EP0769471A1 - Machine d'embouteillage - Google Patents

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EP0769471A1
EP0769471A1 EP96500125A EP96500125A EP0769471A1 EP 0769471 A1 EP0769471 A1 EP 0769471A1 EP 96500125 A EP96500125 A EP 96500125A EP 96500125 A EP96500125 A EP 96500125A EP 0769471 A1 EP0769471 A1 EP 0769471A1
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    • 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
    • B67C3/28—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves
    • B67C3/282—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to filling level control
    • B67C3/284—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to filling level control using non-liquid contact sensing means
    • 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
    • B67C3/04—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus without applying pressure
    • 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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C2003/2671—Means for preventing foaming of the liquid

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  • the invention herein advanced consists of means to aid bottle filling optimization in automatic bottling machines, consisting of a double refraction optical level detector that incorporates an optical sensor that replaces, in the most perfected machines, the conventional probe with its plastic material electric insulation sheath, as well as the bottle elevation mechanisms.
  • this filling means change caused other obstacles that had to be overcome, such as the need to lift the bottle during this operation, upon replacing that exchange valve by the probe and by the piston valve, obviously more expensive together with the question of making this probe as hygienic as possible by sheathing it with plastic material used for medical purposes.
  • the invention object of this specification refers, on the one hand, to a optical level detector for automatic bottling machines, which ensures total bottling hygiene and eliminates the bottle elevation process as well as the complementary probe.
  • This optical sensor is fitted in cooperation with an extended spindle filling valve actuated, for instance, electrically, and which closes up by plugging the upper piston, thus enabling bottle filling without any latter liquid dripping.
  • the optical sensor located immediately below the bottleneck and cross-sectionally to it, in the sense of one of its diameters, as well as forming a secant or slanted arrangement, depending on the bottles, being the powerful and extra thin beam of the cell transmitter, off the vertical of the filling stream detecting, by refraction upon the liquid and the resulting deviation of the beam that keeps the light off the sensor, the level of the liquid inside it and further being fitted, for that purpose, with a receiver of a very fine gauge and, as required, with lenses also very finely calibrated in their convergence with the transmitter, on the side of the receiver.
  • a valve closure order is issued whenever the liquid reaches a previously established level, so that the level of the bottle is then minimally completed by the extremely small and previously known volume of product that reaches the bottle during the closing motion of the spindle.
  • a vessel external to the valve, that incorporates superimposed a number of silicone rings, fitted with two differently sized sieves at their inlet and outlet ends, which sieves are further differently gauged, as a function of the characteristics of the product used for filling, all of the foregoing with an easily cleanable design.
  • the sensor acts as a continuation of the conventional one, so as to detect the presence of a bottle on the vertical line of the filling valve, allowing gravity filling of the previously mentioned container or bottle and allowing the consecutive exit of the air inside it, directly outwards and without going through the valve.
  • This sensor is built as a part made in conformance with the usual shape of this type of containers, with wide ranging concave curves and smooth surfaces, so as to make cleaning easier and does incorporate the cell and conventional optical detection elements, in a secant or slanted position, depending upon the type of bottle, keeping the already diffracted beam from the vertical line of the filling jet and acting the cell upon the filling valve whenever the thin and powerful light beam previously activated by the bottle presence detector is interrupted or deflected.
  • Figure 1 schematically represents the extended spindle filling valve, as well as part of the bottle, featuring a tapered bottleneck, during the filling process and with the optical level detector activated, as well as a detail view of the double diffracted beam, during the filling process.
  • Figure 2 represents the bottle filling piston valve, built as a double part with sanitary finish and a body with a large deposit frame and extended spindle fitted at its lower end with a vessel that incorporates sieved rings gauged to suit the product to be strained, so as to prevent the formation of foam.
  • the invention of means to aid bottle filling optimization in automatic bottling machines advanced herein consists, on the one hand, of an optical level detector for automatic bottling machines of the type that fill the container or bottle by gravity and that allows the consecutive outflow of air directly outside and without passing through the valve, characterized by incorporating, in cooperation with an automatically regulated two part piston valve, with filling chamber plus extended spindle and with an external vessel used to limit the formation of foam, a concave bodied double refraction optical sensor, that encompasses the lower region of the bottleneck and which emits a beam crosswise to the latter that detects the fluid level inside the bottle and which eventually issues a valve closure order whenever the liquid reaches the previously determined level.
  • This sensor apart from the part shaped in conformance with the typical outline of these types of containers, at the previously described concave wide ranging curvature (1), has smooth surfaces so as to facilitate its cleaning and incorporates the cell (2) and its conventional optical product filling detection elements (3), the transmitter and the receiver, as well as the light beam (4) of the cell, secant to the bottle neck (5) and sufficiently far away from the filling jet (6), previously activated by a conventional detector that detects the presence of this bottle (5) and which experiments a refraction whenever the liquid obstructs its path, deflecting the beam and leaving the receiver without light.

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  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
  • Measurement Of Levels Of Liquids Or Fluent Solid Materials (AREA)
EP19960500125 1995-10-17 1996-09-12 Machine d'embouteillage Expired - Lifetime EP0769471B1 (fr)

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ES9502003 1995-10-17
ES9502003A ES2126463B1 (es) 1995-10-17 1995-10-17 Medios coadyuvantes a la optimizacion del llenado de botellas en maquinas embotelladoras automaticas.

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CN111498211A (zh) * 2019-01-30 2020-08-07 百特国际有限公司 医用液体容器灌装系统和方法
CN117682148A (zh) * 2024-01-31 2024-03-12 成都味科自动化设备有限公司 一种灌装用计量系统及计量方法

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GB2086861A (en) * 1980-09-26 1982-05-19 Seitz Werke Gmbh Controlling operation of filling elements of a filling machine
DE3115957A1 (de) * 1981-04-22 1982-11-25 Holstein Und Kappert Gmbh, 4600 Dortmund Fuellventil zum abfuellen von fluessigkeiten
EP0262483A1 (fr) * 1986-09-30 1988-04-06 Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Appareil de remplissage de liquides
EP0501046A1 (fr) * 1991-02-19 1992-09-02 Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd. Ajutage de remplissage
DE4239954A1 (de) * 1992-11-27 1994-06-01 Khs Masch & Anlagenbau Ag Verfahren zum Abfüllen eines flüssigen Füllgutes in Flaschen sowie Füllmaschine zum Durchführen dieses Verfahrens

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GB2086861A (en) * 1980-09-26 1982-05-19 Seitz Werke Gmbh Controlling operation of filling elements of a filling machine
DE3115957A1 (de) * 1981-04-22 1982-11-25 Holstein Und Kappert Gmbh, 4600 Dortmund Fuellventil zum abfuellen von fluessigkeiten
EP0262483A1 (fr) * 1986-09-30 1988-04-06 Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Appareil de remplissage de liquides
EP0501046A1 (fr) * 1991-02-19 1992-09-02 Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd. Ajutage de remplissage
DE4239954A1 (de) * 1992-11-27 1994-06-01 Khs Masch & Anlagenbau Ag Verfahren zum Abfüllen eines flüssigen Füllgutes in Flaschen sowie Füllmaschine zum Durchführen dieses Verfahrens

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WO2008040876A1 (fr) * 2006-10-05 2008-04-10 Sidel Participations Machine rotative de remplissage
FR2906789A1 (fr) * 2006-10-05 2008-04-11 Sidel Participations Machine rotative de remplissage avec cuve annulaire et tube d'alimentation fixe.
CN111498211A (zh) * 2019-01-30 2020-08-07 百特国际有限公司 医用液体容器灌装系统和方法
CN117682148A (zh) * 2024-01-31 2024-03-12 成都味科自动化设备有限公司 一种灌装用计量系统及计量方法
CN117682148B (zh) * 2024-01-31 2024-05-24 成都味科自动化设备有限公司 一种灌装用计量系统及计量方法

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BR9605040A (pt) 1998-06-30
DE69607436D1 (de) 2000-05-04
ES2126463A1 (es) 1999-03-16
DE69607436T2 (de) 2000-11-23
ES2126463B1 (es) 1999-11-16

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