EP2325133A1 - Dispositif de encapsulation de bouteille - Google Patents

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EP2325133A1
EP2325133A1 EP10191292A EP10191292A EP2325133A1 EP 2325133 A1 EP2325133 A1 EP 2325133A1 EP 10191292 A EP10191292 A EP 10191292A EP 10191292 A EP10191292 A EP 10191292A EP 2325133 A1 EP2325133 A1 EP 2325133A1
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Mario Luigi Bianco
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps

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  • the present invention relates to bottling of beverages by industrial production lines.
  • a protective capsule is fitted on the neck and on the top of bottles that actually is a sheath covering the cap and the surrounding areas of the neck of the bottle.
  • this capsule can serve for protecting the cap and for sealing it, thereby preventing external air from entering the bottle or avoiding gases associated to the beverage stored therein from escaping (think of sparkling wines), such as to preserve the organoleptic properties of the product.
  • the capsule serves as a decorative element and for hygienically protecting the area surrounding the cap that is involved when pouring the contents from the bottle.
  • the material used for making capsules is generally of plastic type (heat shrinkable films made of PVC, PET, or any other suitable material) or a metallic (tin foil and the like); in the bottling lines capsules are fitted by different machines depending on the material.
  • the present invention relates to such machines, the main operating principles being described below.
  • each compartment there are provided application heads, which are essentially composed of cups that house heating means for the thermoforming in case of thermoplastic capsules, or shaped rollers in case of capsules made of metal sheets.
  • Bottles are loaded on the capsuling machines into the corresponding compartments and are raised till their neck enter the above cup: here, the capsules are heated by the heating elements or rolled by the rollers depending on the type of material, then they are discharged at the end of the processing cycle.
  • capsuling machines are carousels on which bottles are fed and discharged at each rotation, it results that if their speed is set at the time necessary to achieve the heat shrinking of plastic films, then it does not work when rolling the metal ones: indeed the latter require more time than the thermal deformation of the plastics.
  • the technical problem at the base of the present invention is to provide a capsuling machine with such structural and operating features as to fit capsules made either of plastic or metal material, without the above-mentioned drawbacks.
  • the idea for solving such problem is to have on the same machine different systems for moving the bottles, those directed to the heating heads and those directed to the rolling deformation heads respectively.
  • a capsuling machine according to the invention is generally denoted by 1, it has a carousel structure with a platform 2 having pneumatic pistons 3 mounted therein, which will be better explained below.
  • the platform 2 rests on a machine base 5, which has, on its external surface, two cam profiles 6 and 7, a lower one and an upper one respectively, which have different shapes as it will be more clear below; the platform 2 rotates with respect to the underlying base 5 by means of a vertical shaft 9, extending upwardly and whose upper end supports a turret 10.
  • a disk 11 guiding the bottles B which are arranged on the machine; to this end the disk at its peripheral edge is provided with housings 12, composed of semicircular recesses made on the edge of the disk 11.
  • the turret 10 supports the rolling operating heads 20 and the thermoforming operating heads 21; these are of the type known per se and therefore are not described in details herein, and for further details reference should be made to technical and scientific publications on this subject.
  • turret 10 with the operating heads 20, 21 can rotate with respect to the vertical shaft 9, between two operating positions shown in figures 2 and 3 respectively, in which it is stopped by control means 22.
  • the turret is stopped such that the rolling heads 20 and the thermoforming heads 21 are aligned with the underlying housings 12, where the bottles B are arranged thereon; however, once the turret 10 takes one of the two positions, it is blocked during the machine operating cycle.
  • the latter provides the bottles B loaded by a rotating transfer star device 30 known per se, to be discharged into the housings 12 of the disk 11 by the help of a fixed guide 31; a similar star device is provided downstream the capsuling machine 1, for discharging the processed bottles therefrom.
  • bottles B are placed by the device 30 on trays or plates 35 which are attached to the ends of a respective rod 36 associated to each piston 3.
  • the rod 36 is guided at the top by a ring 37 sealing the cylindrical chamber 38 associated to the piston 3, while at the bottom it is connected to a roller 39: the latter can roll along one of the two cam profiles 6 and 7 formed on the base 5 of the machine, depending on the selected mode.
  • roller 39 is connected to a plunger 40 which is pneumatically controlled, such to raise or lower the rod taking the roller 39 in contact once with the lower cam profile 6, and once with the upper cam profile 7.
  • the upper turret 10 is brought in the condition of fig. 2 , where rolling heads 20 are arranged above the housings 12 of the bottles.
  • the heating heads 21 that in this operating step of the machine are not operating, through the rotation of the turret are arranged above the gaps between two adjacent housings 12 of the disk.
  • the disk 11 has four housings 12 for the bottles, which are arranged offset by 90°, and this number allows a sufficient space between one housing and the other one to be provided in order to arrange there the operating heads that are not operating in a cycle of the machine.
  • the turret 10 is stopped in such condition and bottles are loaded on the machine I by the appropriate device 30; as it can be seen in fig.2 , in this step the roller 39 associated to each rod 36 rolls along the lower cam profile 6, as there is no pneumatic pressure into the pistons 3: the weight of the bottle arranged on the plate 35 therefore keeps the roller 39 pushing against the cam profile 6.
  • the latter has a shape with a first upward portion and a second downward portion, at which the bottles are raised and lowered respectively, thereby bringing their neck into the operating heads 20 to roll the capsule.
  • the turret 10 is released from the condition of figure 2 and is switched to the condition of figure 3 , where heating heads 21 are arranged above the housings 12 where bottles to be capsulated will be loaded.
  • the latter is discharged from the capsuling machine 1 by means of a star device placed downstream thereto, in a position symmetric to that of the similar loading device 30.
  • the machine 1 needs only to switch the turret 10 to carry rolling heads 20 or heating heads 21 above the housings 12: this operation requires a short time since the mechanical stop maintaining the turret 10 in one condition or in the other condition needs only to be removed; therefore the downtime for changing over the machine are very reduced.
  • the machine according to the invention is able to roll or heat the metal or thermoplastic capsules, in an optimal manner due to the fact that the respective times during which the bottles are engaged with the operating heads 20, 21 are different.
  • such means comprise pistons 3 with plates 35 and rods 36, in addition to rollers 39 and cam profiles 6 and 7; however, a person skilled in the art will have no difficulties in arranging similar technical solutions.
  • the first one and the most immediate to understand is that of a machine wherein the relative movement between the bottles and the operating heads is reversed with respect to the previous case.
  • a capsuling machine wherein bottles are arranged on plates moved from and towards the operating heads, by means of radial arms similar to those of normal amusement carousels can be considered as a possible further solution.
  • the invention is suitable for being used for fitting capsules to bottles of wine, beer, oil and other liquids (not only beverages), that can have shapes very different from one another: as it is known beer bottles have the so called “crown” caps, while wine bottles have corks different than the mushroom corks of sparkling wine bottles, or oil bottles have screw plugs, etc...
  • the field of application of the invention therefore has not to be limited only to one of these cases, but on the contrary it has to be extended to all bottle productions where a capsule is used.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Processing And Handling Of Plastics And Other Materials For Molding In General (AREA)
  • Sealing Of Jars (AREA)
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IT000089A ITGE20090089A1 (it) 2009-11-20 2009-11-20 Macchina incapsulatrice di bottiglie

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Citations (5)

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DE651302C (de) * 1931-10-13 1937-10-11 Holstein & Kappert Maschf Flaschenverschliessmaschine
US3771284A (en) * 1971-09-20 1973-11-13 Federal Mfg Co Capping apparatus
WO1998032668A2 (fr) * 1997-01-27 1998-07-30 World Wide Sealing Corporation Bande pour sceller des bouteilles et des recipients similaires en masse, et appareil d'application et de retrait de cette bande
EP1702880A1 (fr) * 2005-03-14 2006-09-20 AZIONARIA COSTRUZIONI MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE-A.C.M.A.-S.p.A. Machine de remplissage de récipients avec des produits liquides ou pulvérulents
EP1757555A1 (fr) * 2004-06-03 2007-02-28 Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd. Tête de sertissage

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE651302C (de) * 1931-10-13 1937-10-11 Holstein & Kappert Maschf Flaschenverschliessmaschine
US3771284A (en) * 1971-09-20 1973-11-13 Federal Mfg Co Capping apparatus
WO1998032668A2 (fr) * 1997-01-27 1998-07-30 World Wide Sealing Corporation Bande pour sceller des bouteilles et des recipients similaires en masse, et appareil d'application et de retrait de cette bande
EP1757555A1 (fr) * 2004-06-03 2007-02-28 Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd. Tête de sertissage
EP1702880A1 (fr) * 2005-03-14 2006-09-20 AZIONARIA COSTRUZIONI MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE-A.C.M.A.-S.p.A. Machine de remplissage de récipients avec des produits liquides ou pulvérulents

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