EP2324936A1 - Vorrichtung zum Waschen und Trocknen von Flaschen mit linearem Flaschentranfer - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Waschen und Trocknen von Flaschen mit linearem Flaschentranfer Download PDF

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EP2324936A1
EP2324936A1 EP10191284A EP10191284A EP2324936A1 EP 2324936 A1 EP2324936 A1 EP 2324936A1 EP 10191284 A EP10191284 A EP 10191284A EP 10191284 A EP10191284 A EP 10191284A EP 2324936 A1 EP2324936 A1 EP 2324936A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
    • B08B9/42—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus being characterised by means for conveying or carrying containers therethrough
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B15/00—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form
    • F26B15/10—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions
    • F26B15/12—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions the lines being all horizontal or slightly inclined
    • F26B15/18—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions the lines being all horizontal or slightly inclined the objects or batches of materials being carried by endless belts
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B21/00—Arrangements or duct systems, e.g. in combination with pallet boxes, for supplying and controlling air or gases for drying solid materials or objects
    • F26B21/004—Nozzle assemblies; Air knives; Air distributors; Blow boxes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B5/00—Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of heat
    • F26B5/14—Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of heat by applying pressure, e.g. wringing; by brushing; by wiping

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  • the present invention relates to a bottle treating process in a bottling line.
  • the bottle washing step necessarily involves a bottle drying step, without which the labels could not be properly applied.
  • This apparatus is intended in particular for treating bottles of sparkling wine, which is bottled at low temperatures; during the production process carried out by the apparatus described in this prior art, the wine must be brought to ambient temperature before labeling and packaging the bottles.
  • the bottles are picked up by a so-called "star" transfer device that loads them onto a carousel washing machine; both the transfer device and the carousel washing machine comprise a vertical-axis rotary circular platform (similar to a carousel) peripherally equipped with compartments for the bottles: these compartments give the apparatus an appearance similar to a star (hence the name of the transfer device).
  • the trajectories of rotation of the compartments of the transfer device and of the carousel washing machine are tangential and the respective revolution speeds are synchronous, so that when a bottle reaches the point where the trajectories meet, it moves from the transfer device to the washing mill turn machine, where it occupies a corresponding peripheral compartment.
  • the first limitation is that the transfer device operating downstream of the carousel washing machine cannot directly transfer the bottles onto the adjacent conveyor belt, since it is arranged alongside the belt and cannot therefore be too close thereto to avoid the risk of interference.
  • the prior art includes parallel sections of single conveyor belts arranged side by side in order to obtain a sufficiently long path where the bottles can be dried and heated to the desired temperature.
  • the idea allowing to achieve said objects is to provide a bottle transfer system which also comprises, among other features, one pair of star devices arranged in series.
  • reference numeral 1 designates as a whole a bottle washing apparatus in accordance with the invention.
  • Said apparatus comprises a rectangular containment structure 2, with a base 3 that houses the components necessary for the operation of the various devices, which will be described more in detail hereafter; the structure 2 rests on the floor through feet 4 and is fitted with side curtain panels 5 made of transparent material (glass, polycarbonate or the like). According to some preferred possible embodiments, the latter can be opened and may therefore be provided in the form of leaf doors or sliding windows.
  • the apparatus comprises a carousel washing machine 10 of a per se known type, which is fed with bottles to be washed via a first star transfer device 11.
  • downstream of the carousel washing machine 10 there is a pair of star devices 14, 15 arranged in series, so that the bottles on the first device are transferred onto the second device, which in turn places them on a continuous conveyor belt 16 that will be described more in detail later on.
  • Fig. 3 which illustrates a detail of the apparatus region where the second star 15 is located, the latter moves the bottles B resting on a support surface 20 along a trajectory having the shape of an arc of circumference delimited laterally by a guide or sideboard 21.
  • brushes 23 for cleaning the underside of the bottles are arranged on the support surface 20: in fact, as the bottles advance on the surface 20, they come to meet the areas where the brushes remove any deposits from their underside.
  • the bottles arrive at the conveyor 16, which moves them along a drying station 18; to this end, the support surface 20 extends adjacent to the conveyor, so that there is no surface discontinuity.
  • the transfer device 15 accompanies the bottles B, with the help of the guide 21, until they reach the conveyor 16; this is made possible by the fact that the second star device 15 is located at a distance from the carousel washing machine 10, thanks to the presence of the first device 14 therebetween.
  • the conveyor 16 As far as the conveyor 16 is concerned, it is of the linked belt type and can follow, without solution of continuity, a serpentine path as shown in Fig. 2 , along which the bottles are stabilized laterally by sideboards 24; linked belts like the one taken into account herein are known in the art and are available, for example, from company System Plast based in Telgate (Italy).
  • the horizontal sections of the serpentine advantageously have a certain pitch, i.e. they are not attached to one another as in the plant known from the prior European patent previously referred to.
  • the horizontal sections of the belt 16 are flanked by respective counter-belts 25, 26, 27, i.e. continuous conveyors moving at a different speed than the main belt 16; the speeds of the counter-belts may have opposite direction or else they may have the same direction as the main belt speed but with a different modulus, so that the bottles are turned relative to their vertical axis in accordance with a technique already well known in the art.
  • the path of the belt conveyor 16 includes diagonal deviations that lengthen its extension slightly without however jeopardizing the important result it attains, i.e. advancing the bottles from beginning to end without solution of continuity.
  • the conveyor 16 may be provided as a single linked belt or as two (or more) independent sections (i.e. each having its own drive) arranged one following the other as shown in the drawings, so that the bottles will move on without ever stopping along the serpentine path defined by the belt(s).
  • the distance between the various sections of the conveyor 16 also makes it possible to place sufficiently powerful fans 30 therebetween.
  • the fans preferably consist of ducts 30 arranged with a downward slope in the feeding direction of the bottles B, and having side nozzles (not shown in the drawings) for distributing hot air onto the bottles.
  • the downward orientation of the ducts 30 causes the hot air to be distributed onto the advancing bottles in a progressive manner for the whole height thereof, thus ensuring that they are dried evenly; the bottles then pass onto the main line belt 12.
  • the step of transferring the bottles from the belt 16 that goes through the drying station 18 to the main line belt 12 is accomplished in a very simple manner by having the former converge towards the latter, without needing any additional star devices or the like.
  • the above-described apparatus operates as follows.
  • the bottles previously filled and corked/capped in the upstream stations of the apparatus 1 advance on the main line 12 up to the auger device 13 that feeds the star transfer device 11.
  • the latter rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2 and loads the bottles onto the carousel washing machine 10 in a per se known manner; the bottles, which in the case of sparkling wine are at low temperature, are carried along the section comprised between the loading device 11 and the unloading device 14, where they are washed with brushes and water jets.
  • the star unloading device 14 picks up the washed bottles and delivers them onto the second transfer device 15: the latter receives the bottles and transfers them onto the belt 16 of the drying station 18.
  • This step takes place in a quick and reliable manner because, as already explained, the bottles laid onto the support surface 20 of the star transfer device 15 are pushed tangentially onto the conveyor 16, at the end thereof.
  • the apparatus 1 does not include a heating station to bring the filled bottles to ambient temperature (18-22 °C).
  • the apparatus 1 is only used for washing and removing the water from the bottle surface: at the exit of the drying station 18 they do not reach ambient temperature because the hot air blown by the jets essentially provides the heat necessary for the water to evaporate.
  • the apparatus 1 includes a temperature control system of a per se known type which comprises, for example, probes and a system that will stop the machine in the event that thermal values higher than desired are sensed, so as to prevent the bottles from overheating.
  • a control system uses an electronic controller (e.g. a PLC or the like) and all the components, whether electronic or not, required for this purpose, which will not be described any further herein since they are well known in the art.
  • the bottles go through the drying station 18 carried by the belt 16 and, as already explained, advance without solution of continuity because the belt 16 covers the entire path within the station 18.
  • the bottles are dried evenly for their whole height by hot air jets, also due to the action of counter-belts 25, 26 and 27 which cause them to rotate axially.
  • the apparatus 1 the bottles enter and exit on the main line 12; in other words, the apparatus 1 is essentially a "by-pass" of the main line, thus requiring no particular modifications to the latter.
  • the apparatus according to the invention can be easily installed on existing lines, and is therefore particularly advantageous in this respect.
  • This feature simplifies the structure of the apparatus, since there are no longer any room limitations for the drying station downstream of the washing station due to the presence of the upstream and downstream sections of the transport line.
  • the use of the three star transfer devices 11, 14 and 15 makes it possible to optimize the operation of the washing carousel machine 10 with a significant dead time reduction; for instance, a 14-compartment carousel machine can indicatively offer the same performance, in terms of washing times, as an 18-compartment carousel machine employed in an apparatus like the one described in EP 1 357 082 .
  • the latter can be placed closer to each other, since the adjacent continuous conveyors have a different layout.
  • Another advantageous effect achieved by the invention is that it does not require an additional star device for returning the bottles from the conveyor 16 in the drying area to the main line conveyor 12.
  • the invention is suited to washing glass bottles and is therefore intended mainly for bottling plants for wine, beer and the like, the above principles are also applicable to plastic bottles, or more in general to bottling plants for any liquids, whether or not for food use (e.g. detergents or the like).
  • the inclined or diagonal sections deviating the path of the conveyor 16 may be omitted as well; also, the bottles may be dried by using solutions other than the inclined ducts 30.
  • radiant heating systems infrared rays, microwaves, etc.
  • the third device 15 has a direction of rotation (opposite to that of the second device 14) that allows the bottles to exit at the same speed as that of the downstream belt 16; the latter extends horizontally, so that the machine as a whole will have an horizontally extending layout like the one shown in Fig. 2 , with the bottles entering and exiting along the same directrix defined by the main transport line 12.

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