EP1958893B1 - Behälter vom Trichtertyp mit mindestens einem hervorstehenden Element aus seinem Innenumfang - Google Patents

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EP1958893B1
EP1958893B1 EP08101278A EP08101278A EP1958893B1 EP 1958893 B1 EP1958893 B1 EP 1958893B1 EP 08101278 A EP08101278 A EP 08101278A EP 08101278 A EP08101278 A EP 08101278A EP 1958893 B1 EP1958893 B1 EP 1958893B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/26—Hoppers, i.e. containers having funnel-shaped discharge sections
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/54—Large containers characterised by means facilitating filling or emptying
    • B65D88/64—Large containers characterised by means facilitating filling or emptying preventing bridge formation
    • B65D88/66—Large containers characterised by means facilitating filling or emptying preventing bridge formation using vibrating or knocking devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/22—Safety features
    • B65D90/46—Arrangements for carrying off, or preventing the formation of electrostatic charges

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  • the present invention relates generally to the field of manufacturing containers (especially bottles, flasks or the like) of thermoplastic material, such as PET, by blowing or stretch-blow molding preforms and, more specifically, it concerns improvements to tanks, the hopper type, storage and distribution of preforms which are located at the entrance of the feed devices of the manufacturing facilities of such containers. Even more specifically, the invention relates to the storage and distribution of tubular preforms, that is to say preforms of generally cylindrical and elongate shape, the length of the body is generally greater than the diameter (for example example: three or four times higher).
  • the preforms are dumped in bulk in a hopper-type tank before feeding preform blow-molding plants.
  • the preforms are liable to deteriorate due to shocks that may occur between two preforms or a preform against the inner periphery of the tank, these shocks may result in snags, splinters or cracks in the preform, hence the improper manufacture of containers blown from these preforms.
  • shocks are also likely to lead to wear on the flanges of the preforms.
  • any damage to the collar is likely to cause poor transport of the preform and is likely to result in a blockage of the blowing installation.
  • the preforms located in the lower part of this tank undergo a relatively large weight load from the weight of all the preforms located on these preforms at the bottom.
  • the preforms are made of plastic, another problem with the storage of preforms arises from the fact that they charge static electricity because of their friction against each other. The presence of this static electricity results in an attraction of dust on the preforms which stick to it, as well as in a mutual attraction of the preforms which thus stick to each other, which is likely to result in the formation of vaults. inside the tank, and thus a blockage of the evacuation of the preforms out of the tank.
  • the present invention proposes to solve the problems related to the prior art, with the aid of a tank making it possible to reduce the deterioration of solid bodies during their dumping in bulk in the tank, to reduce the weight load on the bodies solids in the lower part of the tank, to reduce the electrical charges of the stored solid bodies and to reduce the risk of vault formations inside the tank.
  • the present invention relates to a tank of the hopper type for the storage and distribution of solid bodies, the tank having a wall on the inner face of which is fixed a plurality of obstacle members located in different planes forming a mesh inside the reservoir, each obstacle member being of substantially elongate and stretched main general shape extending across the interior volume of the reservoir between two locations of the internal face of the tank wall, the reservoir having at least one least a first set of obstacle members placed in a first direction in a first plane and at least a second set of obstacle members placed in a second direction, different from the first direction, in a second plane, this grace to which the fall of solid bodies dumped in bulk in the upper part of the tank is slowed down.
  • the obstacle member or at the least one hindrance member is electrically conductive and is electrically connected to the earth.
  • the reservoir has a plurality of obstacle members located in planes parallel to each other.
  • the obstacle member or at least one obstacle member is removably attached to the inner face of the tank wall.
  • the document DE 103 54 551 A1 discloses a tank for bulk product which has shackles arranged above its bottom. However, these obstacle members are all directed in the same direction so that an obstacle member located in a lower plane is located in the middle of the space between two adjacent hindlimb members belonging to an immediately higher plane. . Such an arrangement, however, does not have optimum efficiency with a risk of jamming of bulk products such as preforms between the obstacle members located in successive planes.
  • the document DE 195 36 549 A1 discloses a tank for bulk product, especially for granules of synthetic material, which is equipped with impeding members which are specifically designed in the spirit of treating granular products or the like, in order to divide the granular flow into two channels above the lower outlet chute.
  • Such an arrangement has nothing to do with a bulk product such as preforms, to preserve the physical integrity of said preforms.
  • the present invention proposes to solve the problems related to the prior art, using a tank to reduce the deterioration of solid bodies during their bulk discharge into the tank, to reduce the weight load undergone by the solid bodies in the lower part of the tank, to reduce the electrical charges of the stored solid bodies and to reduce the risk of vault formation inside the tank.
  • the present invention relates to a tank of the hopper type for the storage and distribution of solid bodies, the tank having a wall on the inner face of which is fixed a plurality of obstacle members located in different planes forming a mesh inside the reservoir, each obstacle member being of substantially elongate and stretched general main shape extending across the interior of the reservoir between two locations of the inner face of the tank wall, characterized in that it has at least a first set of obstacle members placed in a first direction in a first plane and at least a second set of obstacle members placed in a second direction, different from the first direction, in a second direction plan, thanks to which the fall of solid bodies dumped in bulk in the upper part of the tank is slowed down.
  • the reservoir has a plurality of obstacle members located in planes parallel to each other.
  • the obstacle member or at least one obstacle member is removably attached to the inner face of the tank wall.
  • the obstacle member or at least one obstacle member is able to be vibrated using means of vibration.
  • the static electricity charge of the hollow bodies is reduced.
  • the obstacle member is a tubular member or a rope or a chain or a bar or a cable or a braided member.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a tank 1, hopper type, for the storage and distribution of solid bodies, preferably for preforms.
  • a tank 1 hopper type, for the storage and distribution of solid bodies, preferably for preforms.
  • the principle of the invention applies to any solid body capable of being dumped in bulk in a tank by its upper part to be subsequently stored and distributed through a lower opening 2 at the lower part of the tank 1, the invention is more particularly described for the storage of preforms, containers, hollow bodies or bottles.
  • a hopper is a truncated and inverted quadrangular pyramidal shaped tank.
  • the basic principle of the invention applies to any form of tank, and not only of truncated and inverted quadrangular pyramid shape, but also of cone-shaped shape. , or partially cone-shaped.
  • the tank 1 has a wall 3 on the inner face of which is fixed at least one generally general shape of dragging member 4 substantially elongated and stretched across the inner volume of the tank 1, thanks to which the fall of solid bodies dumped in bulk in the upper part of tank 1 is slowed down.
  • the obstacle member 4 extends between two locations of the inner face of the wall 3, although it is also possible that the obstacle member 4 may also be supported only on a single location of the inner face of the wall 3 of the tank 1, the member 4 then being cantilevered.
  • the reservoir 1 has a plurality of barriers 4 forming a mesh inside the tank 1, the mesh being of sufficient size to allow the solid bodies poured through.
  • the obstacle member 4 is removably attached to the inner face of the wall 3, by any means of removable attachment of a type known per se, by example by means of attachment or screwing.
  • the reservoir 1 has a succession of obstacle members 4 located in different planes, and even more preferably, a succession of obstacle members 4 located in parallel planes relative to each other.
  • the tank 1 may have at least a first set of obstacle members 4 placed in a first direction in a first plane and at least a second set of obstacle members 4 placed in a second direction, different from the first direction, in a second plane.
  • the different shackles 4 are oriented in different directions and are therefore not all parallel to each other.
  • the vector direction defined by the obstacle members 4 of the first set is not parallel to the vector direction defined by the obstacle members 4 of the second set, these two vector directions then intersecting punctually. It is therefore possible to produce a first set of obstacle members 4 which intermesh with a second set of obstacles 4 members.
  • the first and second directions are substantially perpendicular to one another.
  • the reservoir 1 has a quadrangular main body with two pairs of opposing walls 6-9, parallel in pairs; a first pair of walls 6, 7 parallel being connected by a plurality of obstacle members 4, substantially parallel to each other, while the second pair of parallel opposed walls 8, 9 is connected by a plurality of obstacle members 4, substantially parallel to each other; to others.
  • the obstacle member 4 or at least one obstacle member 4 is able to be vibrated by means of vibration.
  • the vibration means which are of any type known per se, are provided fixed either on the inner face of the wall 3 of the tank 1, or on the outer face of the wall 3.
  • the obstacle member 4 or at least one obstacle member 4 is electrically conductive and is electrically connected to the earth.
  • the obstacle member 4, or at least one obstacle member 4 is a tubular member or a rope or a chain or a bar or a cable or a braided member.
  • the obstacle members 4 are a) rigid members, which are then cantilevered or connecting two locations of the inner face of the tank 1, b) or flexible members and therefore necessarily connecting two locations of the inner face of the tank 1.
  • the rigid locking members 4 are either bars or bars, tubular or not, hollow or not.
  • the flexible restraining members 4 are either ropes, cables, braids, etc.
  • a combination of members 4 some being in the form of a chain, others of a rope others may be able to be vibrated, and so on.
  • the plurality of members 4 hindrance inside the internal volume of the tank 1 are not necessarily all identical and do not necessarily have all the same characteristics.

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  • Filling Or Emptying Of Bunkers, Hoppers, And Tanks (AREA)
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  1. Trichterartiger Behälter (1) zur Lagerung und Verteilung von festen Körpern, wobei der Behälter eine Wand (3) aufweist, an deren Innenseite eine Vielzahl von Hinderniselementen (4) befestigt ist, die in verschiedenen Ebenen angeordnet sind und im Inneren des Behälters (1) ein Netzwerk bilden, wobei jedes Hinderniselement (4) eine im Wesentlichen längliche und gestreckte allgemeine Hauptform aufweist und sich quer über den Innenraum des Behälters erstreckt, wobei sich das Hinderniselement (4) zwischen zwei Stellen der Innenseite der Wand (3) des Behälters (1) erstreckt, wobei der Behälter mindestens eine erste Gruppe von Hinderniselementen (4) aufweist, die entlang einer ersten Richtung in einer ersten Ebene angeordnet sind, und mindestens eine zweite Gruppe von Hinderniselementen (4), die entlang einer sich von der ersten Richtung unterscheidenden zweiten Richtung in einer zweiten Ebene angeordnet sind, wodurch der Fall von im oberen Teil des Behälters (1) lose ausgeschütteten festen Körpern verlangsamt wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens ein Hinderniselement (4) elektrisch leitend und geerdet ist.
  2. Trichterartiger Behälter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er eine Vielzahl von Hinderniselementen (4) aufweist, die in Ebenen angeordnet sind, die parallel zueinander verlaufen.
  3. Trichterartiger Behälter nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens ein Hinderniselement (4) abnehmbar an der Innenseite der Wand (3) des Behälters (1) befestigt ist.
  4. Trichterartiger Behälter nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens ein Hinderniselement (4) mithilfe von Schwingungsmitteln in Schwingungen versetzt werden kann.
  5. Trichterartiger Behälter nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens ein Hinderniselement (4) ein röhrenförmiges Element oder ein Seil oder eine Kette oder ein Stab oder ein Kabel oder ein geflochtenes Element ist.
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