnehmers zum Sammeln des der Flasche entströmenden Strömungsmittels gebildet ist.
  16. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 15, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede Vorrichtung (17) Mittel (108, 109, 111) zur Erzielung der Abdichtung zwischen dem Hals jeder umgekehrten Flasche (2) und dem Aufnehmer (29) um die Düse (49) enthält
  17. Maschine nach Anspruch 16, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Abdichtmittel mit der Düse (49) in Antriebsverbindung stehen, wobei diese synchron mit dem Übegang eines Einspritzhahns zwischen einer offenen und einer geschlossenen Position axial beweglich ist, wobei die Bewegung der Düse das Anlegen der Abdichtmittel an den Hals bzw. das Entfernen der Abdichtmittel von dem Hals hervorruft.
  18. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 17, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Aufnehmer (29) mit Absaugmitteln verbunden sind.
  19. Maschine nach einem dar Ansprüche 9 bis 18, dadurch gekennzeichnet daß sie oberhalb der Strömungsmitteleinspritzdüse (49) jeder Vorrichtung (12) eine Kappe (67) aufweist, die derart beweglich angebracht ist, daß sie von den an der Einspritzposition ankommenden Flaschen (2) entgegen Rückstellmitteln (72) wegbewegt werden kann, wobei diese Kappe so geformt ist, daß das eingespritzte Strömungsmittel bei Abwesenheit von Flaschen in den Aufnehmer (29) zurückgeleitet wird.
  20. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 19, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Aufnehmer jeder Vorrichtung (12) einen Einspritzsteuerhahn (51) aufweist.
  21. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 20, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sich die Flaschen (2) in der Einspritz-Position oberhalb der einzelnen Aufnehmer (29) befinden.
  22. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 21, dadurch gekennzeichnet daß der Aufnehmer (29) ein Rohr (201) enthält, das ein Eingangsende (203) aufweist, das angrenzend an den Hals der Flasche liegt, wenn diese ihre Rückkehrbewegung in die aufgerichtete Position ausführt, sowie ein Ausgangsende (202), das mit einer feststehenden Absaugdüse (204) in diesem Stadium der Bewegung der Flasche zusammenfällt.
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