EP0723928A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour la manipulation de récipients - Google Patents

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EP0723928A1
EP0723928A1 EP96100235A EP96100235A EP0723928A1 EP 0723928 A1 EP0723928 A1 EP 0723928A1 EP 96100235 A EP96100235 A EP 96100235A EP 96100235 A EP96100235 A EP 96100235A EP 0723928 A1 EP0723928 A1 EP 0723928A1
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Gerhard Heudecker
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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
    • B67B3/12—Capping heads for securing caps characterised by being movable axially relative to cap to deform flanges thereof, e.g. to press projecting flange rims inwardly
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C3/222—Head-space air removing devices, e.g. by inducing foam

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for treating vessels according to the preamble of claim 1 and claim 11, respectively.
  • a high-pressure injection device is used to inject a hot water jet into the filled, still open bottles in order to foam the beer in the bottle neck. Due to the foam increase, ideally right up to the bottle mouth, the air should be displaced before the bottles are closed (DE 33 11 200 C1). In addition, an attempt is made immediately before touching down and
  • the invention has for its object to bring about an improvement.
  • the proposed solution is an effective way of effectively displacing air from the neck or head space of a bottle and especially from the closure before the closure is finally attached to the vessel, without having to provide additional inert gas blowing devices in the area of the closure tools.
  • the fact that the closure is brought to the bottle mouth after the injection process, but in contrast to the previous procedure is not immediately pressed sealingly against the mouth and fastened by deformation, but first a sufficiently long period of time close to the mouth of the bottle in an open Mouth shielding position is held, the excited by the injection process in the bottle interior and increased fluid release or release can be used to displace the air from the recess of the closure.
  • the proposed solution is particularly effective when a liquid gas, in particular liquid nitrogen, is injected into the bottles after filling.
  • a liquid gas in particular liquid nitrogen
  • the liquid gas evaporating when entering a filled bottle creates an intense one Gas release in the bottle interior.
  • the resulting gas evolution and flow can be so strong with the appropriate dosage that the closure can even be placed directly on the mouth in the shielding position.
  • An increase in pressure in the interior of the bottle then raises the closure at a sufficiently high gas pressure so that the aforementioned gas flow between the closure and the mouth is created with the air displacement effect.
  • Air displacement by vaporizing liquefied gas brings other advantages compared to the known foaming of the beverage by means of injected hot water or the like, e.g. less contamination of the outside of the bottle and the closing tools due to non-overflowing foam. This considerably reduces the risk of infection from contaminated sealing tools, since the lack of beer foam largely removes the nutrient base from the undesired microorganisms in the gaps of the sealing tools.
  • FIG. 1 shows part of a filler carousel 8, indicated only by a dash-dotted line, and the rotor 10, likewise only indicated schematically, of a capping machine 9, which is connected via a transfer starwheel 30 to the outlet of the filler carousel 8 and is driven synchronously with it.
  • a stationary injection device 7 for liquid nitrogen is arranged on the circulation path of the transfer star wheel 30, between filler carousel 8 and the inlet of the sealing machine 9.
  • the position of the injection device 7 can be further away from the illustration or closer to the inlet of the sealing machine 9 and / or the injection pressure can be changed.
  • the rotor 10 of the capping machine 9 is, in a manner known per se, with receiving pockets (not shown) for the bottles 2, which are arranged in the receiving pockets by guide rails 31 which are arranged in a fixed manner on the orbit be kept equipped.
  • an outlet star wheel 40 is arranged at its outlet.
  • a closure supply station 39 is positioned on the orbit of the rotor 10 between the outlet star wheel 40 and the transfer star wheel 30.
  • FIG. 2 shows a vertical section through the capper upper part from its inner axis of rotation 20 to its outer periphery.
  • the rotor 10 consists essentially of a revolving drivable center shaft 19 with a support disk 21 rigidly attached to it, which has on its outer circumference bores lying on a pitch circle for receiving the closing tools 11.
  • a rotationally fixed support 23 is mounted by means of a rotary bearing 22, to which a control cam 18 is attached.
  • a closing tool 11 consists of a guide tube 24, which is inserted through the aforementioned bore in the supporting disk 21 of the rotor 10 and in which a rod 25 carrying an interchangeably fastened closing cone 28, which is attached at its lower end, can be raised and lowered.
  • the rod 25 is secured against rotation by means of a guide pin 26 which is fastened to the support disk 21 laterally next to the guide tube 24.
  • a pair of cam rollers 14, 15 is attached, one cam roller 14 on the top and the second cam roller 15 on the Underside of the control curve 18 is present.
  • a pressure plunger 13 is guided, which has a magnet 12 at its lower end for holding a crown cap 1.
  • the plunger 13 is permanently pressed downwards by a comparatively soft coil spring 16.
  • a first shoulder surface 27 of the pressure plunger 13 is constantly on the top of the closing cone 28 or the support ring 29 (see Fig. 3).
  • a sliding sleeve 32 is slidably mounted on the pressure ram 13.
  • a hard helical spring 34 is clamped between this sliding sleeve 32 and a second shoulder surface 33 located at the lower end of the pressure ram 13.
  • the plunger 13 is a certain, short distance alone against the low force of the soft coil spring 16 axially displaceable relative to the rod 25 until the top of the sliding sleeve 32 comes to rest on a step 35 formed in the rod 25. With a further displacement of the pressure plunger 13 upwards, the then effective, considerably higher force of the hard spring 34 must also be overcome.
  • Fig. 3 the lower end of the closing tool 11 is shown in an enlarged view.
  • the lower end of the guide tube 24 with the rod 25 projecting therefrom can be seen.
  • a support ring 29 is detachably fastened with screws, which is exchangeable Receiving the annular sealing cone 28 is used.
  • the closing cone 28 is partially penetrated by a magnet 12 connected to the pressing plunger 13 by pinning, the end face of the magnet 12 being set back inwards with respect to the lower edge of the closing cone. A centering of the crown cap 1 held by the magnet 12 in the sealing cone 28 is thereby achieved.
  • the position II of the closing tool 11 is shown, in which the crown cap 1 covers or shields the mouth 3 of the bottle 2, which has not yet been finally closed. 3 that the top of the mouth 3 is only a few millimeters apart from the inner end face 36 of the crown cap 1 in this position. The distance can vary due to the height tolerances of the bottles 2 standing on a stand plate (not shown).
  • the lower edge 6 of the crown cork 1 lies below the mouth 3, with an annular gap 4 between the edge of the cork 1 projecting vertically downward from the end face 36 and the circumferential surface of the mouth.
  • the closing tool 11 is further lowered by the control cam 18, whereby the crown cap 1 is pressed gas-tight against the mouth 3 and subsequently the edge 6 of the crown cap 1 is deformed radially inward by a further downward movement of the closing cone 28 against the force of the hard spring 34 and the mouth of the bottle 2 is covered (position III).
  • the three relevant height positions I, II, III of a closing tool 11, depending on its rotational position during a revolution with the rotor 10 of the closing machine 9, can be seen from the development of the curve shape of the control curve 18 shown in FIG. 4.
  • the initial position of a closing tool 11, denoted by zero degrees, is located at the closing feed station 39 (see FIG. 1).
  • the top position is that
  • the ready position of the closing tool 11 denotes, in which a magnet 1 is supplied with a cork 1 through the closing feed station 39 and then a bottle 2 is inserted concentrically under the closing tool 11 through the transfer star wheel 30.
  • the cork in the manner described above is gassed on its inside by gas emerging from bottle 2 (phase B).
  • the closing tool 11 is then further lowered until the lowest position III, the closing position (position V), and then returned to the ready position I (phase H) to release and remove the now closed bottle (phase H), in order to have a cork again 1 at the shutter feed station 39.
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