EP2714528B1 - Behandlungsmaschine für behälter - Google Patents

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EP2714528B1
EP2714528B1 EP12718072.7A EP12718072A EP2714528B1 EP 2714528 B1 EP2714528 B1 EP 2714528B1 EP 12718072 A EP12718072 A EP 12718072A EP 2714528 B1 EP2714528 B1 EP 2714528B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • 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
    • 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 invention relates to a treatment machine for containers, for. As bottles, cans or the like, according to the preamble of claim 1, preferably a Be conceptionerversch spamaschine, with at least one supporting column and at least one connected to the column manipulation unit for the container, and with at least one direct drive with stator and rotor between the column and the Manipulation unit to create a mutual relative movement.
  • a Be conceptionerversch spamaschine with at least one supporting column and at least one connected to the column manipulation unit for the container, and with at least one direct drive with stator and rotor between the column and the Manipulation unit to create a mutual relative movement.
  • a generic treatment machine is from the EP 2 174 874 A1 known.
  • a treatment machine with direct drive between the column and manipulation unit is, for example, in the generic DE 10 2007 025 522 A1 presented. There, it is primarily about reducing the cost, the design effort and the number of required components.
  • direct drives are used in turntables, which are arranged on a turntable for aligning and / or equipping containers.
  • WO 2005/115848 A2 has set itself the goal of enabling the alignment or equipment of objects with little effort and high accuracy.
  • direct drive is used, in which no wear-prone speed-reducing transmission elements between the associated engine output shaft and the turntable are needed. This has proven itself in principle.
  • a drive for rotary machines with a fixed and a rotatable machine part On the machine part a wreath with a plurality of magnets is provided circumferentially. At another machine part, at least one corresponding, only a sub-sector of the ring overlapping stator is arranged.
  • the rotating machine part can be set in this way by a generated by the stator electric magnetic field in a defined rotation.
  • the invention is based on the technical problem of further developing such a treatment machine for containers so that an independent control of the relative movement between the column and the manipulation unit and optionally between the manipulation unit and associated manipulation elements can be achieved in a simple and cost-effective manner.
  • a compact and low-maintenance design should be created.
  • a central direct drive is first of all realized, which is generally received in the interior of the column.
  • the column is designed as a central hollow column. Because then can be embedded in a wall of the stator or rotor of the direct drive in question. In this context, it has further proven, if the embedded in the wall stator respectively rotor flush with a wall surface and in particular an outer wall surface of the column terminates.
  • the manipulation unit is generally composed of a head plate and the ring connected to it at the bottom.
  • the garland in turn may bear in its wall or flush with the inner wall surface the associated rotor or stator on the manipulation unit.
  • the design is again and advantageously made such that the rotor or stator is flush with a wall of the ring (the inner wall).
  • the stator is in the wall of the column formed as a central hollow column and terminates with the outer wall surface.
  • the rotor is located inside the ring as part of the manipulation unit, where it typically terminates flush with the inner wall surface of the ring in question from. Due to the inevitable spacing between on the one hand the outer wall surface of the supporting central column and on the other hand, the inner wall surface of the supporting column at least partially enclosing the head ring is automatically provided the required distance between on the one hand the stator and on the other hand the rotor. This distance typically moves in the millimeter range.
  • a continuous field (rotating field) generated in the stator -as similar to a linear motor-can produce a rotary movement of the rotor with its iron magnets following the rotating field generated by the stator.
  • the manipulation unit rotates about the supporting column in consideration of a rotation axis defined by the column, with a rotational speed given by the rotating field generated by the stator.
  • stator is located in or on the column and if it is designed to be stationary, then the rotor mounted in or on the rim of the manipulation unit is followed by the rotor Stator impressed on him rotary motion.
  • the manipulation unit with the ring can be designed to be fixed and in this case carry the stator.
  • the column is designed to rotate with the rotor or rotor therein.
  • the latter variant is typically not implemented in practice, but of course is possible and is encompassed by the invention.
  • a second direct drive is provided between the manipulation unit and at least one manipulation element connected thereto.
  • the manipulation element can not be restricted to respective closing heads, by means of which, for example, a screw cap is screwed onto a bottle.
  • the associated capper head is typically connected to a top plate.
  • the top plate forms together with the underside of the ring connected to the manipulation unit, which may be designed in the case of a container sealing machine as a capper ring.
  • the first direct drive between column and manipulation unit and the second direct drive between manipulation unit and manipulation element or multiple manipulation elements it is possible to design both direct drives independently.
  • the use of respective direct drives avoids a respective mechanical connection between the column and the manipulation unit and the manipulation unit and the manipulation element (s).
  • the two direct drives can be designed independently of each other and can be controlled independently or both together independently.
  • the second direct drive is advantageously formed with a stator and a rotor.
  • the stator is typically connected to the manipulation unit.
  • the rotor is connected to the Manipulation element or the multiple manipulation elements. In this way, the desired relative movement between on the one hand of the manipulation unit and on the other hand, the one or more manipulation elements is made available again. In principle, the procedure can also be reversed.
  • the rotor is provided on the manipulation unit, whereas the stator can be found on the manipulation element.
  • the two direct drives described above do not influence each other, by the respectively generated electromagnetic (rotary) fields, it has proven useful if the two direct drives are arranged axially spaced from each other.
  • the stator and the rotor of the second direct drive are also slightly spaced in matching radial plane and without intermediate power transmission elements.
  • the design is comparable to the first direct drive.
  • the stator and the rotor are each arranged in a radial plane in comparison to the central column.
  • the two direct drives with their associated stators and rotors are each arranged radially in comparison to the central column in axially spaced-apart radial planes.
  • the axial distance of the radial planes is typically greater than or equal to the radial distance of the respective direct drive compared to the central column designed.
  • stator and rotor of the respective direct drive has an associated radial distance compared to the central column. It has proven itself overall, if the radial distance of the stator and rotor of the first direct drive is less than or equal to the radial distance of the second direct drive. The axial distance between the two radial planes spanned by the direct drives is now typically greater than or equal to the (smaller) radial distance of the first direct drive.
  • the edge side of the manipulation unit it has proven useful if several manipulation elements are provided on the edge side of the manipulation unit.
  • the individual manipulation elements are typically applied together along a control cam of the second direct drive.
  • the one or more manipulation elements are each equipped with individual drives.
  • the respective individual drive advantageously ensures a vertical movement and / or rotational movement of the associated manipulation elements.
  • first of all the first direct drive can act on the manipulation unit with respect to the column with a controllable / controllable relative movement.
  • the capper ring which is usually realized at this point, can be subjected to a controllable or controllable speed with respect to the central column with the aid of the first direct drive.
  • the column and the manipulation unit as well as the one or both direct drives according to the invention are each rotationally symmetrical to a common and coincident central axis.
  • the central axis typically corresponds to the central axis of the cylindrically designed column and consequently the axis of rotation of the manipulation unit with respect to the column.
  • a control unit is advantageously provided, which preferably serves for the independent control of on the one hand the first and on the other hand the second direct drive. In this way, the first direct drive with a Drive the circulation speed of the top plate opposite the column. With the aid of the second direct drive, independently of this, a rotational / closing speed of the associated manipulation elements or the closing heads can be predetermined.
  • the control unit may also control the one or more individual drives.
  • a treatment machine for container 1 is shown.
  • the containers 1 may not be limited to plastic bottles and in particular PET bottles.
  • the treatment machine is in the present case designed as a container closure machine.
  • screw caps 2 are turned on the associated bottles 1.
  • manipulation elements 3 which are designed here as Verschweerköpfe 3.
  • the manipulation elements 3 are arranged circumferentially on a top plate 4, which defines a manipulation unit 4, 5 together with a ring 5 connected to the top plate 4 on the underside.
  • the manipulation unit 4, 5 is rotatably mounted about a rotation axis R on a supporting column 6.
  • the supporting column 6 remains stationary, whereas the manipulation unit 4, 5 rotates about the axis of rotation R.
  • the column 6 is designed as a central hollow column and formed predominantly cylindrical.
  • the column 6 and also the manipulation unit 4, 5 are in each case rotationally symmetrical in comparison to the rotation axis R or the coincident central axis R coinciding with the rotation axis R. This also applies to a first direct drive 7, 8 to be described in more detail below as well as a second direct drive 9, 10.
  • the first direct drive 7, 8 is equipped with a stator 7 and a rotor 8 and arranged between the column 6 and the manipulation unit 4, 5 in order to produce a mutual relative movement.
  • the stator 7 of the first direct drive 7, 8 is arranged in the interior of the column 6, whereas the rotor 8 undergoes a placement in the interior of the pillar 6 cross-ring 5 of the manipulation unit 4, 5.
  • the procedure can be reversed as described, but this is not shown in detail.
  • the stator 7 terminates flush with the outer wall surface of the column 6.
  • the rotor 8 is embedded flush in the inner wall surface of the rim 5. Due to the (small) distance between on the one hand, the outer wall surface of the column 6 and on the other hand, the inner wall surface of the ring 5 of a few millimeters, the distance between the two surfaces of the one hand, the stator 7 and on the other hand, the rotor 8 predetermined. This is also in the millimeter range.
  • stator 7 and the rotor 8 are in a matching radial plane E 1 for the first direct drive 7, 8.
  • the local stator 9 and the rotor 10 are arranged in a matching radial plane E 2 .
  • Both radial planes E 1 and E 2 each extend along a radius with respect to the matching axis or axis of rotation R.
  • the stator 7, 9 and the associated rotor 8, 10 have a small (radial) distance from one another, which is typically in the millimeter range is settled.
  • the first direct drive 7, 8 is arranged as described between the column 6 and the manipulation unit 4, 5.
  • the second direct drive 9, 10 is located between the manipulation unit 4, 5 and the one or more manipulation elements 3 connected to the manipulation unit 4, 5.
  • the two direct drives 7, 8 and 9, 10 are designed independently of each other and can be located each independently or both control.
  • a control unit 11 is provided, which for applying the respective direct drives 7, 8; 9, 10 serves.
  • the two direct drives 7, 8; 9, 10 are arranged with their associated stators 7, 9 and rotors 8, 10 respectively radially compared to the central column 6 and radially to the axis of rotation R.
  • the two direct drives 7, 8; 9, 10 in the axially spaced-apart radial planes E 1 , E 2 .
  • the two radial planes E 1 and E 2 are spaced apart axially by the amount A.
  • This axial distance A of the two radial planes E 1 and E 2 is typically greater than or equal to a radial distance B 1 , B 2 of the respective direct drive 7, 8; 9, 10 compared to the central column 6 and the axis of rotation R designed.
  • the axial distance A of the radial planes E 1 , E 2 is greater than or equal to the smallest radial distance B 1 of the associated direct drive 7, 8 designed in comparison to the central column 6 and the axis of rotation R. It is understood that the design rules reproduced above apply only by way of example to the embodiment shown and do not generally limit the invention.
  • the several edge side of the top plate 4 provided manipulation elements or Verschweerkexcellent 3 can be acted upon by a common control cam 12.
  • the control cam 12 is regularly - like the central pillar 6 - designed stationary. In this way, the control cam 12 is traversed, as it were, by the manipulation elements or closing heads 3 during their rotation about the axis of rotation R. Since the control cam 12 has a more or less sinusoidal course in the example case, perform the Verschwinerköpfe or manipulation elements 3 a lifting movement when they are moved along the control cam 12 rotationally.
  • the first direct drive 7, 8 as well as the second direct drive 9, 10 and, of course, the individual drive 13 described last can also be controlled or regulated independently of each other.
  • the manipulation elements 3 can perform an independent movement of the associated manipulation unit 4, 5.
  • the rotational speed of the top plate 4 is predetermined in comparison to the central column 6.
  • the manipulation elements or Verschwinerkexcellent 3 the described lifting movement, in which the wreath 5 relative to the stationary Control cam 12 rotates.
  • the rotational movement of the ring 5 via the gear 14 - at least in sections - drives the associated manipulation element or the closing head 3.
  • the manipulation elements or closing heads 3 perform the desired rotation / closure movement (cf. Fig. 1 ).
  • the treatment machine for containers after Fig. 1 is equipped with only the first direct drive 7, 8, whereas the connection of the ring 5 with the respective associated manipulation element 3 is conventionally via an intermediate gear 14.
  • this rotational movement about the rotation axis R ensures that the respective manipulation element 3, which meshes with the ring 5 via the gear 14, performs a rotational movement, which in conjunction with the associated control cam 12, the desired lifting / rotating movement, so a total of the screwing movement for the screw 2 generates.
  • the rim 5 is not coupled directly to the respective manipulation element 3. Rather, the respective manipulation element 3 has its own rotary drive, which is provided by the second direct drive 9, 10.
  • the individual manipulation elements 3 can be controlled independently of the movement of the top plate 4 relative to the column 6 in their combined screw movement in the context of this embodiment.
  • the treatment machine for containers after Fig. 3 finally engages in addition to the cam 12 after the Fig. 1 and 2 to the respective individual drive 13 back, which is associated with the respective associated manipulation element 3.
  • the single drive 13 With the help of the single drive 13, the combined vertical / rotary movement of the screw cap 2 is generated, regardless of the rotational speed of the top plate 4 and also independent of the rotational movement of the capping 3.

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