EP1403187B1 - Packaging machine with a cleaning device - Google Patents
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- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- the invention relates to packaging machines for the production, Filling and separating of packaging from at least a continuously conveyed and by processing stations the machine-guided packaging material web, the packaging machine at least one cleaning device laterally assigned.
- Packaging machines of this generally defined type are well known and in use and thus relate, for example, both to so-called thermoforming machines as well as to machines for the production of packaging bags and to that extent also on machines which are operated under normal conditions and under sterile conditions.
- packaging machines are also to be included, to which finished packaging containers, which are still open but still open for filling and to be closed after filling, are continuously fed in cup form as packaging material. If the contents are especially liquid to pasty, such machines must after the end of an operating phase, usually after a business interruption and especially when changing the product of a thorough and time-consuming cleaning and gegf.
- the Greedoseure modern machines per se are designed so that they are automatically rinsed, which requires in this processing station, the subordination of a suitably trained detergent collecting tray.
- Particularly critical are also also also finishing stations performing separating or stamping stations at the end of thermoforming machines in which, for example, filled and covered individual cups or cup groups are punched out, which is usually associated with abducted Verismeresten, ie, so-called waste stars, which occasionally in stow the appropriately trained punching dies.
- abducted Verismeresten ie, so-called waste stars, which occasionally in stow the appropriately trained punching dies.
- the automatic cleaning or rinsing of the dosing it remains unavoidable, for example due to übergeschwapptes contents, removal of the generally pressurized drip pans, the whole ambience of the processing section thoroughly clean by hand, under ambience here, for example.
- a hand cleaning is also the punching die of the punching station to undergo.
- the thoroughness of manual cleaning depends on the care of the operator entrusted with it, ie, it is unavoidable that areas of the environment are overlooked during cleaning or unevenly treated, quite apart from the fact that a thorough cleaning by hand , as mentioned above, associated with a considerable and so far costly time.
- a manual cleaning can not be done in parallel with the automatic cleaning of the filling material, as a manual intervention in the machine may basically only be done with disconnected power machinery units.
- the cleaning device consists of a horizontally displaceable in Maschinenabdeckgeparuse, equipped with a plurality of freely adjustable nozzles carriage and is particularly intended for washing and cleaning of prefabricated tubular packaging containers but also for the flushing of so far detectable machine parts and the insides of the Abdeckgeophuses.
- a cleaning device replaces a time-consuming, manual cleaning, but due to the special design of the nozzle-equipped carriage is considered from the outset that thus only a more or less large part of the existing machine elements and rooms can be detected. For this reason, it is therefore considered to provide additional non-detectable areas stationary flushing nozzles.
- the nozzles on the slide are freely adjustable, once set, but it remains in a sense in a more or less untargeted, directed to all sides shower process with a correspondingly high detergent consumption.
- the invention is accordingly the object of packaging machines of the type mentioned, ie those with an automatic cleaning permitting device, such as are explained, to improve to the effect that the automatic cleaning process more targeted, thus more thorough, more rational and without additional arrangement of stationary nozzles feasible in certain areas.
- This object is to packaging machines of the type mentioned solved according to the invention in that the cleaning device from one mounted on a carrier, in several Degrees of freedom controlled moving cleaning lance formed is at the free end of a through the lance with detergent, such as air, steam, water, sterilants, is arranged under pressure feedable cleaning head.
- detergent such as air, steam, water, sterilants
- the mentioned cleaning head is replaceable with at least one Nozzle equipped, so that a detergent-specific Nozzle can be used.
- the cleaning head but also with several, each be charged separately with different cleaning agents Be equipped with nozzles, depending to be bled Detergent the supply of the other nozzles is switched off.
- an embodiment is preferred in that that the carrier of the lance on one along the machine extension arranged guide rail mounted and thereto from one workstation requiring cleaning to the other is movable.
- the packaging machine is sterile is their so-called sterile tunnel in the area every cleaning station requiring cleaning with one provided lockable lance engagement opening, wherein advantageous be considered, the operation of the Opening lock in the automatic control of the whole with included.
- thermoforming machine according to the invention and its advantageous Further developments are described below with reference to the embodiment in a preferred embodiment of a thermoforming machine explained in more detail.
- FIG. 1 shows a side view of a packaging machine in For example, embodiment of a thermoforming machine with their various Processing stations BA and a cleaning device 1, alone in side view and schematic in Fig.2 is illustrated.
- Behind the supply roll R one of the Machine clocked continuously continuous packaging material web PB are a Folienvormaschinermstation I following processing stations Subordinate BA:
- thermoforming station II two filling stations arranged one behind the other III, a closing station IV and a punching station V for separating individual packs not shown here or pack groups.
- Stations II, IV and V represented with the same symbolism, what for the still to be explained Fig.3 to 6 applies.
- this type is now according to the invention essential that the cleaning device. 1 (see Figure 2) from a mounted on a support 2, in several Degrees of freedom controlled mobile cleaning lance 3 is formed, at the free end 3 'a through the lance 3 with Cleaning agents, such as air, steam, water, sterilants, is arranged under pressure feedable cleaning head 4.
- Cleaning agents such as air, steam, water, sterilants
- degrees of freedom can also be the actual spearmen 2 'in relation on the support base 2 "rotatable and gegf.
- tilt adjustable be educated, which ultimately after the constructive circumstances of each with such Cleaning device 1 equipped packaging machine.
- a reservoir 20 For the supply of detergent and its supply to the lance 3 and the cleaning head 4 are exemplified by a reservoir 20, a pump 21 and and a corresponding supply line 22 by way of example, as compressed air, steam and gegf. Also, water from correspondingly available supply networks can be supplied directly and under pressure to the lance 3 via supply line 22.
- the cleaning head 4 is, as shown in Figure 2, equipped with a replaceable nozzle 5, but can also be loaded with several, separately with different cleaning agents
- Nozzle be equipped 5 which then several separate lines 22 lead to and through the lance 3, which is not particularly illustrated is, as readily imaginable. For the same reason not particularly shown are the required and controllable valves.
- the mentioned processing stations BA that is, the cleaning need Stations II to V can each have a cleaning device 1, but with a considerable associated with equipment. This possibility is also not particularly illustrated, or yields indirectly from the Fig.3 to 6, although it is in the Cleaning devices 1 shown there always the same is.
- Fig.1 and these aforementioned Figs. 3 to 6 is namely, in a preferred embodiment, the carrier 2 of the lance. 3 on a guide rail arranged along the machine extension 6 stored and on this from a need of cleaning Processing station BA to the other by suitable drive means movable.
- FIG. 8 also shows a further advantageous simplified version Embodiment in that the cleaning head 4 or at the end region 3 'of the cleaning lance 3, a control sensor 10 is arranged.
- the cleaning device 1 or the cleaning robot once with the geometry of the cleaned Machine familiarized or programmed to collisions between robot or lance and machine to avoid. Conceivable, however, would also be a corresponding sensor or the Takeover of the virtual machine geometry from a 3D CAD system.
- the cleaning program also includes all for the Processing stations decisive parameters for their cleaning, thus, for example, consideration of constructive geometric conditions for the movements of the cleaning head 4 in the and within the processing station, selecting and releasing the cleaning agent to be used for the processing station, Residence times of the cleaning head. 4 for specific areas etc.
- Figs. 4 to 6 wherein
- a slightly different grid is to be started from the nozzle 5 operated with, for example, compressed air as in the area of the filling station III according to Figure 6 or any also to be cleaned construction parts of the machine itself, such as guide rails FS according to FIG.
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Die Erfindung betrifft Verpackungsmaschinen zur Herstellung, Befüllung und Vereinzelung von Verpackungen aus mindestens einer kontinuierlich zugeförderten und durch Bearbeitungsstationen der Maschine geführten Packstoffbahn, wobei der Verpackungsmaschine seitlich mindestens eine Reinigungsvorrichtung zugeordnet ist.The invention relates to packaging machines for the production, Filling and separating of packaging from at least a continuously conveyed and by processing stations the machine-guided packaging material web, the packaging machine at least one cleaning device laterally assigned.
Verpackungsmaschinen dieser allgemein definierten Art sind hinlänglich
bekannt und in Benutzung und beziehen sich damit bspw.
sowohl auf sogenannte Tiefziehmaschinen als auch auf Maschinen
zur Herstellung von Verpackungsbeuteln und insoweit auch auf
Maschinen, die unter Normalbedingungen als auch unter Sterilbedingungen
betrieben werden. Einzubeziehen sind insoweit auch
Verpackungsmaschinen, denen fertige, aber zur Befüllung noch
offene und nach Befüllung zu verschließende Verpackungsbehältnisse
bspw. in Becherform als Packstoffmittel kontinuierlich
zugeführt werden.
Sofern es sich beim Füllgut insbesondere um flüssiges bis pastöses
handelt, müssen derartige Maschinen nach Ende einer Betriebsphase,
in der Regel auch nach einer Betriebsunterbrechung
und insbesondere auch bei Produktwechsel einer gründlichen und
auch zeitaufwendigen Reinigung und gegf. auch einer Sterilisation
unterzogen werden, wobei die Füllgutdoseure moderner Maschinen
per se so ausgestaltet sind, daß sie automatisch spülbar
sind, was bei dieser Bearbeitungsstation der Unterstellung
einer geeignet ausgebildeten Spülmittelauffangwanne bedarf.
Besonders kritisch sind auch die ebenfalls Endbearbeitungsstationen
darstellenden Vereinzelungs- bzw. Stanzstationen am
Ende von Tiefziehmaschinen, in denen bspw. gefüllte und abgedeckelte
Einzelbecher oder Bechergruppen ausgestanzt werden,
was in der Regel mit abzuführenden Verschnittresten, d.h., sogenannten
Abfallsternen verbunden ist, die sich gelegentlich in
den entsprechend ausgebildeten Stanzmatrizen stauen.
Abgesehen von der selbsttätigen Reinigung bzw. Spülung der Dosierstationen
bleibt es dabei unumgänglich, bedingt bspw. durch
übergeschwapptes Füllgut, bei Entfernung der in der Regel unter
Druck stehenden Auffangwannen, das ganze Ambiente der Bearbeitungsstrecke
gründlich von Hand zu säubern, wobei unter Ambiente
hierbei bspw. auch die Innenwandungen eines Steriltunnels
zu verstehen sind, wenn die Verpackungsmaschine unter
Sterilbedingungen zu betreiben ist. Einer Handreinigung ist
dabei auch die Stanzmatrize der Stanzstation zu unterziehen.
Die Gründlichkeit einer Reinigung von Hand hängt dabei natürlich
von der Sorgfalt der Bedienungsperson ab, die damit
betraut ist, d.h., dabei ist unvermeidbar, daß Bereiche des
Ambientes bei der Reinigung übersehen oder ungleichmäßig behandelt
werden, ganz abgesehen davon, daß eine gründliche Reinigung
von Hand, wie vorerwähnt, mit einem beträchtlichen und
insoweit auch kostenträchtigen Zeitaufwand verbunden ist.
Hinzu kommt noch, daß eine Reinigung von Hand nicht parallel
zur automatisch ablaufenden Reinigung der Füllgutdoseure erfolgen
kann, da ein manueller Eingriff in die Maschine grundsätzlich
nur bei spannungslos geschalteten Maschinenaggregaten
erfolgen darf.
Sofern Verpackungsmaschinen der eingangs genannten Art mit Reinigungsvorrichtungen
ausgestattet sind, so ist damit Bezug genommen
auf die DE 689 05 158 T2. Die Reinigungsvorrichtung
besteht dabei aus einem im Maschinenabdeckgehäuse horizontal
verschieblichen, mit mehreren frei einstellbaren Düsen bestückten
Schlitten und ist insbesondere bestimmt für das Waschen
und Reinigen von vorgefertigten, rohrförmigen Verpackungsbehältern
aber auch für das Bespülen von insoweit
erfaßbaren Maschinenteilen und der Innenseiten des Abdeckgehäuses.
Eine solche Reinigungsvorrichtung ersetzt zwar eine
zeitaufwendige, manuelle Reinigung, wobei aber aufgrund der
speziellen Ausgestaltung des düsenbestückten Schlittens von
vornherein in Betracht gezogen ist, daß damit nur ein mehr oder
weniger großer Teil der vorhandenen Maschinenelemente und Räume
erfaßt werden kann. Aus diesem Grund ist deshalb in Betracht
gezogen, in nicht erfaßbaren Bereichen zusätzlich stationäre
Spüldüsen vorzusehen. Die Düsen am Schlitten sind zwar frei
einstellbar, einmal eingestellt, bleibt es aber gewissermaßen
bei einem mehr oder weniger ungezielten, nach allen Seiten
gerichteten Duschvorgang mit entsprechend hohem Spülmittelverbrauch. Packaging machines of this generally defined type are well known and in use and thus relate, for example, both to so-called thermoforming machines as well as to machines for the production of packaging bags and to that extent also on machines which are operated under normal conditions and under sterile conditions. In this respect, packaging machines are also to be included, to which finished packaging containers, which are still open but still open for filling and to be closed after filling, are continuously fed in cup form as packaging material.
If the contents are especially liquid to pasty, such machines must after the end of an operating phase, usually after a business interruption and especially when changing the product of a thorough and time-consuming cleaning and gegf. also be subjected to sterilization, the Füllgutdoseure modern machines per se are designed so that they are automatically rinsed, which requires in this processing station, the subordination of a suitably trained detergent collecting tray.
Particularly critical are also also finishing stations performing separating or stamping stations at the end of thermoforming machines in which, for example, filled and covered individual cups or cup groups are punched out, which is usually associated with abducted Verschnittresten, ie, so-called waste stars, which occasionally in stow the appropriately trained punching dies.
Apart from the automatic cleaning or rinsing of the dosing it remains unavoidable, for example due to übergeschwapptes contents, removal of the generally pressurized drip pans, the whole ambience of the processing section thoroughly clean by hand, under ambience here, for example. also the inner walls of a sterile tunnel are to be understood when the packaging machine is to be operated under sterile conditions. A hand cleaning is also the punching die of the punching station to undergo. The thoroughness of manual cleaning, of course, depends on the care of the operator entrusted with it, ie, it is unavoidable that areas of the environment are overlooked during cleaning or unevenly treated, quite apart from the fact that a thorough cleaning by hand , as mentioned above, associated with a considerable and so far costly time.
In addition, a manual cleaning can not be done in parallel with the automatic cleaning of the filling material, as a manual intervention in the machine may basically only be done with disconnected power machinery units.
If packaging machines of the type mentioned above are equipped with cleaning devices, so reference is made to DE 689 05 158 T2. The cleaning device consists of a horizontally displaceable in Maschinenabdeckgehäuse, equipped with a plurality of freely adjustable nozzles carriage and is particularly intended for washing and cleaning of prefabricated tubular packaging containers but also for the flushing of so far detectable machine parts and the insides of the Abdeckgehäuses. Although such a cleaning device replaces a time-consuming, manual cleaning, but due to the special design of the nozzle-equipped carriage is considered from the outset that thus only a more or less large part of the existing machine elements and rooms can be detected. For this reason, it is therefore considered to provide additional non-detectable areas stationary flushing nozzles. The nozzles on the slide are freely adjustable, once set, but it remains in a sense in a more or less untargeted, directed to all sides shower process with a correspondingly high detergent consumption.
Der Erfindung liegt demgemäß die Aufgabe zugrunde, Verpackungsmaschinen der eingangs genannten Art, also solche, die mit einer eine automatische Reinigung zulassenden Vorrichtung, wie vorerläutert, ausgestattet sind, dahingehend zu verbessern, daß der automatische Reinigungsprozeß gezielter, damit gründlicher, rationeller und ohne zusätzliche Anordnung stationärer Düsen in bestimmten Bereichen durchführbar ist.The invention is accordingly the object of packaging machines of the type mentioned, ie those with an automatic cleaning permitting device, such as are explained, to improve to the effect that the automatic cleaning process more targeted, thus more thorough, more rational and without additional arrangement of stationary nozzles feasible in certain areas.
Diese Aufgabe ist an Verpackungsmaschinen der genannten Art nach der Erfindung dadurch gelöst, daß die Reinigungsvorrichtung aus einer an einem Träger gelagerten, in mehreren Freiheitsgraden gesteuert beweglichen Reinigungslanze gebildet ist, an deren freiem Ende ein durch die Lanze mit Reinigungsmittel, wie Luft, Dampf, Wasser, Sterilisationsmittel, unter Druck beschickbarer Reinigungskopf angeordnet ist.This object is to packaging machines of the type mentioned solved according to the invention in that the cleaning device from one mounted on a carrier, in several Degrees of freedom controlled moving cleaning lance formed is at the free end of a through the lance with detergent, such as air, steam, water, sterilants, is arranged under pressure feedable cleaning head.
Unter "seitlich zugeordnet" ist dabei im weitesten Sinne zu
verstehen, daß je nach gegebener Maschinenart die Zuordnung an
der einen oder anderen Seite, gegf. aber auch über der betreffenden
Bearbeitungsstation oder wo auch immer geeignet
vorgesehen werden kann.
Ferner ist unter "mehreren Freiheitsgraden beweglich" zu verstehen,
daß die Lanze und damit deren Reinigungskopf durch
Drehung, Verschiebung und Auf- und Absenkung auf die zu reinigenden
Bereiche derart einstellbar und gegf. während des
Sprühens über einen bestimmten Bereich bewegbar ist, daß diese
Bereiche vom unter Druck aufgedüstem Reinigungsmittel bestreichbar
sind, und schließlich ist unter "mindestens einer
Reinigungseinrichtung" zu verstehen, daß jeder reinigungsbedürftigen
Bearbeitungsstation eine solche Reinigungseinrichtung
zugeordnet sein kann.
Durch eine derartige, einer Verpackungsmaschine zuzuordnende
und in mehreren Freiheitsgraden gesteuert bewegbare Reinigungsvorrichtung
sind die gestellten Forderungen erfüllt, d.h.,
der ganze Reinigungsvorgang ist personenunabhängig automatisiert,
dadurch gleichmäßiger und insoweit gründlicher und damit
letztlich auch zeit- und kostenreduzierter durchführbar. By "assigned laterally" is to be understood in the broadest sense that, depending on the given machine type, the assignment to one side or the other, gegf. but also over the relevant processing station or wherever appropriate can be provided.
Further, "movable several degrees of freedom" is to be understood that the lance and thus the cleaning head so adjustable and gegf by rotation, displacement and up and down on the areas to be cleaned. is movable over a certain range during the spraying, that these areas of the sprayed on under pressure cleaning agent are brushed, and finally is to be understood by "at least one cleaning device" that each cleaning station requiring cleaning may be associated with such a cleaning device.
By such, attributable to a packaging machine and controlled in several degrees of freedom movable cleaning device the requirements are met, ie, the whole cleaning process is automated person independently, thereby more uniform and so far more thorough and thus ultimately time and cost reduced feasible.
Vorteilhafte Weiterbildungen bestehen in Folgendem:Advantageous developments consist in the following:
Der erwähnte Reinigungskopf ist mit mindestens einer auswechselbaren Düse bestückt, so daß eine reinigungsmittelspezifische Düse eingesetzt werden kann.The mentioned cleaning head is replaceable with at least one Nozzle equipped, so that a detergent-specific Nozzle can be used.
Vorteilhaft kann der Reinigungskopf aber auch mit mehreren, jeweils separat mit unterschiedlichen Reinigungsmitteln beschickbaren Düsen bestückt sein, wobei je nach zu verdüsendem Reinigungsmittel die Versorgung der jeweils anderen Düsen abgeschaltet wird.Advantageously, the cleaning head but also with several, each be charged separately with different cleaning agents Be equipped with nozzles, depending to be bled Detergent the supply of the other nozzles is switched off.
Unter Inkaufnahme eines einerseits größeren Aufwandes kann auch jeder reinigungsbedürftigen Bearbeitungsstation der Maschine eine Reinigungsvorrichtung zugeordnet werden, was jedoch andererseits eine noch spezifischere Anpassung der Reinigungsvorrichtung an die konstruktiven und funktionellen Gegebenheiten der jeweiligen Bearbeitungsstation zuläßt.By accepting a greater effort on the one hand can also every cleaning station of the machine requiring cleaning a cleaning device are assigned, but on the other hand a more specific adaptation of the cleaning device to the structural and functional conditions the respective processing station permits.
Da mit einem beträchtlich reduzierten apparativen Aufwand verbunden, wird jedoch eine Ausführungsform dahingehend bevorzugt, daß der Träger der Lanze auf einer längs der Maschinenerstreckung angeordneten Führungsschiene gelagert und daran von einer reinigungsbedürftigen Bearbeitungsstation zur anderen verfahrbar ist.As with a considerably reduced expenditure on equipment However, an embodiment is preferred in that that the carrier of the lance on one along the machine extension arranged guide rail mounted and thereto from one workstation requiring cleaning to the other is movable.
Sofern es sich bei der Verpackungsmaschine um eine steril zu betreibende handelt, ist deren sogenannter Steriltunnel im Bereich jeder reinigungsbedürftigen Bearbeitungsstation mit einer verschließbaren Lanzeneingriffsöffnung versehen, wobei vorteilhaft in Betracht gezogen werden kann, die Betätigung des Öffnungsverschluß in die Steuerungsautomatik des Ganzen mit einzubeziehen.If the packaging machine is sterile is their so-called sterile tunnel in the area every cleaning station requiring cleaning with one provided lockable lance engagement opening, wherein advantageous be considered, the operation of the Opening lock in the automatic control of the whole with included.
Die erfindungsgemäße Verpackungsmaschine und ihre vorteilhaften Weiterbildungen werden nachfolgend anhand des Ausführungsbeispieles in bevorzugter Ausführungsform einer Tiefziehmaschine näher erläutert. The packaging machine according to the invention and its advantageous Further developments are described below with reference to the embodiment in a preferred embodiment of a thermoforming machine explained in more detail.
Es zeigt schematisch
- Fig.1
- eine Tiefziehmaschine mit der Reinigungsvorrichtung in Seitenansicht;
- Fig.2
- in Seitenansicht und in Einzeldarstellung die Reinigungsvorrichtung;
- Fig.3-6
- Betriebsstellungen der Reinigungsvorrichtung in verschiedenen Bearbeitungsstationen;
- Fig.7
- stark schematisiert im Schnitt quer zur Durchlaufrichtung eine Tiefziehmaschine für den Sterilbetrieb und
- Fig.8
- stark vereinfacht eine vorteilhafte Ausführungsform bzsgl. einer Steuerungssensorik.
- Fig.1
- a thermoforming machine with the cleaning device in side view;
- Fig.2
- in side view and in detail the cleaning device;
- Fig.3-6
- Operating positions of the cleaning device in different processing stations;
- Figure 7
- strongly schematized in the cross section transversely to the direction of passage a thermoforming machine for sterile operation and
- Figure 8
- greatly simplifies an advantageous embodiment bzsgl. a control sensor.
Die Fig.1 zeigt in Seitenansicht eine Verpackungsmaschine in
bspw. Ausführungsform einer Tiefziehmaschine mit ihren verschiedenen
Bearbeitungsstationen BA und einer Reinigungsvorrichtung
1, die allein in Seitenansicht und schematisch in
Fig.2 verdeutlicht ist. Hinter der Vorratsrolle R einer die
Maschine getaktet kontinuierlich durchlaufenden Packstoffbahn
PB sind einer Folienvorwärmstation I folgende Bearbeitungsstationen
BA nachgeordnet:1 shows a side view of a packaging machine in
For example, embodiment of a thermoforming machine with their various
Processing stations BA and a
Eine Tiefziehstation II, zwei hintereinander angeordnete Füllstationen III, eine Schließstation IV und eine Stanzstation V zum Vereinzeln von hier nicht besonders dargestellten Einzelpackungen oder Packungsgruppen. Der Einfachheit halber sind die Stationen II, IV und V mit gleicher Symbolik dargestellt, was auch für die noch zu erläuternden Fig.3 bis 6 gilt.A thermoforming station II, two filling stations arranged one behind the other III, a closing station IV and a punching station V for separating individual packs not shown here or pack groups. For the sake of simplicity, these are Stations II, IV and V represented with the same symbolism, what for the still to be explained Fig.3 to 6 applies.
Für eine Verpackungsmaschine auch bspw. dieser Art ist nun gemäß
der Erfindung wesentlich, daß die Reinigungsvorrichtung 1
(siehe Fig.2) aus einer an einem Träger 2 gelagerten, in mehreren
Freiheitsgraden gesteuert beweglichen Reinigungslanze 3
gebildet ist, an deren freien Ende 3' ein durch die Lanze 3 mit
Reinigungsmittel, wie Luft, Dampf, Wasser, Sterilisationsmittel,
unter Druck beschickbarer Reinigungskopf 4 angeordnet ist.
Außer den mit Pfeilen P in Fig.2 grob angedeuteten Freiheitsgraden
kann auch noch der eigentliche Lanzenträger 2' in Bezug
auf das Trägerunterteil 2" drehbar und gegf. auch neigungseinstellbar
ausgebildet sein, was sich letztlich nach den
konstruktiven Gegebenheiten der jeweiligen mit einer solchen
Reinigungsvorrichtung 1 bestückten Verpackungsmaschine richtet.For a packaging machine, for example, this type is now according to
the invention essential that the cleaning device. 1
(see Figure 2) from a mounted on a
Für die Versorgung mit Reinigungsmittel und dessen Zuleitung
zur Lanze 3 bzw. zum Reinigungskopf 4 stehen beispielhaft ein
Vorratsbehälter 20, eine Pumpe 21 und und eine entsprechende
Zuleitung 22. Beispielhaft insofern, als Preßluft, Dampf und
gegf. auch Wasser aus entsprechend verfügbaren Versorgungsnetzen
direkt und unter Druck der Lanze 3 via Zuleitung 22
zugeführt werden können.
Der Reinigungskopf 4 ist, wie in Fig.2 dargestellt, mit einer
auswechselbaren Düse 5 bestückt, kann aber auch mit mehreren,
separat mit unterschiedlichen Reinigungsmitteln beschickbarenFor the supply of detergent and its supply to the
The
Düsen 5 bestückt sein, zu denen dann mehrere separate Leitungen
22 zur und durch die Lanze 3 führen, was nicht besonders dargestellt
ist, da ohne weiteres vorstellbar. Aus gleichem Grund
nicht besonders dargestellt sind die erforderlichen und
steuerbaren Ventile.Nozzle be equipped 5, which then several
Den genannten Bearbeitungsstationen BA, d.h., den reinigungsbedürftigen
Stationen II bis V kann jeweils eine Reinigungsvorrichtung
1 zugeordnet werden, was allerdings mit einem beträchtlichen
apparativen Aufwand verbunden ist. Diese Möglichkeit
ist ebenfalls nicht besonders dargestellt, bzw. ergibt
sich indirekt aus den Fig.3 bis 6, obgleich es sich bei den
dort dargestellten Reinigungsvorrichtungen 1 immer um die gleiche
handelt.The mentioned processing stations BA, that is, the cleaning need
Stations II to V can each have a
Unter Bezug auf Fig.1 und diese vorgenannten Fig. 3 bis 6 ist
nämlich in bevorzugter Ausführungsform der Träger 2 der Lanze 3
auf einer längs der Maschinenerstreckung angeordneten Führungsschiene
6 gelagert und auf dieser von einer reinigungsbedürftigen
Bearbeitungsstation BA zur anderen durch
geeignete Antriebsmittel verfahrbar. With reference to Fig.1 and these aforementioned Figs. 3 to 6 is
namely, in a preferred embodiment, the
Sofern es sich um eine unter Sterilbedingungen zu betreibende
Verpackungsmaschine handelt, wobei also die Bearbeitungsstrecke
BS (Fig.1) mit einem Steriltunnel 7 abgedeckt ist (siehe die
stark schematisierte Fig.7), so ist dieser Steriltunnel 7 im
Bereich jeder reinigungsbedürftigen Bearbeitungsstation BA mit
einer verschließbaren Lanzeneingriffsöffnung 8 versehen. Sofern
die Öffnungsverschlüsse 8' vor Beginn einer Maschinenreinigung
nicht von Hand geöffnet werden sollen, ließe sich deren Öffnung
und Schließung unter Einbezug entsprechender Betätigungsmittel
in die Reinigungs-Programmsteuerung 9 mit einbeziehen, die im
übrigen mit der Maschinensteuerung MS gemäß Fig.8 verschaltet
ist. Fig.8 zeigt auch stark vereinfacht eine weitere vorteilhafte
Ausführungsform dahingehend, daß am Reinigungskopf 4 oder
am Endbereich 3' der Reinigungslanze 3 eine Steuerungssensorik
10 angeordnet ist.If it is to be operated under sterile conditions
Packaging machine is, so where the processing line
BS (Fig.1) is covered with a sterile tunnel 7 (see the
highly schematic Fig.7), so this
Ausgehend von der Reinigungsvorrichtung 1 in Neutralstellung
bspw. neben der Vorwärmstation I (siehe Fig.3), die in der Regel
keiner Reinigung bedarf, fährt die Vorrichtung gemäß
Reinigungsprogramm die gesamte Maschine ab und reinigt deren
Bearbeitungsstationen BA wiederholgenau gleich.Starting from the
Zur Erstinbetriebnahme wird die Reinigungsvorrichtung 1 bzw.
der Reinigungsroboter einmalig mit der Geometrie der zu reinigenden
Maschine vertraut gemacht bzw. programmiert, um Kollisionen
zwischen Roboter bzw. Lanze und Maschine zu vermeiden.
Denkbar wäre aber auch eine entsprechende Sensorik oder die
Übernahme der virtuellen Maschinengeometrie aus einem 3D CAD-System.For initial startup, the
Zum Reinigungsprogramm gehören natürlich auch sämtliche für die
Bearbeitungsstationen maßgebenden Parameter für deren Reinigung,
also bspw. Berücksichtigung konstruktiv-geometrische Gegebenheiten
für die Bewegungen des Reinigungskopfes 4 in die
und innerhalb der Bearbeitungsstation, Auswahl und Freigabe des
für die Bearbeitungsstation zu verwendenden Reinigungsmittels,
Verweilzeiten des Reinigungskopfes. 4 für bestimmte Bereiche
usw. Of course, the cleaning program also includes all for the
Processing stations decisive parameters for their cleaning,
thus, for example, consideration of constructive geometric conditions
for the movements of the
Diesbezüglich wird auch auf die Fig. 4 bis 6 verwiesen, wobei
bspw. in der Stanzstation V gemäß Fig.4 ein etwas anderes Raster
von der mit bspw. Preßluft betrieben Düse 5 abzufahren ist
als im Bereich der Füllstation III gemäß Fig.6 oder irgendwelche
ebenfalls zu reinigender Konstruktionsteile der Maschine
selbst, wie Führungsschienen FS gemäß Fig.5.In this regard, reference is also made to Figs. 4 to 6, wherein
For example, in the punching station V according to Figure 4, a slightly different grid
is to be started from the
Claims (7)
- A packaging machine for manufacturing, filling and separating packages comprising at least one packaging material web (PB) which is supplied continuously and guided through processing stations (BA) of the machine, wherein at least one cleaning device (1) is associated laterally with the packaging machine,
characterised in that the cleaning device (1) is formed by a cleaning lance (3) mounted on a support (2) which can be controllably moved in several degrees of freedom and which has a cleaning head (4) arranged at its free end which can be charged through the lance (3) with cleaning agents such as air, steam, water, sterilising agents, under pressure. - The packaging machine according to claim 1,
characterised in that the cleaning head (4) is fitted with an least one exchangeable nozzle (5). - The packaging machine according to claim 1,
characterised in that the cleaning head (4) is fitted with a plurality of nozzles (5) which can be charged with different cleaning agents. - The packaging machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
characterised in that a cleaning device (1) is associated with each processing station (BA) of the machine which requires cleaning. - The packaging machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3 comprising a cleaning device which can be moved along the extension of the machine,
characterised in that the support (2) of the lance (3) is mounted on a guide rail (6) arranged along the extension of the machine and can be moved thereon from one processing station (BA) requiring cleaning to another. - The packaging machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5 wherein the processing section (BS) is covered with a sterile tunnel (7),
characterised in that the sterile tunnel (7) is provided with a closable lance engagement opening (8) in the area of each processing station (BA) requiring cleaning (1). - The packaging machine according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the cleaning device (1) is wired to a program control system (9) associated with the machine control system (MS),
characterised in that a control sensor (10) is arranged on the cleaning head (4) or at the end of the cleaning lance (3).
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