EP1357082B1 - Vorrichtung zum Vorbereiten von zu etikettierenden Flaschen in einer Abfüllanlage - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Vorbereiten von zu etikettierenden Flaschen in einer Abfüllanlage Download PDF

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EP1357082B1
EP1357082B1 EP02425269A EP02425269A EP1357082B1 EP 1357082 B1 EP1357082 B1 EP 1357082B1 EP 02425269 A EP02425269 A EP 02425269A EP 02425269 A EP02425269 A EP 02425269A EP 1357082 B1 EP1357082 B1 EP 1357082B1
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    • 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
    • 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
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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for use in a bottling plant, which apparatus is capable of performing all operations necessary for preparing bottles already filled and closed for the bottling phase.
  • the invention concerns an apparatus for washing the external surfaces of the bottles, bringing the bottles to ambient temperature, should they have been bottled at a temperature other than ambient temperature, and rinsing and drying the outside surfaces thereof, so that the bottles can be directly transferred to the labelling station.
  • 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.
  • bottle washing and heating are performed immediately after bottle closing and are followed by rinsing and drying the external surfaces of the bottles.
  • a first problem related with the above described process is that, according to the prior art, it is customary to use four separate apparatuses for the four different phases of bottle washing, preheating, rinsing and drying.
  • the presence of four different apparatuses and of means for transferring the bottles from one apparatus to another entails a considerable size and may be a problem of rather difficult solution, especially for medium and small wine producers.
  • the bottles are heated either by randomly immersing them into a water-containing tank and then injecting high-temperature steam into the tank, or by moving the bottles, randomly arranged on a conveyor belt, through downwards directed water jets.
  • the impossibility of setting a fixed time, identical for all bottles, of permanence of the bottles in the heating station compels to use water at very high temperature (about 70°C), with two consequent major drawbacks: on the one side, the high energy cost for causing so high a temperature variation in a considerable liquid mass; on the other side, the risk of negatively affecting the quality of the wine contained in the bottles, that risk being particularly significant for bottles remaining in the heating station longer than an average time.
  • Another problem mainly related with the heating phase, is the high acoustic pollution caused by collisions among bottles on the conveyor lines.
  • the primary object of the invention to perform an effective and complete rinsing of the external surface of the bottles, in the smallest possible space, so as to reduce the overall size of the apparatus.
  • the advancing of the bottles inside each station and the passage from one station to the next one take place by means of a conveyor line, e. g. a set of conveyor belts, on which the bottles are kept aligned and in upright position.
  • a conveyor line e. g. a set of conveyor belts
  • said conveyor line is divided into a plurality of sections, of which the lengths and the mutual arrangement can be chosen depending on the needs, and in particular so as to reduce the overall size of the apparatus.
  • the simplest solution in order to reduce the apparatus size is to provide parallel sections in which the bottles advance in opposite directions.
  • the invention provides for introducing means capable of forcing the transfer of the bottles from one section to another in said conveyor line, even when the different line sections are not arranged in the same direction.
  • 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 collisions are greatly reduced, as the bottles are orderly aligned on the conveyor line.
  • the order of the bottles when entering the apparatus according to the invention is exactly the same as when leaving said apparatus and that order is kept throughout the whole cycle inside the apparatus.
  • This feature is especially convenient during the heating phase: indeed, a suitable time of permanence in the corresponding station can be set and hence it is possible to use water at lower temperature than normally used in the prior art systems for heating the bottles.
  • the apparatus according to the invention is especially intended for plants for bottling cold bottles, but it includes an additional conveyor line bypassing the washing and heating stations: thus, the apparatus could be introduced also into a general bottling plant, used also for bottles filled at ambient temperature, which merely demand the rinsing and drying phases.
  • the apparatus has a substantially rectangular shape when viewed in plan, and it is defined by a base 5a, side walls 5b - 5e and a roof 5f.
  • a washing station 100, a heating station 200, a rinsing station 300 and lastly a drying station 400 can be distinguished inside apparatus 1, in the advancing direction of the bottles (from the left to the right in the drawing).
  • apparatus 1 In a bottling plant, apparatus 1 is generally located past the bottling and corking (capping) machines and before the labelling machines. Once the bottling and corking (capping) phase is over, the bottles are fed to apparatus 1 by a conveyor belt 15, which conveys the bottles, through entrance opening 9 provided in side wall 5e, into apparatus 1 and specifically to washing station 100.
  • Washing station 100 comprises a screw conveyor 101, located alongside conveyor belt 15 and intended to uniformly space the incoming bottles so as to facilitate their insertion into semicircular sockets 103 of a first rotating circular distributor 105.
  • the pitch of screw 101 corresponds with the distance between two consecutive sockets 103.
  • Said first distributor 105 transfers the bottles onto one of rotating bases 109 provided on a rotating circular carousel 111. After being deposited onto rotating bases 109, the bottles are blocked from above by pressing caps located above carousel 111.
  • a brush 113 rotating in the opposite direction with respect to rotating bases 109 and to carousel 111, is mounted at the centre of rotating carousel 111, for washing the external surfaces of the bottles through water jets from nozzles laterally disposed with respect to carousel 111.
  • water from said nozzles could have been previously mixed with a detergent so as to increase washing effectiveness.
  • the effectiveness of the cleaning action could be increased by using high-pressure water jets.
  • a second rotating circular distributor 119 equipped with semicircular sockets 117, picks up the bottles from carousel 111 and transfers them again onto conveyor belt 15 wherefrom the bottles were previously taken.
  • a wall 107 properly shaped with curved profiles corresponding to the curvatures of distributors 105 and 119 and of carousel 111, is provided for maintaining the bottles inside semicircular sockets 103 and 117 while the bottles are being transferred from belt 15 to rotating carousel 111 and from the latter again to conveyor belt 15.
  • the bottles After leaving station 100, the bottles continue their path inside apparatus 1, on conveyor belt 15, up to heating station 200.
  • a bottle conveyor line 17 is provided, which guides the aligned and upright bottles along a zigzag path.
  • Said conveyor line 17 comprises a plurality of parallel conveyor belts 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d, each moving in opposite direction with respect to the adjacent ones. Still referring to Fig. 1, conveyor belts 17a and 17c move from the right to the left, and belts 17b and 17d from the left to the right.
  • the first sections 17a, 17b have a length corresponding with the distance between washing station 100 and right hand wall 5c of apparatus 1. Once the zigzag path has brought conveyor line 17 beyond washing station 100, subsequent sections 17c, 17d of said line 17 extend from left hand wall 5e to right hand wall 5c of apparatus 1.
  • conveyor line 17 so defined allows the bottles to travel along a path wholly covering a rectangular area inside apparatus 1, apart from the space occupied by washing station 100.
  • Conveyor belts 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d are separated by partitions 219 defining a rectilinear channel or path of which the width only just exceeds the diameter of bottles 3 moving on the belt.
  • Conveyor belts 17a - 17d further co-operate with a wall 203, located at the right-hand side of apparatus 1, in correspondence with right-hand wall 5c, and with two walls 209 and 213, located at the right-hand side of said apparatus 1. Taking into account what has been described and shown, clearly wall 209 will be located immediately on the right of washing station 100, whereas wall 213 will be located in correspondence with left-hand wall 5e of apparatus 1.
  • Walls 203, 209 and 213 are preferably made of members of metal sheet, plastics or any other material, with substantially rectangular development, and are so shaped as to define, on their sides facing conveyor belts 17a - 17d, corresponding semicircular concave portions 201, 207, 211, the radius of which substantially corresponds with the distance between two adjacent partitions 219 and hence with the width of the passage for bottles 3 in the channel defined between the two partitions 219.
  • Fig. 1 further shows the means provided according to the invention to force the bottles to transversally pass from a conveyor belt to the subsequent one.
  • Such means comprise a set of deflecting nozzles 215, provided in each concave portion 201, 207, 211 and inclined by about 45° with respect to the advancing direction of bottles 3, so as to send pressure fluid jets, e.g. water jets, against the external surfaces of bottles 3 and consequently to favour the change of direction of the bottles and to transfer them onto the adjacent belt moving in opposite direction.
  • pressure fluid jets e.g. water jets
  • nozzles 215 are arranged along a pipe 217a and are fed with the same liquid as used for heating the bottles, as it will be disclosed hereinbelow. Consequently, the water jets from said nozzles 215 not only cause the transfer of the bottles from a conveyor belt to another, but they also contribute to bottle heating.
  • the nozzles of water station 100 described above can be fed with heated water.
  • the heating action could already begin simultaneously with the washing phase.
  • water used for heating the bottles will be recycled several times for sake of energy saving. Consequently, water circulating in pipes 217a is not very clean.
  • such water can be used for feeding the nozzles of washing station 100 thanks to the provision of rinsing station 300, past heating station 200, where the bottles are subsequently cleaned from impurities, if any, deposited during heating, as it will be better disclosed hereinafter.
  • Fig. 1 further shows a detail of the structure of conveyor belts 17a - 17d.
  • the belts consist of a set of mutually articulated meshes 19 of plastic material.
  • Said meshes 11 have a plurality of holes with such a size that they let water used inside apparatus 1 flow away.
  • the apparatus Upon completion of the zigzag path through heating station 200, the bottles are transferred to conveyor line 21, conveying them through rinsing and drying stations 300, 400.
  • the apparatus comprises a motor-driven rotating disc 301, preferably made of a spongy material, located in correspondence with the last semicircular concave portion 211a of wall 213.
  • Said disc 301 is to transfer bottles 3 from the last section 17c of conveyor line 17 along a semicircular path defined by the contour of said portion 211a.
  • Said portion 211a has a greater diameter than previous portions 211 due to the greater width of conveyor line 21.
  • conveyor line 21 begins outside apparatus 1 and enters the apparatus through an additional entrance opening 25 provided in wall 5e.
  • conveyor line 21 acts as a by-pass in respect of the first two stations of apparatus 1 and is particularly useful for the bottles that need not to be heated, since they have been filled at ambient temperature.
  • conveyor line 21 comprises a pair of adjacent and parallel conveyor belts 21a 21b, supporting the bases of bottles 3 with half of each base resting on a belt and the other half resting on the other belt.
  • Conveyor belts 21a 21b advance at different speeds. This way, during the advancing movement of the belts, a rotating motion at constant speed around their axes is also imparted to bottles 3.
  • conveyor belts 21a, 21b are inclined towards the centre line of conveyor line 21 by an angle of 1° to 5°, so that the conveying surface on which bottles 3 rest has a substantially V-shaped transversal cross section.
  • Bottles 3 advancing and rotating on conveyor belts 21a,21b, are conveyed through rinsing station 300.
  • Said station 300 which will be described in greater detail hereinafter, is enclosed within a protection structure 307 of stainless steel and consists of three sets of nozzles 305, arranged on the sides of and above conveyor line 21.
  • Nozzles 305 are fed by piping circuit 303, in which clean water at ambient temperature circulates and which is divided into a duct 303a on the right of conveyor line 21, a duct 303b in correspondence with the centre line of said conveyor line 21 and a duct 303c on the left thereof.
  • a screw conveyor 401 is located alongside conveyor line 21 at the exit from rinsing station 300 and is intended to ensure that bottles 3 are properly spaced when entering drying station 400.
  • Said station 400 is constructed in known manner, in particularly according the teaching of patent application EP 1,028,300.
  • drying of the external surfaces of bottles 3 is carried out by making hot air streams (at about 60°C) impinge against said bottles 3.
  • a pair of ducts 407 are arranged alongside conveyor line 21, such ducts hanging from roof 5f of apparatus 1 through brackets 409.
  • Said ducts 407 are suitably inclined with respect to the conveying surface along conveyor line 21, downwards in the bottle advancing direction, starting at a level corresponding to the corks (caps) of bottles 3 and down to a level corresponding to the bases of said bottles 3.
  • said air streams are obtained through a plurality of holes provided along each duct 407 and directed towards the centre line of conveyor line 21. While the bottles advance along conveyor line 21, thanks to the rotation of bottles 3 about their axis and to the particular arrangement of ducts 407, a spiral drying action is obtained, from top to down, that drags downward the film of water covering bottles 3 and ensures a complete drying of their external surfaces.
  • a compressor placed outside apparatus 1, produces a flow of forced air inside the ducts 407 through circuit 411.
  • bottles 3 advance on conveyor line 21 through the exit opening 11 provided in wall 5c and out of apparatus 1, and move towards the labelling station.
  • Fig. 2 further shows guides 27 arranged parallel to conveyor line 21 so as to keep bottles 3 on corresponding conveyor belts 21a, 21b during the translation along the conveyor line.
  • Said guides are horizontally adjustable so as to suit the different formats, and in particular the different diameters, of the bottles being introduced into apparatus 1.
  • Guides 27 are supported by supporting brackets 29. By acting upon handles 31, it is possible to horizontally displace said brackets relative to supports 29, thereby moving guides 27 closer to or farther from each other, according to the needs.
  • FIG. 2 further clearly shows that apparatus 1 has a compact structure, completely closed and with limited size. Carrying out the bottle washing, heating, rinsing and drying operations inside a closed structure allows, i. a., reducing the noise generated by apparatus 1.
  • Fig. 2 further shows that side walls 5b-5e include a set of inspection doors 13 allowing maintenance operations.
  • a cabinet 7 containing electrical equipment and control and emergency pushbuttons for apparatus 1 is further mounted on the upper portion of wall 5e.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 show in detail heating station 200.
  • Fig. 3 shows the means for heating bottles 3.
  • Such means essentially comprise a set of spraying nozzles 223 arranged along the whole length of conveyor belts 17a - 17d.
  • nozzles 223 are located above bottles 3, in correspondence with the centre line of conveyor belts 17a - 17d and are downwards directed.
  • Nozzles 223 emit water jets at a temperature higher than that of bottles 3, said jets impinging against the outer surfaces of said bottles 3.
  • the water coming out from spraying nozzles 223 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.
  • water used to heat bottles 3 passes through the perforated meshes 11 of conveyor belts 17a - 17d and is collected by a tray 221 with inclined bottom located beneath conveyor belts 17a - 17d and communicating with a recovery tank 239.
  • Water is taken from recovery tank 239 by means of a pump 237 feeding piping circuit 217, including i. a. pipes 217a equipped with deflecting nozzles 215 and pipes 217b equipped with nozzles 223 for heating the bottles.
  • making an integrated structure containing, in a limited room, the four different stations described allows an interaction between the devices in the different stations and, in particular, allows exploiting the compressor in drying station 400 to bring water in heating station 200 to the desired temperature.
  • compressor 403 sends hot air into ducts 407 through circuit 411.
  • the temperature of the wall of compressor 403 can readily be as high as or higher than 80°C. Taking into account the limited temperature (25 - 30°C) required for water used in heating station 200, it is advantageous to include a heat exchanger 404 in piping circuit 217, in correspondence with said compressor 403, so that heat irradiated by said compressor 403 heats water in pipes 217 and compensates heat loss due to thermal exchange with bottles 3 and to possible dispersions.
  • apparatus 1 can be a completely self-standing apparatus, since an external heat source is not required to bring water to the desired temperature.
  • FIG. 3 the driving mechanism of conveyor belts 17a - 17d is shown.
  • Such belts are driven by the rotation of pinions 225 and 227, respectively, of which the teeth are such that they engage the holes in the plastic mesh forming belts 17a - 17d.
  • Pinions 225 and 227 are in turn driven into rotation by gear motors 233 and 235 through chains 229 and 231.
  • each section 17a - 17d of conveyor line 17 runs on inverted-T bearings 241.
  • Bearings 241 support conveyor belts 17a - 17d on both sides, while leaving the central belt portions free, to allow water used for heating bottles 3 to flow away through meshes 19 forming said belts 17a - 17d.
  • Fig. 4 shows in detail the structure of partitions 219 used to avoid contact between bottles advancing in different directions.
  • FIG. 4 shows that partitions 219 comprise a portion 219a secured to bearings 241 and two movable portions 219b which, advantageously, can have different thickness depending on the sizes of bottles 3 to be heated.
  • Movable portions 219b comprise a set of bearing foots 245, which are received in corresponding grooves 243 provided in the bases of bearings 241.
  • movable portions 219b can be quickly removed and replaced with portions of different thickness, so as to adapt the width of the channel in which the bottles move to the bottle diameter.
  • Fig. 4 shows a variant of the invention, in which spraying nozzles 223 are located at a lower level, preferably on a horizontal plane substantially passing through the bottle necks. Nozzles 223 therefore are at a lower level than the corks (caps) of bottles 3 and are so oriented that the water jets impinge against the side surface of bottles 3 below the neck, where the amount of liquid contained in a bottle to be heated is greater.
  • Fig. 4 also shows further spraying nozzles 251, which can be included into apparatus 1 thanks to the arrangement of conveyor belts 17a - 17d.
  • Nozzles 251 are located beneath conveyor belts 17a - 17d and are upwards oriented, so that water impinges against the bottle bottoms, where the amount of liquid to be heated is greater.
  • nozzles 251 are arranged along a section 217c of hydraulic circuit 217 supplying all nozzles of apparatus 1 with warm water.
  • Fig. 5 shows in detail rinsing station 300.
  • Bottles 3 advance on conveyor line 21 while being guided by guides 27, of which the level and the horizontal position are adjusted depending of the format of bottles 3 themselves inside a parallelepiped protection structure 307 of stainless steel.
  • Nozzles 305 emitting the clean water used for rinsing the external surfaces of the bottles, are arranged along ducts 303a and 303c, located on the sides of conveyor line 21, and duct 303b located along the centre line of said conveyor line 21, at a level above bottles 3.
  • ducts 303a and 303c are inclined with respect to said conveyor line 21, downwards in the bottle advancing direction, starting from a level corresponding to the corks (caps) of bottles 3 down to a level corresponding with the bases of said bottles 3.
  • Fig. 7 refers to a second embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention, including only three stations.
  • the same reference numerals have been used to denote parts identical to those already described with reference to the preceding Figures.
  • the rinsing station has been eliminated and a washing station 100' has been placed past a heating station 200'.
  • the bottles if they are at low temperature, are placed onto conveyor belt 15 conveying them inside apparatus 1', and more particularly to heating station 200', through entrance opening 9.
  • bottles already at ambient temperature are placed onto conveyor belt 21 conveying them directly to washing station 200', through the second entrance opening 25.
  • conveyor line 420' conveying the bottles through the drying means is divided into two parallel sections 421', 422' moving in opposite directions, so as to reduce the longitudinal size of station 400' and, consequently, the overall size of apparatus 1.
  • a shaped wall 425' is located in correspondence with said disc 423', said wall having a semicircular concave portion, of which the radius corresponds with the width of conveyor line 420'.
  • the bottles are again transferred from conveyor line 420' to conveyor line 21' thanks to the provision of two shaped walls 425', 427' which properly guide the bottles.

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  1. Vorrichtung (1) zum Vorbereiten von zu etikettierenden, vorher gefüllten und verkorkten oder gedeckelten Flaschen (3), dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie mindestens umfasst:
    eine Heizstation (200) zum Aufheizen der Flaschen (3), um diese Flaschen auf eine der Umgebungstemperatur angenäherte Temperatur zu bringen;
    eine Waschstation (100) zum Waschen der Flaschen (3);
    eine Trockenstation (400) zum Trocknen der Flaschen (3);
    eine Förderstrecke (15, 17, 21), auf der die Flaschen (3) in wechselseitiger Ausrichtung und aufrechter Position durch die Stationen der Vorrichtung (1) gefördert werden, so daß die Ordnung der Flaschen (3) vom Eintritt bis zum Austritt aus der Vorrichtung (1) unverändert bleibt.
  2. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 1,
    die weiterhin eine Spülstation (300) aufweist, die zwischen der Heizstation (200) und der Trockenstation (400) in Vorschubrichtung der Flaschen angeordnet ist.
  3. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Waschstation (100) vor der Heizstation (200) liegt.
  4. Vorrichtung (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3,
    wobei die Vorrichtung in einer von einer Grundplatte (5a), Seitenwänden (5b - 5e) und einem Deckel (5f) umrissenen Struktur untergebracht ist und die alle Stationen einschließt, die Teil der Vorrichtung (1) sind und diese geschlossene Struktur zumindest eine Eingangsöffnung (9) und mindestens eine Ausgangsöffnung (11) für den Durchgang der Förderstrecke (15, 17, 21) aufweist, auf der sich die Flaschen bewegen, sowie eine Vielzahl von Türen (13) zur Erleichterung der Wartungsarbeiten.
  5. Vorrichtung (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3,
    wobei die Waschstation (100) zum Waschen der Flaschen (3) einen rotierenden kreisförmigen Rundtisch (111) aufweist, der mit rotierenden, die zu waschenden Flaschen (3) aufnehmenden Basen (109) ausgerüstet ist und in seinem Zentrum mit einer Bürste (113) ausgestattet ist, die in den rotierenden Basen (109) und dem Rundtisch (111) entgegengesetzter Richtung rotiert und die Waschung der äußeren Oberflächen der Flaschen (3) mittels Wasserstrahlen, die aus seitlich am Rundtisch (111 ) angeordneten Düsen stammen, durchführt.
  6. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 5,
    wobei die Flaschen (3) von einem Förderband (15) als Teil der Förderstrecke zu jenem Rundtisch (111 ) mittels eines ersten rotierenden kreisförmigen Verteilers (105) und von jenem Rundtisch (111) zu demselben Förderband (15) mittels eines zweiten kreisförmigen Verteilers (119) überführt werden und diese Verteiler mit halbkreisförmigen Aussparungen (103, 117) ausgestattet sind.
  7. Vorrichtung (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3,
    wobei innerhalb der Heizstation die Förderstrecke (17) in eine Vielzahl von parallelen Förderbändern (17a - 17d) aufgeteilt ist, die jeweils bezüglich des Nachbarbands in entgegengesetzter Richtung vorrücken und wobei die Förderbänder (17a - 17d) unterschiedliche Längen haben können, um die maximale Inanspruchnahme des für das Aufheizen der Flaschen (3) vorgesehenen Bereichs der Vorrichtung (1) zu gewährleisten.
  8. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 7,
    wobei die Förderbänder (17a - 17d) durch Scheidewände (219) getrennt sind, die ein feststehendes Teil (219a) und ein lösbares Teil (219b) aufweisen, die eine Änderung der Scheidewanddicke erlauben und die einen geradlinigen Pfad oder Kanal bilden, dessen Breite den Durchmesser der Flaschen (3), die sich auf den Förderbändern (17a - 17d) bewegen, nur eben überschreitet.
  9. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 8,
    wobei geeignet geformte Führungen (203, 209, 213) senkrecht zu den Förderbändern (17a - 17d) an den entgegengesetzten Enden jener Bänder vorgesehen sind, um den Quertransfer der Flaschen (3) von einem auf das andere Band dank dem Impuls der folgenden Flaschen zu erlauben.
  10. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 9,
    wobei Maßnahmen an entgegengesetzten Enden des Förderbandes (17a - 17d) vorgesehen sind, um die Flaschen (3) zum Übergang von einem Förderband (17a - 17d) zum nächstfolgenden Förderband zu zwingen und diese Maßnahmen einen Satz von Ablenkdüsen (215) umfassen, die entlang von Rohren (217a) und im wesentlichen senkrecht zur Vorschubrichtung der Förderbänder (17a - 17d) sowie paralle zu den Seitenwänden (5c, 5e) der Vorrichtung (1) angeordnet sind und diese Düsen derart geneigt sind, daß sie einen Druckflüssigkeitsstrahl gegen die Außenfläche der Flaschen (3) richten und dabei den Richtungswechsel der Flaschen (3) begünstigen.
  11. Vorrichtung (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 7 bis 10,
    wobei die Förderbänder (17a - 17d) aus einer Vielzahl von gegenseitig gelenkigen Maschen (19) aus Kunststoff, die mit einer Vielzahl von Löchern versehen sind, hergestellt sind.
  12. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 2 oder 3,
    wobei die sich durch die Spülstation (300) bewegende Förderstrecke (21) ein oder mehrere Förderbänder aufweist, insbesondere ein Paar paralleler Förderbänder (21a, 21b), die sich bei unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten und gegen die Mittellinie der Förderstrecke geneigt vorwärts bewegen, so daß eine Hälfte des Boden jeder Flasche (3) auf einem Förderband und die andere Hälfte des Bodens auf dem anderen Band aufsitzt.
  13. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 12,
    wobei das bezüglich der Vorschubrichtung der Flaschen letzte Förderband (17c) in der Aufheizstation (200) und die sich durch die Spülstation (300) bewegenden, die Förderstrecke (21) bildenden Förderbänder (21 a, 21 b) benachbart und parallel zueinander sind und sich in entgegengesetzter Richtung bewegen.
  14. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 13,
    wobei der Übergang von jenem letzten Förderband (17c) in der Aufheizstation (200) zu der sich durch die Spülstation (300) bewegenden Förderstrecke (21) mittels einer motorgetriebenen rotierenden Scheibe (301) verwirklicht wird, die vorzugsweise aus Schaumstoff hergestellt ist und mit einer halbkreisförmigen konkaven Wand (211a) zusammenwirkt, die im Zusammenhang mit einer Seitenwand (5e) der Vorrichtung (1) vorgesehen ist und jene Wand einen Durchmesser aufweist, der mindestens der Summe der Breiten jenes letzten Förderbands (17c) in der Aufheizstation (200) und den Förderbändern (21 a, 21 b), die die Förderstrecke (21) bilden, gleich ist.
  15. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 12,
    wobei die sich durch die Spülstation (300) bewegende Förderstrecke (21) außerhalb der Vorrichtung (1) beginnt und in die Vorrichtung (1) durch eine zweite, in einer Seitenwand (5e) der Vorrichtung (1) vorgesehene Eingangsöffnung (25) eintritt.
  16. Vorrichtung (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3,
    wobei die sich durch die Trockenstation (400) bewegende Förderstrekke (21) ein Paar von in gleicher Richtung bei unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten vorrückender und gegen die Mittellinie der Förderstrekke geneigter paralleler Förderbänder (21 a, 21 b) aufweist, wobei die eine Bodenhälfte jeder Flasche (3) auf einem Förderband und die andere Bodenhälfte auf dem anderen Band aufsitzt.
  17. Vorrichtung (1) nach den Ansprüchen 13 und 16,
    wobei die sich durch die Spülstation (300) bewegende Förderstrecke (21) und die sich durch die Trockenstation (400) bewegende Förderstrecke (21) dieselben Förderbänder (21 a, 21 b) aufweisen.
  18. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 17,
    wobei entlang der Förderstrecke (21) zwischen der Spülstation (300) und der Trockenstation (400) eine Förderschnecke (401) angeordnet ist, um die sich auf der Förderstrecke bewegenden Flaschen (3) in gleichmäßigem Abstand voneinander zu halten.
  19. Vorrichtung (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3,
    wobei die Heizstation (200) mit einer Vielzahl von mit einem Hydraulikkreis verbundenen Düsen (223, 251) ausgerüstet ist, die Wasser von höherer Temperatur als die diese Heizstation passierenden Flaschen (3) emittieren, wobei jene Düsen entlang paralleler Rohre (217b) des oberhalb der Fördereinrichtung (17) positionierten Hydraulikkreises (217) auf einem gegenüber den Flaschen (3) höheren Niveau auf im wesentlichen derselben Höhe wie die Flaschenhälse (3) angeordnet sein können, so daß die Flüssigkeit seitlich auf die Flaschen (3) trifft und/oder längs paralleler Rohre des Hydraulikkreises (217), die unterhalb der Fördereinrichtung (17) untergebracht sind, so daß die Flüssigkeit von unten auf die Flaschen auftrifft.
  20. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 18,
    wobei Wasser für die Flaschenheizung durch Verwendung von Wärme aufgeheizt wird, die vom Kompressor (403) kommt, der heiße Luft für die Trockenstation erzeugt.
  21. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 2 oder 3,
    wobei die Spülstation (300) ein Rohrnetz (303) einschließt, in dem sauberes Wasser zirkuliert und das einen Satz Düsen (305) versorgt, die gegen die Mittellinie der Förderstrecke (21) gerichtet sind und längs mindestens zweier Leitungen (303a, 303c) in Bezug auf jene Förderstrecke (21) nach unten in der Vorschubrichtung der Flaschen geneigt angeordnet sind, beginnend in einem den Korken (Deckeln) der Flaschen (3) entsprechenden Niveau abwärts bis auf ein dem Flaschenboden entsprechendes Niveau.
  22. Vorrichtung (1) nach Anspruch 20,
    wobei das Netz (303) einen dritte, entlang der Mittellinie der Förderstrecke (21) untergebrachte Leitung (303b) einschließt, auf einem Niveau oberhalb der sich auf der Strecke bewegenden Flaschen (3) und jene Leitung einen Satz abwärts gerichteter Düsen (305) aufweist.
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