EP2379238A1 - Method and device for treating containers - Google Patents
Method and device for treating containersInfo
- Publication number
- EP2379238A1 EP2379238A1 EP09799258A EP09799258A EP2379238A1 EP 2379238 A1 EP2379238 A1 EP 2379238A1 EP 09799258 A EP09799258 A EP 09799258A EP 09799258 A EP09799258 A EP 09799258A EP 2379238 A1 EP2379238 A1 EP 2379238A1
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- EP
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- Prior art keywords
- treatment medium
- measuring element
- ions
- treatment
- container
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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
- B08B9/28—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking
- B08B9/34—Arrangements of conduits or nozzles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B08—CLEANING
- B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
- B08B6/00—Cleaning by electrostatic means
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method and a device for treating containers, in particular for cleaning bottles, preferably plastic bottles in the overhead position, after which the respective container is charged with an up and / or introduced treatment medium, and then introduced into the treatment medium electrically charged ions serve to charge compensation of the container.
- Containers and in particular bottles are routinely cleaned either for refilling or prior to initial filling. This applies equally to cans or similar containers.
- so-called rinsers are known, with the aid of which new bottles are blown out before the filling process or treated with sterile air in order to discharge any dust or dirt particles that may be present in the containers as a result of the production process.
- This process is sometimes problematic when using pure plastic bottles, which can be attributed to their electrostatic charge. Because in this way dirt particles in the ambient air are additionally attracted or have existing particles a strong adhesion.
- problems may arise when the number of electrically charged ions introduced into the treatment medium fluctuates to balance the charge of the container to be treated and / or the external conditions change. This can be done, for example, by that changes the ambient atmosphere with respect to the humidity and thus the electrostatic charge of the bottles to be treated respectively plastic bottles. This is where the invention starts.
- the invention is based on the technical problem of further developing such a method and a device for treating containers so that the charge balance of the respective container to be treated is carried out properly.
- the treatment medium with the ions contained therein is checked for the presence of the ions for this purpose.
- the ions undergo a check for their presence without the treatment medium.
- the ions impinge directly on a measuring element.
- the measuring element can also be charged with the treatment medium and the ions contained therein.
- transport the ions by means of a replacement medium or another medium instead of the treatment medium and to supply them to the measuring element in question. That is, the ions can be generated and checked separately from the treatment medium.
- a simultaneous generation of the ions and the treatment medium is within the scope of the invention and is usually propagated because the treatment medium ultimately acts as a carrier for the ions.
- the ions are still generated, generally by means of an ionizing element which is or includes a discharge electrode as described in detail is described in EP 1 048 365 B1.
- the electrically charged ions produced by this ionization element are introduced into the treatment medium and are now checked according to the invention for their presence in the treatment medium. In this case, the check can not only detect the basic presence of such ions in the treatment medium, but in principle also their number per unit of time. This makes it possible to draw conclusions about the ion current.
- test results can not only be used in the sense that a perfect operation of the ionticiansettis is detected. But the verification results can optionally also be used for controlling or regulating the ionticiansettis.
- the ionization element can be driven accordingly in order to provide the desired ion current.
- this process can not only be specified in the sense of a control, but can also be realized in conjunction with a regulation such that a specific ion current emitted by the ionization element is set and a check is made in the treatment medium.
- the invention regularly employs a specimen loaded by the treatment medium or a test element or in general a measuring element.
- This dead zone is usually designed as a blind spot because of the design of the treatment section as a circular path.
- the measuring element or the specimen can fill the said dead zone completely or almost completely or else only in part.
- the presence of the ions is checked by means of the measuring element or the test specimen.
- the treatment medium can be parked in this dead zone.
- the test body or the test element is regularly examined for its charge state before and / or after its application to the treatment medium. This can be done by an ejection element, which is associated with the ionticianselement and that the treatment medium emits with the introduced therein electrically charged ions to the outside, the measuring element or the specimen applied and thereby checks a certain amount of ions.
- This charge quantity can be transferred to the measuring element or the specimen as described, but it is also possible to remove a certain amount of charge from the measuring element or the specimen.
- the treatment medium when, for example, the treatment medium is charged with positively charged ions and when it strikes of these positively charged ions to the measuring element or the specimen leaves a corresponding number of electrons, the measuring element or the specimen to neutralize the number of electrically positively charged ions in the treatment medium.
- any changes in the state of charge of the measuring element or of the test specimen can generally be derived from voltage profiles and / or current characteristics, because the test body or the measuring element usually forms a closed (direct current) circuit together with the measuring device and a voltage source. If now the number of moving charges in this closed circuit changes because the treatment medium charged with the electrically charged ions alters the free charges within the measuring element or specimen, the measuring device registers such changes in the state of charge as fluctuations in the electrical voltage, changes the voltage curve or it can quite generally the transmitted amount of electricity can be detected.
- test results now provide information as to whether sufficient electrically charged ions are present in the treatment medium and, if so, whether the number is sufficient to be able to provide the desired charge balance of the container to be treated. If, for example, the number of ions present in the treatment medium is insufficient, then the ionization element or the discharge electrode usually provided at this point can be used, for example a higher voltage and / or a higher current are applied, and that until the number of desired ions in the treatment medium is present. As already explained, this process can be implemented in the sense of a control or regulation.
- the invention also provides a device for the treatment of containers, as described in detail in claim 7 and the claims that follow.
- a method and a device for the treatment of containers in particular of bottles and here preferably of plastic bottles are provided which allow a particularly effective container cleaning.
- This can essentially be attributed to the fact that an optionally existing electrostatic charging of the bottles to be treated is counteracted.
- the treatment medium has to charge the individual containers via introduced electrically charged ions for charge equalization of the respective container.
- the presence of these ions and, if appropriate, their number and, in summary, the ion current in the treatment medium or the medium stream, which is also designed as a stream, are investigated. In this way it can be ensured that ions are present at all and, if so, also in the required amount.
- the invention is based on a measuring element designed as a measuring device.
- a measuring device can be assigned to the ionization element and, for example, measure the voltage at the discharge electrode realized at this point, and optionally the discharge current.
- conclusions can be drawn from these parameters in addition or alternatively as to the presence of the electrically charged ions in the treatment medium and / or the ion current.
- both methods are combined, in such a way that on the one hand the ionization element associated measuring device is provided and on the other hand, the additional specimen, which is acted upon by the treatment medium with the introduced electrically charged ions.
- the invention allows a perfect inspection of the ejection element or at this point mostly realized ionizing nozzles, namely to the extent that in the treatment medium electrically charged ions of sufficient number are present or not. Only then can a safe cleaning of the plastic containers be achieved in the case of an example.
- the main benefits are the main benefits.
- Fig. 1 shows the device according to the invention for the treatment of containers schematically
- Fig. 2 is a side view of the article of FIG. 1 from the direction
- a device for the treatment of containers is shown, which is not limited to plastic bottles 1.
- these plastic bottles 1 are transferred via a container inlet 2 to an inlet star 3, which further conveys the plastic bottles 1 to a rotor 5 revolving around a vertical axis 4, on whose circulation the actual treatment of the plastic bottles 1 takes place.
- the plastic surfaces 1 cover on their way along the rotor 5 a treatment section 6, which extends from the inlet star 3 to an outlet star 7, which passes the plastic bottles 1 after their treatment to a container outlet 8.
- the treatment section 6 is presently designed as a circular path, which has a dead zone 9, within which no treatment of the plastic bottles 1 takes place.
- This dead zone 9 corresponds to a dead angle ⁇ .
- a review of a treatment medium 16 instead which leaves an ejection element 10 along the treatment section 6, as best seen in Fig. 2.
- the ejection element 10 in the exemplary embodiment is a nozzle 10 which is equipped with an associated ionization element 11, as likewise indicated in FIG. 2.
- the ionization element 11 is a discharge electrode 11, which is connected to a high voltage source 12.
- a measuring device 13 and a measuring element 13 by means of which the present between the discharge electrode 11 and a counter electrode 14 voltage is measured and also a possible current.
- a further measuring element 15 in the form of a test specimen or test element 15, which is acted upon by the treatment medium 16 and the treatment medium 16 is checked with respect to the presence of ions still belongs to the basic structure.
- the treatment medium 16 in the exemplary embodiment, and not restrictive, is a sterile gas (air) into which electrically charged ions have been introduced with the aid of the ionization element 11.
- gas instead of gas, however, it is also possible to use water or another liquid or, in general, a fluid as the treatment medium 16. Either way, the measuring element or the specimen or the test element 15 responds depending on the presence of the ions.
- the ionization element 11 and the ejection element 10 or a device producing and supplying the treatment medium separately or simultaneously. That is, within the dead zone 9, the ionization element or the discharge electrode 11 can also be checked independently of the supply of the treatment medium with the aid of the test element 15, whether ions are generated. That is, within the dead zone 9, the supply of treatment medium can be interrupted, which then takes place only within the treatment section 6. In this way, the amount of treatment medium 16 can be reduced. they are not wasted or wasted. Alternatively, however, it is also possible to operate within the dead zone 19 with a replacement medium instead of the treatment medium 16, which serves as a carrier for the ions emitted by the ionization element 11 toward the test element 15.
- the measuring element or the test specimen or the test element 15 is electrically conductive or has an electrically conductive surface.
- the test element 15 is equipped with a connected measuring device 17, and a voltage source 18. In this way, on the surface of the measuring element or specimen 15, a certain electrical charge state can be produced, which changes upon impact of electrically charged ions located in the treatment medium 16 .
- a change in the electrical charge state of the measuring element or specimen or of the test element 15 corresponds to the measuring device 17 registering a change in the voltage applied to the measuring element 15, or changing a specific voltage curve or the current flowing through the measuring element 15.
- the measuring element 15 can also be designed as a semiconductor element whose conductivity changes as a result of the electrically charged ions striking the treatment medium 16.
- the measuring device 17 is able to detect a possible change in the state of charge of the measuring element 15, in comparison with the original state of charge, which occurs when the measuring element 15 is not acted upon by the treatment medium 16. From these differences and the test results derived therefrom, conclusions can be drawn as to whether the treatment medium 16 has the introduced electrically charged ions at all, and whether or not these ions are present in sufficient quantity in the treatment medium 16.
- the measuring element 15 is arranged in the dead zone 9 or in the area of the dead angle ⁇ , as indicated in FIG. 1.
- the measuring element 15 completely or almost completely or only partially fill said dead zone 9 and are checked continuously or in certain time sequences for the presence of the ions. This happens in any case during the production process, because the ejection element 10 and with it the ionization element 11, ie in total the respective ionizing nozzle 10, 11, is guided in a circle.
- the treatment medium 16 is ejected for cleaning and within the dead zone 9 for its verification with the measuring element 15 present there.
- the operation is as follows.
- the containers or plastic bottles 1 fed via the bottle inlet 2 of the device according to the invention are, in the example case, transferred via the inlet star 3 to the rotor 5 and moved along the circular path 6.
- the plastic bottles 1 are in an overhead position, so that the treatment medium 16 leaving the respective ionizing nozzles 10, 11 moving with the plastic bottles 1 enters or flows into the plastic bottle 1 from below through the respective bottle opening.
- the individual ionizing nozzles 10, 11 or ejection elements 10 moving along with the rotor 5 pass through the dead zone 9, the supply of the treatment medium 16 would normally be stopped.
- an examination of the treatment medium 16 takes place in the dead zone 9 as to whether the required number of electrically conductive ions are present in the dead zone 9.
- the treatment medium 16 strikes the measuring element or the test body or the test element 15 in the dead zone 9. Any changes in the original electrical charge state of the measuring element 15 are now detected with the aid of the measuring device 17. From these results, conclusions can be drawn as to whether any ions are present in the treatment medium 16 and, if so, in sufficient quantity. That is, the measuring device 17 ultimately measures the ion flow entrained with the treatment medium 16.
- the corresponding check results can now be stored and evaluated in a control unit 19 connected to the measuring device 17.
- control unit 19 it is also possible for the control unit 19 to act upon the ionization element 11 assigned to the ejection element 10 or the discharge electrode 11 or its associated voltage source 12, depending on the results of the examination. If, for example, the number of electrically charged ions in the treatment medium 16 is insufficient, the control unit 19 controls the voltage source or energy source 12 to act upon the ionization element 11 in order to increase the number of ions emitted by the latter. This can be done in the sense of a control or regulation. For the number of electrically charged ions produced by the ionization element 11 in the treatment medium 16 is detected immediately thereafter with the aid of the measuring element 15 and ultimately of the measuring device 17, so that the closed control loop becomes clear.
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