EP1355824A1 - Machine pour le remplissage de tubes - Google Patents

Machine pour le remplissage de tubes

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EP1355824A1
EP1355824A1 EP02716677A EP02716677A EP1355824A1 EP 1355824 A1 EP1355824 A1 EP 1355824A1 EP 02716677 A EP02716677 A EP 02716677A EP 02716677 A EP02716677 A EP 02716677A EP 1355824 A1 EP1355824 A1 EP 1355824A1
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Prior art keywords
tube
filling
filling unit
drive
operating position
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EP1355824B1 (fr
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Rolf Limbach
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IWK Verpackungstechnik GmbH
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IWK Verpackungstechnik GmbH
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    • 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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • 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
    • B65B3/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B3/16—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles for filling collapsible tubes

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  • the invention relates to a tube filling machine with a rotating conveying device, by means of which a tube can be transported through the tube filling machine, passing through various processing stations, one of the processing stations being a filling unit in which the tube can be filled with a desired product.
  • Known tube filling machines have a conveyor device usually designed as an endless belt or chain, which carries a plurality of receptacles or tube holders for one tube each.
  • the empty tubes are inserted into the tube holder of the conveying device in a loading station and then pass through several work stations, which are in particular a filling unit and a downstream closure unit.
  • the tubes are filled with the desired product or medium via a filling tube which is connected to a filling medium reservoir via a metering device.
  • the filled tube is then passed on to the closure unit. transported in which the upper end of the tube is closed.
  • the filling unit which comprises all wet parts contaminated with the first product, is then lifted out of the tube-filling machine with the aid of a lifting device, for example a crane. Since a tube filling machine is to be constructed very compactly, the space for the expansion and in particular the lifting out of the filling unit is very limited. This makes removing the filling unit difficult and time-consuming and therefore cost-intensive, especially since the tube filling machine cannot be in operation during the removal and installation of a new filling unit.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a tube filling machine of the type mentioned, in which the
  • Filling unit can be removed and installed in a simple and quick manner.
  • the filling machine Unit is mounted on an adjustable support structure, which is adjustable between an operating position in which the filling unit is arranged in the tube filling machine above the tube to be filled, and a non-operating position in which the filling unit protrudes laterally from the tube filling machine.
  • the invention is based on the basic idea that the filling unit should not be installed directly in the tube filling machine, but instead be stored on a special supporting structure that can be adjusted if necessary.
  • the filling unit When the tube foot machine is in operation, the filling unit is located in a conventional manner above the tubes to be filled, with its supporting structure in the so-called operating position.
  • the operating position When a desired product change is made, the
  • Support structure adjusted. It can either be pulled out of the tube foot machine laterally, it is preferably provided that the supporting structure is pivotally mounted and can thus be pivoted out of the tube foot machine laterally. In the position protruding laterally from the tube foot machine, the support structure is in the so-called non-operating position, in which the filling unit also protrudes laterally from the tube foot machine and is therefore easily accessible. In this way, it is in particular possible to grasp the filling unit sitting on the supporting structure by means of a conventional lifting device, in particular a crane or a forklift, and to lift it off the supporting structure.
  • special receptacles are provided for the hoist, which in particular can be tubular or rail-like guides for the tines of the forklift.
  • the installation or removal of the filling unit can be accelerated even further if the drives of the filling and metering elements are automatically decoupled from the filling and metering elements when the support structure is adjusted, or if they engage with them.
  • the filling unit has a rotary slide valve with a rotary slide valve drive, which can be automatically decoupled from the rotary slide valve when the supporting structure and thus the filling unit is moved into the non-operating position, and when the supporting structure is adjusted and thus the filling unit automatically engages with the rotary valve in the operating position.
  • the filling unit can also have at least one shut-off tappet with a tappet drive, which can be automatically decoupled from the shut-off tappet when the supporting structure and thus the filler unit is moved into the non-operating position, and automatically engages with the shut-off tappet when the support structure and the filling unit are adjusted into the operating position occurs.
  • a tappet drive can be automatically decoupled from the shut-off tappet when the supporting structure and thus the filler unit is moved into the non-operating position, and automatically engages with the shut-off tappet when the support structure and the filling unit are adjusted into the operating position occurs.
  • the drives can be used for the corresponding filling and metering elements of different filling units, so that each drive unit does not have to be assigned its own drive devices.
  • the support structure has a base frame and a support arm pivotably mounted thereon, wherein between the Floor frame and the support arm, an imagining device is arranged.
  • the adjusting device can be, for example, a spindle drive or a piston-cylinder unit.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic side view of the essential elements of a tube foot machine in the operating position
  • Figure 2 shows the elements of FIG. 1 in the non-operating position.
  • the tube foot machine 10 comprises an endlessly rotating conveyor device 11 in the form of a conveyor belt, which has a plurality of tube holders 12 projecting outwards, into each of which a tube 13 is inserted.
  • the exemplary embodiment shown shows a tube foot machine working in two adjacent rows, however the invention can also be applied to single-row or multi-row tube foot machines.
  • the filling unit 14 is arranged above this.
  • a feed line 14 for the product to be filled which ends in vertical filling nozzles 20 which fill the tubes 13 to be filled from above. are feasible.
  • a rotary slide valve 16 known per se with a rotary slide valve drive 17 is also provided in the feed line.
  • a plunger 18 is assigned to each of the filling nozzles 20, the plungers 18 being driven by a common plunger drive 19.
  • the rotary valve drive 17 and the plunger drive 19 are mounted in a manner not shown, fixed within the tube pumping machine.
  • the other parts of the filling unit 14, i.e. the supply line 15, the rotary valve 16, the shut-off plunger 18 and the filling nozzles 20 are mounted on a support frame 23 which has tubular receptacles 24 for a hoist on the underside.
  • the support frame 23 is releasably seated on a support structure 21 which comprises a base frame 25 u which is supported on a base by feet 26.
  • a support arm 22 is pivotally mounted about a joint 28, on which the support frame 23 with the aforementioned components of the filling unit 14 is placed.
  • An adjusting device 27 in the form of a spindle drive is arranged between the base frame 25 and the support arm 22, via which the support arm 22 can be pivoted relative to the base frame 25.
  • the filling unit 14 In the operating position shown in FIG. 1, the filling unit 14 is in its usual arrangement within the tube filling machine, the filling nozzles 20 being located above the tubes 13 to be filled and being supplied with the medium to be filled via the feed line 15.
  • the rotary slide valve 16 is coupled to the rotary slide valve drive 17 and the shut-off plungers 18 are connected to the plunger drive 19.
  • the support arm 22 is in an upright position.
  • the tube filling machine When changing the product, the tube filling machine is stopped and the support arm 22 is actuated by actuating the Device 27 pivoted out of the tube foot machine into the non-operating position shown in FIG. 2, in which the support arm 22 with the support frame 23 seated thereon, which carries the wet parts of the filling unit 14, projects laterally out of the tube foot machine.
  • the rotary slide valve drive 17 and the plunger drive 19 remain in the tube filling machine, the connection of the rotary slide valve drive 17 with the rotary slide valve 16 and the plunger drive 19 with the shut-off plunger 18 being automatically decoupled by pivoting the support arm 22.
  • the two receptacles 24 of the support frame 23 are aligned essentially horizontally next to one another, so that a forklift truck with its tines move into the receptacles 24 and the support frame 23 with the feed line 15, the rotary valve 16, the shut-off plungers 18 and the filling nozzles 20 can lift up from the support arm 22, as indicated by the arrow A in FIG. 2.
  • Another support frame with cleaned filling and dosing elements can then be placed on the support arm by means of the forklift

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)

Abstract

Machine pour le remplissage de tubes, comprenant un dispositif de convoyage périphérique (11) au moyen duquel un tube (13) peut être transporté à travers la machine, tout en parcourant différents postes de traitement, l'un de ces postes étant une unité de remplissage (14) permettant de remplir un tube (13) avec un produit voulu. En vue de pouvoir démonter et remonter l'unité de remplissage (14) de manière simple et rapide, l'invention est caractérisée en ce que ladite unité de remplissage est placée sur une construction porteuse réglable (21) pouvant être ajustée entre une position opérationnelle dans laquelle l'unité de remplissage (14) est agencée dans la machine, au-dessus du tube à remplir (13), et une position de non-fonctionnement dans laquelle l'unité de remplissage émerge latéralement de ladite machine de remplissage.
EP02716677A 2001-01-29 2002-01-23 Machine pour le remplissage de tubes Expired - Lifetime EP1355824B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

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DE10104069A DE10104069A1 (de) 2001-01-29 2001-01-29 Tubenfüllmaschine
DE10104069 2001-01-29
PCT/EP2002/000624 WO2002060755A1 (fr) 2001-01-29 2002-01-23 Machine pour le remplissage de tubes

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EP1355824A1 true EP1355824A1 (fr) 2003-10-29
EP1355824B1 EP1355824B1 (fr) 2006-08-02

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US (1) US6810928B2 (fr)
EP (1) EP1355824B1 (fr)
JP (1) JP2004535332A (fr)
BR (1) BR0205668A (fr)
CA (1) CA2431922C (fr)
DE (2) DE10104069A1 (fr)
MX (1) MXPA03002405A (fr)
WO (1) WO2002060755A1 (fr)

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MXPA03002405A (es) 2003-06-19
DE50207718D1 (de) 2006-09-14
CA2431922A1 (fr) 2002-08-08
US6810928B2 (en) 2004-11-02
JP2004535332A (ja) 2004-11-25
EP1355824B1 (fr) 2006-08-02
DE10104069A1 (de) 2002-08-01
BR0205668A (pt) 2003-07-29
CA2431922C (fr) 2009-05-12
US20030111133A1 (en) 2003-06-19

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