EP2566804A1 - Haltevorrichtung und verfahren für das halten von deckeln von flüssigkeitsbehältern - Google Patents

Haltevorrichtung und verfahren für das halten von deckeln von flüssigkeitsbehältern

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EP2566804A1
EP2566804A1 EP11729682A EP11729682A EP2566804A1 EP 2566804 A1 EP2566804 A1 EP 2566804A1 EP 11729682 A EP11729682 A EP 11729682A EP 11729682 A EP11729682 A EP 11729682A EP 2566804 A1 EP2566804 A1 EP 2566804A1
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nozzle
clamping
holding
housing pipe
movement
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EP2566804B1 (de
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Fabio Zardini
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Steelco SpA
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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
    • 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
    • B67B7/00—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers

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  • the present invention concerns a device and the relative method to hold lids of containers for liquids, for example but not exclusively feeding bottles, feeders, drinking troughs or other containers or receptacles, for feeding animals.
  • lids of containers for liquids for example but not exclusively feeding bottles, feeders, drinking troughs or other containers or receptacles, for feeding animals.
  • Plants are known, at least partly automated or manual, used for washing containers for liquids, for example but not only feeding bottles, feeders, drinking troughs or others, used for feeding animals such as for example laboratory guinea pigs or rodents or others.
  • Such washing plants are structured with several operating stations disposed in line, including a station for loading the closed containers, a station for removing the caps from the containers, or de-lidding station, a washing station, a filling station and a station for closing the washed and filled containers, using said caps.
  • the lids are normally constrained in watertight manner to the containers.
  • the closed containers are opened by removing the lids by a remover.
  • devices for holding the lids are provided, which are particularly complex and difficult to manage, requiring a high and complex manual intervention.
  • Purpose of the present invention is to achieve a device and to perfect a method which allow to open and hold even several lids at the same time, simply, economically and efficiently, and which overcome the disadvantages of the state of the art.
  • the Applicant has devised, tested and embodied the present invention to overcome the shortcomings of the state of the art and to obtain these and other purposes and advantages.
  • a holding device is applied for example in an at least partly automated plant for treating containers of liquids, in order to hold relative lids or caps equipped with a holed nozzle from which the liquid comes out.
  • the invention is applied particularly, advantageously but not exclusively, to remove or reposition simultaneously a plurality of lids of containers that are adjacent to each other, for example disposed in a basket or suchlike.
  • the holding device comprises a plurality of holding members, each provided with a housing pipe conformed so as to allow it to house at least part of the nozzle of the lid.
  • Each holding member also comprises a clamping member disposed in cooperation with the housing pipe of the nozzle, and able to temporarily and selectively allow or impede the movement of the nozzle through the housing pipe and therefore to selectively guarantee that the lid is held with respect to the relative holding member.
  • the device comprises an actuator element, one only for all the holding members, and kinematically connected to each clamping member so as to selectively and simultaneously move each clamping member between a clamping operating condition, in which it contacts the nozzle and prevents it from moving inside the housing pipe by holding it, and a release operating condition in which it is separated from the nozzle and allows it to move inside the housing pipe, releasing it.
  • all the holding members provided selectively and simultaneously modify their operating condition, determining a uni vocal and common holding or release condition of the lids.
  • the actuator element is kinematically connected to each clamping member, the management and coordination of the command transmission is extremely simple and precise compared with the pneumatic solutions normally provided in current automated solutions.
  • the solution according to the present invention is able to guarantee, simply and economically, an effective and uniform automated holding of a plurality of lids.
  • the housing pipe is made in such a manner that the nozzle enters into the pipe until it reaches a clamping segment in which it assumes a condition of cooperation with the clamping member.
  • each clamping member comprises a clamping element disposed in cooperation with the clamping segment to act radially against the nozzle of the lid.
  • the clamping member cooperates with an elastic member so as to automatically keep the clamping element in a clamping operating condition when the holding member and the nozzle of the lid are coupled.
  • the clamping member allows to hold the nozzle as soon as the latter is inserted inside the housing pipe, thus guaranteeing, immediately, that it is correctly held.
  • the holding device comprises one or more connection levers suitably constrained with each other and with the clamping members, to define the kinematic connection of the actuator element and the clamping members.
  • - fig. 1 is a schematic lateral view, partly in section, of a holding device for lids of containers of liquids according to the present invention, in a first operating condition;
  • - fig. 2 is a schematic lateral view, partly in section, of the holding device in fig. 1, in a second operating condition.
  • a holding device 10 is used to hold feeding bottles 12, for feeding small animals such as guinea pigs, mice, hamsters and others, for example used in laboratories for pharmaceutical research.
  • the feeding bottles 12 are normally closed at the top by means of relative metal lids 1 1 or caps, conformed to define a nozzle 1 la with a through hole from which the animal drinks the liquid contained therein.
  • each bottle 12 has a closing neck on which a packing 14 is disposed, annularly and externally, able to define the watertight seal once disposed to close the lid 1 1 on the bottle 12.
  • the holding device 10 allows to hold simultaneously a plurality of lids 11 in a simply and automated manner, and to move them towards and/or away from the bottles 12 during the automated steps of opening and closing the bottles 12.
  • the bottles 12 are disposed inside relative containing baskets, not shown, which typically keep the bottles 12 according to a desired ordered disposition, for example in rows and columns.
  • the holding device 10 can be mounted suspended over a bridge structure (not shown), above the baskets, and consists of a plurality of holding heads 15, disposed geometrically coherently with the disposition of the bottles 12 in the baskets.
  • the holding heads 15 are suitable to be taken into cooperation with the relative nozzles 1 la of each lid 1 1, in order to hold them and operate to at least partly constrain and/or release the lids with respect to the neck of the relative bottles 12.
  • Each holding head 15 has a substantially cylindrical conformation and comprises inside itself a housing pipe 17, having a conformation and size correlated to the nozzles 1 la of the lids 11.
  • each housing pipe 17 is open toward the outside through a mouth 17a having an increased diameter, and comprises a clamping segment 18 in which the nozzle 1 1a remains clamped with respect to the housing pipe 17.
  • Each holding head 15 also comprises a clamping member 30 of the mechanical type, disposed in selective cooperation with the clamping segment 18 of the housing pipe 17, to temporarily hold the nozzle 11a inside the housing pipe 17.
  • the clamping member 30 comprises a lever 25 pivoted to the lateral wall of the holding head 15 by means of a pin 26 which allows it to make a movement toward/way from the holding head 15.
  • the clamping member 30 also comprises a peg 27 attached to the lower end portion of the lever 25.
  • the peg 27 is selectively movable linearly inside a transverse hole made on the lateral wall of the holding head 15, in correspondence with the clamping segment 18.
  • the peg 27 thus has a radial movement with respect to the clamping segment 18, and to the nozzle 1 la possibly disposed inside it.
  • the clamping member 30 cooperates with an elastic ring 29, for example made of elastomer material, disposed outside the holding head 15, in cooperation with the lever 25 and in correspondence with the axis of movement of the peg 27.
  • the elastic ring 29 is suitable to keep the lever 25 normally thrusting against the peg 27.
  • the peg 27 is held elastically against the nozzle 1 la, possibly disposed inside the clamping segment 18.
  • the holding device 10 also comprises a double rod linear actuator 19, which is kinematically connected to each of the levers 25 of the clamping members 30 of the holding heads 15.
  • the linear actuator 19 is suitable to overcome the elastic resistance of the elastic rings 29 and to move each clamping member 30 selectively and simultaneously between a clamping operating condition, in which the peg 27 is kept under pressure inside the clamping segment 18 and insists radially on the nozzle 11a to hold it inside the housing pipe 17, and a release operating condition, in which the force of the elastic ring is overcome and the peg 27 is held detached from the nozzle 11a, allowing the latter to be released from the housing pipe 17.
  • a clamping operating condition in which the peg 27 is kept under pressure inside the clamping segment 18 and insists radially on the nozzle 11a to hold it inside the housing pipe 17, and a release operating condition, in which the force of the elastic ring is overcome and the peg 27 is held detached from the nozzle 11a, allowing the latter to be released from the housing pipe 17.
  • three holding heads 15 are provided, disposed adjacent to each other, in order to simultaneously hold three lids 1 1.
  • the linear actuator 19 is constrained directly to the two levers 25 of the clamping members 30 of the two external holding heads 15.
  • the lever 25 of the clamping member 30 is kinematically connected to a lever 25 of one of the other two clamping members 30, the one on the right in the attached drawings, by means of a connection lever 31.
  • the holding device 10 as described heretofore functions as follows.
  • the linear actuator 19 is activated, which moves simultaneously the two levers 25 of the clamping members 30 of the two lateral holding heads 15 and, by means of the connection lever 31, also the remaining lever 25 of the clamping member 30 of the central holding head 15.
  • this movement overcomes the elastic resistance of the elastic ring 29 and allows the peg 27 to move to a position such that it does not contact the nozzle 11a, when it is inside the clamping segment 18.
  • a relative movement actuator is associated with each holding head 15, in order to impart on each holding head 15 an independent linear movement.
  • a helical spring is provided, interposed between the lever 25 and the external surface of the holding head 15.
  • pneumatic means are associated with each holding head 15, to assist the holding of the lid 1 1, or to promote the detachment of the lid 1 1 from the bottle 12, according to known systems.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Closing Of Containers (AREA)
EP11729682.2A 2010-05-07 2011-05-05 Haltevorrichtung und verfahren für das halten von deckeln von flüssigkeitsbehältern Not-in-force EP2566804B1 (de)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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ITUD2010A000090A IT1400626B1 (it) 2010-05-07 2010-05-07 Dispositivo e procedimento di trattenimento per coperchi di contenitori di liquidi
PCT/IB2011/000954 WO2011138661A1 (en) 2010-05-07 2011-05-05 Holding device and method for holding lids of containers of liquids

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EP2566804A1 true EP2566804A1 (de) 2013-03-13
EP2566804B1 EP2566804B1 (de) 2014-04-02

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ITUD20120222A1 (it) 2012-12-27 2014-06-28 Steelco Spa Apparecchiatura e metodo per il trasporto di coperchi per contenitori
IT201800021190A1 (it) 2018-12-27 2020-06-27 Steelco Spa Dispositivo ribaltatore di contenitori di liquidi per il loro trattamento e relativo metodo di trattamento

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