EP2328829B1 - Machine de traitement de récipients, notamment machine à capsuler - Google Patents

Machine de traitement de récipients, notamment machine à capsuler Download PDF

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EP2328829B1
EP2328829B1 EP09777086.1A EP09777086A EP2328829B1 EP 2328829 B1 EP2328829 B1 EP 2328829B1 EP 09777086 A EP09777086 A EP 09777086A EP 2328829 B1 EP2328829 B1 EP 2328829B1
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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
    • 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
    • B67B2201/00—Indexing codes relating to constructional features of closing machines
    • B67B2201/08—Aseptic features
    • 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
    • B67C2003/228—Aseptic features

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  • the invention relates to a container treatment machine according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a container treatment machine is made EP 1 820 771 A known as discussed below.
  • Siphon seals are provided for sealing the transition between the rotor and the wall which does not rotate with the rotor, comprising a first annular sealing element surrounding the machine axis, which extends into a ring channel of a second sealing element which likewise surrounds the machine axis in a ring-shaped manner. and / or sterilizing agent is used.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a container treatment machine with bushings, which with the possibility of relative movement between the respective functional element and the partition an absolutely dense and sterile performing the respective functional element by a partition from the non-sterile space above the enclosure or partition in a sterile room within the Allow enclosure or below the partition.
  • a container treatment machine according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
  • Fig. 1 in a simplified representation and in section a closing machine of rotating design for closing bottles or similar containers with screw caps;
  • FIG. 2 in a simplified individual representation and in section of one of the closing tools of the closing machine of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 an individual representation of the hydraulic seal or siphon seal in the field of implementation of a spindle by a sterile space of an overlying Unsterilraum separating wall of the closing of the FIG. 1 ;
  • Fig. 4 a plan view of one of the two sealing elements of the hydraulic seal of FIG. 3
  • a capping machine generally designated 1 serves to close bottles 2 with closures 3 in the form of screw-on closures or caps.
  • the closing machine 1 consists of a rotor 4 that can be driven circumferentially around a vertical machine axis MA, on the circumference of which an annular axis-like sterile space 5 surrounding the machine axis MA is provided, which is formed within an enclosure and through several walls to the environment, ie to the environment limited in the unsterile space, and in the schematic representation of FIG.
  • a seal 9 and 10 for example, a hydraulic seal or siphon seal provided, so that the sterile room 5 through the walls 6-8 and the associated seals 9 and 10 is tightly isolated from the environment or the non-sterile space.
  • each closing station 11 For closing the bottles 2 with the closures 3, several closing stations 11 are formed on the circumference of the rotor 4, of which in the FIG. 1 only two shown and distributed at equal angular intervals around the machine axis MA are provided.
  • Each closing station 11 consists of a closing tool 12 with which the respective closure 3 is screwed onto the bottle 2 held with its bottle mouth below the closing tool 12 on a container carrier 13 and completely accommodated in the sterile room 5.
  • the respective closing tool 12 is designed as a screw capper and is u.a. from a e.g. electromotive drive 14, from a with its axis parallel to the machine axis MA oriented spindle 15 which is drivingly connected at its upper end to the drive 14 and the motor shaft of this drive, as well as from an axially sprung at the lower end capper head 16, with the at circulating rotor 4, the respective closure 3 is removed at a closure transfer position, not shown, then placed by lifting the respective bottle 2 against the capper head 16 on the bottle mouth and then screwed over the driven by the drive 14 via the spindle 15 capper head 16 on the relevant bottle 2 as is known per se to those skilled in the art.
  • a e.g. electromotive drive 14 from a with its axis parallel to the machine axis MA oriented spindle 15 which is drivingly connected at its upper end to the drive 14 and the motor shaft of this drive, as well as from an axially sprung at the lower end capper head 16, with the at
  • the sealing member 21 comprises an open at the top cup-like portion 22, which has two concentric with each other and in the illustrated embodiment circular cylindrical wall sections 22.1 and 22.2, which form between them an annular channel 23, which is the sealing space of the siphon 20 and closed at the bottom of the portion 22 and the molding 21 and at the top of the portion 22 and the molding 21 is open.
  • the inner wall section 22.1 encloses an opening 24, through which the spindle 15 is guided through the sealing element 21 or the siphon seal 20. Furthermore, the inner wall section 22.1 has a reduced height compared to the outer wall section 22.2.
  • the sealing element 21 is further formed with a portion 22 formed on the portion or gutter segment 25 which is open at the top of the shaped body 21 and limited by two wall sections 27 and 28 and a bottom 29.
  • the section 25 or its wall sections 27 and 28 are arcuately curved, in such a way that the sections 25 of the circumferentially of the rotor 4 adjoining Verschdorfstationen 11 and the hydraulic seals 20 of these stations composed of the sections 25 or segments together , the machine axis MA concentrically enclosing and open at the top annular channel 26, which surrounds the sections 22 and thus the guided through the openings 24 of these sections spindles 15 outside with respect to the machine axis.
  • the height which the wall sections 27 and 28 have in the axial direction perpendicular to the floor 29 and thus in the installed state in the axial direction parallel to the machine axis MA is, for example, equal to the corresponding height of the outer wall section 22.2.
  • the channel segment 26 is connected via an opening 30 with the annular channel 23 in connection.
  • the opening 30 is located in the region of the bottom 29 of the trough segment 25 that is level with or at the same level as the bottom of the annular channel 23.
  • each hydraulic seal 20 is fixed to the top of the wall 6 in the region of an opening provided in this wall opening 31, in such a way that the opening 24 is congruent with the opening 31 and the annular channel 23 and the channel segment 25th are each open to the wall 6 facing away from the top.
  • the housing 17 with a lower bearing 19 having housing portion 17.1 with the outer wall portion 22.2 at the top of this wall portion is tightly connected.
  • each hydraulic seal 20 is further formed as a molded part cup- or bell-shaped sealing element 32, which, as in particular in the FIG. 5 is shown in detail, from an annular portion 33 which is mounted in the mounted state on the spindle 15 surrounding this tightly, and consists of a circular cylindrical portion 34 which surrounds the axis of the spindle 17 concentrically and at a radial distance in the mounted state and at its upper end merges into the annular portion 33.
  • the portion 34 is formed so that it extends in the assembled state of the respective hydraulic seal 20 in the annular channel 23 of the sealing member 21, in such a way that the circular cylindrical inner surface and the likewise circular cylindrical outer surface of the portion 34 each of the inner surface of the wall sections 22.1 and 22.2 and the lower free end of the portion 34 is spaced from the bottom of the annular channel 23.
  • Each hydraulic seal 20 further comprises a plurality of mechanical sealing elements, in the illustrated embodiment, a sealing ring 35 which seals the transition between the housing portion 17.3 and the upper edge of the wall portion 22.2, a sealing ring 36, the gap between the portion 33 and the Outer surface of the spindle 17 seals, as well as an example designed with at least one wiper lip annular seal member 37 between the portion 33 of the circumferential direction of the spindle 17 seal member molding 32 and the inner surface of the outer wall 22.2 in the upper region of this wall. Further seals, not shown, are provided between the individual adjoining groove segments 25 so as to create a liquid-tight groove 26 consisting of these groove segments 25.
  • this level N is slightly below the level of the upper edge of the inner wall portion 22.1.
  • seals 20 serve to seal the spindles 15 rotating about their spindle axes.
  • seals 20 or the bushings having them may also be designed for axial and / or radial movement of the spindle 15 or other functional element of a closing station, in particular with a corresponding adaptation of the axial dimensions of the sealing elements 21 and 32, i. in particular, the height of the wall sections 22.1, 22.2, 27, 28 and in particular by appropriate adaptation of the axial dimension of the circular cylindrical portion 34th
  • the hydraulic seal 20 ensures an absolutely dense and sterile passage of the spindle 15 through the wall 6, and in particular by the fact that formed by the recorded in the annular channel 23 liquid sealing and / or sterilization medium, a barrier which is formed around the entire immersed in this sealing and / or sterilizing medium portion 34 extends. With the exception of the sealing element 37 resting against the inner surface of the wall section 22.1, the sealing takes place without contact between the sealing elements 21 and 32.
  • seal or implementation according to the invention is of course not only suitable for use in capping machines, but also for use in other container treatment machines in which, for example, a rotating and / or axially and / or radially movable functional element from the environment or a non-sterile space in a sterile room from above with a partial section extends.

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  1. Machine de traitement de récipients, notamment machine à capsuler (1), avec plusieurs postes de traitement formés sur un rotor tournant (4) dans un espace stérile (5) recevant les récipients (2) au moins dans la zone de leur ouverture de récipient (2.1) et avec une pluralité d'éléments fonctionnels (15) par exemple des éléments fonctionnels de type barre et/ou arbre, chaque poste de traitement (11) présentant au moins un élément fonctionnel (15) avec des passages pour faire passer de manière étanche et/ou stérile l'élément fonctionnel (15) respectif des postes de traitement (11) par au moins une paroi (6) séparant un espace stérile (5) d'un espace non stérile, ainsi qu'avec des garnitures hydrauliques (20) avec respectivement au moins un premier élément de garniture (32) qui parvient avec un côté tourné vers l'espace stérile (5) pour la réalisation d'une garniture de siphon dans un espace de garniture (23) servant à la réception d'un moyen de garniture et/ou de stérilisation liquide d'un second élément de garniture (21), caractérisée en ce que
    les passages sont formés respectivement par au moins une garniture hydraulique (20) qui permet un mouvement relatif de l'élément fonctionnel respectif (15) par rapport à l'au moins une paroi (6), en ce que les premiers éléments de garniture (32) sont fixés sur l'élément fonctionnel afférent (15) en l'entourant de manière serrée et sont réalisés en forme de pot et/ou de cloche, en ce que chacun des espaces de garniture (23) est en liaison avec un canal ou avec une rigole (26) pour la réception du moyen de garniture et/ou de stérilisation liquide, et en ce qu'un canal commun ou une rigole commune (26) pour le moyen de garniture et/ou de stérilisation liquide est prévue pour tous les espaces de garniture (23) de tous les seconds éléments de garniture (21).
  2. Machine de traitement de récipients selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la garniture hydraulique formée par le premier et le second élément de garniture (32, 21) ou la garniture de siphon (20) est prévue sur le côté associé à l'espace non stérile de l'au moins une paroi (6).
  3. Machine de traitement de récipients selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le second élément de garniture (21) possède comme espace de garniture un canal annulaire (23) entourant l'axe de l'élément fonctionnel (15) de type barre et/ou arbre, jusqu'auquel le premier élément de garniture (32) s'étend.
  4. Machine de traitement de récipients selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le premier élément de garniture (32) s'étend jusque dans l'espace de garniture (23) du second élément de garniture (21) d'un côté ouvert éloigné de l'espace stérile (5).
  5. Machine de traitement de récipients selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le premier élément de garniture (32) se compose au moins d'une section de fixation (32) annulaire pouvant être fixée sur l'élément fonctionnel (15) ainsi que d'une autre section (34) entourant l'élément fonctionnel (15) à distance et s'étendant jusque dans l'espace de garniture (23), section qui est réalisée par exemple de manière circulaire et cylindrique ou sensiblement circulaire et cylindrique.
  6. Machine de traitement de récipients selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 5, caractérisée en ce que le second élément de garniture (21) est réalisé par exemple d'un seul tenant avec un segment de canal ou de rigole (25) qui forme avec un segment de canal ou de rigole (25) au moins d'un autre passage le canal commun aux passages ou la rigole (26) commune aux passages pour la réception du moyen de garniture et/ou de stérilisation liquide.
  7. Machine de traitement de récipients selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que celle-ci est une machine à capsuler (1) pour le capsulage de bouteilles ou récipients similaires (2), les éléments fonctionnels (15) étant des arbres entraînables en rotation et/ou mobiles axialement ou des broches d'outils de capsulage (12), notamment d'outils de capsulage destinés à capsuler les récipients (2) avec des bouchons filetés (3.)
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