EP1426322B1 - Kopf mit Klauen für eine Vorrichtung zum Verkorken von Flaschen mit Korken - Google Patents

Kopf mit Klauen für eine Vorrichtung zum Verkorken von Flaschen mit Korken Download PDF

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EP1426322B1
EP1426322B1 EP03077859A EP03077859A EP1426322B1 EP 1426322 B1 EP1426322 B1 EP 1426322B1 EP 03077859 A EP03077859 A EP 03077859A EP 03077859 A EP03077859 A EP 03077859A EP 1426322 B1 EP1426322 B1 EP 1426322B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
    • B67B1/04—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers by inserting threadless stoppers, e.g. corks

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  • the present invention relates to a block-support head for a corking machine according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the head in question is intended to be used advantageously in the bottling industry for compressing stoppers made of cork or synthetic material until they have a size slightly smaller than the mouth of the neck of the bottle to be corked.
  • conventional corking machines envisage the use of a plurality of corking heads mounted rotatably in the form of carousel about a fixed vertical shaft on which a pusher cam is concentrically keyed in order to impart the necessary movement to the components of the head which perform corking.
  • Each head comprises gripping members able to compress the stoppers supplied from a suitable loading hopper until they have a size suitable to allow them to be inserted inside the neck of the bottles under the vertical thrust of pusher elements.
  • each head is composed of two block-supporting slides, one of which is movable, being mechanically connected to a cam by means of a guide and a counter-guide, and the other fixed, being fastened on the housing structure of the machine by means of key-type retaining means.
  • the same housing structure of the machine allows guiding of the to-and-fro movement of the movable slide actuated by the cam with respect to the fixed slide.
  • the gripping means are generally formed by two pairs of blocks, each associated with a respective slide, by means of which they define with their form a cavity for receiving the stopper.
  • the blocks vary their arrangement and, therewith, the size of the opening for receiving the stopper.
  • the blocks may assume an open configuration, where the opening has a cross-section which is sufficiently wide to receive a stopper inside it, and a closed configuration where the receiving opening is narrowed so as to define a cross-section slightly smaller than the mouth of the bottle neck so as to allow the compressed stopper to be inserted inside it.
  • the movable blocks are mounted on respective slides by means of guides with a specific shape, generally dovetail shape, able to keep the said slides perfectly positioned along the whole of their travel path during the to-and-fro movement.
  • the French patent FR 2370680 describes a block-support head for a machine for corking bottles, which comprises a fixed slide and a movable slide with a relative movement with respect to the fixed slide. The two slides are connected each other by many hinges.
  • the fixed slide and the movable slide are provided, respectively, with a first and second pair of blocks, which define a receiving opening for a stopper and vary their arrangement during the relative movement so as to define an open configuration, where the receiving opening is able to receive a stopper inside it, and a closed configuration, where the receiving opening compresses the stopper.
  • Each pair of blocks comprises a movable block, able to slide on the respective slide, and one compression block, which is associated with one of said slides and acts with pressure against a first sliding surface of the movable block associated with the same slide.
  • the compression block can be resiliently pushed against the movable block.
  • the four blocks (2+2) are made of special stainless steel, which is tempered and ground to a degree of precision of hundredths.
  • Machining with a small tolerance may result in seizing of the blocks, whereas too large a tolerance is the cause of malfunctioning due to insertion, in the free space, of agglomerations of dust or small pieces of stopper or other material such as a lubricating product, which may cause scoring or pricking of the stopper, adversely affecting correct corking.
  • the presence of the guide poses a certain degree of difficulty with regard to disassembly of the head and rapid extraction of the blocks, for example necessary in order to perform maintenance operations, cleaning or sterilisation operations or replacement of the blocks in order to modify the corking procedure.
  • a second drawback arises from the fact that, with time, after a certain number of hours of operation, the blocks start to wear and therefore need to be replaced. Before being replaced, they may also result in malfunctions of the type mentioned above which may negatively affect the quality or the efficiency of the corking operations.
  • the main object the present invention is therefore that of overcoming the drawbacks associated with the solutions of the known type mentioned above, by providing a block-support head for a corking machine, which is constructionally simple and inexpensive to manufacture and operationally entirely reliable.
  • Another object of the present invention is that of providing a block-support head of which the components, such as the blocks, can be easily manufactured by means of simple mechanical machining processes.
  • a further object of the present invention is that of providing a block-support head which requires a limited amount of maintenance.
  • a further object of the present invention is that of providing a block-support head of which the components, such as the blocks, do not give rise, even after numerous hours of operation, to significant variations in the quality or the efficiency of the corking operations.
  • block-support head forming the subject of the present invention is denoted in its entirety by 1.
  • the housing structure 2 which has been shown only partially in broken lines in Figure 10, allows the heads 1 to be supported rotatably about the shaft of the rotating carousel of the corking machine, absorbing the compressive forces exerted by the heads 1 during the corking operations.
  • Each head 1 is suitable for use in association with stoppers made of any material (cork, synthetic material, as well as “technical stoppers” made of cork composites, both of the flat and sparkling wine type).
  • the head 1 is essentially composed of a fixed slide 3 which is removably mounted in the housing structure 2 by means of key-type retaining means 4 of the type known per se and a movable slide 5 which can be actuated with a relative to-and-fro movement in a radial direction R with respect to the fixed slide 3, by suitable actuating means 6.
  • the latter which are only partly shown in the accompanying figures, advantageously comprise a wheel 7, which is mounted on the movable slide 5 and is free to rotate about a vertical axis Z perpendicular with respect to the radial direction R and capable of imparting the to-and-fro movement to the movable slide 5 as a result of interaction with a cam 70.
  • Suitable guide means allow the movable slide 5 to slide with respect to the fixed slide 3 inside the seat formed in the housing structure 2.
  • These means may for example comprise, in accordance with a possible constructional solution, two plates 50 fixed laterally to the movable slide 5.
  • Two pairs of blocks are also envisaged, i.e. a first pair 8, mechanically and operationally associated with the fixed slide 3, and a second pair 9, mechanically and operationally associated with the movable slide 5, said pairs defining a receiving opening 10 inside which a stopper (not shown in the accompanying figures) is intended to be inserted.
  • the blocks vary their arrangement between an open configuration 11, shown in Figure 1 and Figure 10, where a stopper may be conveyed inside the receiving opening 10, and a closed configuration 12, shown in Figure 2, where the side walls of the receiving opening 10 compress the stopper to a size slightly smaller than the mouth of a bottle neck, so as to allow suitable pusher means to push the stopper inside the said neck.
  • Both the pairs of blocks comprise a movable block 13, able to slide on its associated slide 3, 5 along a first travel path A, and a compression block 14.
  • Each compression block presses with its associated front surface 15 against a first sliding surface 16 of the movable block 13 associated with the same slide 3, 5 and is thereby pushed by resiliently yielding means 17, in particular consisting of an ordinary first spring (see Figs. 3 and 10).
  • the first travel path A has a length such as to allow the blocks to be displaced between the open configuration 11 and the closed configuration 12.
  • second resiliently yielding means 18 are provided, said means consisting for example of a second spring and acting so as to compress the movable block 13 of a slide 3, 5 against the compression block 14 of the other slide 5, 3.
  • both the slides 3, 5 each comprise a metal, preferably steel, support body 3', 5', in which a first and a second seat 21, 22, respectively, for seating inside them the movable block 13 and the compression block 14 are formed.
  • the compression block 14 is provided with a shoulder 23 against which the abovementioned resiliently yielding means 17 engage.
  • the second seat 22 has a form corresponding to that of the compression block 14 and therefore has a similar shoulder 23' which is counter-shaped with respect to that of the block 14 (see fig. 10).
  • a plate 25 of self-lubricating material inserted inside each first seat 21 and arranged between the support body 3', 5' of the respective slide 3, 5 and a side surface 26 of the movable block 13, in order to favour sliding of the latter during its travel path A.
  • the self-lubricating plate may be advantageously made of PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene, better known by the registered trademark Teflon®) or special sintered bronze or also of any other self-lubricating material with a low coefficient of friction.
  • PTFE polytetrafluoroethylene, better known by the registered trademark Teflon®
  • Teflon® polytetrafluoroethylene
  • special sintered bronze also of any other self-lubricating material with a low coefficient of friction.
  • the self-lubricating plate 25 is fixed onto the side surface 26 of the movable block 13 by means of the screws inserted in holes 60.
  • the self-lubricating plate 25 is removably fixed inside a housing 27 formed on the support body 3', 5'. Removable fixing may be performed, for example, by means of a guide or by means of screwing means.
  • this plate 25 is to favour sliding of the movable block 13 inside its first seat 21, without requiring the use of lubricants.
  • the compression block 14 is nevertheless always able to compensate for this variation as a result of the first spring 17 which always presses it against the movable block 13, without the formation of dangerous play resulting in the possibility of accumulation of dust from the stopper or other undesirable material.
  • the compression block 14 also performs, as the self-lubricating plate 25 becomes worn, a second associated travel movement.
  • the side surface 26 of the movable block 13 which rests in a sliding manner on the plate 25 is substantially flat. This obviously helps reduce the difficulty of machining.
  • the self-lubricating plate 25 may advantageously be provided with grooves 61 on its sliding surface, able to receive dust or other material, therefore avoiding any risk of seizing.
  • the movable block does not particularly need to be guided, as in the solutions of the prior art, since it is prevented from rotating about the axis of forward movement X of its travel path A by the pressing force exerted by the compression block 14.
  • the block-support head 1 in question is functionally more reliable than the heads known hitherto, avoiding entirely the risk of seizing of the blocks and damaging of the stoppers during the corking operation.
  • the head 1 according to the present invention has low production costs, since it does not require complex mechanical machining operations for its manufacture, and low maintenance costs since, in the event of wear, it is possible to replace simply only the self-lubricating plate 25.

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  1. Blockhaltekopf für eine Maschine zum Verkorken von Flaschen mit Stopfen, von der Art, die an eine Gehäusestmklur (2) einer Verkorkungsmaschine montiert werden soll, aufweisend ein festes Gleitstück (3), im Wesentlichen einteilig mit der Gehäusestruktur (2) und versehen mit einem ersten Blockpaar (8), einem beweglichen Gleitstück (5), das mit einer relativen Hin- und Herbewegung in Bezug auf das feste Gleitstück (3) betätigt werden kann und mit einem zweiten Blockpaar (9) versehen ist, wobei das erste Blockpaar (8) und das zweite Blockpaar (9) eine aufnehmende Öffnung (10) für einen Stopfen definieren und ihre Anordnung während der Hin- und Herbewegungen zwischen einer offenen Konfiguration (11), in welcher die aufnehmende Öffnung (10) in ihrem Inneren einen Stopfen aufnehmen kann, und einer geschlossenen Konfiguration (12), in welcher die aufnehmende Öffnung (10) den Stopfen zusammenpresst, variieren können, wobei jedes Blockpaar (8, 9) aufweist:
    mindestens einen beweglichen Block (13), der auf dem entsprechenden Gleitstück (3, 5) auf einem ersten Fahrweg (A) gleiten kann;
    und mindestens einen Pressblock (14), der mit Druck gegen eine erste Gleitfläche (16) des beweglichen Blocks (13) wirkt, der mit demselben Gleitstück (3, 5) verbunden ist, wobei die erste elastisch nachgebende Vorrichtung (17) dafür vorgesehen ist, den Pressblock (14) gegen den beweglichen Block (13) zu drücken;
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das bewegliche Gleitstück (5) während seiner linearen Hin- und Herbewegung von der Führungsvorrichtung (50) geführt wird. Das feste Gleitstück (3) und das bewegliche Gleitstück (5) besitzen je einen Haltekörper (3', 5'), der mit einem ersten Sitz (21), in welchem der bewegliche Block (13) eingehaust ist, und einem zweiten Sitz (22), in welchem der Pressblock (14) eingehaust ist, versehen ist. (im Original vermutlich Streichung des unterstrichenen Passus gewünscht, H.O.)
  2. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der bewegliche Block (13), der mit einem der Gleitstücke (3, 5) gegen eine zweite Gleitfläche (20) des Pressblocks (14) drückt, der mit dem anderen Gleitstück (5, 3) verbunden ist, wobei die zweite elastisch nachgebende Vorrichtung (18) für das Drücken des beweglichen Blocks (13) gegen den Pressblock (14) vorgesehen ist.
  3. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der bewegliche Block (13) und der Pressblock (14) einen oberen Teil in Form eines Gleitstücks (80) besitzen, der gleitfähig in eine gegengleich geformte Führung (81) greift, die im festen Gleitstück (3) und im beweglichen Gleitstück (5) ausgebildet ist.
  4. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Pressblock (14) mit einer Schulter (23) versehen ist, in welche die erste elastisch nachgebende Vorrichtung (17) greift.
  5. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die elastisch nachgebende Vorrichtung (17) mindestens eine erste Feder aufweist.
  6. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er mindestens eine Platte (25) aus selbstschmierendem Material aufweist, die in den ersten Sitz (21) eingesetzt und zwischen dem Haltekörper (3', 5') des Gleitstücks (3, 5) und einer Seitenfläche (26) des beweglichen Blocks (13) angeordnet ist, um das Gleiten des Letzteren auf seinem Fahrweg (A) zu begünstigen.
  7. Kopf nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die selbstschmierende Platte (25) im Inneren eines auf dem Haltekörper (3', 5 (müsste 5' heißen, H.O.)) ausgebildeten Gehäuses (27) entfernbar befestigt ist.
  8. Kopf nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Seitenfläche (26) des beweglichen Blocks (13), die im Inneren des ersten Sitzes (21) unterstützt gleiten kann, im Wesentlichen flach ist.
  9. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der bewegliche Block (13) durch die Druckkraft, die vom Pressblock (14) auf ihn ausgeübt wird, an der Drehung um die Achse der Vorwärtsbewegung (X) seines Fahrweges (A) gehindert wird.
  10. Kopf nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die selbstschmierende Platte (25) am beweglichen Gleitstück (13) entfernbar befestigt ist.
  11. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der bewegliche Block (13) und/oder der Pressblock (14) mit einer Gleitvorrichtung (80) versehen sind, die gleitfähig in eine entsprechende, auf den Gleitvorrichtungen (3, 5) vorgesehene Führung (81) greifen kann.
  12. Kopf nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die selbstschmierende Platte (25) mit Rillen (61) versehen ist.
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