EP1954622B1 - Dispositif d'alimentation en bouchons d'une machine de bouchage de recipients - Google Patents

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EP1954622B1
EP1954622B1 EP06831177A EP06831177A EP1954622B1 EP 1954622 B1 EP1954622 B1 EP 1954622B1 EP 06831177 A EP06831177 A EP 06831177A EP 06831177 A EP06831177 A EP 06831177A EP 1954622 B1 EP1954622 B1 EP 1954622B1
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Olivier Alix
Eric Adriansens
Pascal Molusson
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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
    • B67B1/03—Pretreatment of stoppers, e.g. cleaning, steaming, heating, impregnating or coating; Applying resilient rings to stoppers
    • 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
    • B67B1/005—Feeding stoppers
    • 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
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/06—Feeding caps to capping heads

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  • the present invention relates to a device for supplying plugs of a container sealing machine.
  • plug within the meaning of the present invention, is meant any device that can be applied to a container to seal it: thus, the invention can be applied to screw caps, plugs to force position, to metal or plastic capsules, or else to opercules to stick or heat seal on the containers.
  • the caps of the containers are packaged in plastic bags and sterilized by means of sterilizing radiation. It is in this packaged form that they are received by the container filler or by their manufacturer when it is also a filler.
  • the filler must therefore extract the sterile caps from the bags to feed the container capping machine, making sure that the corks remain sterile during extraction, while taking into account that the outer wall of the bag has probably been contaminated during the extraction process. his transport. Indeed, the caps are placed on the containers in a sterile atmosphere.
  • a device for supplying plugs, previously arranged in bags which device comprises a tunnel or airlock having an open end, namely the entrance of the airlock, and a closed end, namely the bottom of the lock where is a sterile area.
  • a mechanical conveyor for example a treadmill, passes through the airlock so that the bags of plugs can be routed from the non-sterile exterior of the tunnel to the sterile zone.
  • the closed end, and therefore the bottom of the airlock is further provided with a chute for evacuating the plugs towards the container sealing machine.
  • the airlock is furthermore equipped with means of sterilization of the conveyed bags allowing sending jets of sterilizing liquid to sterilize the outer casing.
  • the chute is also a sterile area.
  • a problem with this device lies in the fact that it is difficult to ensure that the bottom of the chamber, from which plugs are extracted, remains perfectly sterile. Indeed, the conveyor can bring there stains carried by its mechanics. In addition, sterilization in the airlock can never guarantee that all the sides of the bags are subjected to the action of the sterilizing agent jets and that no dirty particles enter the airlock and reach the sterile zone. In particular, since the bags rest on the conveyor, their contact area with the conveyor may not be perfectly sterilized.
  • EP-A-0 095 971 discloses a plug feeding device of a container capping machine, of the type described in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the object of the invention is to propose a device for feeding corks to a container capping machine which minimizes the risk of contamination of the sterile atmosphere in which the corks are placed on the containers.
  • the subject of the invention is a device for supplying plugs of a plugging machine for containers of the aforementioned type, characterized by the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • a feeder according to the invention may further have one or more of the features of claims 2 to 10.
  • the device represented on the figure 1 is designated by the general reference 10.
  • the device 10 comprises an airlock 12 for passage of at least one bag 14, containing sterilized plugs, between a non-sterile external environment 16 and a sterile zone 18 where the plugs are extracted from each bag 14. It also comprises discharge of the plugs from the sterile zone 18 to a machine 22 for blocking containers, by means of a device for arranging the plugs 24. It should be noted that the capping machine 22 can be combined with a filling machine, or even with a machine for manufacturing the containers to be closed.
  • the airlock 12 comprises an enclosure 26 defining two chambers, one of the chambers delimiting an intermediate zone 28 and the other chamber delimiting the sterile zone 18.
  • the enclosure 26 consists of an envelope 30 external boundary defining a closed space, and a wall 32 extending into the wrapped 30. The wall 32 and separates the two chambers.
  • the envelope 30 has a rectangular horizontal section and thus has four sides, supplemented by a ceiling and a floor (not shown).
  • the wall 32 extends vertically between two opposite sides of the envelope, perpendicular to them.
  • the wall 32 comprises passage means 34 of the bag or bags 14 from the intermediate zone 28 to the sterile zone 18.
  • the wall 32 comprises, in its center, a movable portion 36 rotatably mounted about a vertical axis 38, able to pivot on itself about 180 ° alternately in one direction and in the opposite direction.
  • the vertical axis 38 is located in the middle of the wall 32.
  • the movable portion 36 is bordered laterally on each side by two fixed portions 40 of the wall 32 which overlap the adjacent edge of the movable portion 36. This overlap improves the insulation between the intermediate zone 28 and the sterile zone 18.
  • the overlap mode is such that it allows a sterile air leakage from the sterile zone 18 to the intermediate zone 28 when the first is at overpressure relative to the second.
  • Each face of the movable portion 36 is provided with receiving means 42 by hooking the bag or bags 14 of caps, allowing the suspension of the latter.
  • the receiving means 42 are hooks intended to cooperate with openings previously formed dance bags 14.
  • the movable portion 36 of the wall 32 can move the receiving means 42, and therefore the bags 14, from the intermediate zone 28 to the sterile zone 18.
  • the movable portion 36 can move the receiving means 42 from the sterile zone 18 to the intermediate zone 28.
  • the envelope 30 is provided with means of introduction 44 of the bag or bags 14 in the intermediate zone 32.
  • These means 44 are for example constituted by openings arranged on one side of the envelope 30 facing the wall 32.
  • the airlock 12 is also provided with sterilization means 46 of the intermediate zone 28.
  • the sterilization means 46 comprise nozzles carried by the envelope 30, able to send jets of sterilizing liquid into the intermediate zone 28.
  • the sterilization means 46 are arranged to sterilize the bag or bags 14 during their passage in the intermediate zone 28.
  • the nozzles are distributed over the ceiling and the floor so that the jets of sterilizing liquid can reach the entire external surface bags 14. Some of the nozzles can also be used to inject rinse aid.
  • complementary sterilization means for example also in the form of nozzles, may be in the sterile zone 18, to facilitate the maintenance of the latter under sterile conditions.
  • the airlock 12 also comprises gloves 48 integrated in the side of the envelope 30 opposite the introduction means 44 and for handling the bags 14 located in the sterile zone 18, in particular to extract the plugs.
  • the stopper discharge means 20 comprises a first closed chute 20A, in which the plugs are conveyed in bulk from the sterile zone 18 to the ordering device 24, also closed. This arranging device 24 is intended to order the plugs in single file.
  • the evacuation means 20 then comprise a second trough 20B, also closed, in which the plugs are routed in single file from the ordering device 24 to a zone 50 for capping the containers in the capping machine 22. The fact that the chutes 20A and 20B are closed ensures continuity of sterility.
  • This closure zone 50 is sterile and maintained at a relative pressure of about 25 Pa.
  • the closure of the troughs 20A and 20B isolates the plugs conveyed from the external environment 16.
  • the zone 50 of closure is in communication with the sterile zone through the evacuation means 20, whose passage section is small.
  • Means 52 associated with the enclosure 26 are also provided and arranged to maintain a pressure in the sterile zone 18 greater than the pressure in the intermediate zone 28, so as to ensure the permanent maintenance of the sterility of the sterile zone 18.
  • These means are for example constituted by an air extraction pump of the intermediate zone 28.
  • the two sterile zones 18 and capping 50 share the same atmosphere, but with a lower pressure in the sterile zone 18, between 5 and 15 Pa, resulting from pressure losses along the evacuation means 20 and leaks through the wall 32.
  • the method comprises a first step 100 for opening the openings of the introduction means 44. It continues with a step 200 of introduction, symbolized by arrows on the figure 2 , consisting of introducing the bag or bags 14 containing plugs in the intermediate zone 28. During this step, the bags 14 are suspended from the receiving means 42 on the side of the wall 32 facing the opening means of introduction 44 When the openings are open, the pump constituting the means 52 able to maintain a pressure in the sterile zone 18 greater than the pressure in the intermediate zone 28 operates at a constant speed, so as to ensure a slight depression of the intermediate zone 28 by relation to the sterile zone 18.
  • an isolation step 300 the openings are closed in order to isolate the intermediate zone 28 from both the external environment 16 and the sterile zone 18.
  • the process then comprises figure 3 ) a sterilization step 400 consisting in sterilizing the intermediate zone 28 in which the bag or bags 14 are located. Because the bags 14 are suspended in suspension and thanks to the positioning of the nozzles of the sterilization means 46, it is possible to sterilize and if necessary rinsing all of their surface and in particular their lower part intended to be disemboweled, which is impossible with the known devices of the prior art.
  • the bags 14 which are suspended from the attachment means on the other side of the wall 32, thus in the sterile zone 18, after being sterilized during a prior passage in the intermediate zone 28, are disemboweled in a step 500 by operators using the gloves 48.
  • the plugs contained in the bags 14 pour into the chute 20A and are discharged from the sterile zone 18 to the ordering device 24, and then to the zone 50 for capping the capping machine 22.
  • the process continues with a step 600 of passage of passing the sterilized bag or bags 14 from the intermediate zone 28 to the sterile zone 18.
  • the movable portion 36 of the wall 32 is pivoted in this direction in the appropriate direction of rotation. around the vertical axis 38 to turn around.
  • the pump operates in a controlled manner to force a flow of air from the sterile zone 18 to the intermediate zone 28.
  • This circulation is made possible in the configuration of the figure 3 by the presence of air leaks between the fixed and mobile parts of the wall 32.
  • step 700 the doors are opened during a step 700.
  • the bags emptied in step 500 are exchanged with new bags full in a step 800.
  • the device 10 is then again in the illustrated configuration on the figure 2 , and is ready to realize a new cycle of operation.
  • FIG 6 shows a second embodiment of the invention.
  • elements similar to those of the preceding figures are designated by identical references.
  • the airlock 12 comprises an enclosure 26 of hexagonal horizontal section.
  • the airlock 12 also comprises a carousel 60 circular mobile in rotation about a vertical axis 38 located in the center of the enclosure 26.
  • the carousel 60 comprises six walls 62 each extending from the center of the carousel 60 to its periphery and delimiting six sectors of equal size in the carousel 60.
  • the enclosure 26 comprises fixed walls 64 extending from the corners of the carousel 60. the enclosure 26, that is to say the edges 65 on each side of the hexagon, to the carousel 60.
  • the fixed walls 64 of the enclosure and the walls 62 of the carousel 60 are intended to complement each other. aligning to define in the chamber 26 six zones, namely a sterile zone 18, an intermediate zone 28, a loading zone 68, two transition zones 70, hermetically sealed from each other for specific angular positions of the carousel.
  • the carousel 60 comprises, in each sector, means for receiving bags (not shown) similar to those of the first embodiment of the invention.
  • the enclosure has an open side, through which the bags 14 can be loaded onto the carousel 60 in the loading area 68.
  • the rotation of the carousel 60 is thus adapted to pass the bags 14 from the loading area 68 to another zone, called intermediate zone 28, comprising means for sterilization 46 of the bags 14, then to another zone called sterile zone 18, where the bags can be opened by manual means (as in the first embodiment) ) or automatic so that the plugs are discharged into discharge means 20.
  • the sterilization means 46 and the discharge means 20 are identical to those of the previous embodiment.
  • transition zone 70 located between the intermediate zone 28 and the sterile zone 18 is adapted to allow the drying of the bags 14.
  • the carousel 60 thus constitutes the equivalent of the passage means 34 and the insertion means 44 of the previous embodiment.
  • plug feeding devices according to the invention ensure the sterility of the sterile area and sterilize the entire outer surface of the bags before opening.

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EP06831177A 2005-11-30 2006-11-27 Dispositif d'alimentation en bouchons d'une machine de bouchage de recipients Not-in-force EP1954622B1 (fr)

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