EP1449768B1 - Verfahren zum Abfüllen eines flüssigen oder schüttbaren Mediums in ein Behältnis - Google Patents

Verfahren zum Abfüllen eines flüssigen oder schüttbaren Mediums in ein Behältnis Download PDF

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EP1449768B1
EP1449768B1 EP04000135A EP04000135A EP1449768B1 EP 1449768 B1 EP1449768 B1 EP 1449768B1 EP 04000135 A EP04000135 A EP 04000135A EP 04000135 A EP04000135 A EP 04000135A EP 1449768 B1 EP1449768 B1 EP 1449768B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/26—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled
    • B65B3/34—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by timing of filling operations
    • B65B3/36—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by timing of filling operations and arresting flow by cut-off means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/30—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled
    • B65B1/40—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled by timing of filling operations
    • B65B1/42—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled by timing of filling operations and arresting flow by cut-off means

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  • the invention relates to a method for filling a minimum amount of a liquid or pourable medium in a container, wherein the amount of the filled medium is detected and the filling is completed by closing a valve as soon as the amount of the filled medium has reached a final value.
  • the filling of these media in containers, such as bottles has a high economic importance.
  • the medium is typically namely a large filling device used, such as a carousel bottle filler
  • the z. B. has 150 filling stations and thus can fill 150 bottles at the same time.
  • a carousel bottle filler can fill up to 70,000 bottles with a volume of one liter per hour with one drink. This means a Fehlbe colllung to only 5 ml per bottle that per hour 350 1, per day about 850 1 and per month about 250,000 1 drink too much is filled.
  • a high accuracy in the filling is therefore of considerable interest for cost reasons.
  • the filling of media into containers is typically as follows: From a storage container, a container is filled through a valve, wherein the amount of the medium dispensed into the container, ie typically the volume or mass of the medium, is measured by means of a mass or volumen trimflußmeß discomfort. When the quantity of medium which has been detected in this way and has reached the container has reached a predetermined value, hereinafter referred to as final value, the valve is closed and the filling process is ended.
  • the closing of the valve takes a finite period of time, so that it still comes after reaching the predetermined value for the amount of medium dispensed into the container in a further delivery of the medium into the container; there is a so-called caster.
  • This Caster is also due to the fact that the valve as a mechanical component and a valve controlling valve control device have response and dead times. As a result, therefore, that the amount of medium dispensed into the container is above the final value at which the filling operation is terminated by closing the valve.
  • the problem described above is also often encountered in the filling process known from the prior art in that with each filling of a container, the caster is measured and compared with the minimum quantity to be filled into the container.
  • the difference between the measured filled quantity and the minimum quantity, given by the after-run, is subtracted from the set quantity by successive fillings of further containers in a stepwise manner, that is always only to a certain percentage or by a moving averaging, from the follow-up values of several successive measurements.
  • the amount actually filled in the respective container approaches the minimum quantity over several consecutive bottlings from above.
  • An immediate complete compensation in the second filling with the measured at the first filling caster is not possible, since such a kind of compensation would be unstable oscillatory.
  • the previously derived and indicated object is inventively achieved in that the filling of the medium is carried out in a first container in several filling steps by the filling is interrupted by closing the valve in a first filling step to take place during the closing of the valve wake of the medium and, in a subsequent filling step, the filling is continued by opening the valve, the final value for terminating the subsequent filling step being determined taking into account a run-on of the medium determined in a preceding filling step when closing the valve.
  • the filling of the medium into the first container does not take place in a continuous step, but in at least two separate steps, filling the first container at least once by closing the first container Valve is interrupted, so that while the caster can be determined.
  • the determined in this way caster can then be used already during the filling of the first container to already set the final value to complete the filling of the first container so that a filling of the container is achieved within the allowable tolerances.
  • the method according to the invention is followed by a plurality of subsequent filling steps, wherein the respective end value for terminating a subsequent filling step is determined taking into account the determined in the respective previous filling step when closing the valve wake of the medium.
  • a plurality of follow-up values and, in particular, such a large number of follow-up values can be determined that, in any case, a sufficient effect on the final value for terminating the last filling step for filling the container can be achieved. to achieve a filling within the specified tolerances.
  • the final value is set for completion of the last filling step for filling the container, taking into account the minimum amount of the medium and the determined in the previous filling step when closing the valve caster of the medium.
  • the after-runs of the medium determined in the preceding filling steps when the valve is closed are subjected to an averaging to determine the final value for the termination of the last filling step.
  • the filling of a further container takes place in a single filling step, the final value for completion of the single filling step for filling the other container, taking into account the minimum amount of the medium and at the filling of the first container determined caster value is determined.
  • the final value is used which was determined during the filling of the first container.
  • the after-run values determined during the filling of the first container are subjected to an averaging.
  • the filling of the first container is followed by a plurality of individual fillings of further containers, wherein the respective end value for the termination of such filling is determined taking into account the minimum quantity of the medium and a follow-up value determined with a preceding filling.
  • Fig. 1 schematically the filling of a medium 1 in a container 2 by means of a filling device 3 is shown.
  • the medium 1 may be a liquid or a pourable medium, in the present case it is a beverage.
  • the filling device 3 has a reservoir 4 and a flow meter 5 and a valve 6. When the valve 6 is open, the medium 1 is filled into the container 2.
  • valve control unit 7 The control of the valve 6, namely the opening or closing of the valve 6, by means of a valve control unit 7.
  • the valve control unit 7 is also connected to the flow meter 5, so that a control of the valve 6 in response to the means of the flow meter 5 detected bottled amount of the medium 1 is made possible.
  • the flow meter 5 may be z.
  • Example to a mass flow meter or a volume flow meter, such as a magnetic induction flowmeter or Ultraschall verseflußmeß réelle act.
  • the flow measuring device 5 transmits the flow rate detected by it to the valve control unit 7, according to the presently illustrated preferred embodiment of the invention in the form of scaled pulses, namely one pulse for each detected predetermined unit of quantity.
  • B. also possible in the form of a digitized signal via a bus interface.
  • the valve control unit 7 integrates the flow rate detected by the flow measuring device 5 and transmitted to it. This integrated flow rate represents at any time the amount that has been filled from the reservoir 4 through the flow meter 5 and the valve 6 into the container 2.
  • Fig. 2 is now shown schematically the filling of the medium 1 in the container 2 according to a conventional method to explain the associated with the finite closing time of the valve 6 caster problem: At time t 0 , the valve 6 is opened by means of the valve control unit 7. How out Fig. 2 As can be seen, the flow shown in the diagram Gray increases almost immediately to a constant, here standardized to 1 value.
  • the quantity of medium 1 that has been filled into the container 2 reaches the final value E of 100, which causes the valve control unit 7 to close the valve 6 by integrating the filled quantity of the medium 1 by means of the flow measuring device 5.
  • This final value of 100 corresponds in this case also the minimum quantity; In the present case, therefore, at least a minimum quantity of 100 should be filled into the container 2, so that for the time being no termination of the filling takes place before this value is reached.
  • valve 6 Until the valve 6 is closed, passes from the time t 1, a finite period of time, so that only at the later time t 2 no more flow occurs. In this time of closing the valve 6, the flow remains as in Fig. 2 shown, approximately constant, so that it comes as a result to a filled into the container 2 amount of the medium 1, which is about the caster N above the final value E of 100, in which the valve has been driven by the valve control unit 7 to close.
  • Fig. 3 it can be seen in the method shown below according to the preferred embodiment of the invention, in contrast to the above-described conventional method when filling the container 2 before reaching the minimum amount of to be filled into the container 2 medium 1, the pass multiple, in the present case three times at the times a , b and c, interrupted. These interruptions occurring before the end of the first filling operation are at the time of the Fig. 4 Extrapolated apparent application of each filled quantity at the first filling to a complete filling. In the interruption marked with a, which has been caused by a quarter of the end value of 1,000, ie at 250 by the valve control unit 7 by driving the valve 6, it has come to a filled amount of 255 until the valve 6 is fully closed. The caster has thus been 5, so that in a shutdown at a final value of 1,000 actually an amount of 1,005 would have been achieved.
  • the actually filled in the other filling operations in the respective container 2 amount of the medium 1 can be further reduced and approximated to the minimum value of 1,000.

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  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
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EP04000135A 2003-02-21 2004-01-07 Verfahren zum Abfüllen eines flüssigen oder schüttbaren Mediums in ein Behältnis Expired - Lifetime EP1449768B1 (de)

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