EP1731231B1 - Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles - Google Patents

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EP1731231B1
EP1731231B1 EP06010576A EP06010576A EP1731231B1 EP 1731231 B1 EP1731231 B1 EP 1731231B1 EP 06010576 A EP06010576 A EP 06010576A EP 06010576 A EP06010576 A EP 06010576A EP 1731231 B1 EP1731231 B1 EP 1731231B1
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Klaus Jendrichowski
Ulrich Wiedemann
Falk Dittrich
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/04—Cleaning involving contact with liquid
    • B08B3/10—Cleaning involving contact with liquid with additional treatment of the liquid or of the object being cleaned, e.g. by heat, by electricity or by vibration
    • B08B3/14—Removing waste, e.g. labels, from cleaning liquid; Regenerating cleaning liquids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/083—Removing scrap from containers, e.g. removing labels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
    • B08B9/28—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking
    • B08B9/30—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking and having conveyors

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  • the invention relates to a bottle washing machine with a plurality of consecutively arranged in the passage direction treatment departments, consisting of pre-soaking baths, Laugebädern, spray stations and the like., Which are passed through in bottles cells or other transport systems bottles, as well as with the individual baths cooperating devices for removing labels.
  • Cleaning machines of this type for reusable containers such as bottles and the like have in addition to the actual cleaning of these containers the task of equipment, such as labels and the like. Safely detach during the cleaning process, especially at the end of the suds zone.
  • the bottles equipped with labels are acted upon after a certain pre-soaking time by means of spray nozzles or gushing devices.
  • the bottles are guided in their receiving cells looped through the machine, wherein in each case in the lower region of the loops of Laugebades troughs are arranged, in which the dissolved labels are rinsed by an overlying Spitz station.
  • a reliable label removal is not always guaranteed, especially as parts of labels get stuck in the area of the chain guides and entrained in the subsequent baths ( DE-OS 39 34 797 ).
  • Another known device is to provide only one main flow channel which prevents edge flows of the circulated liquid outside the actual cell openings and causes whirling labels regardless of their position in the actual flow channel, the flow of the circulated liquid from below upwards and preferably impulsively to act on the respective cell openings guided over.
  • the device provided for this purpose has immediately above the cell carrier in the lower region of the suction only a transverse to the direction of movement of the cells opening whose active width corresponds at least to the diameter of a cell opening.
  • the specifically directed flow requires a very high pump capacity.
  • the desired effect can be ensured only up to a certain throughput speed of the receiving cells within such a bath area. If the throughput is to be increased, the individual cells move too fast over the transverse opening, so that the pulse-like currents can not reach their full effect.
  • the novelty is now the object of improving such label removal systems and by special measures to relieve the subsequent treatment zones targeted in advance.
  • This problem underlying the innovation is achieved in a bottle cleaning machine with a plurality of successively arranged in the flow direction treatment stations according to the preamble of claim 1, that in a immediately following the bottle task pre-soak a first active device for label removal is arranged with a targeted flow.
  • this flow can be directed, for example, from top to bottom.
  • the level within this pre-soaking bath is expediently set above the upper opening end sides of the bottle cells passing through the negative amplitude of the cell guide, and an active flow is provided for discharging the labels from top to bottom.
  • FIG. 1 illustrated cleaning machine is shown as Einendmaschine.
  • bottle feed 1 and bottle delivery 2 are located on the same front side of a cleaning machine housing 3.
  • bottle carriers with bottle cells 4 are fastened to circulating chains 5.
  • the chains lead the bottle cells 4 with the bottles therein through the individual treatment departments. They consist in preferably of a pre-softening zone 6 with subsequent Laugebädern 7, the only partially represented different main spray and Nachspritzzonen 8 follow.
  • the pre-softening zone 6 according to the embodiment in FIG. 1 from two in the direction of movement according to arrow 9 consecutively located pre-soaking baths 10, 11, the liquid level 12 may be equal in height or different set.
  • a residual liquid collecting channel 13 is arranged, in which the residual liquid discharging from the bottles is collected and disposed of separately, for example by evaporation, thickening or the like.
  • the liquid of the pre-soaking baths 10, 11 is supplied to these from non-illustrated leaching spray stations through a first line 14, the container 15 and an overflow weir 16. From the first pre-soaking bath 10, the liquid is partly used for flow control in this bath by pumping and partially fed with prior treatment to the wastewater.
  • the bottles After passing through a drip-free zone, the bottles reach a deflection region 18 with injection device 19 for pressurizing the interior of the bottle and a dripping zone with a collection channel 20 to the second pre-softening bath 11 and then further into the alkaline baths 7 for further treatment.
  • the bottle feed 1 and the bottle delivery 2 are arranged on the opposite end faces of the housing 3.
  • FIG. 1 designated components provided they are also in FIG. 2 contain or are appropriately trained, reference is made to the same numbers.
  • the in the FIG. 2 shown double-end cleaning machine is equipped in the embodiment shown only with a pre-soak 10.
  • a first active device for label removal is arranged in the bottle feed 1 immediately preceding pre-soak 10.
  • the level or liquid level 12 within the pre-soaking bath 10 preferably extends above the negative end 21 of the cell curve guide 22 passing upper opening end faces 23 of the bottle cells, wherein the active flow for deriving labels from top to bottom.
  • a suitable flow guiding device is formed, for example, from a spraying and suction device 24, which may be preceded by a label filter 25 with a corresponding label-discharging device in the suctioning region.
  • a siphon-like guide channel 26 is formed below the pre-soaking bath 10, the end of which runs in the region of the filling level of the labeling and rest-collecting basin 27.
  • the active flow is in this case carried out at least partially by pumping circulating liquid contained in the label and residual drainage tank 27 through the injection and suction 24. It can also be done depending on the design and height allocation by the resulting level difference between the pre-soak 10 and the pool 27 ,
  • the basin 27 can be designed as an additional collection and circulation basin for subsequent tip stations 19 or overflow facilities or partially available.
  • a nozzle device 40 serves to completely separate further labels from the bottles. Because the effectiveness of a jet of liquid within ambient air is greater than when this jet of liquid is within a liquid environment would be the one in FIG. 2 shown formation of the nozzle device 40 as a so-called Kochlauge-Schwallung particularly advantageous. It is also of particular advantage to design the injection direction of the nozzle device substantially in the direction of gravity.
  • the supply of liquid to the nozzle device 40 can be effected, for example, by the injection and suction device 24, or else via a further device.

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  1. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles avec plusieurs compartiments de traitement disposés les uns derrière les autres dans le sens de passage, se composant de bains de prétrempage, de bains de lessive, de postes de pulvérisation et similaires, qui sont traversés de bouteilles logées dans des cellules de bouteilles ou autres systèmes de transport, ainsi que des dispositifs coagissant avec les bains individuels pour le retrait des étiquettes, caractérisée en ce qu'un premier dispositif actif pour le retrait des étiquettes doté d'un écoulement de liquide dirigé de manière ciblée est prévu dans au moins un bain de prétrempage (10) suivant la pose des bouteilles (1).
  2. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que l'écoulement de liquide dirigé de manière ciblée est dirigé de haut en bas.
  3. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le premier dispositif actif pour le retrait des étiquettes doté d'un écoulement de liquide dirigé de manière ciblée est disposé dans un bain de prétrempage (10) suivant directement la pose des bouteilles (1).
  4. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le niveau de remplissage (12) dans ce bain de prétrempage (10) est réglé au-dessus des côtés frontaux d'ouverture, passant l'amplitude négative du guidage courbe des cellules, des cellules de bouteilles (4) et un écoulement actif est prévu pour la dérivation des étiquettes de haut en bas.
  5. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'un dispositif de guidage d'écoulement est prévu, lequel est composé d'un dispositif de pulvérisation et d'aspiration et en amont duquel un filtre d'étiquette (25) est monté dans la zone d'aspiration.
  6. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'un canal de guidage (26) de type siphon est réalisé sous le bain de prétrempage (10), dont l'extrémité s'étend dans la zone du niveau de remplissage (12) d'un bassin d'écoulement d'étiquettes et de reste (27).
  7. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que l'écoulement de liquide actif est effectué au moins en partie par recyclage par pompage du liquide en circulation se trouvant dans le bassin d'écoulement d'étiquettes et de reste (27).
  8. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le bassin d'écoulement d'étiquettes et de reste (27) est réalisé comme un bassin collecteur et/ou de circulation supplémentaire pour au moins des postes de pulvérisation (19) suivants.
  9. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'un groupe de buses de prétrempage (17) est disposé en amont de ce premier bain de prétrempage (10) pour l'alimentation en liquide des bouteilles introduites par la pose de bouteilles (1).
  10. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que l'écoulement actif est effectué au moins en partie par la différence de niveau entre le bain de prétrempage (10) et le bassin d'écoulement d'étiquettes et de reste (27).
  11. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'un autre dispositif de buse (40) est disposé à la suite d'au moins un bain de prétrempage (27).
  12. Machine de nettoyage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'au moins un bain de prétrempage (10) est alimenté par les eaux usées de la pulvérisation d'eau douce.
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