EP1123251B1 - Procede de controle du remplissage de recipients avec un produit coulant et installation de remplissage mettant en oeuvre ce procede - Google Patents

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EP1123251B1
EP1123251B1 EP99947563A EP99947563A EP1123251B1 EP 1123251 B1 EP1123251 B1 EP 1123251B1 EP 99947563 A EP99947563 A EP 99947563A EP 99947563 A EP99947563 A EP 99947563A EP 1123251 B1 EP1123251 B1 EP 1123251B1
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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
    • B67C3/287—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to flow control using predetermined or real-time calculated parameters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/26—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled
    • B65B3/30—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by volumetric measurement
    • 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
    • B67C3/007—Applications of control, warning or safety devices in filling machinery
    • 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
    • B67C3/023—Filling multiple liquids in a container
    • B67C3/026—Filling the liquids simultaneously
    • 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
    • B67C3/20—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups

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  • the present invention relates to the field of filling of containers with a product flowing in a filling installation comprising a reservoir of product and a filling unit for filling simultaneous of several containers and the detection of containers to fill.
  • a filling installation comprising a reservoir of product and a filling unit for filling simultaneous of several containers and the detection of containers to fill.
  • the problem underlying the technique of filling of containers is to deliver, in each container, a predetermined quantity (in volume, in weight, ...) of flowing product, in the shortest time (in other words with the highest filling speed high, or with the highest speed), and what that either the effective volume of the container and / or its characteristics geometric and dimensional and / or characteristics rheological of the packaged product.
  • a first difficulty is due to the need quickly ensure fine adjustment of the flow rate supplied by each filling spout: manual intervention is certainly possible in a filling plant under normal conditions, but must be excluded in installations specific (filling installations in sterile environment in which any manual intervention requires shutdown of the installation, then implementation a complete decontamination cycle before putting it back in road).
  • Another difficulty is the size of the losses load which vary according to the number of spouts filling actually in operation (the spouts being in principle gravity fed from a tank to constant level). These pressure drops vary in particular during the start-up phase and the stop phase of installation as filling spouts enter service, respectively are put out service, which leads to concomitant variations in flows in the nozzles which are in service.
  • the implementation of the method of the invention allows to meet the desired goals insofar as the debit management is fully automatic and does not require no manual intervention within the installation: this process can therefore find application in a particularly interesting in filling systems in a sterile environment.
  • the regulation can be done in a way very fast and the implementation, for this purpose, of means electronic devices operating in real time do not pose today no particular problem for the skilled person. It results from the exploitation of the process of the invention within an in-line filling plant, even if it is working at a high rate, is perfectly possible to manage the individual filling of the containers with a optimum flow both during transitional phases (start, stop) of the installation only during operation continuous to take account in particular of faults container feeding (container missing or poorly positioned under the spout).
  • valve proportional any valve proportionally adjustable will be called valve proportional.
  • the means of total actual product flow measurement include a flow meter for measuring relatively high flow rates which is arranged in series with the main proportional valve and, for the measurement of relatively low flow rates, a branch circuit on the main proportional valve which includes a flow meter for measuring low flow rates and a secondary proportional valve, means switch selectively commissioning the valve main and secondary valve according to the flow to be measured.
  • the means for measuring the actual flow rate of the product include a multiplicity of associated individual flowmeters respectively to the filling spouts and means summers determining the sum ⁇ qi of the individual debits qi detected.
  • the means specific to the invention find a preferred application in an installation in which the filling unit is arranged in the form of a carousel rotating with the filling spouts distributed peripherally, the filling of the containers is carried out on a predetermined angular sector of the circular path followed by the beaks, and more particularly still finds application in such an installation arranged for filling the containers in a sterile environment.
  • the flowing product (usually a liquid) is brought to a tank 1 in which a device known per se (not shown) keeps the product at a constant level.
  • a sampling conduit 2 brings the flowable product to a filling unit 3 which in practice is a unit filling line of the rotating carousel type or a analogous type.
  • the filling unit 3 is equipped with a multiplicity filling nozzles 4 to which are associated support means (by the neck and / or by the bottom) of containers 5.
  • valve 6 there is in the line 2 a valve 6 with proportional closure under the action of a proportional control member 7.
  • This control can be of any type (pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, ...), but it is here preferably of the type electric due to the means used in the context of the invention and which is discussed below.
  • the principle used to control the operation filling unit 3 using the valve proportional 6 consists of measuring and comparing share, the actual instantaneous flow of the product delivered to the unit filling 3 and, on the other hand, the theoretical flow instant to be supplied to filling unit 3 and to determine, from this comparison, a signal of valve control which regulates the actual instantaneous total flow delivered to filling unit 3 to do so coincide with the instantaneous theoretical flow.
  • a flow meter 8 which supplies an electrical signal S r representative of the instantaneous total actual flow rate of the product flowing in the duct 2 and delivered to the filling unit 3.
  • a device 10 enables the value of the theoretical flow q to be delivered to each container to be displayed.
  • a multiplier device 11 receiving the electrical signals representative of the quantities n and q , produces the product nxq which constitutes the signal S th representative of the instantaneous theoretical flow rate to be supplied to the filling unit 3.
  • the two signals S r and S th are then compared in a comparator device 12 which delivers on its output a control signal S r - S thr intended for the control member 7 to actuate the valve under conditions suitable for the instantaneous total actual flow coincides with the instantaneous theoretical flow.
  • the electronic means that are currently commonly available commercially (microprocessors) present the information processing capacity and the speed to perform the above functions so to obtain the desired regulation in real time.
  • the flowmeters may have ranges of not allowing them to cover both large flow measurements and small measurements we can consider, to extend the domain of operation of the installation of Figure 1, to have use the following assembly illustrated in Figure 2.
  • the flow meter 8 suitable for measuring large flows. Bypass on the proportional valve 6 are connected in series a flowmeter 14 suitable for measuring small flow rates and a secondary proportional valve 15.
  • a processor 13, associated with the comparator 12, ensures the selective opening and closing of the valves 6 and 15 according to the importance of the detected flow and selects the suitable signal from the two signals S r1 supplied by the flow meter 14 and S r2 supplied by the flow meter S r2 , so as to be able to ensure the desired regulation of the valve in service 6 or 15.
  • each filling spout 4 is equipped with an individual flow meter 17.
EP99947563A 1998-10-16 1999-10-13 Procede de controle du remplissage de recipients avec un produit coulant et installation de remplissage mettant en oeuvre ce procede Expired - Lifetime EP1123251B1 (fr)

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PCT/FR1999/002475 WO2000023373A1 (fr) 1998-10-16 1999-10-13 Procede de controle du remplissage de recipients avec un produit coulant et installation de remplissage mettant en oeuvre ce procede

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