EP1357041A1 - Dispositif pour porter des bouteilles à une température donnée dans une installation d'embouteillage - Google Patents

Dispositif pour porter des bouteilles à une température donnée dans une installation d'embouteillage Download PDF

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EP1357041A1
EP1357041A1 EP02425270A EP02425270A EP1357041A1 EP 1357041 A1 EP1357041 A1 EP 1357041A1 EP 02425270 A EP02425270 A EP 02425270A EP 02425270 A EP02425270 A EP 02425270A EP 1357041 A1 EP1357041 A1 EP 1357041A1
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Giovanni Sardi
Giovanni Colla
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Cames SNC Di Colla G & Sardi G
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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
    • B67C7/00—Concurrent cleaning, filling, and closing of bottles; Processes or devices for at least two of these operations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/0015—Preparing the labels or articles, e.g. smoothing, removing air bubbles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/0015—Preparing the labels or articles, e.g. smoothing, removing air bubbles
    • B65C2009/0059—Preparing the articles

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for bringing bottles to a desired temperature in a bottling plant.
  • the invention concerns an apparatus for heating cold bottles, the apparatus being of a kind intended for use in a bottling plant before a labelling machine.
  • the present invention is especially concerned with plants for bottling products, such as champagne-type sparkling wines, for which the bottles are filled at low temperature.
  • the large bottling plants generally comprise a series of automated apparatuses performing the several operations of the bottling cycle, such as washing and drying the inside of the bottles, filling the bottles, corking or capping the bottles, washing and drying the bottle outside, labelling and packaging the bottles.
  • such heating is performed immediately after bottle closing and is performed, according to the prior art, either by randomly immersing the bottles into a water-containing tank and then by injecting high-temperature steam into the tank, or by moving the bottles, randomly arranged on a conveyor belt, through downwards directed hot water jets (at about 70°C).
  • Another problem related with the heating phase is the high acoustic pollution caused by collisions among bottles on the conveyor belt.
  • the bottles to be heated are made to advance through a heating zone, where the bottles are hit by a warm fluid, e. g. water, by means of a conveyor line, e. g. a conveyor belt, on which the bottles are kept aligned and in upright position.
  • a warm fluid e. g. water
  • the order of the bottles when entering the heating zone is exactly the same as when leaving such zone: the first bottle in is certainly also the first out.
  • the conveyor line inside the heating zone is divided into a plurality of sections arranged parallel to each other or according to different directions, so as to reduce the longitudinal extension of the apparatus and, consequently, its overall size.
  • the invention provides for walls arranged along the conveyor line acting as partitions between adjacent and parallel sections of said conveyor line, to prevent contact between bottles advancing in different directions on the conveyor line.
  • the invention provides for the possibility of arranging partitions of different thickness, to adapt such thickness to the diameter of the different bottles being introduced into the heating zone.
  • the reduction of the apparatus size attainable according to the invention allows enclosing said apparatus into a compact structure.
  • reduction of the level of acoustic pollution in the environment where the apparatus is used is possible.
  • Noise reduction in the apparatus is moreover favoured in that collision during heating are greatly reduced, as the bottles are orderly aligned on the conveyor line.
  • the invention provides for introducing means capable of forcing the transfer of the bottles from one section to another in the conveyor line.
  • the apparatus according to the invention is especially intended for plants for bottling cold bottles, but it could be included into a general bottling plant, used both for bottles filled at low temperature and for bottles filled at ambient temperature, by simply providing an additional conveyor line bypassing the heating station.
  • an apparatus including a substantially rectangular bottle heating zone A, defined by a base 5a, side walls 5b - 5e and a roof 5f.
  • a device 15 for conveying the bottles is provided inside heating zone A, which device guides the aligned and upright standing bottles along a zigzag path.
  • conveyor device 15 comprises a plurality of parallel conveyor belts 15a, 15b, each moving in opposite direction with respect to the adjacent ones.
  • conveyor belts 15a move from the right to the left, and belts 15b from the left to the right.
  • Conveyor belts 15a, 15b are separated by partitions 25 defining a rectilinear channel or path of which the width only just exceeds the diameter of the bottles moving on the belt.
  • Said conveyor belts further co-operate with two shaped guides 13 and 14, located in correspondence of right wall 5c and left wall 5e, respectively, of zone A, so as to allow transferring the bottles from a belt to another one.
  • the bottles enter and leave zone A through corresponding entrance and exit openings 9 and 19, respectively, diagonally opposed on sides 5e and 5c.
  • Belts 7, 17 connect apparatus 1 with the remaining parts of the bottling plant, before and past apparatus 1.
  • conveyor device 15 so defined allows the bottles to travel along a path substantially covering the whole area of zone A from opening 9 on left side 5e up to opening 19 on right side 5c.
  • shaped guides 13, 14 are preferably made each of a member of metal sheet or plastics or any other material with substantially rectangular development, shaped so as to define, on its side facing conveyor belts 15a, 15b, corresponding half-circular concave portions 13a, 14a, the radius of which substantially corresponds with the distance between two adjacent partitions 25 and hence with the width of the passage for bottles 3 in channel C defined between the two partitions 25.
  • Fig. 2 further shows the means provided by the invention to force bottles 3 to pass from a conveyor belt to the subsequent one.
  • Such means comprise a set of deflecting nozzles 35 inclined by about 45° with respect to the advancing direction of bottles 3, so as to send a jet of fluid under pressure, here water, against the external surfaces of bottles 3.
  • Nozzles 35 are provided in each concave portion 13a, 14a of guides 13, 14 and are suitably positioned and oriented so as to favour the change of direction of bottles 3.
  • nozzles 35 are arranged along a pipe 37a and are fed with the same liquid as used for heating the bottles, through a piping system 37. Consequently, the water jets from said nozzles 35 not only cause the transfer of bottles 3 from a conveyor belt to another, but they also contribute to bottle heating.
  • deflecting nozzles 35 In steady state operation of apparatus 1, the action of deflecting nozzles 35 could be superfluous: indeed, to make a bottle pass from one conveyor belt to another, the push by the following bottles on the conveyor line could be enough. Thus, it is possible to conceive a variant of the described embodiment, in which valves are provided to control the opening and closing of deflecting nozzles 35. Thus, nozzles 35 could be operated only when necessary, e.g. during an unloading phase of the bottles remained in apparatus 1.
  • FIG. 2 shows a detail of the structure of conveyor belts 15a, 15b: they comprise a set of mutually articulated meshes 11 of plastic material. Said meshes 11 have a plurality of holes with such a size that they allow water used for heating bottles 3 to flow away.
  • the particular zigzag path bottles 3 are to follow allows reducing the size of heating zone A and containing same within a closed and compact structure. Heating the bottles inside a closed structure allows, i. a., reducing the noise generated by apparatus 1.
  • Fig. 3 further shows that side walls 5b-5e of structure 5 include a set of inspection doors 71 making maintenance operations easier.
  • Fig. 4 shows the means for heating bottles 3.
  • Such means essentially comprise a set of spraying nozzles 41 arranged along the whole length of conveyor belts 15a, 15b.
  • nozzles 41 are located above bottles 3, in correspondence with the centre line of conveyor belts 15a, 15b and are downwards directed.
  • Nozzles 41 emit water jets at a temperature higher than that of bottles 3, which jets impinge against the outer surfaces of said bottles 3.
  • bottles 3 move in alignment and in a predetermined order on conveyor line 15 under the water jets coming from spraying nozzles 41. Consequently, all bottles 3 remain inside heating zone A for the same time interval, and such time interval can be set according to the needs, by simply acting on the advancing speed of conveyor belts 15a, 15b.
  • water from spraying nozzles 41 may be at a temperature in the range 25°C to 30°C, such temperature being sufficient to effectively bring bottles 3 to ambient temperature in such a reasonable time that the bottling plant is not slowed down.
  • the water used to heat bottles 3 passes through perforated meshes 11 of conveyor belts 15a, 15b and is collected by a tray 49 with inclined bottom, located beneath conveyor belts 15a, 15b and communicating with a recovery tank 51. Water is taken from recovery tank 51 by means of a pump 43. Said pump 43 supplies a piping circuit 37, including in particular pipes 37a equipped with deflecting nozzles 35 and pipes 37b equipped with nozzles 41.
  • recovery tank 51 Due to thermal exchange with bottles 3 and to possible dispersions, water collected in recovery tank 51 is at lower temperature than water coming out from nozzles 41 and 35. Thus, to maintain water in circuit 37 at the desired temperature, it is necessary to provide heating means, e.g. a water/steam heat exchanger exploiting, for water heating, steam generally present in industrial plants.
  • heating means e.g. a water/steam heat exchanger exploiting, for water heating, steam generally present in industrial plants.
  • FIG. 4 shows the driving mechanism of conveyor belts 15a, 15b.
  • Such belts are driven by the rotation of pinions 59 and 61, respectively, of which the teeth are such that they mesh with the holes in the plastic meshes forming belts 15a, 15b.
  • Pinions 59 and 61 are in turn driven into rotation by gear motors 67 and 69 through chains 63 and 65.
  • each section 15a, 15b of conveyor device 15 runs on inverted-T bearings 21.
  • Bearings 21 support conveyor belts 15a, 15b on both sides, while leaving the central belt portions free to allow water used for heating bottles 3 to flow away through meshes 11 forming said belts 15a, 15b.
  • Fig. 5 shows in detail the structure of partitions 25 used to avoid contact between bottles advancing in different directions.
  • FIG. 5 shows that partitions 25 comprise a portion 25a secured to bearings 21 and two movable portions 25b which, advantageously, can have different thickness depending on the size of bottles 3 to be heated.
  • Movable portions 25b comprise a set of bearing foots 29, which are received in corresponding grooves provided in the bases of bearings 21.
  • movable portions 25b can be quickly removed and replaced with portions of different thickness, so that the width of the channel in which the bottles move is adapted to the bottle diameter.
  • Fig. 5 shows a variant of the invention, in which spraying nozzles 41 are located at a lower level, preferably on a horizontal plane substantially passing through the bottle necks. Nozzles 41 therefore are at a lower level then the corks (caps) of bottles 3 and are so oriented that the water jets impinge against the side surfaces of bottles 3 below the necks, where the amount of liquid contained in a bottle to be heated is greater.
  • Fig. 5 also shows further spraying nozzles 57, possibly included into apparatus 1.
  • Nozzles 57 are located beneath conveyor belts 15a, 15b and are upwards oriented, so that water impinges against the bottle bottoms, where the amount of liquid to be heated is greater.
  • nozzles 57 are arranged along a section 37c of hydraulic circuit 37 supplying all nozzles of apparatus 1 with warm water.

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EP2915598A1 (fr) 2014-03-03 2015-09-09 Cames S.r.l. Con Unico Socio Appareil pour le chauffage de bouteilles
EP2915599A1 (fr) 2014-03-03 2015-09-09 Cames S.r.l. Con Unico Socio Station destinée à une usine d'embouteillage et pourvue d'une ligne de transport améliorée
IT201900021186A1 (it) * 2019-11-14 2021-05-14 W B L Systems S R L Apparecchiatura e procedimento di regolazione termica per contenitori
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EP1028300A1 (fr) * 1999-02-09 2000-08-16 Cames snc di Colla G. & Sardi G. Dispositif de séchage de bouteilles

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US3873264A (en) * 1974-03-04 1975-03-25 Dart Ind Inc Bottle coating sensitizer and method thereof
DE4427870A1 (de) * 1994-08-06 1996-02-08 Alfill Getraenketechnik Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Bedrucken von gewölbten bzw. rotationssymmetrischen Oberflächen von kontinuierlich geförderten Behältern der Getränkeindustrie
EP1028300A1 (fr) * 1999-02-09 2000-08-16 Cames snc di Colla G. & Sardi G. Dispositif de séchage de bouteilles

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP2915598A1 (fr) 2014-03-03 2015-09-09 Cames S.r.l. Con Unico Socio Appareil pour le chauffage de bouteilles
EP2915599A1 (fr) 2014-03-03 2015-09-09 Cames S.r.l. Con Unico Socio Station destinée à une usine d'embouteillage et pourvue d'une ligne de transport améliorée
IT201900021186A1 (it) * 2019-11-14 2021-05-14 W B L Systems S R L Apparecchiatura e procedimento di regolazione termica per contenitori
EP3822185A1 (fr) * 2019-11-14 2021-05-19 W.B.L. Systems S.r.l. Appareil et procédé de commande de chaleur des contenants
IT202000015607A1 (it) * 2020-06-29 2021-12-29 Mpf Impianti S R L Impianto per il condizionamento termico di bottiglie

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