Classifications

• • 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
  • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
  • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
  • B65B43/50—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using rotary tables or turrets

Definitions

• the invention relates to a turntable for the treatment of containers for fillable goods with receiving places for the containers and with at least one treatment unit for the containers received in the receiving places.
• the generic rotary tables for the treatment of containers for fillable goods are known in a variety of configurations, adapted to different container shapes and different fillable goods.
• containers include glass or polyethylene bottles, cans, etc.
• Fillable goods include, for example: drinks, thin or viscous personal care products, food, pet food, but also pourable goods such as rice.
• Rotary tables are usually used when it comes to filling, screwing, sealing or performing similar treatments on the containers at high frequency. These high frequencies are made possible by the fact that the containers are available for treatment by the treatment units assigned to the recording places for approximately the period of time that elapses during a complete rotation of the rotary table. All the treatment containers, for example the screwing on of a lid, are continuously located on a rotary table in the receiving spaces subjected, which on the one hand achieves a high frequency and on the other hand ensures continuous treatment.
• accumulation conveyors are generally used, at the outlet of which the containers are separated via an infeed screw in order to be fed to an infeed star, which in some cases also refers to the rotary table at a delivery point on the rotary table - passes.
• the containers in the outlet are removed from the receiving places via an outlet star or handed over directly to a conveyor.
• Treatment unit which treats a whole series of containers in the receiving places in parallel.
• the containers in a filling star are filled by a filling unit.
• steps such as cleaning, filling and screwing on reusable glass bottles, are usually required to completely treat containers for fillable goods in order to produce the end product.
• a plurality of turntables are used, which specialize in the respective treatment, such as filling, and which in some cases deliver the containers to intermediate conveyors via intake stars and / or discharge stars or take them up from them.
• the present invention has for its object to design and develop a turntable for the treatment of containers for fillable goods such that multiple treatments of containers for fillable goods in a single turntable without intermediary charges or recordings of the Containers are possible.
• the previously derived and described object for a turntable for treating containers for fillable goods is achieved in that the receiving places are arranged in inner carousels arranged on the turntable, the inner carousels have rotary drives for rotating the receiving places on at least two predetermined radii of the turntable and on the predetermined radii, at least one treatment unit for the containers are arranged.
• the containers accommodated in the receiving places are moved on different radii, depending on the position of the inner carousels rotating with the turntable, relative to the turntable, and can thus be supplied to the treatment units arranged on different radii of the turntable.
• the inner carousels continue to rotate in such a way that the containers received in the receiving places are moved to a different radius on which a further treatment unit carries out a further treatment of the containers.
• the turntable according to the invention thus enables the treatment of containers accommodated in the receiving places on different radii by treatment units assigned to these radii without the containers having to be released from the turntable between each treatment step or having to be picked up by a new turntable for further treatment.
• the turntable according to the invention considerably simplifies the construction or the space requirement of systems for treating containers for fillable goods.
• the parallelism of the treatment of the containers to be filled can be further increased by providing treatment units assigned to two different angular ranges on the given radii between the outermost radius and the innermost radius of the receiving places.
• On the radii between the outermost and innermost radius of the receiving locations there are two possible positions of the receiving locations in the inner carousel. One each in the direction of rotation in front of or behind the position on the outermost or innermost radius.
• a separate treatment unit can be assigned to each of the two positions, since the containers accommodated in the receiving places are on the same radius but in different angular ranges of the turntable.
• the control of the inner carousels which may be relatively complex, can be ensured particularly simply by the fact that the rotary drives of the inner carousels are designed as stepper motors. Stepper motors of this type can be moved in a computer-controlled manner without great effort and with high precision in predetermined angular steps.
• the turntable according to the invention is particularly advantageously designed in that the receiving units are designed for receiving stand-up pouches.
• Stand-up pouches can be accommodated, for example, by means of clamping jaws which grip the stand-up pouches, spout guides engaging in adapted recesses, if necessary, or via other carriers adapted for stand-up pouches which are described in an application which goes back to the same applicant and which was filed at the same time.
• Fig. 1 schematically in a plan view
• Embodiment of a turntable according to the invention in a second state Embodiment of a turntable according to the invention in a second state.
• the receiving places 1 for the containers, not shown are arranged in inner carousels 2 arranged on a rotating turntable frame, not shown.
• the inner carousel 2 rotatable about likewise not shown rotary drives against the not shown rotary table frame, thus allowing the relative rotation of the take places to the rotary table frame get whereby the holding positions 1 to the 'predetermined radii 3, 4; 5.
• the distance between the outermost radius 3 and the innermost radius 5 corresponds to twice the radius ⁇ of an inner carousel 2.
• At least one treatment unit (not shown) for the containers is arranged on these given radii 3, 4, 5.
• This construction according to the invention of the exemplary embodiment shown in the drawing ensures the simultaneous treatment of receptacles 1, which are not shown and which are accommodated in receptacles 1 which move on different radii 3, 4, 5.
• FIG. 2 shows a second state of the exemplary embodiment of the rotary table according to the invention after a further rotation of the rotary table frame by 360 ° counterclockwise compared to the state shown in FIG. 1.
• the marked recording places 1 correspond to the recording places 1 already marked in FIG. 1.
• all marked recording places 1 are now, with the exception of the marked recording place 1 on the inner carousel 2 in position 1:30 Clock, on the middle radius 4, after which the associated inner carousels 2 were rotated 90 ° counterclockwise between the positions 3:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. during the previous rotation of the bogie.
• the marked location 1 on the inner carousel 2 at position 1:30 a.m. has already been rotated 90 ° counterclockwise during the movement from the position 3:00 a.m. to the position 1:30 a.m., so that this location 1 is now open the innermost radius 5.
• deviating angular ranges make it possible to arrange a plurality of treatment units assigned to different angular ranges on the same predetermined radius, so that there is the possibility of arranging a total of 4 treatment units when the illustrated embodiment of a rotary table according to the invention functions.
• the treatment in the fourth position described can also consist, for example, in that the containers are removed from the receiving positions in this position.
• the inner carousels 2 each have 4 receiving spaces.
• 2 or even 5, 6 or more recording places can be arranged per inner carousel.
• the example of rotation of the inner carousel 2 in the illustrated embodiment between the positions 3:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. by 90 ° in each case represents only one example.
• rotations of the inner carousel are also conceivable, with the aid of which the recording places can be increased or less than three radii of the turntable are rotatable.

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