EP2183182A1 - Füllelement und verfahren zur sauerstoffarmen füllung grossvolumiger behälter mit einem flüssigen füllgut - Google Patents
Füllelement und verfahren zur sauerstoffarmen füllung grossvolumiger behälter mit einem flüssigen füllgutInfo
- Publication number
- EP2183182A1 EP2183182A1 EP08774007A EP08774007A EP2183182A1 EP 2183182 A1 EP2183182 A1 EP 2183182A1 EP 08774007 A EP08774007 A EP 08774007A EP 08774007 A EP08774007 A EP 08774007A EP 2183182 A1 EP2183182 A1 EP 2183182A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- container
- flushing pipe
- filling
- filling element
- oxygen
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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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
- B67C3/06—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure
- B67C3/10—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure preliminary filling with inert gases, e.g. carbon dioxide
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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
- B67C3/22—Details
- B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
- B67C2003/2668—Means for adapting the filling head to various sizes of containers
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a filling element according to the preamble of claim 1.
- a method is the subject of claim 10.
- Advantageous developments are specified in the subclaims.
- the oxygen contained in the ambient air when it is absorbed by the liquid, negatively affect it in terms of durability, color, usefulness, wholesomeness and / or taste.
- These measures include, for example, to rinse the interior of the container to be filled before the actual filling process, for example, several times with an oxygen-free or oxygen-poor process gas to remove the ambient air present there, and thus also the atmospheric oxygen contained in it from the containers.
- the container interior For rinsing the container interior itself, several methods have been known so far. For example, the container interior is repeatedly subjected to negative pressure, and then again by supplying an oxygen-free Process gas, such as CO2, brought back to a higher pressure, which ultimately the oxygen content in the container interior is significantly reduced.
- an oxygen-free Process gas such as CO2
- a so-called flushing pipe is first introduced into the container. Subsequently, an oxygen-free process gas, for example also CO2, is introduced into the container through this flushing pipe, which displaces the ambient air inside the container from the container. It may also come to act on the container with a slight underpressure or overpressure, the corresponding pressures are matched to the low stability of the container.
- an oxygen-free process gas for example also CO2
- Such a device is known, for example, from the applicant's own patent EP 1 216 952 B1.
- the apparatus presented in this document operates as follows:
- the flushing pipe arranged centrally with respect to the filling element axis is moved into the upper region of the container and charged with oxygen-free process gas.
- the oxygen-free process gas flowing out of the flushing pipe flows after leaving the flushing pipe approximately in the direction of the container bottom and displaces the gas present in the container, for example ambient air, in the direction of the container mouth, where it can escape from the container through a gas path provided there.
- the filling material is rotated by a swirl body disposed within the fluid path, whereby centrifugal forces arise, which move or direct the contents to the inner wall of the container, thereby forming a, applied to the container inner wall, flowing into the container liquid film.
- the liquid valve is closed.
- a disadvantage of such a method is, inter alia, the large surface, which has the liquid flowing down to the container inner wall, as could be absorbed by this large surface possibly still within the container existing oxygen. The larger the free surface area and the greater the exposure time, the greater the amount of oxygen possibly absorbed by the inflowing liquid.
- the low insertion depth of the flushing pipe is disadvantageous since the oxygen-free process gas flows into the middle of the existing, oxygen-containing gas, as a result of which optimal and loss-free gas exchange does not succeed.
- the object and purpose of the present invention is to avoid the deficiencies and disadvantages presented above.
- the invention proposes a filling element, which on the one hand enables a free-jet or full jet filling, and on the other hand, an improved rinsing process even in unstable, especially very bulky containers, such as existing plastic material KEGs allowed.
- Essential elements of a filling element according to the invention consist in the spatially separated arrangement of wash pipe 4 and Golfgutstrahl and in a movable wash pipe with a very large adjustment.
- Figure 2 also in a simplified sectional view, an inventive filling element (2), in which the flushing pipe (4) is in a parking position.
- a movable element which receives or forms a controlled or uncontrolled gas path, via which a gaseous medium can be introduced into the interior of the container 1.
- Oxygen-free process gas
- This term is to be understood as meaning a gas which has no or only so little
- Amounts of oxygen or oxygen that binds contains no harmful effects on the product to be filled beyond a permissible level.
- FIG. 1 shows a filling element 2 according to the invention with container 1 in sealing position with respect to it at the time of rinsing.
- the first to be rinsed and then to be filled container 1 is in sealing position with the filling element 2, wherein the container 1 is preferably but not necessarily held on a neck ring.
- the liquid valve 3 is closed.
- the flushing pipe 4 is retracted into the container 1, and is in the working position.
- the provided within the filling element 2 gas path 5 is open and connected, for example, with an outlet or a Gassenke.
- Oxygen-free process gas for example CO 2
- the flushing pipe 4 ends immediately above the container bottom, so that the oxygen-free process gas directly strikes the container bottom, and thus one, starting from the container bottom, in the direction of the gas path 5 directed gas flow or rinsing movement generated, which displaces the oxygen-containing gas located in the container 1 as completely as possible and without turbulence from the container.
- the flushing pipe 4 is preferably designed such that the retraction and extension of the flushing pipe 4 is moved solely by the pressure or the flow forces of the media flowing into or out of the container.
- FIG. 2 shows a filling process of another, smaller container 1.
- the liquid valve 3 is opened, so that the contents can flow into the container 1.
- the flushing pipe 4 is in its parking position, whereby it is completely removed from the region of the inflowing into the container 1 filling.
- the filling material thus flows as a full jet with the smallest possible surface in the container.
- the flushing pipe 4 Since the flushing pipe 4 is completely removable from the region of the Gregutstrahles, can be dispensed with in addition to the usual hitherto, the filling material to the container inner wall directing swirler, whereby the most uniform and laminar inflow of the filling material in the container 1 is additionally supported.
- the gas contained in the container 1 and displaced by the inflowing filling material escapes through a gas path 5 provided inside the filling element.
- both a vertical or substantially vertical arrangement of the Spipporohres 4, as well as a vertical exit of the Artgutstrahles to allow, for example, is alternatively provided to form the liquid channel 8 such that the liquid valve 3 is outside the axis of the medium flowing into the container 1 Medgutstrahles.
- the invention provides, the flushing pipe 4, and its recording form such that the immersion depth and / or the inclination of the Spülrohres 4 controlled or regulated running or can be changed.
- an element for limiting the path for example a locking bolt 6, may be provided. If the locking pin is activated, the flushing pipe 4 is stopped during the process from the parking position into the working position by this locking pin 6, whereby the flushing pipe 4 is not completely retracts into the container 1, which allows the treatment of smaller containers.
- flushing pipe 4 it is also possible to measure, influence or limit the movement of the flushing pipe 4 by suitable means, such as linear drives, position measuring systems and / or active movement members.
- suitable means such as linear drives, position measuring systems and / or active movement members.
- Further elements are, for example, hydraulic or pneumatic motion drives or movement threads.
- means are provided according to the invention which hold the flushing pipe 4 securely in its parking position.
- These means may be, for example, a magnetically or electromagnetically acting holding device 7.
- flushing pipe 4 it is also possible, for example, to provide an inclined position of the filling material jet instead of an inclined position of the flushing pipe 4. By such a configuration, it is possible to retract the flushing pipe 4 always in the immediate vicinity of the container bottom in the container 1. It is also made possible that flushing pipe 4 to arrange centrally, or substantially centrally to the container axis, which favors the formation of a particularly uniform gas movement to flush the container 1. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS
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- Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
- Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
- Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
- Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
Abstract
Description
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Priority Applications (2)
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PL08774007T PL2183182T3 (pl) | 2007-08-24 | 2008-07-17 | Element napełniający i sposób ubogiego w tlen napełniania wielkoobjętościowych pojemników płynnym produktem napełnianym |
SI200830885T SI2183182T1 (sl) | 2007-08-24 | 2008-07-17 | Polnilni element in postopek za polnjenje z malo kisika velikovolumenskih posod s tekočim materialom za polnjenje |
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DE102007040262A DE102007040262A1 (de) | 2007-08-24 | 2007-08-24 | Füllelement und Verfahren zur sauerstoffarmen Füllung großvolumiger Behälter mit einem flüssigen Füllgut |
PCT/EP2008/005826 WO2009026993A1 (de) | 2007-08-24 | 2008-07-17 | Füllelement und verfahren zur sauerstoffarmen füllung grossvolumiger behälter mit einem flüssigen füllgut |
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EP2183182A1 true EP2183182A1 (de) | 2010-05-12 |
EP2183182B1 EP2183182B1 (de) | 2012-12-26 |
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US (1) | US9181074B2 (de) |
EP (1) | EP2183182B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JP2010536670A (de) |
DE (1) | DE102007040262A1 (de) |
PL (1) | PL2183182T3 (de) |
SI (1) | SI2183182T1 (de) |
WO (1) | WO2009026993A1 (de) |
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DE102013107256A1 (de) * | 2013-07-09 | 2015-01-15 | Khs Gmbh | Füllsystem sowie Verfahren zum Behandeln von Behältern mit einem Prozessgas |
DE102013107573A1 (de) | 2013-07-16 | 2015-01-22 | Khs Gmbh | Füllelement sowie Füllmaschine mit einem solchen Füllelement |
RU2749532C1 (ru) * | 2020-11-23 | 2021-06-11 | Артем Александрович Горелов | Способ розлива газированных напитков |
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