EP1996467A2 - Unite automatisee de remplissage de flacons par une substance liquide ou semi-liquide pour ligne de fabrication - Google Patents
Unite automatisee de remplissage de flacons par une substance liquide ou semi-liquide pour ligne de fabricationInfo
- Publication number
- EP1996467A2 EP1996467A2 EP07858708A EP07858708A EP1996467A2 EP 1996467 A2 EP1996467 A2 EP 1996467A2 EP 07858708 A EP07858708 A EP 07858708A EP 07858708 A EP07858708 A EP 07858708A EP 1996467 A2 EP1996467 A2 EP 1996467A2
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- station
- filling
- bottle
- bottles
- unit
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- 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
- B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
- B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
- B65B43/54—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
- B65B43/60—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation rotatable
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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
- B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
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- 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
- B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
- B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
- B65B43/54—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
- B65B43/56—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation movable stepwise to position container or receptacle for the reception of successive increments of contents
Definitions
- the invention relates to an automated unit for filling bottles with a liquid or semi-liquid substance for a production line. It has applications in the industrial field repackaging / conditioning and more particularly the bottling of fluid substances including liquid, semi-liquid or gel type. Automated flask filling equipment
- the automated equipment may comprise several stations in which actions take place sequentially such as filling, setting up a pump, a hoop or a hood and then screwing or depression. These sequentially, the longest is the limiting factor of the rate of production. However, it is generally the filling that takes the most time and it is then necessary to use several filling stations used sequentially by the same bottle to increase the rates. We then multiply the problems related to fluid mechanics during these progressive and successive refills of the same bottle.
- EP-0579480 and US-3986320 disclose ampoule filling machines whose rotation is continuous and implementing a conventional filling with possibly specific filling nozzles (lateral injection in particular) to prevent the formation of foams or other problems. filling.
- the present invention provides a device which implements a simultaneous filling of one or more bottles during the progression of the bottles along a packaging line of a liquid or semi-liquid substance.
- the invention relates to an automated unit for filling bottles with a liquid or semi-liquid substance for a packaging line, the bottles arriving via an upstream line one after the other in the unit, the unit comprising a rotating circular honeycomb tray for transporting bottles between functional stations of the unit, the rotation being intermittent to allow action of the stations on each of the bottles, the cells being disposed at the periphery of the plate and being intended to receive and each maintain a vial during transport, a first station being a receiving station of a vial of the vials of the upstream line in one of the cells of the tray and a last station being a vial outlet station to a line of downstream, as well as an intermediate filling station located between the first and the last in the direction of transport.
- the filling station is mobile and synchronously follows the displacement of the plateau on a segment determined from its circular path between two extreme positions, a starting position and an arrival position, and the filling is carried out continuously on a set of bottle (s) whose number is greater than or equal to one during movement between the starting position and the arrival position, the filling station returning to the starting position after filling said vial assembly (s), the filling station including a filler nozzle (s) further movable in vertical translation between two extreme positions, a low position in which the flow end of the spout is in the bottle towards the bottom of said bottle and a high position in which the spout is out of the bottle and the unit comprises means for qu at the beginning of a cycle of the filling station, said filling station is in the starting position and high position then goes into the low position and starts the filling, the beak support (s) progressively ascending during the filling, then after completion of filling the spout support (s) being brought to the high position before the filling station
- the return to the starting position of the filling station is carried out at a mean speed higher than the average speed of displacement of the filling station during filling
- the return to the starting position of the filling station is performed at a speed substantially equal to the average speed of movement of the filling station during filling
- the filling is carried out in parallel and continuously on a set of bottles whose number is greater than one during the movement between the starting position and the arrival position, the number of vials that can be filled in parallel corresponds to half the number of vials that can be in said determined segment at a given moment, (this number therefore corresponds to the number divided by two cells that are in the segment in which can move the filling station),
- the number of flasks that can be filled in parallel is equal to four
- the filling station comprises a single spout and the number of flask (s) that can be filled is equal to one,
- the number of bottle (s) that can be filled is greater than or equal to one
- the filling station is disposed above and towards the inside of the plate and is supported and driven in oscillating rotation between the two extreme positions by a support axis coaxial with the axis of rotation of the plate, the support shaft being driven by a first engine,
- the spout support is driven in vertical displacement by a ball screw connected to a second motor, said second motor being integral with the support axis of the filling station;
- the nozzle support (s) furthermore comprises a neck centering bar
- the support axis rotates at least one spout support
- a closure device is arranged at the end of each spout for opening or closing it
- the filling is flow meter
- the filling is volumetric
- the filling is carried out by vacuum, the filling is carried out under vacuum in the bottle,
- the indexing is made of n cells by multiplying by n each type of functional station
- the functional stations are fixed at the outer periphery of the honeycomb tray,
- the functional stations are fixed at the inner periphery of the honeycomb tray, the unit further comprises, between the first and the last station, at least one of the following functional stations:
- the unit comprises computer means for managing its operation in the form of a programmable logic controller or an industrial PC.
- the unit of the invention allows the continuous filling of the bottles, both stopped in front of each station concerned and during rotation, starting from the bottom of the bottles on an intermittent rotating machine and following the rotation of said flasks.
- FIG. 3 which represents a front view of the filling station of the unit of FIG. 1,
- FIG. 5 which shows a top view of the filling station of the unit of Figure 1.
- the unit 1 of filling which is a member of a fluid conditioning chain in a bottle, is seen from above. It is in the form of a block closed by preferably transparent side walls of safety so that the staff can see the operation of the unit. These opening side walls are provided with opening detectors stopping the operation in case of opening.
- the operation of the unit is controlled by an industrial PC whose control panel 16 is accessible to the outside.
- the vials arrive by an upstream line 2 in the unit and are conveyed to a circular plate 3 indexed 4 by peripheral cells receiving vials 5 of vial for receiving and holding the vials.
- the plate is rotated by a specific motor member (not shown). Only some vial cups have been shown in cells 4 of tray 3.
- the tray 3 rotates in the direction of the arrow (clockwise) in Figure 1 to bring the vials to the post.
- there is a first "receiving" station at the end of the upstream line 2, receiving one by one the flasks at each passage of a cell 4 and its bucket 5 in front of the line d. upstream 2.
- a filling station 6 which will be detailed later.
- downstream positions of the filling station there is: a leveling station 7, then a pump insertion station 8, the mechanism of which has not been represented, then a crimping station 9 of a pump, then a sinking station 10, then a screwing station 11, then a penultimate station which is a checkpoint 12 of broken neck, then a defective vial ejection station to the line of rebus 14 and a last station, ejection station flasks to a downstream line.
- the distribution and type of positions may be different depending on the needs of the packaging chain, some positions may be omitted and / or others added. With the exception of the filling station, the other stations act on one bottle at a time.
- the movement of the plate 3 is circular, this movement is intermittent (indexed for each cell), each bottle having to stop in front of each station to undergo the corresponding action (setting up a pump or a plug, etc.).
- the filling station 6 is extended in an arc of a circle on a certain number of cells, four in this case, of the plate 3 in order to be able to fill in parallel as many (four) bottles while following said bottles along a part of their journey.
- the filling station moves synchronously with the plate between two extreme positions, a starting position and an arrival position, on a sector of the plate.
- the filling station has a swinging movement between its two extreme positions, the (clockwise) movement during the filling being synchronous with the movement of the plate, the filling being done during the journey from the starting position to the position arrival.
- the circle segment in which the filling station moves there is no other downstream station of the filling station and, therefore, the path between the starting position and the finishing position, both included. , is free of any other downstream station.
- the cell of the first said receiving station, 2 (2 ⁇ m ⁇ position) the following one in a clockwise direction, etc. the first downstream station of the filling station, the upgrade station 7 in this case, can only be in 9 (9 ⁇ m ⁇ position), or even further.
- the first "receiving" station is upstream of the segment swept by the filling station.
- the unit shown it is understood that during the rotational operation and the filling of four flasks, four new flasks (which are empty) arrive from the upstream line and come to settle progressively in the corresponding cells, upstream of the filling station. filling that advances.
- a fixed module 15 with a nurse and as many flowmeters as vials to be filled in parallel is disposed substantially opposite the filling station, flexible pipes connecting each nozzle to its flow meter.
- the filling is under pressure of the substance, which allows a high reactivity.
- the invention can thus be implemented with perfumes or in cosmetology.
- a closure device is arranged at the end of each spout to open it (during filling) or close it.
- the closure device may be electrically controlled or, preferably, pneumatically.
- the unit of the invention comprising twenty cells and allowing the simultaneous filling of four bottles, a rate of sixty strokes per minute is possible.
- Figure 2 shows the two motor actuators of the filling station with a first motor 25 which provides synchronous oscillating rotational movement between the starting position and the arrival position for the go with filling and return.
- the filling station comprises a nozzle support 1 8 which is movable in vertical translation between a high position in which the nozzles are out of the bottles and a low position in which the nozzles are in the bottles, to the bottom to start filling.
- the spout holder rises to reduce the distance between the liquid level in the flask and the spout outlet end and limit the spurious phenomena of foam creation, air entrapment or the like.
- the spout support comprises a neck centering bar 21 which therefore follows the movements of the spout support.
- the neck centering bar 21 is slidably mounted to continue to hold the necks of the bottles during part of the upwelling path, the necks being released from the bar 21 only after the end of filling.
- the spouts and the centering bar are arranged in an arc to be in correspondence with the cells 4 which are on the periphery of the plate 3.
- Figures 3 to 5 allow to better visualize the elements of the filling station already presented. It is understood that the invention can be declined in many ways without departing from the scope of the claims. In particular, the number of vials that can be filled in parallel can be increased or decreased.
- the first station, said reception may be in the segment swept by the filling station as shown or more upstream of the segment.
- the first downstream station may be just after the arrival position of the filling station as shown or further downstream.
- the stations actually operational are directly following one another.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR0654972A FR2908759B1 (fr) | 2006-11-17 | 2006-11-17 | Unite automatisee de remplissage de flacons par une substance liquide ou semi-liquide pour ligne de fabrication |
PCT/FR2007/052354 WO2008059181A2 (fr) | 2006-11-17 | 2007-11-16 | Unite automatisee de remplissage de flacons par une substance liquide ou semi-liquide pour ligne de fabrication |
Publications (2)
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EP1996467A2 true EP1996467A2 (fr) | 2008-12-03 |
EP1996467B1 EP1996467B1 (fr) | 2012-08-08 |
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EP07858708A Revoked EP1996467B1 (fr) | 2006-11-17 | 2007-11-16 | Unite automatisee de remplissage de flacons par une substance liquide ou semi-liquide pour ligne de fabrication |
Country Status (4)
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EP (1) | EP1996467B1 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2392899T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2908759B1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO2008059181A2 (fr) |
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EP2944206B2 (fr) † | 2014-05-16 | 2022-03-09 | Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V. | Système pour performer une étape de traitement sur des pièces de cigarette d'une cigarette électronique |
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US2874734A (en) | 1957-04-02 | 1959-02-24 | Gadget Of The Month Club Inc | Automatic container-filler device |
GB1217421A (en) | 1967-01-10 | 1970-12-31 | Helmut Sickel | Method and apparatus for filling and sealing ampoules |
US3986320A (en) | 1973-10-19 | 1976-10-19 | Bausch & Strobel, Maschinenfabrik | Apparatus for filling and sealing ampules |
US4159608A (en) | 1978-04-28 | 1979-07-03 | Package Engineering Corporation | Bottling machine |
EP0166803A1 (fr) | 1984-07-05 | 1986-01-08 | WST Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH | Procédé et dispositif pour le remplissage par le bas d'un récipient |
EP0579480A1 (fr) | 1992-07-14 | 1994-01-19 | Eisai Co., Ltd. | Dispositif de remplissage et de scellement pour ampoules ou similaires et procédé pour commander ce dispositif |
DE4224003A1 (de) | 1992-07-21 | 1994-01-27 | Tetra Pak Gmbh | Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschließen von Fließmittelpackungen |
WO2003039960A1 (fr) | 2001-11-05 | 2003-05-15 | National Instrument, Company, Inc. | Systeme hydraulique avec deplacement fluidique ameliore |
US7011117B1 (en) | 2004-11-15 | 2006-03-14 | Gerald Albert Carpino | Filling valve |
US20060191594A1 (en) | 2000-02-11 | 2006-08-31 | Daniel Py | Device with needle penetrable and laser resealable portion and related method |
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- 2006-11-17 FR FR0654972A patent/FR2908759B1/fr not_active Expired - Fee Related
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- 2007-11-16 WO PCT/FR2007/052354 patent/WO2008059181A2/fr active Application Filing
- 2007-11-16 ES ES07858708T patent/ES2392899T3/es active Active
- 2007-11-16 EP EP07858708A patent/EP1996467B1/fr not_active Revoked
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US2874734A (en) | 1957-04-02 | 1959-02-24 | Gadget Of The Month Club Inc | Automatic container-filler device |
GB1217421A (en) | 1967-01-10 | 1970-12-31 | Helmut Sickel | Method and apparatus for filling and sealing ampoules |
US3986320A (en) | 1973-10-19 | 1976-10-19 | Bausch & Strobel, Maschinenfabrik | Apparatus for filling and sealing ampules |
US4159608A (en) | 1978-04-28 | 1979-07-03 | Package Engineering Corporation | Bottling machine |
EP0166803A1 (fr) | 1984-07-05 | 1986-01-08 | WST Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH | Procédé et dispositif pour le remplissage par le bas d'un récipient |
EP0579480A1 (fr) | 1992-07-14 | 1994-01-19 | Eisai Co., Ltd. | Dispositif de remplissage et de scellement pour ampoules ou similaires et procédé pour commander ce dispositif |
DE4224003A1 (de) | 1992-07-21 | 1994-01-27 | Tetra Pak Gmbh | Vorrichtung zum Füllen und Verschließen von Fließmittelpackungen |
US20060191594A1 (en) | 2000-02-11 | 2006-08-31 | Daniel Py | Device with needle penetrable and laser resealable portion and related method |
WO2003039960A1 (fr) | 2001-11-05 | 2003-05-15 | National Instrument, Company, Inc. | Systeme hydraulique avec deplacement fluidique ameliore |
US7011117B1 (en) | 2004-11-15 | 2006-03-14 | Gerald Albert Carpino | Filling valve |
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EP2944206B2 (fr) † | 2014-05-16 | 2022-03-09 | Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V. | Système pour performer une étape de traitement sur des pièces de cigarette d'une cigarette électronique |
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EP1996467B1 (fr) | 2012-08-08 |
WO2008059181A3 (fr) | 2008-08-07 |
FR2908759B1 (fr) | 2010-04-16 |
ES2392899T3 (es) | 2012-12-14 |
FR2908759A1 (fr) | 2008-05-23 |
WO2008059181A2 (fr) | 2008-05-22 |
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