EP1513761A1 - Vorrichtung zum beseitigen von fremdluft aus einem reinraum - Google Patents
Vorrichtung zum beseitigen von fremdluft aus einem reinraumInfo
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- EP1513761A1 EP1513761A1 EP02795199A EP02795199A EP1513761A1 EP 1513761 A1 EP1513761 A1 EP 1513761A1 EP 02795199 A EP02795199 A EP 02795199A EP 02795199 A EP02795199 A EP 02795199A EP 1513761 A1 EP1513761 A1 EP 1513761A1
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- Prior art keywords
- clean room
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- opening
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
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- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
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- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
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- 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
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- 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
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
- B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a device according to the preamble of claim 1.
- Such devices are used in particular in beverage technology.
- a filling machine e.g. a downstream sealing machine and possibly other machines are arranged in a clean room, the leaks of which are compensated for by the continuous supply of clean gas under a slight excess pressure and which ensures that the beverage can be filled without contamination during the treatment of the containers.
- the contaminants in question here can be bacterial germs which, for example, interfere with sterile beverage filling, since they hinder the longer shelf life of the filled beverage.
- a sterile gas such as sterile air
- sterility can be achieved, for example, by sterile filtering.
- the contaminants can also consist, for example, of undesired foreign gases, such as oxygen.
- oxygen-free i.e. in an oxygen-free one Clean room.
- Nitrogen or CO2 for example, can be used as clean gas for these purposes.
- the contaminants can also consist of introduced dust when it comes to dust-free container filling. These requirements can also occur in combination, for example in the case of bottling beverages, where it is best to work both oxygen-free and germ-free. Sterile filtered CO2 can then be used as the clean gas.
- Leakages occur in the clean room, in particular at the inlet and outlet openings at which the containers are led into and out of the room. These leaks can be compensated by the appropriate supply of clean gas.
- the constant passage of the clean gas through the clean room is intended to ensure that impurities entering the clean room are flushed out again.
- a disadvantage of this known construction is the high consumption of clean gas, which is necessary to eliminate the considerable amounts of external air introduced, and the contacting of the entire clean room with the external air, whereby introduced germs can settle in remote corners, from which they are difficult to flush with clean gas are eliminated.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a generic device with which the removal of the external air introduced through containers can be achieved more economically and thoroughly.
- a separate discharge space is provided in the clean room, which includes the area where the possibly contaminated air escapes from containers. This is primarily the place where containers are filled with filling material, as well as other places where there is a risk of discharge due to drafts, for example.
- the clean room can, for example, encompass the entire container or only its mouth area. If air gets out of the container, e.g. B. when infested, the air gets into the drainage space, from which it is led out into the open with the drain connection from the clean room.
- the opening of the discharge space towards the clean room is provided with gap nozzles which blow off in the plane of the opening and through which clean gas is blown out.
- Clean gas blown out from opposite regions of the opening edge in the plane of the opening hits the container arranged in the opening and is diverted in portions into the discharge space and into the clean room. If there is no container, the gas flows meet and are also directed in portions both into the drainage space and into the cleanroom. Regardless of whether there is a container in the opening or whether the opening is free, a ram flow always forms, which is directed in parts into the drainage space or into the clean room.
- the opening with the ram flow generated by it not only provides the air supply for the drain room and for the clean room, but also serves as an opening for introducing and removing the containers into the drain room. The escape of contaminated air from the drain room into the clean room is definitely avoided.
- the drain room can hold the entire container.
- it advantageously comprises only the upper region of one or more containers, that is to say the region of the container mouth in which the air to be disposed of is produced.
- the drain space for a single treatment station can be bell-shaped for receiving only one container.
- the drainage space can be designed as an elongated tunnel with an opening designed as an elongated slot.
- This tunnel can be arranged in a fixed manner, wherein containers can be arranged in a fixed manner in the tunnel and can be transported, for example, with a movable tunnel piece, for example in the case of multi-lane transport of containers in transverse tracks which are transverse to the transport direction and are each supplied with a tunnel.
- the containers can also be transported in the longitudinal direction through the tunnel, for example with a suitable carrier.
- a suitable carrier can e.g. B., even if the container is not filled here, the escape of external air z. B. can be prevented by drafts.
- a rotary filling machine is arranged, so in the container area having the peripheral area of the drainage space can be formed as a longitudinally divided tunnel, one part of which rotates with the machine and the other part is fixed to the housing of the clean room.
- the two edges of the slot of the tunnel defining the opening to the clean room are provided with slot nozzles which blow against one another.
- the tunnel is divided longitudinally at another point. This can be a gap which can advantageously be used as a drain connection and which enables problem-free rotary connection of a housing part of the clean room rotating with the machine to a stationary housing part of the clean room.
- FIG. 1 shows a section through a clean room with a simple individual container filling machine
- FIG. 3 shows a section corresponding to FIG. 2 through a tunnel-shaped drainage space
- FIG. 5 shows a highly schematic axial sectional view of a rotating filling machine in a clean room
- FIG. 6 shows a section along line 6-6 in FIG. 5,
- Fig. 7 is a section along line 7-7 in Fig. 5 by an outlet star and
- FIG. 8 shows a detail from FIG. 7 in an embodiment variant with a neck collar holder.
- Fig. 1 shows a clean room 1, which is enclosed by a housing 2.
- Containers 3, shown in the form of bottles, are transported on a conveyor belt 4 through the clean room, wherein they enter this at an inlet gate 5 and leave at an outlet gate 6.
- the container 3, which is raised at this point by means not shown, is soaked. The outside air brought in from outside escapes from this and would contaminate the entire clean room 1.
- the clean room through a line 8 clean gas, for. B. sterile air or CO2 and flows out at the gates 5, 6 again, as there with
- a capping machine 31 is arranged downstream of the filling point and closes the containers 3 within the clean room 1 with caps 32.
- a drain chamber 9 is additionally provided, which is arranged in the interior of the clean room 1 and into which the filling pipe 7 opens, and which in the filling position the upper region of the container 3, in the illustrated embodiment the neck region, from above over sums.
- the wall of the drain chamber 9 consists of double walls from the walls 10a, 10b.
- the double wall 10a, 10b comprises the container 3 with a lower opening 11 of the drain space, at which it is connected to the interior of the clean room 1. Otherwise, the double wall 10a, 10b seals the drain space 9.
- the gap space formed between the walls 10a and 10b is connected to the line 8 and is supplied with clean gas which can escape from this gap space at the opening 11 of the discharge space 9.
- the double walls form there 10a, 10b, a slit nozzle A, B which blows out gas in the direction of the plane of the opening 11.
- the gas exiting at A and B hits the container 3 and is deflected in approximately equal proportions upwards into the discharge chamber 9 and downwards into the cleanroom 1.
- the inside of the drain chamber 9 is connected to the outside with a drain connection 12 through the housing 2 of the clean room 1, so that gas is constantly blown out of the drain chamber 9 to the outside.
- the external air escaping from the container 3 when the container 3 is filled with beverage from the filling tube 7 is blown out in this way and does not get into the clean room 1.
- the clean gas flow in the area of the gap nozzle A, B at the opening 11 of the discharge chamber 9 acts as a gas curtain, which blocks the clean room 1 against the entry of external air from the container 3.
- the gas flowing in a portion into the clean room 1 at the opening 11 of the drain chamber 9 can be used to purge it only through the gates 5, 6 or can be supported with a further clean gas supply line to the clean room 1.
- FIG. 1 and 2 show a drain chamber 9 which only comprises one container 3, the opening 11 of which, as shown in FIG. 2, is round and thus has a self-contained edge. Nevertheless, the gap nozzle formed around the edge is provided with the two reference symbols A, B in order to clarify its opposite blowing effect and to facilitate comparison with the other embodiments.
- 3 shows in a sectional view, using the same reference numerals as far as possible, a construction of the discharge space 9, which is not, like in FIGS. 1 and 2, cup-shaped round for receiving only one container 3, but elongated for receiving several containers arranged in a row 3, as shown in FIG. 3.
- a section along line 4-4 is shown in Fig. 4.
- the drain chamber 9 is arranged in the interior of the clean room 1, not shown here.
- the opening 11 of the tunnel-shaped elongated discharge space 9 is provided in this embodiment as an elongated slot, from the edges of which, with the slot nozzles A, B, the clean gas supplied to the annular space between the double walls 10a and 10b is blown off into the plane of the opening 11, as is the case with this is shown in Fig. 3 with arrows.
- the cross section according to FIG. 4 shows a point of the tunnel-shaped drainage space 9, at which no container is in the opening 11. It can be seen that here, too, the gas flowing against one another is deflected in portions into the discharge space 9 and outwards into the clean room, forming a ram flow.
- the containers 3 can be transported by the tunnel-shaped construction of Figures 3 and 4 in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 3, z. B. with a transporter, not shown, arranged below this tunnel.
- Locking plates 13 can be provided between the containers, which protrude from below through the opening 11 into the drainage space 9 and block it essentially transversely and which are transported with the containers 3. Carry-over of foreign air between the containers 3 can thereby be reduced.
- Air entrainment between the containers can also be reduced by designing the drain connection 12 not as a tube at one location of the elongated tunnel, but rather as an elongated slot that extends the length of the tunnel. Of the one that forms the opening Slit 17 coming clean air thus flows through the tunnel cross-section and extends essentially transversely to the tunnel axis to the drain connection 12. This further reduces cross-carryover between the containers.
- an elongated tunnel shown in Fig. 3 can also accommodate a series of bottles, e.g. treated at the same time, for example filled.
- a tunnel piece corresponding to the embodiment of FIG. 3 is assigned to each such row of bottles, which is movably transported with the rows in the conveying direction.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 in turn show a clean room 1 enclosed by a housing 2, which, however, accommodates a rotating filling machine of an otherwise conventional design.
- the filling machine rotates about a vertical shaft 14, which carries a rotating central base part 15 and cover part 16 of the housing 2.
- base part 15 and cover part 16 are each roughly sealed with a gap seal 17 on their circumference against fixed base and cover parts 18, 19 of the housing 2.
- the containers 3 stand on plates 20, which are supported on the rotating bottom part 15, as shown.
- a discharge space 9 is provided around the circumference of the shaft 14, which in the radial section of FIG. 6 basically corresponds to the embodiment of FIGS. 3, 4, but is designed to be curved around the circumference of the machine.
- the double walls 10a, 10b are designed here in exactly the same way as in the embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 4, but on the one hand the tunnel is on the long stretched slit-shaped opening 11 and on the other longitudinally divided at the upper gap seal 17, so that the outer double wall 10a2, 10b2 is attached to the stationary housing 2, while the inner double wall lOal, lObl sits on the rotating cover part 16, that is to say is arranged all round the machine.
- the intermediate space between the moving inner double walls lOal and lObl is supplied with clean gas from the shaft 14 having the corresponding supply lines via a line 21 and the outer double walls 10a2 and 10b2 via a stationary line 22 coming from outside.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 A comparison with the explanations for FIGS. 3 and 4 shows that in the exemplary embodiment in FIGS. 5 and 6 the gas flow directed from the gap at the gap nozzles A, B from the sides into the elongated slot-shaped opening 11 with one component upwards blows the drain chamber 9 and with one component down into the clean room 1.
- the respectively blown gas escapes from the drain chamber 9 as well as from the clean room 1 through the gap seals 17, the upper gap seal 17 on the drain chamber 9 being a drain connection similar to the drain connection 12 in Figures 1 and 4.
- gas escapes from the clean room 1 through the inlet and outlet gates 5, 6 (Fig. 5).
- filling tubes 7 arranged centrally above the plates 20, which are connected to suitable feeds in the shaft 14 and spoke in their radial part in the form of spokes are arranged as shown in dashed lines in Fig. 5.
- the containers 3 After rotating around the rotating filling machine, the containers 3 leave the clean room 1 after being deflected around a rotating star 24, which is shown in section in FIG. 7, through an outlet gate 6.
- the star 24 is arranged within the housing 2 of the clean room 1 between its fixed base part 18 and cover part 19 and is driven synchronously with the rotating filling machine via a shaft 25 which is vertical.
- a star wheel 26 fastened to the shaft 25 holds the containers 3 in pockets 27. Any external circumferential railings provided for holding the containers in the pockets and slide plates arranged under the containers are omitted for the sake of simplifying the drawing.
- the star 24 is also provided with a drain chamber 9, which is connected to the outside via a drain connection 12, in accordance with the previously described embodiments.
- a rotating double disk 28a, 28b is provided above the star wheel 26 and within the upper neck regions of the container 3, which is supplied with clean gas via a feed line 29 through the shaft 25 and forms a gap nozzle B at its edge.
- Another gap nozzle A is stationary and ring-shaped from the illustrated double bell 29a, 29b, runs around the upper part of the container 3 at the level of the double disc 28a, 28b and is supplied with clean gas via a stationary line 30.
- the opening 11 formed as a circumferential slot is formed, in which again the same flow conditions are present as explained with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.
- Clean gas flows both upwards into the discharge chamber 9 and downwards into the clean room 1, so that the contamination of the clean room by air escaping from the container 3 is also prevented in the area of the star 24.
- This is particularly advantageous if the machine shown in FIG. 5 runs in a different direction, that is to say the containers 3 filled with unclean air are fed to the clean room 1 via the star 24, or if the clean room is larger than that shown in FIG. 5 a plurality of rotating machines are arranged one behind the other, for example a rotating filling machine and a rotating closing machine, which are connected via such a star.
- the containers shown as bottles 3 in the figures can be the plastic bottles with a neck collar which are customary today and which are preferably held by the neck according to the prior art (neck handling). They can be held there with pliers or with simple U-shaped neck holders that fit under the neck collar.
- FIG. 8 shows a section of the area on the right in FIG. 7, but in an embodiment variant in which a neck collar bottle 3 'under its collar 40 with a U-shaped holder 41 is held.
- the star wheel 26 shown in FIG. 7 can then be omitted.
- Holders 41 are then to be attached to the rotating disk 28b in a suitable position in place of the pockets 27 (FIG. 7).
- Such a mounting of the bottles can also be provided in the construction of FIG. 6.
- the holders 41 can then be attached to the wall 10b in a suitable position.
- the gap nozzles A and B blow towards one another exactly in the plane of the opening 11 of the discharge space 9. As is shown, for example, in FIG. 4, this results in a symmetrical ram flow, which feeds clean gas in equal parts into the discharge space 9 and into the clean space 1.
- the gap nozzles A and B directed towards one another exactly in the plane of the opening 11 at a slight angle to the discharge chamber 9 or to the clean room 1. If, for example, according to FIG. 4, the nozzles A and B were oriented slightly obliquely downwards, this would result in a slightly asymmetrical flow pattern between the nozzles, which promotes a larger proportion downwards, ie into the clean room 1. Conversely, the nozzles A, B could also be directed slightly upwards, so that they direct a stronger flow into the discharge space 9.
- the ratio of the gas streams can also be influenced by the flow resistances which arise for the gas streams on the way through the discharge space 9 to the outside or through the clean room 1 to the outside.
- the cross section of the drain connection 12 can be changed are to change their flow resistance in relation to the Stromlings resistance of the inlet and outlet gates 5, 6 to change.
- the drain chamber 9 is open with its opening 11 towards the clean room 1.
- the bottles 3 shown are therefore inserted with their opening upwards through the opening 11 into the drain chamber 9.
- the drain space 9 can also be arranged with its opening 11 to the side or upwards, so that the bottles 3 would be inserted with their neck from the side or from above.
- Such an arrangement can e.g. be of advantage if the bottles come directly from a rinser in a hanging arrangement.
- the gap nozzles A, B are in each case on the edges of double walls 10a, 10b; 28a, 28b; 29a, 29b are formed, through which the clean gas emerging at the gap nozzles is supplied.
- the housing enclosing the drain space 9 is largely double-walled.
- the housing of the discharge space 9 can also be single-walled and the double-walled structure required to form a gap nozzle can be limited to the immediate area of the gap nozzles A, B. It can be positioned along the edges of the opening 11 e.g. a pipe connected to the clean gas supply can be laid, which is open with a longitudinal slot, which forms the gap nozzle.
- the container 3 only projects into the drain chamber 9 with its upper mouth region, but with its remaining part stands outside of this chamber in the clean room 1.
- the drainage chamber can, in an embodiment not shown, also immerse the container further in the drain space or bring it completely into it.
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| PCT/EP2002/014301 WO2003106322A1 (de) | 2002-06-14 | 2002-12-16 | Vorrichtung zum beseitigen von fremdluft aus einem reinraum |
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