EP1125886B1 - Vorrichtung zum Ausrichten von Korken - Google Patents

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EP1125886B1
EP1125886B1 EP99830733A EP99830733A EP1125886B1 EP 1125886 B1 EP1125886 B1 EP 1125886B1 EP 99830733 A EP99830733 A EP 99830733A EP 99830733 A EP99830733 A EP 99830733A EP 1125886 B1 EP1125886 B1 EP 1125886B1
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Giovanni Sardi
Giovanni Colla
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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
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
    • B67B1/005—Feeding stoppers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D39/00—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D39/00—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/0005—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in one piece
    • B65D39/0011—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in one piece from natural or synthetic cork, e.g. for wine bottles or the like

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  • the present invention concerns a device for orienting corks.
  • the invention concerns a mechanism for orienting corks or bottle stoppers made of cork or other material and having ends with different shapes.
  • the bottle stoppers used for wine bottles generally have a tapered end, intended to make easier centring a metal cap applied for the bottle caging.
  • said bottle stoppers are delivered to automated bottling plants comprising a set of apparatuses that execute the different phases of the bottling cycle.
  • the bottle stoppers are delivered to the loading area of a feeding machine, generally consisting of a hopper, and are taken therefrom, by means of automated systems, in order to be transferred to a bottle-stopping machine. Since the bottle stoppers are introduced into the hopper of the feeding machine in random manner, it is necessary to effect their orientation in order they be sent to the bottle-stopping machine with the proper orientation.
  • an apparatus for orienting bottle stoppers of conglomerated cork provided at one end with at least one disc of natural cork exploits the different specific weight of conglomerated cork with respect to natural cork.
  • the bottle stopper is placed onto a blade transversal to the axis of the bottle stopper and located substantially under the geometrical centre of the bottle stopper; thereafter the bottle stopper is let to fall down with the heaviest portion down and is sent through a suitable duct to the bottle-stopping machine.
  • a first problem the present invention intends to solve is to carry out the orientation of great quantities of bottle stoppers.
  • Another drawback of the apparatus of the Italian Patent mentioned above lies in that its operation requires that a certain difference exists in the specific weights of the materials forming the two end portions of the bottle stopper, thereby limiting the range of selection of the materials to be used in manufacturing the bottle stopper.
  • Another object of the present invention is to allow using bottle stoppers made of any material.
  • the bottle stopper orienting mechanism comprises a feeding duct 2 through which bottle stoppers 3 fall one after the other with random orientations.
  • Bottle stoppers 3 used for sparkling wines generally have a cylindrical shape with a tapered end portion 3' of which the purpose is to make easier centring a metal cap externally applied for caging the bottle.
  • the bottle stopper In the bottle-stopping phase, the bottle stopper is therefore to be oriented with its tapered end portion 3' directed towards the outside of the bottle.
  • a translating device 9 is located under feeding duct 2, said device comprising a cylindrical sleeve 4 provided with a hole 5 into which the bottle stoppers individually fall when leaving feeding duct 2 by gravity.
  • Said translating device 9 can be operated by known means, e.g. lever means connected to the stem of a pneumatic cylinder.
  • the bottle stoppers are individually moved by said translating device 9 to one side or to the other of feeding duct 2 towards respective transfer ducts, depending on their orientations, as it will be better explained hereinbelow.
  • a base 6 is provided under sleeve 4 to keep the bottle stoppers inside sleeve 4 during the translational movement of translating device 9 in the directions shown by arrows F' and F" in Figs. 1a and 1b, respectively.
  • a stopping device (not shown), comprising for instance a pair of jaws which can be mechanically opened and closed, is arranged to stop the falling down of the bottle stoppers from feeding duct 2 during the translational movement of translating device 9.
  • the outlet of feeding duct 2 has an irregular shape so as to provide a half-circular abutment 2'.
  • a seat 15 is provided in base 6 defining two support planes at two different levels, an upper plane 6a and a lower plane 6b, connected through a flared half-circular border 6' that is provided in a diametrically opposite position with respect to abutment 2' of feeding duct 2.
  • Figs. 1a and 1b The aim of that shaping of base 6 is immediately apparent from Figs. 1a and 1b: in effect, when bottle stopper 3 is correctly oriented, that is with tapered end portion 3' up, it is housed within hole 5 (Fig. 1a) and rests on upper plane 6a in correspondence with border 6'.
  • bottle stopper 3 When bottle stopper 3 is so positioned, its tapered end portion 3' will be in contact with abutment 2' and therefore the bottle stopper can be transferred only through a displacement of translating device 9 along a first direction shown by arrow F', the displacement in the opposite direction being prevented by abutment 2'.
  • bottle stopper 3 When bottle stopper 3 is so positioned, it is no longer bound at its upper end by abutment 2', whereas it is retained at its lower end by border 6' defining seat 15; thus the bottle stopper can be transferred only along a second direction shown by arrow F" in Fig. 1b.
  • translating device 9 will divide the bottle stoppers into two groups depending on their orientations.
  • Translating device 9 is continuously operated, for instance by a pneumatic cylinder driven so as to carry out alternately a stroke in one direction and a stroke in the opposite direction.
  • translating device 9 alternately displaces in the directions shown by arrows F', F", respectively.
  • translating device 9 will lose a working cycle whenever a bottle stopper in hole 5 of sleeve 4 is oriented in a direction which does not corresponds with the direction of advance of translating device 9.
  • a position detector 10 is provided in correspondence with seat 15 in order to detect the presence of the tapered end portion 3' of bottle stopper 3 when that end portion penetrates into seat 15 defined on base 6 by border 6'.
  • the position detector can be either of mechanical type, for instance a tracer point capable of detecting the greater or smaller lowering of bottle stopper 3 with respect to bas 6, or of optical type capable of emitting a light signal and of detecting the possible reflected signal.
  • the position detector being capable of detecting the presence of tapered end portion 3' within seat 15, can advantageously control the translational movement of said translating device 9 so as to avoid losing working cycles and thereby achieving a saving in the time required for the correct orientation of the bottle stoppers, if compared to the first embodiment.
  • Detector 10 of optical or mechanical type is located under base 6 which, in order to allow detecting the bottle stopper position, has a hole 8, preferably coaxial with feeding duct 2.
  • translating device 9 consists of a slide 11 sliding on guides 12:
  • Said slide 11 is provided with a hole 45 arranged to allow the passage of the bottle stoppers coming from feeding duct 2 and directed to a transfer duct belonging to a pair of transfer ducts 7a or 7b fastened below a support plate 13, laterally of feeding duct 2.
  • base 6 wherein lowered seat 15 is defined by a half circular border 6', similarly to what has been described with reference to the first embodiment of the invention.
  • Base 6 and support plate 13 are provided with holes 16, 17 and 16', 17' respectively, for the passage of bottle stoppers directed to ducts 7a and 7b.
  • abutment 2' of feeding duct 2 acts as a safety stop to avoid errors in the orientation of bottle stoppers inside transfer ducts 7a and 7b in case of wrong operation of optical detector 10.
  • slide 11 of substantially rectangular cross-section, has two parallel and plane walls 11a whereas two pairs of planes inclined towards centre 11b are formed on the opposite walls.
  • a pair of small pivoting arms 21, resiliently interconnected through a return spring 20, are provided, and said arms are equipped at their end with respective rollers 22 sliding on said inclined planes 11b in order to guarantee that hole 45 is centred with respect to feeding duct 2, so as to allow a bottle stopper freely to fall by gravity into hole 45.
  • a pair of pneumatic cylinders 30, controlled by position detector 10, are arranged to exert a thrust on slide 11 either towards duct 7a (7b) or in the opposite direction depending on the orientation detected by said detector 10 for bottle stopper 3.
  • Pneumatic cylinders 30 are fastened to L-shaped brackets 32 secured on said support plate 13.
  • guides 12 are secured to said brackets through threaded bushings 33.
  • Two stopping elements 34 of semirigid material, secured to said L-shaped brackets 32, are provided to stop slide 11 in the correct position in which hole 45 is coaxial with ducts 7a or 7b.
  • Fig. 4 shows a third embodiment of the invention, in which one of the two transfer ducts 7a (7b) is coaxially arranged with respect to feeding duct 2, so as to limit the number of strokes of slide 11 and the corresponding transfer times of the bottle stoppers towards said transfer ducts 7a, 7b.
  • Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in which the coaxially arranged transfer duct is the one in which bottle stoppers are oriented with tapered end portion 3' down.
  • a base 76 which supports the bottle stopper housed within hole 45 has a pair of holes 16 and 57 for the passage of the bottle stoppers directed to transfer ducts 7a and 47b.
  • Hole 57 is closed by a pair of jaws 58 with an internally flared border 59, arranged to engage tapered end portion 3' of the bottle stoppers when they are incorrectly oriented.
  • a position detector 70 indicates the presence of tapered end portion 3' of the bottle stoppers through a slit existing between jaws 58.
  • the translational motion of slide 11 towards duct 7a only is carried out when bottle stoppers 3 arrive with their tapered end portion 3' up, since the oppositely oriented bottles stoppers directly pass to duct 47b arranged under feeding duct 2.
  • only one pneumatic cylinder arranged on the same side as duct 47b, is required to advance slide 11 towards duct 7a by means of piston 31, whereas the return of slide 11 to the starting position is obtained through return means, for instance a spring, which operate in opposite direction to said pneumatic cylinder 30.

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  1. Vorrichtung zum Ausrichten von Korken oder Flaschenverschlüssen (3) mit kegeligem Endbereich (3'), die Folgendes umfaßt:
    einen Zuführkanal (2), durch den die Flaschenverschlüsse (3) mit zu fälliger Ausrichtung ankommen;
    eine am Auslass jenes Zuführkanals (2) angeordnete Stützplatte (6) für die Flaschenverschlüsse;
    einen ersten und zweiten Transferkanal (7a, 7b, 47b), in den die Flaschenverschlüsse in geordneter Art und Weise eingeführt werden; dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in jener Stützplatte (6) eine Auflage (15) vorgesehen ist, die so gestaltet ist, daß ein den Zuführkanal (2) verlassender Flaschenverschluß (3) in Bezug auf die Stützplatte (6) eine erste Ebene (6a) oder eine zweite Ebene (6b) - entsprechend seiner Aufwärts- oder Abwärtsorientierung beziehungsweise dem konischen Endbereich (3') des Flaschenverschlusses - beaufschlagt, sowie darin, daß zwischen jener Stützplatte (6) und jenem Zuführkanal (2) eine Translationseinrichtung (9) angeordnet ist, um die Flaschenverschlüsse von jener Auflage (15) gemäß der Aufwärts- oder Abwärtsorientierung der Flaschenverschlüsse (3) zu einem jener Transferkanäle (7a, 7b, 47b) zu überführen.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    wobei jene Stützplatte (6) im Wesentlichen horizontal ist.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2,
    wobei jene Translationseinrichtung (9) eine Öffnung (5, 45) aufweist, in die die von jenem Zuführkanal (2) ankommenden Flaschenverschlüsse (3) einzeln fallen.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2 oder 3,
    wobei weiter Mittel vorgesehen sind, die angeordnet sind, den kegeligen Endbereich (3') jedes Flaschenverschlusses (3) zu erfassen, um die Ausrichtung des kegeligen Endbereichs (3') zu erkennen und die Bewegung der Translationseinrichtung (9) in Abhängigkeit der Ausrichtung des Flaschenverschlusses zu steuern.
  5. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4,
    wobei jene Mittel, die angeordnet sind, den kegeligen Endbereich (3') jedes Flaschenverschlusses (3) zu erfassen, einen ersten und zweiten blockierenden Anschlag (2', 6') aufweisen, der die Translationsbewegung jener Translationseinrichtung (9) nur auf denjenigen Transferkanal (7a, 7b, 47b) zu zuläßt, der der entsprechenden Ausrichtung des kegeligen Endbereichs jedes Flaschenverschlusses entspricht.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4,
    wobei jene Mittel, die angeordnet sind, den kegeligen Endbereich (3') jedes Flaschenverschlusses (3) zu erfassen, ein Lichtsignal aufweisen und wobei weiter ein Detektor (10; 70) vorgesehen ist, um das Lichtsignal zu erkennen und der Detektor (10; 70) die Translationsbewegung der Translationseinrichtung (9) in Abhängikeit der Ausrichtung des Flaschenverschlusses in Richtung eines der Transferkanäle (7a, 7b, 47b) steuert.
  7. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4,
    wobei jene Mittel, die angeordnet sind, den kegeligen Endbereich (3') jedes Flaschenverschlusses (3) zu erfassen, einen mechanischen Tastspitzenfühler aufweist, der zur Steuerung der Translationsbewegung der Translationseinrichtung (9) in Abhängigkeit der Ausrichtung des Flaschenverschlusses in Richtung eines der Transferkanäle (7a, 7b, 47b) angeordnet ist.
  8. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5,
    wobei jener erste blockierende Anschlag (2') in Verbindung mit der Auslaßöffnung des Zuführkanals (2) vorgesehen ist.
  9. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5,
    wobei jener erste blockierende Anschlag (2') in Verbindung mit der Umrandung jener Auflage (15) vorgesehen ist.
  10. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    wobei jener Zuführkanal (2) und jene Transferkanäle (7a, 7b, 47b) einen im Wesentlichen kreisförmigen Querschnitt aufweisen.
  11. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 10,
    wobei jene Transferkanäle (7a, 7b, 47b) auf entgegengesetzten Seiten des Zuführkanals (2) vorgesehen sind.
  12. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 10,
    wobei einer jener Transferkanäle (7a, 7b, 47b) koaxial mit dem Zuführkanal (2) angeordnet ist.
  13. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4 oder 5 in Verbindung mit Anspruch 12,
    wobei jene Auflage (15) mit Klauen (58) versehen ist, die auf einen Steuerbefehl des Detektors (10, 70) hin geöffnet werden können, wenn das Vorhandensein des kegeligen Endbereiches (3') eines Flaschenverschlusses (3) in der Auflage (15) erkannt wird.
  14. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    wobei jene Translationseinrichtung (9) einen in Führungen (12) gleitenden Schlitten (11) aufweist und der mit einer Öffnung (45) zur Aufnahme der Flaschenverschlüsse (3) ausgestattet ist.
  15. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 14,
    die weiter Zentriereinrichtungen aufweist, um die Öffnung (45) jenes Schlittens (11) in Flucht mit der Auslaßöffnung jenes Zuführkanals (2) zu bringen.
  16. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 15,
    wobei die Zentriereinrichtung zwei Paare geneigter konvergierender Flächen (11b) aufweist, die an gegenüberliegenden parallelen Wänden des Schlittens (11) ausgelegt sind und auf denen an den Enden zweier Schwenkarme (21) montierte drehbare Rollen (22) gleiten, die gegen die geneigten Flächen durch an die Arme (21) befestigte federnde Mittel (20) in Kontakt gehalten werden, um so den Schlitten (11) in eine Stellung zu bringen, in der die drehbaren Rollen (22) in Übereinstimmung mit dem Konvergenzpunkt der geneigten Flächen (11b) positioniert sind.
  17. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 14 bis 16,
    wobei jener Schlitten (11) durch mindestens einen Pneumatikzylinder angetrieben wird.
  18. Flaschenverschlußzuführgerät für eine Flaschenverschlußmaschine, die eine in den Ansprüchen 1 bis 17 beanspruchte Ausrichteinrichtung (1) aufweist.
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ES99830733T ES2232103T3 (es) 1999-11-25 1999-11-25 Dispositivo para orientar tapones.
AT99830733T ATE281401T1 (de) 1999-11-25 1999-11-25 Vorrichtung zum ausrichten von korken
EP99830733A EP1125886B1 (de) 1999-11-25 1999-11-25 Vorrichtung zum Ausrichten von Korken
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