EP1357081B1 - Maschine zum aseptischen Abfüllen - Google Patents

Maschine zum aseptischen Abfüllen Download PDF

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EP1357081B1
EP1357081B1 EP02008930A EP02008930A EP1357081B1 EP 1357081 B1 EP1357081 B1 EP 1357081B1 EP 02008930 A EP02008930 A EP 02008930A EP 02008930 A EP02008930 A EP 02008930A EP 1357081 B1 EP1357081 B1 EP 1357081B1
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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
    • B67C7/0073—Sterilising, aseptic filling and closing
    • 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
    • B67C2003/228—Aseptic features
    • 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
    • B67C2003/2688—Means for filling containers in defined atmospheric conditions
    • B67C2003/2694—Means for filling containers in defined atmospheric conditions by enclosing a set of containers in a chamber
    • 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
    • B67C2003/2688—Means for filling containers in defined atmospheric conditions
    • B67C2003/2697—Means for filling containers in defined atmospheric conditions by enclosing the container partly in a chamber

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  • This invention introduces a new aseptic filling technology for plastic bottles made of PET, PE, PEHD, polypropylene or other hygienically compatible plastics, which is applied to aseptic product packing machines with a rotary or carousel-based concept.
  • Aseptic product packing in plastic bottles is a fairly recent technology. It has developed in the last years especially for products like fruit juices, tea, soft drinks, milk and its byproducts, going hand in hand with companies offering their new technological solutions for this field and, of course, with the market's interest for them to be applied.
  • This kind of packing is a complex technology, which implies several stages and depends on the type, shape and condition of the original bottle, as well as on the product itself. It requires interventions by machine operators to be reduced to the lowest possible degree and to be carried out under the safest conditions in order to preclude the possibility of contamination of the machine, in particular of its internal microclimate and, as a consequence, of the product.
  • An aseptic filling machine is known from EP 0 405 402 A2.
  • a linear bottle filling system is known from the brochure "Tetra Plast LFA-20, lineares aseptisches EBM-Ab hypogol” from Tetra Pak Plastic Packaging.
  • This linear filling system a plurality of bottles are transported in parallel. Therefore no carousel is provided.
  • the bottle neck is enclosed in an aseptic room.
  • the filler is designed for closed neck bottles which are opened and closed inside the filler.
  • Bottles belonging to the first group can be produced aseptically (i.e. completely closed) or else not hermetically (their inner part is open to the surrounding air). PET bottles are produced from preforms that are open to the ambient air, and therefore they are always blown under non-sterile conditions. In both cases, the bottles can be either produced at the product packing factory or bought from a specialized producer, who will deliver them arranged on pallets or in bulk within proper containers. Regardless of their delivery format, however, all bottles destined to aseptic packing undergo one of two different procedures, depending on their production:
  • Procedure no. 1 non-aseptically produced bottles (all bottles described under "b") and non-hermetic bottles (described under "a"):
  • First solution The whole machine is positioned inside a cleanroom, where sterile air (filtered in Class 1000 or Class 100) flows into; a slight overpressure is to be found in this environment.
  • sterile air filtered in Class 1000 or Class 100
  • the machine operator is part of the microclimate and integrates the operational cycle of the machine.
  • Second solution - Proper laminar flows are generated in order to protect each machine's section (mini-cleanrooms in each section) enclosed by an upper wall (purposely built to support the filters), a lower wall (machine base) and a rigid side wall (sheet steel and/or glass) or alternatively a flexible side wall (transparent plastic material for the food industry).
  • the machine operator can intervene from outside, working on the machine through openings dislocated in strategically optimal positions in the side walls, his arms covered by long flexible gloves (“sleeves”): they are fixed to the openings and thus always inside the aseptic environment, therefore a part of the internal microclimate. Although they cannot be contaminated from outside, they restrict intervention possibilities for the machine operator.
  • the most critical sections in the machine are the dosing and cap application sections, where both the bottle and the product are most exposed to possible environmental contamination.
  • the sterilization section instead, the chemical agents' vapours protect the microclimate against bacteria possibly coming from outside.
  • the first two sections are also more frequently subject to intervention by the machine operator, for instance in case of wrong measuring up of the product, loss of closures or aluminium caps, stuck bottles and caps and so on. A wrong intervention in this area determines severe problems and may make it necessary to carry out a new sanitization cycle of the whole machine.
  • This invention aims at obtaining an easier and safer process of aseptic filling for plastic bottles, regardless of their specific material, without using standard traditional cleanrooms or else laminar flows, but by making use of a room enclosing the critical area and consisting of two sections; both sections are purposely developed in order to best serve their functional purpose, minimizing the sterile room's volume, that is to say reducing it to the critical area comprising the bottle's neck and the lower part of the nozzles and of the closer.
  • this invention aims at creating a protection room for the dosing and cap application area that facilitates interventions by the machine operator, ensuring highest sterility and aseptic conditions at the same time, and reducing the need for intervention from outside - but above all also making it possible to clean and sterilize the machine in its dosing and cap application sections with chemical cleaning and sterilization solutions every time that the machine is to be prepared for production.
  • the filling and closing room is regularly sterilized by means of traditional methods every time that the cleaning and sterilization phases of the main dosing unit and of the dosing nozzles are started. This ensures that the most critical environment is completely sanitized at every production start.
  • this invention enables the operator to have direct access to stuck bottles through passages purposely planned in the room: wearing only a protective glove, he will be able to extract the bottle/cap without contaminating the environment.
  • a third benefit given by this invention is the stationary part of the room, that makes it possible to create a safe and rigid connection between the room and the sterile air generation system, as well as the cleaning solution infeed and recovery systems. This concept makes the room independent of the other sections of the machine as a whole.
  • An aseptic filling machine according to the invention is defined by claim 1.
  • the invention is the special configuration of the enclosing room containing the dosing and cap application sections, which can be applied to any machine with a rotary or carousel-based concept for bottling products destined to the food industry and/or to the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. It is made of two sections and a series of accessories: the room contains two smaller rooms, the first main room protecting the filling and cap application area, the second main room enclosing the bottle's body. This concept may include two additional rooms to enable sterile air to be taken in.
  • the first room (C1) is absolutely essential
  • the second room (C2) and the intaking rooms (C3) are useful but not strictly necessary, as the internal microclimate is maintained by the first main room with proper overpressure.
  • this invention also makes it possible to intervene directly on all mechanical parts of the machine without altering the microclimate in the filling area; thanks to this solution, any intervention becomes simpler and safer.
  • Further benefits come from the new sterile air distribution: sterile air is no more top-down distributed only through the filters, but it is now fed through opposite pipes and circuits, resulting in a better flow distribution and a more accurate control of the positive pressure, and offering better guarantees in terms of functionality.
  • the volume of the first main room C1 is kept to a minimum, that is to say to the volume existing between the dosing nozzles/closing heads and bottle's neck position.
  • the enclosing room further comprises a second main room C2 comprising a stationary part (B), a rotating part (A) and accessories which make it possible to maintain an aseptic condition in the enclosing room.
  • the upper surface of the first main room C1 consists of a plate supporting the dosing nozzles/closing heads
  • the lower surface consists of a plate supporting the bottle neck handling clamp devices and of a sealing surface with suitable sliding points for guaranteeing tightness for the maintenance of the inner pressure
  • the upper surface of the second main room C2 consists of the plate supporting the bottle neck handling clamp devices and of the sealing surface
  • the lower surface consists of a stationary plate and of a rotating plate with suitable points for guaranteeing tightness for the maintenance of inner pressure
  • sterile air is fed into the enclosing room through proper pipelines.
  • the first main room C1 comprises accessories to sanitize it using sterilizing agents when the machine undergoes its preparation phases.

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  1. Aseptische Füllmaschine, insbesondere für Kunststoffflaschen, die Dosierdüsen und/oder Verschlussköpfe (D), ein Karussell und einen umschließenden Raum umfasst, der geeignet ist, das Dosieren des Erzeugnisses und/oder Verschließen von Flaschen zu schützen, und der wenigstens einen ersten Hauptraum (C1) umfasst, der einen stationären Teil (B), einen sich drehenden Teil (A) und Hilfseinrichtungen umfasst, die es ermöglichen, einen aseptischen Zustand in dem umschließenden Raum aufrechtzuerhalten,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass:
    das Volumen des ersten Hauptraums (C1) auf dem Volumen gehalten wird, das zwischen den Dosierdüsen und/oder Verschlussköpfen (D) und der Position des Flaschenhalses vorhanden ist.
  2. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach Anspruch 1, wobei der umschließende Raum des Weiteren einen zweiten Hauptraum (C2) umfasst, der einen stationären Teil (B), einen sich drehenden Teil (A) und Hilfseinrichtung umfasst, die es ermöglichen, einen aseptischen Zustand in dem umschließenden Raum aufrechtzuerhalten.
  3. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei eine Dichtung zwischen Flächen des stationären (B) und des sich drehenden Teils (A) durch geeignete Gleitflächen (5) des stationären und des sich drehenden Teils und/oder Labyrinthflächen des stationären und des sich drehenden Teils für sterilen Einsatz gewährleistet wird.
  4. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, wobei die obere Fläche des ersten Hauptraums (C1) aus einer Platte besteht, die die Dosierdüsen und/oder Verschlussköpfe (D) trägt, und wobei die untere Fläche des Hauptraums (C1) aus einer Platte, die Flaschenhalshandhabungs-Klemmvorrichtungen trägt, sowie aus einer dichtenden Fläche mit geeigneten Gleitpunkten besteht, die Dichtigkeit zur Aufrechterhaltung des inneren Drucks gewährleisten.
  5. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach Anspruch 2 und 4, wobei eine obere Fläche des zweiten Hauptraums (C2) aus der Platte, die Flaschenhalshandhabungs-Klemmvorrichtungen trägt, sowie aus der dichtenden Fläche besteht, und wobei die untere Fläche des zweiten Hauptraums (C2) aus einer stationären Platte sowie einer sich drehenden Platte besteht.
  6. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, wobei geeignete Rohrleitungen zum Zuführen von steriler Luft in den umschließenden Raum vorhanden sind.
  7. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, wobei der umschließende Raum über geeignete Rohrleitungen unabhängig von der Maschine und ohne menschlichen Eingriff unter Verwendung herkömmlicher chemischer Stoffe gereinigt und sterilisiert werden kann.
  8. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, wobei geeignete Düsen zum Dosieren/Zerstäuben chemischer Stoffe auf die Flächen des umschließenden Raums im Inneren installiert werden können, ohne die sterilen Bedingungen des umschließenden Raums zu beeinträchtigen.
  9. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, wobei der stationäre Teil (B) aus starrem Kunststoffmaterial oder, als Alternative dazu, aus flexiblem Kunststoffmaterial besteht.
  10. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, wobei der umschließende Raum auch bei den Phasen des Sterilisierens und Spülens der Flaschen eingesetzt wird.
  11. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, die des Weiteren wenigstens einen Einlassraum (C3) umfasst, der dazu dient, den Strom steriler Luft einzulassen, der aus dem ersten Hauptraum (C1) und/oder dem zweiten Hauptraum (C2) kommt.
  12. Aseptische Füllmaschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, wobei der erste Hauptraum (C1) Hilfseinrichtungen umfasst, mit denen er unter Verwendung von sterilisierenden Stoffen desinfiziert wird, wenn die Maschine ihre Vorbereitungsphasen durchläuft.
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AT04005910T ATE373621T1 (de) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maschine zum aseptischen abfüllen
DE60202995T DE60202995T2 (de) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maschine zum aseptischen Abfüllen
DE60222588T DE60222588T2 (de) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maschine zum aseptischen Abfüllen
ES04005910T ES2289376T3 (es) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maquina para llenado en condiciones asepticas.
ES02008930T ES2233737T3 (es) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maquina para llenado en condiciones asepticas.
EP04005910A EP1468959B1 (de) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maschine zum aseptischen Abfüllen
EP02008930A EP1357081B1 (de) 2002-04-22 2002-04-22 Maschine zum aseptischen Abfüllen
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