EP2519466A1 - Tireuse rotative integrant une mesure d'oxygene et faisant partie d'une ligne d'embouteillage - Google Patents
Tireuse rotative integrant une mesure d'oxygene et faisant partie d'une ligne d'embouteillageInfo
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- EP2519466A1 EP2519466A1 EP10808934A EP10808934A EP2519466A1 EP 2519466 A1 EP2519466 A1 EP 2519466A1 EP 10808934 A EP10808934 A EP 10808934A EP 10808934 A EP10808934 A EP 10808934A EP 2519466 A1 EP2519466 A1 EP 2519466A1
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- oxygen
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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
- 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
- B67C3/007—Applications of control, warning or safety devices in filling machinery
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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
- 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
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- the present invention relates to the technical field of online bottling of generally liquid products such as wine, beer, spirits or water for example, using a machine called printer.
- an automatic bottling line comprises different machines or stations in front of which the bottles pass successively to be especially cleaned, filled, closed and undergo various quality controls.
- a bottling line comprises, in particular, a bottling or drawing machine comprising, for example, as described in document EP 1 484 279, a tank for storing a volume of bottled product connected at the inlet, to a supply circuit in which product and output, to a series of bottles filling tanks by the product.
- This machine also comprises a supply circuit of a neutral product to allow to create inside the tank, a sky of neutral product above the volume of product.
- a non-invasive oxygen analyzer connected by an optical fiber to an oxygen detector comprising an oxygen-reactive pellet.
- the oxygen analyzer includes a source for producing light delivered by the optical fiber to the oxygen reactive pellet which is placed inside the bottle in contact with the bottle glass. The corresponding luminescence from the pellet is rerouted via the optical fiber to the oxygen analyzer. The light emitted is directly proportional to the concentration of oxygen present around the pellet.
- This technique measures the dissolved oxygen in the wine and the oxygen gas contained in the volume between the cork and the wine.
- This technique is non-invasive and allows to obtain precisely the oxygen concentration rate actually present inside the bottle.
- this technique has the disadvantage of not being able to control all the bottles in practice, which does not make it possible to know as soon as possible the possible evolution of the concentration rate of oxygen in the batch of bottles bottled.
- the entire batch of bottled bottles will have such a defect.
- the object of the invention is therefore to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art by proposing a new technique adapted to accurately determine the oxygen level of the product just before packaging.
- the object of the invention is to propose a new bottling machine or printer incorporating oxygen management before the actual bottling operation.
- the object of the invention thus relates to a rotary printer belonging to a bottling line which comprises at least one storage tank of a volume of product to be bottled, connected on the one hand, as input, to a circuit supply of product and output, a series of bottle filling spouts by said product and secondly, a supply circuit of a neutral product to create inside the tank, a sky of neutral product above product volume.
- the printer comprises at least a first oxygen measuring device comprising an oxygen analyzer connected by an optical fiber, to a first oxygen detector fixed on the tank by passing through the wall of the tank in a manner that sealed, the oxygen sensor comprising at least one oxygen reactive pellet extending inside the tank to be in contact with the product to be bottled or the neutral product.
- the subject of the invention also relates to a printer comprising in combination one and / or the other of the following characteristics:
- a first and a second oxygen measuring device respectively comprising a first and a second oxygen detector fixed on the tank while passing through the wall of the tank in a sealed manner, the oxygen detectors each comprising at least one an oxygen-reactive tablet being superimposed on the tank so that the tablet of one detector is in contact with the product to be bottled while the tablet of the other detector is in contact with the neutral product,
- an oxygen analyzer comprising a source for producing light directed to the oxygen-reactive pellet, via the optical fiber which redirects to the oxygen analyzer, the luminescence resulting from the reactive pellet; so that the oxygen analyzer can determine the oxygen level of the product or the neutral product contained inside the tank,
- a temperature sensor mounted on the tank for determining the temperature of the product and / or the neutral product inside the tank, this temperature sensor being connected to the recording and display unit.
- a pressure sensor mounted on the tank for determining the pressure of the neutral product inside the tank, this pressure sensor being connected to the recording and viewing unit; a recording and viewing unit; recording and / or displaying the oxygen level of the product and / or the neutral product as a function of time,
- a recording and display unit recording and / or displaying the oxygen level of the product and / or of the neutral product as a function of time, the measured temperature and / or the measured pressure
- a recording and display unit comprising a communication port allowing the transfer of the recorded information
- Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of a rotary printer according to the invention.
- Figure 2 is a schematic sectional view of a rotary printer according to the invention.
- Figure 3 is an elevational sectional view showing a characteristic detail of the printer according to the invention.
- Figure 4 is a sectional elevation showing a detail of an exemplary embodiment of a printer according to the invention.
- the object of the invention relates to a bottling machine or printer 1 forming part of a bottling line known per se and not shown.
- the printer 1 is in the form of a rotating carousel 2 rotating about a vertical axis 3.
- the carousel 2 has a carrier frame for a storage tank 4 of a product 5 to be bottled.
- the storage tank 4 constitutes a chamber closed by walls 6 to have a generally cylindrical or annular shape.
- the tank 4 comprises at least one circular vertical wall 6a closed by transverse walls 6b.
- This storage tank 4 is fed, at the input, by a circuit 7 for supplying the product 5.
- the enclosure of the tank 4 is thus partially filled by a volume of product 5 whose level is controlled by any appropriate means.
- the volume of product 5 inside the tank thus evolves between a high level and a low level.
- product 5 is wine.
- the tank 4 is also connected to a circuit 9 for supplying a neutral product 11 so as to create inside the tank 4, above the product volume 5, a sky 13 of neutral product 11. 0 052925
- the neutral product 11 is a neutral gas such as nitrogen to ensure the inerting of the wine.
- the storage tank 4 is also provided with filling spouts 15 of bottles 16 of product 5.
- the filling spouts 15 are distributed over the entire circumference of the storage tank 4.
- the empty bottles 16 are supported. on the input side of the printer, by a transfer device successively feeding the bottles 16 to the filling spouts 15 running past said transfer device.
- the bottles 16 are filled with product 5 thanks to the filling spouts 15.
- the filled bottles 16 are supported. at the outlet of the carousel, by a device for transferring the filled bottles to a recovery conveyor.
- the rotary printer 1 is not described more precisely to the extent that its manufacture is well known to those skilled in the art. Thus only the elements necessary for understanding the invention have been described in a general manner.
- the rotary printer 1 comprises at least a first device 21 for measuring oxygen including in particular a first oxygen detector 22 fixed on the tank 4 to determine the oxygen present inside the vessel.
- the first oxygen detector 22 is mounted on the tank 4 so as to determine the level of dissolved oxygen or present in the volume of product 5 contained in the tank 4.
- the detector oxygen 22 is fixed on the tank 4 at a lower level than the low level of the volume of product 5.
- the oxygen detector 22 detects only the dissolved oxygen inside the product 5 present at the same time. inside the storage tank 4.
- the first oxygen detector 22 is placed on the tank to detect the oxygen present either in the volume of product 5 contained in the tank 4 is in the neutral product 11 and in particular in the gas sky 13.
- the first oxygen detector 22 is placed at the level of the tidal zone of the volume of product 5 to namely the zone delimited between the low and high levels of the volume of product 5 inside the tank 4.
- the first oxygen detector 22 detects either the oxygen dissolved in the volume of product 5 contained in the tank 4, the oxygen gas present in the sky 13 of the tank 4.
- the rotary printer 1 comprises the first oxygen measuring device 21 whose first oxygen detector 22 is fixed on the tank 4 to detect dissolved oxygen in the product 5 contained in the tank 4 and a second oxygen measuring device 25 comprising a second oxygen detector fixed on the tank 4 for measuring the gaseous oxygen present in the sky 13 of the tank 4.
- the first oxygen detector 22 is fixed on the tank 4 at a level lower than the low level of the volume of product 5 contained inside the tank 4 while the second oxygen detector 26 is fixed on the tank 4 at a level higher than the high level of the volume of product 5 contained inside the tank 4 to detect, for sure, the oxygen gas present in the sky 13.
- the oxygen sensors 22,26 are therefore mounted on the tank 4 in different levels and preferably in a sup erposée.
- each oxygen detector 22, 26 comprises a fastening body 30 on a wall 6 of the tank 4.
- Each oxygen detector 26 is mounted, in the illustrated example, to pass through the vertical wall 6a so as to open inside the tank 6.
- the oxygen detectors 22,26 are thus mounted in a sealed manner by any appropriate means on the vertical wall 6a of the tank 4.
- the fixing body 30 is in the form of a threaded ring cooperating with a threaded hole.
- Each fixing ring 30 of an oxygen detector 22,26 internally delimits a housing 31 for mounting a pellet 32 reactive oxygen.
- this pellet is reactive oxygen 32 is carried by a transparent part or porthole 33 to ensure the passage of light as will be described more precisely in the following description.
- the housing 31 is opening to open inside the tank 4 through a bottom 34 of the ring 30.
- the bottom 34 forms a bearing surface for the pellet 32 which thus closes the bottom 34 of the ring 30.
- the pellet 32 thus opens into the chamber of the tank 4 to be in direct contact with the sky 13 or with the product 5.
- Each oxygen detector 22, 26 comprises a counter ring 36 ensuring the positioning of the window 33 and the support of an optical fiber 38 positioned inside a housing 39 opening into a bottom 40 of the counter ring 36.
- ring 36 is mounted inside the ring 30 so as to press the window 33 between the bottom 40 of the counter ring 36 and the bottom 34 of the ring 30.
- the counter ring 36 has a cooperating thread 36i with a tapping 30i arranged on a portion of the housing 31 of the ring 30. Seals 41 are mounted between the bottom 34 of the ring 30 and the port 33, between the port 33 and the bottom 40 of the counter ring 36 and between the ring 30 and the counter ring 36.
- each oxygen sensor 22,26 comprises a clamping system for example of the stuffing box 42.
- This clamping system 42 is fixed on the ring against 36 for example by threading, being traversed by the optical fiber 38 whose distal end extends near the window 33.
- the distal end of the optical fiber 38 is in abutment against the bottom 40 of the counter ring 36, with the heart optical fiber 38 which opens or aims at the pellet 32, through the porthole 33.
- each oxygen sensor 22,26 is sealingly mounted on the tank 5 while allowing the oxygen-reactive pellet 32 to extend inside the tank to be in direct contact with the product 5 or the neutral product 11 of the gas head 13.
- each oxygen detector 22,26 is mounted so that removable on the tank 4 to allow to be temporarily replaced by a threaded closure cap, especially for maintenance operations of the printer 1.
- the oxygen measuring devices 21, 25 also comprise one or more oxygen analyzers 45 fixed on a rotary joint 46 mounted on the axis of rotation 3.
- each oxygen measuring device 21, 25 comprises an oxygen analyzer 45 connected to an oxygen detector 22, 26 via an optical fiber 38.
- Each oxygen analyzer 45 has a source for producing light that is delivered to the oxygen-reactive pellet 32 through the optical fiber 38 and through the window 33. Likewise, each optical fiber 38 reroutes, to its associated oxygen analyzer 45, the luminescence resulting from the reactive pellet 32 and passing through the porthole 33. The light emitted by the pellet 32 reactive with oxygen is directly proportional to the oxygen concentration present in the the medium around the reactive pellet 32. Each oxygen analyzer 45 thus determines the oxygen level of the product in contact with the pellet 32 corresponding.
- the oxygen measuring device 21, 25 may be a chemical fiber sensor marketed by Presens Precision Sensing.
- Each oxygen analyzer 45 is connected by a link 50 to a recording and viewing unit 53.
- This recording and display unit 53 stores in a memory the data provided by the oxygen analyzers 45.
- This unit recording and display 53 also comprises a man / machine interface such as a screen 54 for displaying the measured data.
- This recording and display unit 53 records and / or displays, as a function of time, the oxygen content of the product 5 contained in the tank 4 and / or the neutral product 11 contained in the tank 4.
- At least one temperature sensor is mounted on the tank 4 to determine the temperature of the product 5 and / or the neutral product 11 inside the tank.
- This temperature sensor is connected to the recording and display unit 53 so that the recording and display unit 53 records and / or displays the oxygen content of the product 5 contained in the tank 4 and / or neutral product 11 contained in the tank 4 as a function of time and the measured temperature.
- At least one pressure sensor is mounted on the tank 4 to determine the pressure of the neutral product 11 inside the tank 4.
- This pressure sensor is connected to the recording unit and display 53 so that the recording and viewing unit 53 records and / or displays the oxygen level of the neutral product 11 contained in the tank 4, as a function of time, the temperature recorded and / or the pressure noted.
- this recording and display unit 53 comprises a wired or wireless communication port for transferring the recorded information.
- This recording and display unit 53 thus makes it possible to provide, for a batch of bottles, information on the rate of oxygen as a function of time and temperature and / or pressure, constituting information associated with bottles for check the quality of the bottled product.
- the measurement of the oxygen content inside the tank 4 makes it possible to intervene at the earliest possible on the bottling process and to possibly stop the bottling when the level of oxygen detected is too great.
- This technique also makes it possible to detect very quickly any leaks that may occur on the various circuits, for example supplying the product 5 or the neutral product 11.
- the object of the invention is to control the oxygen present inside the tank 4 of a printer 1. It should be noted that it can be provided to equip the tank 4 of the printer 1 by one or more analyzers of a physical quantity present inside the tank 4, such 2010/052925
- the analyzer of the physical quantity is connected by an optical or electrical connection to a detector of the physical quantity, fixed on the tank 4 as previously described.
- the detector is fixed on the tank 4 by crossing the wall so that the chip sensitive to the physical quantity is mounted inside the tank 4 to be in contact with the physical quantity present in the volume of product 5 or the gaseous sky 13.
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FR0959699A FR2954759B1 (fr) | 2009-12-31 | 2009-12-31 | Tireuse rotative integrant une mesure d'oxygene |
PCT/FR2010/052925 WO2011080483A1 (fr) | 2009-12-31 | 2010-12-28 | Tireuse rotative integrant une mesure d'oxygene et faisant partie d'une ligne d'embouteillage |
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EP2519466B1 EP2519466B1 (fr) | 2014-07-09 |
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