EP2265542A1 - Dispositif servant à remplir des récipients - Google Patents

Dispositif servant à remplir des récipients

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EP2265542A1
EP2265542A1 EP09731388A EP09731388A EP2265542A1 EP 2265542 A1 EP2265542 A1 EP 2265542A1 EP 09731388 A EP09731388 A EP 09731388A EP 09731388 A EP09731388 A EP 09731388A EP 2265542 A1 EP2265542 A1 EP 2265542A1
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containers
filling space
transport
filling
lock
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EP2265542B1 (fr
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Roland Laumer
Johann Justl
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Krones AG
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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
    • B67C7/00—Concurrent cleaning, filling, and closing of bottles; Processes or devices for at least two of these operations
    • B67C7/0073—Sterilising, aseptic filling and closing

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  • the present invention relates to a device for filling containers.
  • Such devices are known in the art.
  • a plurality of filling members is provided, which move with a Transportinrichtuncf and thereby fill it during the continuous movement of the containers.
  • aseptic filling plants in which the filling of the containers takes place in a sterile room.
  • a container treatment machine is known.
  • a carrying device which carries an aggregate and a plurality of treatment stations, is arranged above the treatment stations of the aggregate.
  • DE 199 22 873 A1 discloses a device for introducing and / or discharging containers in or out of a treatment room.
  • outer and inner Sternrradcrue are provided and gripping and holding devices for the containers.
  • DE 198 16 239 A1 describes a device for inserting or removing containers into or out of a treatment room.
  • open lock chambers are provided to the outside, wherein a lock wheel is provided with grippers operable directly by the containers and / or indirectly by a control device, which temporarily fixes the containers in the lock chambers.
  • a Getränkeab dichllvorraum is known. This has a stationary filling member in a container engaging the part of the filling member and the standing in filling container surrounding acted upon by the inert gas treatment chamber, in which space the container can be fed through an opening. Furthermore, a Einschleusraum is provided, through which the opening to the outside and the treatment room can be shut off via lock gates.
  • the sterilization of the containers and closures to be filled takes place first and then the previously sterilized product of a closed sterile environment, the so-called clean room, is filled.
  • the containers are sealed under aseptic conditions.
  • the present invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a device for filling containers with liquids available, which is inexpensive to manufacture and allows easy operation. This is achieved according to the invention by devices and methods according to the independent claims. Advantageous embodiments and further developments are the subject of the dependent claims.
  • An inventive device for filling containers has a transport device which transports a plurality of containers through a filling space, wherein the filling space is preferably a sterile room. Furthermore, a plurality of treatment bodies arranged in the filling space are provided, which treat the containers, wherein at least one of these treatment organs is a filling member, which fills the containers with the liquid.
  • the transport device is designed such that it cyclically transports the containers through the filling space.
  • filling space is meant that space through which the containers are guided and within which they are filled with liquid.
  • the liquid may be a beverage, but it would also be possible to bottle medicines or other pharmaceutical products.
  • a sterile room is understood to mean that the filling space is insulated in particular from the outside environment.
  • a housing is provided around the filling space, which seals it. According to the invention, it is thus proposed, not, as in the prior art, to move the containers in a continuous motion but in a timed motion.
  • the treatment members are at least partially stationary.
  • other treatment organs are preferably provided in addition to the filling organs, such as organs, which close the containers with a closure organs, which make a sterilization of the containers and the like. Due to the stationary arrangement of the filling organs and preferably also other treatment organs, the device is simplified in its entirety, since, for example, no additional rotary seals must be provided and in this way the sealing effort can be reduced. Also can be dispensed in this way on rotary distributor.
  • the apparatus has a further transport unit, which at least and preferably indirectly transfers containers to the transport unit and also at least indirectly and preferably indirectly takes over containers from the transport device.
  • This can be a transfer wheel, which preferably introduces the containers via a lock device in the uterine space or into the filling space.
  • a transport unit is provided, which transfers both empty containers to the device or the transport device, as well as filled and sealed containers of this transport device takes over. In this way it is possible to provide only one access to the transport device, via which both containers are introduced and executed.
  • a lock device is provided which takes both empty containers from the further transport unit and transfers them to the first transport device, as well as filled and closed containers from the first transport device and to the others Transports unit.
  • the first transport device has a transport wheel which conveys the containers at least in sections on a circular path.
  • a transport device is also referred to as a rotary machine in the following. The containers are transported with this device so clocked on a circular path.
  • the transport unit preferably has a closure device which prevents the entry of air into the filling space.
  • the containers are introduced into the lock chamber and then transferred to the transport device.
  • a combined in / out star is used to convey the containers to and from the transport.
  • the lock device is located within the filling space and thus in a clean room.
  • the lock device is a rotatable lock device.
  • the containers are preferably introduced into the lock device and subsequently rotated about an axis of rotation of the lock device. there preferably follows the rotation of the containers in the lock device clocked. In this way, a transfer or acceptance of the containers to or from the transport device is facilitated.
  • the lock device has at least one gripping element for gripping the containers, wherein this gripping element is arranged displaceable both along a straight direction and pivotally.
  • the further transport unit has an even number of gripper elements for gripping the containers.
  • two or four such gripping elements are provided.
  • a gripping element or each first gripping element is used to pass an empty and unlocked container to the transport device and the second or a second gripping element is used to take over the filled and sealed containers from the transport device.
  • the gripping elements are active gripping elements. This means that the gripping elements can close themselves to grab a container, in particular at its bottleneck.
  • the lock device takes over an empty container from an inlet star by a linear slide of the lock device extends.
  • a pneumatically driven transfer or the gripping element closes
  • the linear slide After swiveling the lock by 180 °, the linear slide extends again and the empty container is transferred to the corresponding gripping device of the transport device already driven into position.
  • the device has a central support, on which essentially all treatment organs of the device or their working elements are arranged.
  • work elements are understood, for example, the elements of a capper, the filling organs, elements for rinsing the containers, elements for the internal disinfection of the containers and the like.
  • the arrangement of these elements on a central support overall facilitates the accessibility of the device and the maintenance.
  • the central support is a lid closing the filling space.
  • the working elements of the device are arranged hanging on this cover. In this way, an internal sterilization of the device is facilitated.
  • the device has a multiplicity of liquid distribution devices arranged in the interior of the filling space.
  • a CIP (clean in process) system is installed for cleaning and disinfecting the filling space.
  • a plurality of individually controllable nozzles are distributed in the interior of the filling space. These make it possible to clean the entire filling space.
  • the piping of this cleaning system is preferably such designed so that when a venting of the system, all pipes run independently empty.
  • RotationsssprühkÜ be used ie spray heads which deliver the cleaning liquid in the circumferential direction preferably under rotation.
  • the piping for this internal cleaning is preferably arranged on the above-mentioned cover or carrier.
  • a closing device is arranged in the interior of the filling space in order to close the containers with closures.
  • a sterilized cap must be carried on the closure cone of the vessel.
  • a drive of the closing device is arranged outside the filling space.
  • the mechanism and the drive are arranged freely accessible outside of the filling space and only the exchangeable sealing cone, which then turns the closures on the containers, is arranged in the interior of the filling space.
  • a separation of this Verökopfes is performed here.
  • the closing device has a pivoting arm, which pivots the closure.
  • an object is to convey the screw caps from a closure rail in the cone of the closure unit.
  • the closure should not be touched or held by its internal thread, otherwise there is again the risk of contamination. After disinfecting the closures, they slide into a rail. Subsequently, the swivel arm performs a pivoting movement to the end of this rail, where a closure is already arranged. The swivel arm receives this closure and then pivots back over the cone of the closure member.
  • the enkchwenkarm is lowered and raised in its entirety.
  • the swivel arm in addition to its pivoting movement also performs a vertical movement up and down.
  • the shutter is clamped in the above-mentioned cone, then the swivel arm lowers again and a new cycle begins.
  • the enkchwenkarm is arranged on a shaft and this shaft is surrounded in its circumferential direction by a bellows.
  • the swivel arm performs both a pivoting movement and a lifting or lowering movement. In order to achieve in this way the seal against the filling space of the mentioned bellows is provided, which simultaneously assumes this isolation.
  • the present invention is further directed to a method for filling containers with liquids, wherein the containers are transported by means of a transport device through a sterile filling space and be treated within this preferably sterile filling chamber with a plurality of arranged in the filling space treatment organs, wherein at least one of these treatment organs is a filling member which fills the containers with the liquid.
  • the containers are cyclically transported through the filling space.
  • the treatment room is preferably a sterile room
  • the transport device is at the same time supplied to an empty container at the same time and a full container is removed from the transport device.
  • both filled and unfilled containers are simultaneously transported on a transport unit for the containers, also referred to as feed and discharge unit.
  • this is a feed or discharge star, at the same time both filled and thus sealed containers as well as unfilled, ie to be filled containers are arranged.
  • the containers are preferably transferred via a lock device from the transport unit to the first transport device.
  • This lock device prevents air from entering the filling space and vice versa can also be prevented from leaking from the interior of the filling space existing aggressive gases such as hydrogen peroxide.
  • the lock device is suitable both for receiving the filled containers and for receiving the unfilled containers.
  • Fig.l an overall view of a device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows a lock device for the device of Fig.l
  • FIG 4 shows the lock device of Figure 3 in the acquisition of containers from the further transport device.
  • Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the apparatus of Fig. 1 illustrating different workstations;
  • FIG. 6 shows a view for illustrating a piping for the device
  • FIG. 7 shows a representation to illustrate the transport of the containers
  • FIG. 8 shows a view of a closing device for a device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a simplified illustration of a device 1 according to the invention.
  • This device 1 has a filling space 4 within which the containers 10 are guided and, among other things, filled with a liquid such as a drink.
  • a further transport unit 40 which is designed as a combined inlet / outlet star filled and filled and filled containers discharged.
  • the empty containers are each characterized by the reference numeral 10a and the filled containers by the reference numeral 10b. It can be seen that in each case two unfilled containers 10a and then two filled containers 10b are arranged side by side.
  • the further transport device 40 rotates clockwise as in the embodiment shown in FIG.
  • the reference numeral 50 relates to a lock device which takes over both empty containers 10a from the further transport unit 40 and also transfers filled containers 10b to this further transport unit 40. At the start of operation, this transport unit 40 is equipped by hand with empty containers 10a.
  • the reference numeral 3 refers to a transport wheel on which the individual containers are transported along a circular track.
  • FIG. 2 shows a detailed view of the device shown in FIG. It can be seen that the further transport unit 40 is rotatable about a rotation axis X.
  • the reference numeral 47 refers to a drive device which drives a serrated wheel 43 and thus the carrier 42 clocked. In this case, a clocked rotary movement is alternately performed by a ümfangswinkel between 15 and 45 °. Between each cycle of this rotational movement is a rest during which the containers are transferred to the lock device 50. In this case, the support 42 is preferably rotated after each transfer / takeover of containers with respect to the containers by one position.
  • the lock device could have four or more gripping elements, which are arranged side by side.
  • the lock device it would also be possible for the lock device to have a total of 4 gripper elements, with two elements each being moved in the direction of the further transport unit and two further elements in the direction of the transport device 2
  • FIG. 3 shows a representation of the lock device 50, which just takes over a filled and closed container 10b from the transport device 2 and substantially simultaneously (not shown) passes an open and empty container to the transport device.
  • 4 shows a situation in which an empty container 10a is being taken over by the further transport unit 40 and at the same time a filled container 10b is being transferred from the sluice device 5 to the transport device 40.
  • the lock device on gripping elements 56, which can grip the containers, preferably at the neck. These gripping devices 56 are displaceable along the arrow P2, so that the containers can be drawn into an interior 51 of the lock device.
  • the lock device After this retraction, the lock device is rotated about its axis of rotation y by 180 ° in order to be able to carry out a corresponding transfer to the transport device 2 or takeover of the transport device 2.
  • the lock device therefore preferably has a bearing with a pivoting drive.
  • the transport of the containers takes place in a lock cell 53.
  • a linear slide (not shown in FIG. 4) moves out again and the empty container 10a is transferred to a clamp already driven into position or the gripping element 34 of the transport device 2 (FIG. 3).
  • the container is now with the support ring on the above-mentioned bracket 34 of the transport device 2 and is passed by opening the clip or the gripping element 56 of the transport device 2.
  • the slide moves off again and a new cycle begins.
  • the reference numeral 14 denotes a Inspection device, which checks whether 10 closures are mounted on the containers.
  • step I a transfer of an empty and germinated container from the lock device 50 takes place.
  • step II the container 10 is externally sterilized and preheated in a step III with heated air.
  • step IV a continuous internal sterilization of the container in step IV with a H 2 O 2 -LUft mixture.
  • step V a discontinuous internal sterilization of the container with a H 2 ⁇ 2 ⁇ air mixture.
  • a VI the container is flushed with sterile air.
  • step VIII the container is filled, for example with a drink and then (step IX) liquid nitrogen is introduced into the container. Finally, (step X) the container is closed with a screw cap and sealed with an aluminum seal in a step XI. Finally, (step XII) the full container is transferred to the sifting device 50.
  • the device 1 has a plurality of treatment organs, which are arranged stationarily on the support 20.
  • the containers are each moved relative to these Behanldungsorganen.
  • the reference numeral 8 shows (only schematically) a filling member for filling of the containers.
  • Reference numerals 16 and 18 show (also only very schematically) two further treatment organs for carrying out steps III and IV.
  • the individual treatment organs are arranged along a circular path, this path also corresponding to the transport path of the containers.
  • the filling space 4 is divided by three cutting discs 24, 25, 26 into three areas A, B, C.
  • region A there is preferably a negative pressure in the range of 5 to 10 Pascal. This negative pressure is required to preclude that H 2 ⁇ 2 vapors leave the system via the lock 50. This negative pressure is maintained via an exhaust air control.
  • the pressure in this sterile area is selected (for example, 20 Pascal overpressure) such that overflows (arrows P4, P5, P6) occur in the two adjacent areas A, C.
  • overflows arrows P4, P5, P6
  • the transport device 2 shown in the figures is operated clocked as mentioned above, in which case preferably an electrical Servomotor is provided which performs a clocked pivoting movement, for example in 30 ° steps.
  • the reference numeral 55 refers to a provided in the lock device 50 carrier to which a carriage 54, on which in turn the gripping elements 56 are arranged, is displaceable in the direction P2.
  • the lock device 50 is arranged relative to the transport device 2, that in an extended state, the two gripping elements 56 of the lock device are simultaneously introduced to the gripping elements 34 of the transport device and so substantially simultaneously handed over both an empty container and can take over a full container , Accordingly, the correspondingchleusen worn 50 is arranged relative to the further transport unit that the mentioned simultaneous acquisition and transfer is possible. However, it would also be possible to provide independently controllable slide for the two gripping elements 56.
  • the reference numeral 31 refers to a CIP piping.
  • the processes ⁇ eichen 32 refers to cleaning nozzles, which are used for cleaning the interior of the filling space 4. In this case, a cleaning liquid is distributed in more detail from the aforementioned feed line 31 to 12 individually controllable nozzle sticks or cleaning nozzles 32, which make it possible to clean the entire filling interior.
  • the piping is preferably designed so that when the system is vented, all tubes 31 automatically run empty. Both Spray heads are preferably Rotationsssprühköpfe, which allow a discharge of cleaning agents full extent, ie by 180 °.
  • the reference numeral 35 refers in its entirety to a piping for supplying the beverage and possibly other gases, which are filled into the containers.
  • the reference numeral 34 refers to gripping elements which grip the containers. These gripping elements 34 can be raised or lowered by means of a lifting drive 85 in the direction of the arrow P7.
  • the reference numeral 87 refers to the ceiling of the filling space 4, i. above this ceiling a non-sterile area is provided.
  • the reference numeral 86 refers to the lifting device for lifting and lowering the gripping elements 84. This lifting device 86 is surrounded by a bellows 89 which ensures a sterile seal.
  • the reference numeral 91 shows a servomotor with an upstream bevel gear and a gear. With the help of this servo motor, the transport device 2 is driven clocked. On a bearing plate 92, a 4-point torque bearing 94 is attached. The equipped with an internal toothing on the inner ring bearing 94 can accommodate high loads as a single bearing and is almost free of play and also inexpensive. On the inner ring that is the internal teeth of the mentioned servomotor engages with the upstream bevel gear and the gear. 8, a closing device 70 is shown. To close the container with a fferschl ⁇ ss, first sterilized closure must be transported into a closure cone 41. This is realized with transfer to a pivoting unit 44.
  • the closing unit is shown in a view from below.
  • the screw caps (not shown) first pass out of a closure rail 72 into a receiving region 73. Through this rail 72 it is achieved that the closures after the disinfection with the opening face down in the right direction. Before the receiving area 73, the closures pile up.
  • a swing arm 44 performs a pivotal movement about the axis Z toward the rail end. In this area already sits (not shown) closure on a shelf 74.
  • This shelf 74 is disposed on a spring plate 75.
  • a closure pushes on the pivot arm 44 and its end 45, wherein it should be noted that pivots in the enkchwenkarm below the plate 74.
  • This component 45 receives the closure on the swivel arm. Thereafter, the pivot arm 44 pivots back under the cone 41. In addition to the pivotal movement of the pivot arm also performs a vertical movement up and down along the arrow Pl. By lifting the pivot arm, the shutter is clamped in the cone 41.
  • the reference numeral 48 refers to a bellows, which allows the pivot unit 44 is both pivotable and in the direction of the arrow Pl raised or lowered.
  • the closure cone 41 is then brought by a relative movement with respect to the container (not shown) to this and screwed the Closure on the mouth of the container.
  • the container can be brought by a lifting movement of the cone, but it would also be possible to move the cone in the direction of the container conversely.
  • the reference numeral 52 refers to a further bellows, which is arranged on the closure cone 41 and its shaft.

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Dispositif (1) servant à remplir des récipients (10) par des liquides et comportant un premier système de transport (2) transportant une pluralité de récipients (10) à travers un espace de remplissage (4), ledit espace de remplissage (4) consistant en un espace stérile (4) dans lequel est disposée une pluralité d'organes de manipulation (8, 16, 18) qui manipulent les récipients et dont au moins un de ces organes de manipulation (8, 16, 18) consiste en un organe de remplissage (8) remplissant les récipients par le liquide. Selon l'invention, le premier système de transport (2) est conçu pour transporter les récipients (10) à travers l'espace de remplissage (4) de façon synchronisée.
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