EP1173384B1 - Machine de remplissage avec tetes de remplissage comportant chacune une vanne deportee vers le bas - Google Patents

Machine de remplissage avec tetes de remplissage comportant chacune une vanne deportee vers le bas Download PDF

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EP1173384B1
EP1173384B1 EP99958267A EP99958267A EP1173384B1 EP 1173384 B1 EP1173384 B1 EP 1173384B1 EP 99958267 A EP99958267 A EP 99958267A EP 99958267 A EP99958267 A EP 99958267A EP 1173384 B1 EP1173384 B1 EP 1173384B1
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Rodolphe Saint-Martin
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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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • 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

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  • the invention relates in particular to machines which allow fill hollow containers, such as bottles or jars, with a product, for example a food product.
  • Such machines generally have a rotating carousel which carries a series of filling spouts.
  • the containers are engaged on the carousel at a given point in the circle that it describes, being arranged below a filling spout. Once the container is in place under the spout, the latter is supplied with product so that the product is spilled inside the container.
  • the nozzle supply is interrupted by an interposed valve in the spout supply circuit and the container is then released from the carousel, this of course before the carousel has completed a turn full.
  • the arrangement of multiple spouts on a carousel allows the machine to simultaneously fill several containers. This ensures the filling of a large number of containers in a given amount of time, despite the fact that filling is a operation which is relatively long. Indeed, it is particularly necessary to avoid that the product does not mouse too much, which could lead to a filling only partial of the container or a loss of produce by overflow.
  • a filling machine can thus have more than one hundred spouts, each spout having an associated valve.
  • the dispensing valve which controls the flow of product through the supply line is attached to the filling spout.
  • the valve and the spout are then either directly integrated in the same box, or separated from each other from a very short distance.
  • the invention proposes a machine filling as defined in claim 1.
  • FIG. 1 Illustrated in Figure 1 schematically and partially a filling machine 10 intended to ensure the filling of containers, such as bottles 12, with a liquid, for example a flat liquid such as water.
  • a liquid for example a flat liquid such as water.
  • the invention can be applied when filling any type of container with any type of product.
  • Machine 10 is a rotary machine which includes a carousel 14 rotatably mounted relative to a fixed frame 16, around an axis A1 which, for convenience, will be called vertical.
  • the carousel 14 has a series of filling stations 18 which are angularly spread evenly around the axis A1 but only one of which is illustrated in the figures.
  • Each filling station 18 is able to fill a bottle 12. It includes effect in particular a device 20 for supporting the bottle 12, a spout filling 22 through which the product intended to fill the bottle, and a supply circuit which is interposed between the spout 22 and a rotating distributor 24 of the machine 10.
  • the supply circuit includes a supply line having two upstream 26 and downstream 28 sections between which we have arranged a valve 30 which makes it possible to control the flow of product in the circuit and therefore the distribution of the product in the container.
  • the rotating distributor 24 is arranged in the lower part of the carousel 14, radially at the center of it. It has a fixed part on which are connected supply pipes (not shown) which are fixed relative to the frame 16 and which in particular make it possible to supply the carousel in product, and moreover, as it will appear later, cleaning agent and pressurized air.
  • the distributor 24 also comprises a rotating part 32 on which are connected pipes including the supply line 26, 28.
  • the two parts of the rotary distributor 24 include means for communication which allow to selectively connect pipes fixed supply to the corresponding carousel lines.
  • Each filling station 18 has a vertical column hollow 34 which is fixed by its lower end on a plate horizontal 36 and which carries, at its upper end, the spout filling 22, which extends outward, substantially in a radius with respect to the axis A1.
  • the valve 30 is arranged below the plate 36, substantially at the vertical of the associated filling spout 22, so that the downstream section 28 of the supply line extends through a bore 40 of the tray 36 and inside the column 34.
  • the filling operation must be carried out in avoiding any contamination of the product. This is crucial when the product is a food product and even more so in the case of dairy products for example.
  • cleaning can consist of removing all traces product, remove dust and other foreign bodies, or even eliminate biological or bacteriological contaminants. In the sense of this patent, cleaning can therefore cover the concepts of washing, disinfection, decontamination or sterilization.
  • Cleaning is generally carried out using a cleaning agent liquid or gaseous cleaning that is circulated in the circuit taken by the product inside the machine.
  • a cleaning agent liquid or gaseous cleaning that is circulated in the circuit taken by the product inside the machine.
  • the column 34 of the machine described carries, to its upper end, a casing 38 in which the spout is enclosed filling 22, this in order to allow a simple cleaning of the spout 22 and in order to create a closed circuit.
  • the end part of the downstream section 28 of the supply pipe extends in a radial plane with respect to the axis A1, so that the casing is fixed protruding radially outward from column 34.
  • the casing 38 has a base 42 which is fixed to the column 34 and which is extended radially outwards by a tubular wall of revolution 44 of radial axis A2.
  • Wall 44 is closed at its end external radial by an end wall 46 which is for example constituted by a sealingly aimed plug on the wall 44.
  • the end part of the supply line 28 crosses the base 42 sealingly to open into the closed space delimited by the tubular wall 44.
  • the filling spout 22 is curved down to find itself opposite an orifice 48 arranged in the wall 44, this orifice 48 itself being opposite the opening of filling of the bottle 12 when the latter is in place on its support 20.
  • the casing 38 comprises a movable flap 50 which allows to close the orifice 48 so that the housing delimits a space perfectly closed and sealed in which the spout 22 is enclosed.
  • the flap 50 consists of a tubular sleeve 52 of revolution which is slidably mounted on the tubular wall 44, outside of the latter.
  • the flap 50 can thus move between an open position illustrated in the FIG. 2, in which it is moved back so as to release the orifice 48, and a closed position illustrated in Figure 3, in which it is advanced so as to cover the orifice 48.
  • the rear end of the sleeve 52 has the shape of a collar 54 which slides tightly inside an annular chamber delimited around the tubular wall 44 by a tubular shell 56 of axis A2 which surrounds the rear end of the wall 44.
  • the collar 54 plays thus the role of a piston which delimits in the chamber two front parts 58 and 60.
  • the respective volume of these two parts 58, 60 is therefore variable in as a function of the position of the flange, and therefore of the position of the flap 50, along the A2 axis.
  • the shutter 50 is forced to move to either of its open or shutter positions.
  • the flange 54 and the two parts 58,60 of the chamber form a double action fluid pressure cylinder.
  • each filling station 18 When the machine has several nozzles, provision can be made for each filling station 18 is provided with its own solenoid valve shutter 50 control.
  • the shutters 50 are actuated individually and can then optionally be shifted in time from one beak to another.
  • the machine may include a single control solenoid valve for all spouts.
  • the actuation of the flaps can, thanks to the invention, to be done simultaneously on all the nozzles in a very short time short.
  • the actuation of the flaps can be carried out even when the carousel is being rotated.
  • auxiliary port 70 which is arranged in the base 42 and which opens inside the casing.
  • Auxiliary port 70 is by example connected by an auxiliary pipe 72 and by the distributor 24 to a cleaning fluid recovery and recycling device, which helps limit consumption.
  • the auxiliary port 70 is arranged so as to lead to a low point of the casing 38 to allow a as complete drainage of the cleaning liquid as possible auxiliary line 72.
  • a gas sterile such as sterile air, nitrogen or carbon dioxide.
  • the gas sterile then fills the internal volume of the casing 38 and escapes through orifice 48 by surrounding the jet of product which is delivered by the nozzle of filling in the direction of the bottle 12.
  • the product is isolated by a sterile gas jacket and is not not exposed to possible surrounding pollution sources.
  • the sterile gas can be introduced into the casing 38 at through the same auxiliary port 70 which is used for the evacuation of the cleaning during the machine cleaning phases.
  • valve 30 which controls the circulation of the product in the supply line 26, 28 is offset, in the occurrence offset vertically downward, relative to the spout filling.
  • this valve 30 is arranged below the tray 36 while the containers to be filled are intended to come above of it when in place on their support, the containers then being themselves below the filling spout.
  • valve 30 is therefore substantially in line with the beak with which it is associated.
  • the length of the downstream section 28 of the pipe which connects the valve 30 to the nozzle 22 is at least equal to 50 centimeters and it can reach a length greater than one metre.
  • a first advantage lies in the possibility of arranging the valve 30 in a place where it is easily accessible to be able to ensure the maintenance. Indeed, in the machine described, it is located in the part external radial of the carousel, and not in the center of it, behind the spout 22, as is the case in previously known machines.
  • valve 30 is connected by two removable fittings 76 respectively upstream 26 and downstream 28 sections of the supply line.
  • a second advantage is revealed particularly in the case of machines with a large number of spouts 22. Indeed, the space angular available for each filling station 18 is limited.
  • each valve 30 By placing the valves 30 associated with each of these nozzles 22 on a large diameter circle, roughly the same diameter as the circle on which the nozzles 22 are arranged, each valve 30 has a space sufficient to allow easy installation and for the size is not too determining a criterion for the choice of the technology used for the valve.
  • this valve type has a core 78 which is susceptible to displacement in a circulation chamber 80 through which the product must circulate.
  • the circulation chamber 80 is generally vertical and is bounded at its lower end by a seat 82 against which the core 78 is supported to interrupt the circulation of the product through valve 30.
  • electromagnetic means 84 such as coils or magnets create around the room magnetic fields that cause the core 78 to rise up from so that it takes off from seat 82, thus freeing the passage for the product.
  • valve 30 closes automatically. This is achieved without the need for elastic return means in the circulation chamber 80, which is therefore particularly easy to clean.
  • valve being offset away from the spouts, this allows free up a lot of space around them, so it's possible to design fairings with relatively simple shapes that do not turn into hard-to-clean dust rooms.
  • the volume of the filling spout 22 does not contain the volume of the valve, the casing 38 in which the spout 22 is enclosed may also be of reduced volume.

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EP99958267A 1999-01-06 1999-12-07 Machine de remplissage avec tetes de remplissage comportant chacune une vanne deportee vers le bas Expired - Lifetime EP1173384B1 (fr)

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PCT/FR1999/003049 WO2000040505A1 (fr) 1999-01-06 1999-12-07 Machine de remplissage avec tetes de remplissage comportant chacune une vanne deportee vers le bas

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