EP1040866B1 - Dispositif pour le dosage de liquides - Google Patents

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EP1040866B1
EP1040866B1 EP99830146A EP99830146A EP1040866B1 EP 1040866 B1 EP1040866 B1 EP 1040866B1 EP 99830146 A EP99830146 A EP 99830146A EP 99830146 A EP99830146 A EP 99830146A EP 1040866 B1 EP1040866 B1 EP 1040866B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/84—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins
    • B01F33/841—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins with component receptacles fixed in a circular configuration on a horizontal table, e.g. the table being able to be indexed about a vertical axis
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F35/00—Accessories for mixers; Auxiliary operations or auxiliary devices; Parts or details of general application
    • B01F35/80—Forming a predetermined ratio of the substances to be mixed
    • B01F35/88—Forming a predetermined ratio of the substances to be mixed by feeding the materials batchwise
    • B01F35/881—Forming a predetermined ratio of the substances to be mixed by feeding the materials batchwise by weighing, e.g. with automatic discharge

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  • the invention relates to an apparatus for batching liquids according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention can be usefully applied in batching paints, solvents and additives, especially for the preparation of packages of paint products.
  • Italian patent application IT MO97A000126 describes a machine comprising a plurality of nozzles distributed in a straight line. Each nozzle can dispense a batched liquid from a tank.
  • a balance is constrained to a straight-moving slide moving parallel to the line of nozzles; a storage recipient for the batched liquid, resting on the balance, can be selectively positioned below the nozzles by effect of controlled translations of the slide so as to receive from the nozzle batched quantities of liquids on command of a central unit which also reads off the weight on the balance.
  • the operator places an empty recipient on the balance, after which the central unit carries out the recipient automatic filling cycle so that a final product is exactly as the operator ordered when preselecting.
  • the apparatus are relatively massive considering the number of liquids they can batch.
  • a further drawback of known apparatus is the presence of flexible tubes in movement (for example, tubes carrying the operating fluids of the opening and closing devices of the dispensing valves), with a consequently high risk of damage to or breakage of the tubes themselves.
  • WO 99 06278 discloses an apparatus as described in the preamble of claim 1, suitable for dosed dispensing of a plurality of different liquid or pasty masses to a receiving container; the apparatus includes a first supporting device for supporting containers for the masses in fixed positions; a fixedly disposed annular frame bears a plurality of dispensing nozzles controllable by a control device and each individually connectable to the containers via respective conduits; the receiving container, which is supported by a second supporting device controllable by the control device, is displaceable in an annular path corresponding with the annular form of the annular frame and placeable temporarily beneath a chosen dispensing nozzle for receiving mass dispensed by the chosen dispensing nozzle; a weighing device is configured to support the receiving container and to supply weight signals to the control device; the weighing device is connected via the second supporting device to the control device by cables such that when the second supporting device progresses through a path extending through 360 net torsion of the respective cables is substantially zero.
  • EP 715883 discloses an automatic fluid mixing device wherein a cylindrical supporting structure supports a first number of valves angularly spaced along a first circumference, and a second number of valves angularly spaced along a second circumference concentric with and inside the first; the valves are three-way types, and present a control rod extending axially from one end; the mixing device presents a blade type selecting device movable angularly about an axis through the center of the circumferences, and which singly engages an end portion of the control rod to move the rod axially and so open the valve.
  • US 4473173 discloses an apparatus for low volume dispensing which includes a plurality of colorant reservoirs passing colorants and other ingredients through feed lines to a peristaltic pump which pumps the colorants into the input of three-way valves which are each movable between a dispensing mode and a recirculating mode. In the recirculating mode the colorants pumped by the peristaltic pump will travel through the three-way valves and through return lines to the reservoirs from which the material originally emanated. If the three-way valve is In the dispensing mode the colorant will be discharged into a sample container for receiving the colorant mix.
  • an apparatus for metering a plurality of different liquid or pasty masses to a receiving container including a weighing device on which a receiving container can be placed, which weighing device can supply weight signals to the control device; the receiving container Is displaceable in an annular path and can be placed temporarily beneath a chosen dispensing nozzle for receiving mass dispensed by this dispensing nozzle; second supporting means is controllable by the control means for supporting one of the receiving containers and is rotatably drivable around a vertical axis by a cylindrical drive drum, around which an endless drive element is trained through a whole number of rotations.
  • a device makes it possible in an accurate and hygienic manner to prepare mixtures of dyes In variable quantities by means of the accurate mixing of base dyes, additives, solvents, etc, contained in stacked reservoirs;
  • the device comprises a main body which Is elevated and supported by a carrying structure on which there are fitted storage reservoirs for base dyes equipped with charging openings and with discharge openings linked via tubes and as many valves fitted to a central distributor located above a weighing machine equipped with a display and with an apparatus for acting on said discharge valves;
  • the device is further equipped with at least one storage reservoir for thickeners, which is capable of being linked to compressed air reservoirs.
  • FR2245496 discloses a tint mixing apparatus having a supply shelf in the form of a lazy-susan and having a plurality of vertically disposed rotating supply decks for the paint containers holding the basic tints; the supply decks can be moved vertically and the lower decks are provided with recesses at their rims which are larger than the support platform of the scale and bypass this platform when the lower decks are moved in a vertical direction.
  • a turntable for colorant dispensers rotatably supports a plurality of filled paint containers beneath a conventional paint colorant dispenser to permit sequential dispensation of a quantity of colorant into each container from one of the dispensers.
  • an apparatus for the storage, delivery and mixing of fluid substances consists of a compact, pre-assembled, movable operative unit, enabling the storage of a large number of substances and the management of a large number of delivery points in an extremely small area;
  • the apparatus comprises a conveyor and at least one set of storage tanks on a support frame along one or both sides of the conveyor, pumping means and a multi-valve delivery head are provided for supplying metered quantities of the substances to be mixed,
  • a container positioned on a conveyor section above an electronic scales; the electronic scales and corresponding section of the conveyor are laterally translatable on a vertically movable shelf to selectively position a mixing container are laterally translatable on a vertically movable shelf to selectively position a mixing container under a multi-valve unit according to an operative program governed by a programmable control unit;
  • a mixer is provided at the end of the conveyor which is opposite to multi-valve unit.
  • the main aim of the present invention is to obviate the above-mentioned drawbacks in the prior art.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a batching apparatus which is compact and relatively contained in mass, both in terms of length and width.
  • An advantage is that the invention provides a constructionally simple and economical apparatus.
  • a further advantage is that the apparatus of the invention can carry out a high number of batching operations for a wide range of different liquid products.
  • a further advantage is that a relatively precise batch is produced, and at a high operating speed.
  • 1 denotes in its entirety an apparatus for batching liquids, especially useful for batching paints, solvents and additives with the aim of being able to produce at will a wide range of differing paint products.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises a frame 2 inferiorly having a base platform 3 and at least one upright 4 which superiorly supports a horizontal support plane 5 having a central opening.
  • a plurality of dispensing valves 6 are predisposed on the periphery of the upper support plane 5, each of which valves dispenses a liquid in batches.
  • the valves 6 are circumferentially arranged on a horizontal plane.
  • Each valve 6 has its own means (of known type and not illustrated) for supplying liquid to be batched, which means comprise, for each valve 6, at least one container for a liquid product to be batched and a feed pipe for transferring liquid from the container to the dispenser valve 6.
  • Each valve is also provided with a pump device, of known type and not illustrated, for conveying the liquid product along the supply pipe from the container to the valve.
  • a return pipe (of known type and not illustrated) is provided for each valve 6 for returning the liquid product from the valve 6 back to the container. With the valve closed, the return pipe can be passed through by a volume of liquid generated continuously or at predetermined intervals by the pumping device. The return flow reduces the risk of encrustations and blockages in the dispenser valve 6.
  • Each valve 6 is provided with a mobile element that can assume at least one lower closed position in which it prevents liquid dispensing, and an upper open position in which the valve can dispense liquid.
  • the mobile element comprises a lower obturator which can close a dispensing mouth of the valve 6 and a stem, solidly constrained to the obturator, having a vertical axis, and superiorly provided with a head for gripping the mobile element with an actuating organ.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises a base 7 which can be rotated on command with respect to the frame 2 about a vertical rotation axis x-x.
  • the base 7 is predisposed below the dispenser valves 6.
  • the base 7 comprises a flat support, substantially circular in shape, on a bottom side of which a cylindrical body is screw-coupled.
  • the body 8 has a smaller diameter than the flat support.
  • the lower body 8 has a cylindrical peripheral surface which is coaxial to the rotation axis x-x of the base 7.
  • the peripheral surface is rotatably coupled, for example by means of a series of spheres 9 or other elements having a rolling support function, to an internal diameter of an annular crown wheel 10 screw-fixed to the frame 2.
  • the rotatable base 7 is rotated by a motor group which is solid in rotation with the base itself.
  • the motor 11 itself is preferably electric and actuates, through a preferably geared reducer 12 at least one pinion 13 having a vertical axis which enmeshes with the fixed crown wheel 10 coaxial to the rotatable base 7.
  • the pinion 13 is supported at a lower end of a rotating shaft projecting from the reducer 12 and crossing an opening afforded in the flat support of the base 7.
  • the whole motor group is located above the rotatable base 7 and is comprised within the radial mass of the base itself. The direction of the axis of the motor is substantially radial with respect to the base 7.
  • the motor 11 extends in a substantially horizontal direction, perpendicular to rotation axis x-x of the rotatable base 7.
  • the shaft bearing the pinion 13 which projects from the reducer has a vertical rotation axis.
  • the motor 11 is situated in a space comprised between the vertical rotation axis of the pinion 13 and the vertical rotation axis x-x of the rotatable base 7.
  • a casing 14 superiorly and laterally protects the motor group.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises means for weighing predisposed to weigh at least one recipient 15 located on the rotatable base 7.
  • the means for weighing comprise a balance 16 of known type which is solid in rotation with the rotatable base 7 and located diametrically opposite to the motor group 11 and 12.
  • the balance 16 has an upper plane for positioning and weighing a recipient 15 containing the batched product.
  • the weighing plane is predisposed at an opening afforded in the casing 14.
  • the apparatus has at least one valve actuation organ 17 able on command to move the mobile elements of the valves 6 from a closed position into an open position.
  • the actuating organ 17 is mounted on a support column 18 which rises vertically and coaxially from the rotatable base 7.
  • the actuating organ 17, which is located substantially on the vertical of the balance 16, is solid in rotation with the rotatable base 7.
  • the actuating organ 17 comprises a hydraulic linear actuator having a vertical line of action for commanding vertical displacements of a gripping element able to interact with the head of the stem of a valve 6.
  • the actuator can comprise three coaxial cylinders set in series one above another; in another embodiment the valve actuation organ can comprise an obturator raising device which can be commanded, for example, by means of an encoder to enable regulatable opening of the valves in a plurality of intermediate dispenser mouth open positions.
  • the actuator of the actuation organ 17 is commanded by means of an operating fluid transmission circuit having a fixed part and a mobile part solid in motion with the column 18 of the rotatable support.
  • the fixed part and the rotating part of the fluid circuit are inter-connected by means of a joint 19 comprising a rotating fluid distributor of known type and represented schematically in figure 4.
  • the fixed part of the fluid circuit terminates in one or more conduits afforded internally in a fixed cylindrical body 20 located above and coaxially to the support column 18.
  • the joint 19 is located between the fixed internal body 20 and an external tubular body 21 rotatably coupled to the fixed body 20.
  • At least one pressurised-fluid supply conduit 22 leads from the rotatable tubular body 21, which conduit 22 is connected to the opposite head of the actuator of the actuating organ 17.
  • a central control unit of known type, presides over the operation of the apparatus, which unit can actuate the motor group rotating the base 7 and the fluid actuator for opening the valves 6.
  • the control unit is predisposed to receive notification of the weight of the recipient 15 read off by the means for weighing 16.
  • a recipient 15 is placed on the balance 16; liquids will be batched as desired into the recipient 15.
  • the motor group is actuated with a consequent rotation of the base 7, the column 18, the balance 16, the recipient 15 and the valve actuation organ 17.
  • the actuation organ 17 opens the valve for a predetermined time so as to pour into the recipient the desired quantity of liquid.
  • the gripping element of the organ 17 engages the head of the selected valve and is then commanded by the actuator to move upwards, raising the relative stem, with a consequent opening of the valve and a dispensing of the liquid.
  • control unit When the control unit is informed by the balance 16 that the recipient has reached a predetermined weight, it orders the descent of the actuator, which closes the valve 6 with a consequent interruption of liquid dispensing. Subsequently the above-mentioned series of operations (positioning of the recipient 15 below a pre-selected valve 6 and batched filling of the recipient 15 itself) is repeated according to a work cycle which is ordered by the central control unit and which can be pre-set by the operator so as to achieve a mixture batched as so desired.
  • the means for weighing are predisposed to weigh two recipients situated in diametrically opposite points on the rotatable base.
  • the means for weighing can comprise two balances, like in figure 1, each of which can receive a respective recipient for the batched product.
  • the machine is provided with two actuation organs, situated on diametrically opposite sides of the support column, each of which is operatively associated to a balance.
  • the machine can produce two fully batched recipients at once, with a notable time saving.
  • three means for weighing could be included to weigh three recipients located on three balances arranged on the base at intervals of 120° with respect to the rotation axis x-x of the base 7 itself.
  • three rotating actuation organs can be provided, rotating together with the base 7 and arranged above each balance.
  • the inertia of the means for positioning the recipient has only a very limited effect on the weight reading of the recipient itself.
  • the apparatus leads to time saving inasmuch as the weight can be read off precisely as soon as the recipient is positioned below the dispenser valve, with no significant wait for the recipient weighing system to settle and give a proper reading of the weight.

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  1. Un dispositif pour le dosage de liquides, comprenant:
    une pluralité de valves de distribution (6), chacune desquelles est en mesure de distribuer un liquide à doser, les valves (6) étant disposées dans un plan horizontal par rapport à une circonférence;
    une base rotative (7) pouvant être commandée pour pivoter autour d'un axe de rotation vertical (x-x), la base (7) étant prédisposée au-dessous de la valve de distribution;
    des moyens de pesage prédisposés pour peser au moins un récipient (15) placé sur la base rotative, le récipient étant sélectivement positionnable au-dessous des valves pour recevoir le liquide à doser de part les rotations de la base (7);
    caractérisé en ce que:
    chaque valve est pourvue d'un élément mobile pouvant assumer au moins une position fermée, dans laquelle la distribution est impossible, et une position ouverte, dans laquelle la distribution est possible;
    il comprend un organe d'actionnement (17) des valves de distribution pouvant sur commande faire passer les éléments mobiles des valves de distribution de la position fermée à la position ouverte, ledit organe d'actionnement (17) étant solidaire en rotation à la base rotative (7) et sélectivement positionnable en correspondance d'une valve à activer de part les rotations de la base (7).
  2. Le dispositif de la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la base rotative (7) est entraínée en rotation par un groupe moteur qui lui est solidaire en rotation.
  3. Le dispositif de la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend au moins un pignon (13) entraíné en rotation par le groupe moteur (11, 12) et qui s'engrène sur une couronne dentée (10) coaxiale à la base rotative (7).
  4. Le dispositif de la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que la base rotative (7) est accouplée en rotation à une circonférence interne de la couronne dentée (10).
  5. Le dispositif selon n'importe laquelle des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de pesage sont prédisposés pour peser une pluralité de récipients situés dans des zones angulairement équidistantes en référence à l'axe de rotation de la base (7).
  6. Le dispositif selon n'importe laquelle des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que chaque valve (6) est pourvue de moyens d'alimentation d'un liquide à doser, lesquels moyens d'alimentation comprennent un conduit de retour qui, avec la valve (6) dans la position fermée, peut être traversé par un flux de retour de la valve vers un conteneur du liquide.
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ES99830146T ES2198874T3 (es) 1999-03-17 1999-03-17 Aparato para dosificacion de liquidos.
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