EP2748102A2 - Dispositif de remplissage et procédé de commande d'un dispositif de remplissage - Google Patents

Dispositif de remplissage et procédé de commande d'un dispositif de remplissage

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EP2748102A2
EP2748102A2 EP12743894.3A EP12743894A EP2748102A2 EP 2748102 A2 EP2748102 A2 EP 2748102A2 EP 12743894 A EP12743894 A EP 12743894A EP 2748102 A2 EP2748102 A2 EP 2748102A2
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filling
elements
closing
machine
closing elements
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EP2748102B1 (fr
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Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch
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KHS GmbH
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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
    • B67C3/001—Cleaning of filling devices
    • B67C3/002—Cleaning of filling devices using cups or dummies to be placed under the filling heads
    • B67C3/004—Cleaning of filling devices using cups or dummies to be placed under the filling heads permanently attached to the filling machine and movable between a rest and a working position
    • 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
    • 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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C2003/2668—Means for adapting the filling head to various sizes of containers
    • 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
    • B67C3/001—Cleaning of filling devices
    • B67C3/005—Cleaning outside parts of filling devices

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a filling machine according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a method according to the preamble of claim 9.
  • Filling machines for filling containers with a liquid product are available in different designs and for different filling methods (e.g.
  • filling machines of rotating design are also known, with a rotor which can be driven circumferentially about a vertical machine axis, on the circumference of which a multiplicity of filling points each having a filling material discharge opening and a container carrier are formed for filling the containers.
  • Disinfection operation is performed, namely using
  • Closing elements for example in the form of rinsing caps or rinsing sleeves, with which the filling elements are at least liquid-tight in the region of their Gretabgabeö Anlagen Maschinenen. It is also known (DE 10 2009 033 575 A1) that each filling element independently assigned and arranged on the rotor closing elements by pivoting about an axis oriented parallel to the machine axis between a parking position in which the closing element is during the filling operation, in a working position move, in which the closing element is applied below the filling element and during the cleaning and / or disinfecting operation of the filling machine in sealing position against the associated filling element.
  • each filling point which is designed as a stroke-pivot drive, not only the pivoting of the closing elements between the parking position and the working position, but also for a stroke of the closing elements parallel to the machine axis for their pressing and Wiederentfernen against or from the respective filling element.
  • This solution is structurally complex and expensive as well as prone to failure.
  • a container treatment machine of a rotating design (DE 103 40 365 A1) with a plurality of treatment stations each provided with a treatment head on the circumference of a rotor which can be driven in rotation around a vertical machine axis. Below the treatment heads is the one
  • Treatment heads are provided to different containers and / or modes of operation of the container treatment machine.
  • the interchangeable components of which an interchangeable component in each interchangeable component group is also a closure element for a CIP cleaning and / or CIP disinfection of the treatment heads, are located below the treatment heads and move with the rotor rotating in a common trajectory with the treatment heads.
  • Pivoting or twisting of the support ring can be coupled to each treatment head in each case the respectively desired interchangeable component.
  • a certain disadvantage here is, inter alia, that the arrangement of the interchangeable components in the orbit of the treatment heads, i. at the same radial distance from the machine axis as the treatment heads a minimum distance between
  • the object of the invention is to provide a filling machine with the filling elements or
  • a filling machine according to claim 1 is formed.
  • a method for controlling such a filling machine is the subject of claim 9. According to an aspect of the invention, the filling machine according to the invention differs from the prior art in that for moving the
  • Closing elements are in their parking position within the path of movement, on which the filling elements rotate when driven transport element, for example, when the rotor is driven, or that in a rotor designed as
  • Transport element located in the parking position locking elements have a radial distance from the machine axis, which is smaller than the radial distance of the filling elements of the machine axis.
  • the filling machine preferably has a separating or protective wall on the circulating transport element or rotor, which extends within the movement path of the filling elements and shields the closing elements located in the parking position with respect to the filling elements or filling positions.
  • the protective wall can be at least partially opened, specifically for releasing a movement space for the closing elements.
  • a lifting movement of the closing elements parallel to the machine axis which also preferred in this embodiment, the final sealing position between the moving into the working position closing elements and the filling elements only by lowering the Filling elements or a supporting part of this
  • Transport element or the rotor is made.
  • “Closure elements” are in the context of the invention, in particular flushing caps or rinsing sleeves, but also other, for example, plate-shaped closing elements with which at least a liquid-tight closing of the filling elements in
  • tainers are in particular cans, bottles, tubes, pouches, each made of metal, glass and / or plastic, but also other packaging materials which are suitable for filling liquid or viscous products.
  • FIGS. 1-3 each schematically illustrate a filling machine for filling
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 show a further embodiment of the present invention, in which the lifting movement of the swivel arm 12 takes place by means of an inclined plane 18 arranged in the bearing element 17.
  • the filling machine of the type generally designated 1 in the figures serves for filling containers 2 in the form of bottles with a liquid filling material.
  • the filling machine 1 on the circumference of a vertical
  • Machine axis MA circumferentially driven rotor 3 a variety of
  • the filling of the container takes place on the angular range of the rotational movement of the rotor 3 between the container inlet and the container outlet.
  • Each filling position 4 in the illustrated embodiment consists essentially of a container carrier 5 provided on a lower rotor part 3.1 which is rotatably driven about the machine axis MA and of a rotor part 3.2 which can be driven circumferentially around the machine axis MA
  • Filling element 6 for controlled feeding for example, the filling height-controlled and / or filling quantity-controlled and / or volume-controlled feeding of the filling material in the respective provided at the filling position 4 container 2.
  • Filling elements 6 are provided on the circumference of a ring boiler 7, in the
  • the container carrier 5 are executed in the illustrated embodiment as a container plate or bottle plate on which stand up with their container axis parallel to the machine axis MA oriented container with its bottom.
  • the filling machine 1 is suitable for processing containers 2 of different sizes or heights.
  • the filling machine 1 further comprises an annular separation or protective wall 9 concentrically surrounding the machine axis MA, which is held on the underside of the upper rotor part 3.2 or of the annular boiler 7 and projects downward over this underside, ie in the direction of the rotor part 3.1.
  • the protective wall 9, which is offset radially inwards relative to the filling positions 4 and thus in particular a contamination (eg by contents and / or shards of burst containers 2) of the enclosed by the protective wall 9 inner region of the filling machine 1 and the rotor 3 and the prevents there existing components, is designed so that their relation to the machine axis MA axial length, etc., also changeable to adapt to the different settings of the filling machine.
  • the protective wall 9 is formed in two parts in the illustrated embodiment, consisting of the two, each made of a metallic sheet, for example made of sheet steel, the machine axis MA concentrically enclosing annular wall elements 9.1 and 9.2. Of these, the wall element 9.1 is held on the underside of the rotor part 3.2. The wall element 9.2 is in the direction of the machine axis MA relative to the wall element 9.1
  • the wall elements 9.1 and 9.2 acting means are provided, which has these wall elements both in a first state of the protective wall 9 in which this according to the left representation of Figure 1 has its minimum axial height and the two wall elements 9.1 and 9.2 are immediately adjacent to one another, and lock and / or hold in a second state shown on the right in FIG. 1, in which the protective wall 9 has its maximum axial height and for this the wall elements 9.1 and 9.2 adjoin one another in the direction of the machine axis MA.
  • the return of the protective wall 2 from its second state to the first state takes place, for example, by lowering the rotor part 3.2.
  • at least one stop 10 is provided on the lower rotor part 3.1, for example in the form of a machine axis MA concentrically enclosing ring.
  • Stop 10 comes when lowering the upper rotor part 3.2, the wall element 9.2 with its lower edge to the plant, creating it in the wall element 9.1
  • the filling elements 6 are each provided with a probe-like, over the Greelementunterseite wegsammlung and with its axis coaxially with a Greelementachse FA or parallel to the machine axis MA oriented functional element 6.1.
  • This functional element 6.1 which, for example, a filling height determining probe and / or a gas or return gas tube and / or a Trinox tube, i. a tube which serves to introduce a controlled foaming of the contents in the headspace of the filled container 2 for a displacement of oxygen from this headspace, extends into the respective container 2 during the filling process.
  • each filling element 6 is a
  • these flushing sleeves 11 are in a parking position within the space enclosed by the protective wall 9.
  • the rinsing sleeves 11 are moved into their working position, in such a way that each rinsing sleeve 11, the associated filling element 6 on its underside and in particular in the region of the local Gregutabgabeö Anlagenong tightly closes and also receives the functional element 6.1 , as shown in FIG.
  • the flushing sleeves 11 are each attached to one end of a pivot support in the form of a cranked pivot arm 12, which is mounted by means of a hinge pin 13 on the lower rotor part 3.1 about the axis parallel to the machine axis MA and at the same time in the direction of the machine axis MA on the bolt 13 slidably is guided.
  • Swivel arms 12 is a control or pivot ring 14 is provided, which is arranged concentrically to the machine axis MA and for the pivoting of the purging sleeves 1 1 and the pivot arms 12 by a predetermined angle to the
  • Machine axis MA is rotatable, as shown in Figures 4 and 5 with the
  • Double arrow A is indicated.
  • the pivot ring 14 is for example with a
  • Swing arms 12 causes.
  • the bolt-like carrier 15 which is likewise oriented parallel to the machine axis MA with its axis, is provided on the end of the respective pivoting arm 12 remote from the flushing sleeve 11.
  • the mounting of the pivot arm 12 on the bolt 13 is located between the two ends of the pivot arm 12 and that at a distance from the purging sleeve 1 1, which is substantially greater than the distance from the driver 15th
  • a lifting cam 16 is provided, which is formed in the illustrated embodiment of an inclined surface with an imaginary, oriented perpendicular to the machine axis MA plane an acute angle, ie an angle smaller than 90 ° and includes on the respective pivot arm 12 slides during pivoting from the parking position to the working position, whereby the respective flushing sleeve 11 is raised at the same time in the direction of the machine axis MA with this pivoting.
  • the respective Flushing sleeve 11 is arranged coaxially with the axis FA of the associated filling element 6.
  • the conversion of the filling machine 1 from the operating state "filling" to the operating state "CIP cleaning and / or sterilization” takes place, for example, in such a manner that, after the filling machine 1 has been emptied, the filling machine 1 is idling. Then, when there are no more containers 2 at the filling positions 4, the upper rotor part 3.2 is lowered into the lowest position, whereby the protective wall 1 is transferred in its first state by pushing together of the wall elements 9.1 and 9.2. In immediately adjacent and interlocked wall elements 9.1, the upper rotor part 3.2 is moved back to an upper position, so that then the state shown on the left in Figure 2 is reached.
  • Rinse sleeves 11 are initially axially spaced from the filling elements 6 and in particular also from the probe elements 6.1 and the respective
  • Swivel arm supported on the lifting cam 16 takes place a lowering of the upper
  • Machine axis MA can be raised and lowered, as is indicated in this figure with the double arrow B.
  • the bearing element 17 is then preferably a common for all locking elements or purging sleeves 11 and for all pivot arms 12 ring-like, the machine axis MA concentrically enclosing bearing element.
  • Swivel arm 12 from the initial length L1 to the end length L2.
  • the swivel arm 12 is in its initial position at least partially on the inclined plane 18, so that the swivel arm 12 is raised by its movement relative to the swivel arm 12 and thus also relative to the inclined plane 18. Due to the geometric dimensions of the entire device and the movements of the pivot ring 14, the pivot arm 12 is thus a total of lifted, lengthwise shifted relative to the bearing element 17 and additionally rotated with its vertical axis about the axis of rotation of the bearing element 17.
  • the movement path of the rinsing sleeves 11 when moving between the parking position and the working position is in particular designed by the combination of the pivoting movement and the lifting movement such that the rinsing sleeves 11 even in the processing of the container with the lowest height even under the upper rotor part 3.2 Find place, and designed such that the lower edge of the protective wall 9 does not rest on the pivot arms 12 during the CIP cleaning and / or CIP disinfection, and designed so that the protruding probe-like elements 6.1 of the filling elements 6 completely absorbed in the respective rinsing sleeve can be and in this case a liquid-tight connection between the purging sleeve 11 and the filling element 6 can be made.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une machine de remplissage pour remplir des récipients avec un produit liquide, comprenant une pluralité d'emplacements de remplissage sur un rotor entraîné en rotation autour d'un axe de machine vertical, chaque emplacement de remplissage présentant au moins un élément de remplissage, un support de récipient et un élément de fermeture, par exemple, sous la forme d'un bouchon de rinçage ou d'une douille de rinçage, et chaque élément de fermeture pouvant être déplacé par un mécanisme d'entraînement entre une position de mise en attente dans le trajet de déplacement des éléments de remplissage et une position de travail, dans laquelle l'élément de fermeture respectif est disposé coaxialement avec l'élément de remplissage associé et sous ce dernier.
EP12743894.3A 2011-08-23 2012-08-02 Dispositif de remplissage et procédé de commande d'un dispositif de remplissage Active EP2748102B1 (fr)

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