EP1647488B1 - Maschine für Verpacken der Produkte in einem geschützten Klima - Google Patents

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EP1647488B1
EP1647488B1 EP05021918A EP05021918A EP1647488B1 EP 1647488 B1 EP1647488 B1 EP 1647488B1 EP 05021918 A EP05021918 A EP 05021918A EP 05021918 A EP05021918 A EP 05021918A EP 1647488 B1 EP1647488 B1 EP 1647488B1
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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
    • B67C7/00—Concurrent cleaning, filling, and closing of bottles; Processes or devices for at least two of these operations
    • B67C7/0073—Sterilising, aseptic filling and closing
    • 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
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/027—Packaging in aseptic chambers

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  • the present invention relates to packaging of products in a protected environment.
  • the invention relates to a machine for filling and closing bottles or similar containers in a protected, sterile environment with high purification level.
  • a machine is known e.g. from GB 1 522 654 .
  • Such products are packaged in environments formed by chambers, which are kept constantly sterile and without contaminating particles, or at least keeping the presence of these particles within the prefixed limits, which depend on the requirements of the product to be packaged.
  • sterile chambers can be obtained by apparatuses, which allow their sterilization, particular absolute filters (HEPA filters - High Efficiency Particulate Air), purifying the air introduced into the environment, as well as the controlled paths for the operators entrance and exit.
  • absolute filters HEPA filters - High Efficiency Particulate Air
  • the packaging machines working in such environments must be sterilizable and the operation means for feeding the product, transporting the containers and packaging the product must be produced with particular materials and techniques.
  • the power means for the above mentioned operation means which could likewise release dust or other contaminating substances, must be entirely sealed, so as to be isolated from the sterile and purified operation environment.
  • the packaging machines working therein must be much more reliable than the average, since each failure, requiring maintenance technician's intervention, causes almost inevitably, the necessity to sterilize and purify again the whole sterile chamber and its contents.
  • the machines are usually obtained by assembling work stations and transport devices designed separately and then joined together, as it occurs generally with the packaging machines for products, which do not require the above mentioned safety measures.
  • the flow of air circulating inside the isolated environments must be as laminar as possible, so as to avoid the creation of turbulence, which could raise the residue particles, which are anyway present in some areas of the packaging machine, and thus could contaminate the packaged product.
  • the main object of the present invention is to propose a structure of machine for packaging products in a sterile and/or pure environment, which wholly fulfills the above specified needs.
  • Another object of the present invention is to propose a packaging machine, in which the operating devices are easily accessible for maintenance and fault repairing operations and do not contaminate the sterile or clean area.
  • a further object of the present invention is to propose a packaging machine, which is particularly compact and accessible.
  • the reference numeral 100 indicates the whole of a machine for packaging products into relative containers 1, obtained according to a first embodiment of the invention.
  • the machine 100 is particularly suitable for filling and closing containers 1, e.g. bottles, with products, which must be packaged in sterile environment, substantially free of particulate contaminating agents, such as some pharmaceutical products.
  • the machine 100 includes a plurality of work stations, situated one after another.
  • the machine 100 includes a station 10 for preparing containers 1, e.g. washing station, aimed at cleaning the containers 1 of all potential contaminating agents.
  • the above agents are usually powders and residues of the processing, which the containers have undergone previously.
  • a sterilization and cooling station 20, situated downstream of the preparation station 10, is aimed at receiving the containers 1, already cleaned but not yet sterilized, in order to heat sterilize them and to prepare them for subsequent filling operations.
  • the sterilization and cooling station 20 includes a heat sterilization tunnel 21, connected upstream to the washing station 10, and a containers 1 cooling area, following the tunnel 21 and including substantially a closed environment, which consists of a moving belt 22 and a device of absolute filtering and of cooling air circulation.
  • the belt 22 is aimed at conveying the containers 1, substantially in bulk, to an inlet aperture 3 of a controlled atmosphere chamber 50, with an operation rate such as to allow the cooling up to temperatures compatible with the product to be packaged.
  • the above mentioned chamber 50 according to the first embodiment is at 90° with respect to the washing station 10 and the sterilization station 20.
  • the chamber 50 is aimed at receiving a filling station 30 and a closing station 40 of the containers 1, where the containers cannot get in contact with contaminating agents, both particulate (powder) or biological (microorganisms).
  • the chamber 50 is particularly shaped in such a way, as to assure, first, that the contaminating agents do not penetrate thereinside from the outer environment, and second, that there are no accumulations of residues, even minimal, of the above mentioned contaminating agents (with the subsequent proliferation thereof in case of microorganisms), which possibly manage to penetrate into the chamber.
  • the chamber 50 is defined by a bottom wall 51, an upper wall 52, a lateral outer wall 53, a front wall 54, a back wall 55, and a lateral, inner, airtight wall 56.
  • the latter is made in one body with the filling station 30 and the closing station 40, longitudinal and lateral thereto, and is aimed at isolating the above mentioned work stations from the respective operating means 60.
  • the operating means 60 are situated in a longitudinal space 61 of the packaging machine 100, adjacent to the chamber 50 and separated therefrom by the lateral, inner wall 56.
  • the operating means 60 are properly connected to the respective work stations, by airtight passages, made in the lateral, inner wall 56.
  • the flow generating means 70 situated in a position corresponding to the upper wall 52, are aimed at generating a flow of purified air, substantially laminar, directed to the bottom 51 of the chamber 50, and involving the filling station 30 and the closing station 40.
  • the flow generating means 70 include, arranged according to known techniques, fans and HEPA filters of a class suitable to the purification required for the chamber 50, which depends on the requirements of the product to be packaged.
  • the fans are aimed at withdrawing air from the outside environment, as well as from a re-circulation conduit 80, in prefixed proportions.
  • the re-circulation conduit 80 extends from an aperture 81, made in the bottom wall 51, in the lower part of the packaging machine 100, then along an ascender section, made outside the space 61, up to an inlet 72, made in the flow generating means 70.
  • the aperture 81 extends preferably in the bottom wall 51, for most of the longitudinal extension of the chamber 50, and possibly along the whole extension thereof.
  • the lateral, inner wall 56 is particularly shaped to convey the laminar flow 71 from the upper part of the chamber 50, through the filling station 30 and the closing station 40, toward the bottom of the chamber 50, offering a minimum resistance to the feeding of the flow and thus minimizing the generation of turbulent motions.
  • the lateral, inner wall 56 includes a lower section 56a, substantially vertical, which extends from the bottom wall 51 and defines a minimum width of the chamber 50.
  • An intermediate section 56b extends oblique from the lower section 56a, so as to widen gradually the chamber 50 in a region corresponding to the work stations 30, 40.
  • An upper section 56c extends vertically from the end of the intermediate section 56b up to the upper wall 51.
  • the above described conformation of the lateral, inner wall 56 allows advantageously to house the operating means 60 of the work stations 30, 40, which are contained in the chamber 50, in the space 61, immediately below the intermediate section 56b of the 56.
  • the preparation station 10 and the sterilization and cooling station 20 of the packaging machine 100 are aligned with the subsequent filling station 30 and the closing station 40.
  • Such a configuration functionally identical to the one described in the first embodiment, allows a reduction of the width of the packaging machine 100, increasing its total length.
  • the inlet aperture 3 for the sterilized containers is wider, thus it allows a better flow of the sterilized containers from the sterilization and cooling station 20 to the filling station 30.
  • the chamber 50 includes also, for merely constructive reasons, a lateral, inner wall 156 shaped differently.
  • the lateral, inner wall 156 includes also an upper section 156c, divided in two different parts, first 157 and second 158, substantially vertical and mutually staggered, so as to further widen the upper part of the chamber 50.
  • the first part 157 and the second part 158 are connected by a substantially horizontal plate 159.
  • the filling station 30 includes an inlet belt 31, aimed at receiving the containers 1 in bulk, coming from the cooling station 20 through the inlet aperture 3.
  • Feeding means 32, 33 are situated downstream of the belt 31 for withdrawing single containers and feeding them orderly.
  • FIGS 1 and 5 show feeding means 32, which include a linear screw conveyor of prefixed pitch.
  • the packaging machine 100 includes feeding means 33, which are a carrousel feeder, having seats 33a, situated along its edge at a prefixed pitch.
  • An endless conveyor 34 having a plurality of seats 34a, arranged with the same pitch as the above mentioned feeding means 32, 33, is situated subsequent thereto, and is operated in step relation therewith, to receive therefrom the containers 1 and to bring the latter below a linear filling device 36, of tracking type, and then near the closing station 40.
  • the machine includes also transferring means 35, situated immediately downstream of the conveyor 34 for transferring the containers 1 to the closing station 40 in a prefixed sequence.
  • the transferring means include in particular a group of carrousel conveyors 35a, 35b, arranged one after the other and operated to rotate in step relation with the conveyor 34 feeding.
  • the closing station 40 includes a cap applying device, with a carrousel, operated continuously and in step relation with the already briefly described means of the filling station 30.
  • the closing station includes a screw conveyor 42 for withdrawing the containers 1 from the filling station.

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  1. Verpackungsmaschine für die Verpackung von Produkten in Behälter (1) in einer geschützten Umgebung, wobei die Maschine eine Anzahl von zugeordneten Arbeitsstationen umfaßt, eine Station (10) für die Vorbereitung der besagten Behälter (1), eine Station (20) für ihre Sterilisation und Kühlung, eine Station (30) für die Befüllung der Behälter und eine Station (40) für das Verschließen der Behälter,
    wobei zumindest die besagte Station (30) für die Befüllung der Behälter und die Station (40) für das Verschließen der Behälter eine nach der anderen in einer Kammer (50) mit einer kontrollierten Umgebung angeordnet sind, wobei die besagte Kammer (50) durch eine untere Wand (51), eine obere Wand (52), eine seitliche äußere Wand (53), Vorder- (54) und Rück- (55) Wände und durch eine seitliche innere luftdichte Wand (56, 156) gebildet wird, die in Längsrichtung und seitlich in Bezug auf die Station (30) für die Befüllung der Behälter und die Station (40) für das Verschließen der Behälter angeordnet sind, um sie von den zugeordneten Handhabungsmitteln (60) zu isolieren, die mechanisch durch luftdichte Passagen in der seitlichen inneren Wand (56, 156) mit den zugeordneten Arbeitsstationen verbunden sind, wobei in der besagten oberen Wand (52) Mittel (70) zur Erzeugung einer Strömung vorgesehen sind, um die Erzeugung und Filterung eines laminaren Luftstromes (71) zu gewährleisten, der auf die besagte untere Wand (51) gerichtet ist und der wenigstens die besagte Station (30) für die Befüllung der Behälter und die Station (40) für das Verschließen der Behälter beaufschlagt, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die seitliche innere Wand (56) der besagten Kammer (50) einen im wesentlichen vertikalen unteren Bereich (56a) umfaßt, der sich von der besagten unteren Wand (51) aus erstreckt, einen schrägen mittleren Bereich (56b), der sich von dem besagten unteren Bereich (56a) aus erstreckt, um allmählich die Kammer (50) in einen Bereich zu erweitern, der den besagten Arbeitsstationen (30, 40) zugeordnet ist, und einen im wesentlichen vertikalen oberen Bereich (56c, 156c), der sich von dem besagten mittleren Bereich (56b) aus bis zur besagten oberen Wand (57) erstreckt.
  2. Verpackungsmaschine gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der obere Bereich (156c) sich in zwei getrennte Teile gliedert, einen ersten Teil (157) und einen zweiten Teil (158), die im wesentlichen vertikal und gegeneinander versetzt angeordnet sind, um auf diese Weise den oben Bereich der Kammer (50) noch mehr zu erweitern, wobei der besagte erste Teil (157) und der zweite Teil (158) durch eine im wesentlichen horizontale Platte (159) miteinander verbunden sind.
  3. Verpackungsmaschine gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie wenigstens eine Rückführleitung (80) für die gereinigte Luft, die durch die besagten Mittel (70) zur Erzeugung einer Strömung in den besagten luftdichten Raum (50) eingeleitet wird, aufweist, die sich von einer Blendenöffnung (81) in der besagten unteren Wand (51) aus zu einem Einlaß (72) der Mittel (70) zur Erzeugung einer Strömung erstreckt, wobei die besagte Rückführleitung wenigstens einen Teil des Luftstromes, der sich im Umlauf innerhalb der Kammer (50) befindet, zum Einlaß der besagten Mittel (70) zur Erzeugung einer Strömung zurück führt.
  4. Verpackungsmaschine gemäß Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die besagte Rückführleitung (80) sich im wesentlichen entlang der gesamten Länge der besagten luftdichten Kammer (50) erstreckt.
  5. Verpackungsmaschine gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der besagte laminare Luftstrom (71) innerhalb der Kammer (50) einen Überdruck in Bezug auf die äußere Umgebung aufweist.
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