EP2813462A1 - Dispositif et procédé de remplissage d'un récipient avec un produit de remplissage - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de remplissage d'un récipient avec un produit de remplissage Download PDF

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EP2813462A1
EP2813462A1 EP14172086.2A EP14172086A EP2813462A1 EP 2813462 A1 EP2813462 A1 EP 2813462A1 EP 14172086 A EP14172086 A EP 14172086A EP 2813462 A1 EP2813462 A1 EP 2813462A1
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Stefan PÖSCHL
Rupert Meinzinger
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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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C3/2614—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling
    • B67C3/2617—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling the liquid valve being opened by mechanical or electrical actuation
    • 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
    • B67C2003/266—Means for centering the container with the filling head

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  • the present invention relates to a device and a method for filling a container with a filling product, preferably for filling a container with a carbonated filling product in a beverage filling plant.
  • lifting elements are installed in a plane above the container mouths of the container to be filled, so that here above the container to be filled further components are provided on which, for example, a condensation is possible, and thus require a higher effort for sanitation, there For example, condensation can drip into open containers.
  • an apparatus for filling a container with a filling product preferably for filling a container with a carbonated beverage in a beverage filling plant, comprising a drive for applying a sealing sleeve to a container mouth of the container to be filled, the drive comprising a piston, which separating a working chamber from a biasing chamber which is acted upon to return the piston with a biasing pressure.
  • a pressure compensation device is provided between the preload chamber and the working chamber, wherein the pressure compensating device for holding a predetermined preload pressure range in the preload chamber, preferably between an upper and a lower limit is formed.
  • the biasing chamber can always be maintained in a predetermined pressure range.
  • a defined range of pressure in the preload chamber preferably between an upper and lower limit, can be achieved. So it can be ensured that the pressure in the preload chamber is always so great that a reliable return of the sealing sleeve is achieved in the starting position.
  • the predetermined biasing pressure range in the biasing chamber can also be guaranteed be that a complete pressing of the sealing sleeve is always achieved at the respective container mouth with a predetermined contact pressure and so a reliable seal, for example when filling the container with a carbonated beverage is achieved.
  • the pressure compensation device comprises a first check valve and a second check valve, wherein the first check valve and the second check valve allow opposing flow rates between the biasing chamber and the working chamber.
  • the first check valve is preferably biased so that the preload chamber is acted upon by an overpressure, preferably an overpressure relative to the ventilated working chamber.
  • the second check valve is biased so that a pressure exceeding the biasing pressure region is reduced from the biasing chamber.
  • a first check valve which allows a volume flow from the working chamber into the biasing chamber and due to the biasing force of the check valve allows a lower pressure in the biasing chamber, as it is present in the working chamber.
  • a second check valve is preferably provided, which allows a volume flow from the biasing chamber into the working chamber, wherein the second check valve has a biasing force such that the pressure in the biasing chamber is lowered at a vented working chamber to a predetermined initial level. In other words, such an excessive pressure buildup in the biasing chamber is avoided, for example due to a pumping effect and / or leaks.
  • a biasing pressure is preferably caused in the biasing chamber, which corresponds to the lower limit of the biasing pressure range.
  • Biasing pressure in the biasing chamber caused, which corresponds to the upper limit of the biasing pressure range.
  • the respective pressures always refer to the position of the piston in the initial state, ie with vented working chamber.
  • the pressure compensation device is designed so that it forms a biasing pressure range in the biasing chamber, which allows a return of the piston to the starting position, so that the sealing sleeve is also moved to the starting position.
  • the build up of the pressure in the working chamber and the movement of the piston in the direction of the biasing chamber serve to press the sealing sleeve onto a corresponding container mouth.
  • the set via the first check valve or its biasing force in the biasing chamber is suitably sized so that a pressing of the sealing sleeve on the container mouth with a predetermined pressing force is possible, although in the biasing chamber, a pressure prevails, which the movement of the piston for applying the sealing sleeve counteracts.
  • the adjustable via the first check valve pressure is adjusted so that a pressure cushion is built up in the biasing chamber, which is a complete resetting or retraction of the sealing sleeve in ventilated working chamber, preferably at vented to atmospheric pressure working chamber is enabled. Accordingly, when the sealing sleeve is completely set back, there must still be a certain overpressure in the preloading chamber in order to allow a safe return.
  • the second check valve which allows a volume flow from the biasing chamber into the working chamber, ensures that no pressure builds up in the biasing chamber over time, which exceeds an upper limit in the fully retracted position, that is, the home position. In other words, during venting of the working chamber, the pressure in the preload chamber is again released until only the pressure required to fully reset the sealing sleeve is present in the preload chamber.
  • the second check valve can be designed accordingly so that it exhausts so far on the setting of the biasing force, the pressure from the biasing chamber until there is only a slight overpressure against the ambient atmosphere.
  • pressure compensation device is also achieved that in the biasing chamber, there is always a pressure which on the one hand allows the complete Ausberichtn the sealing sleeve and thus a complete sealing of the container.
  • the sealing sleeve is magnetically coupled to the drive.
  • a gas-tight separation between the piston and the sealing sleeve is particularly preferred, such that the drive and the sealing sleeve are hygienically separated from each other.
  • the pressure compensation device comprises at least one throttle check valve.
  • the biasing chamber can continue to dispense with the provision of a return spring, so that does not need to resort to susceptible parts.
  • the predetermined preload pressure area serves to bias the plunger to the home position. On further biasing means can be waived accordingly.
  • the sealing sleeve preferably has a sealing ring which has a larger diameter than a diameter predetermined by a gas-tight partition wall, wherein the sealing ring is preferably arranged concentrically to the sealing sleeve. Due to the occurring deformation a reliable seal is achieved.
  • the sealing ring comprises a Teflon compound. In this way, excessive wear on the conventional seals can be avoided.
  • a method for filling a container with a filling product preferably for filling a container with a carbonated filling product in a beverage filling plant, proposed, comprising applying a sealing sleeve to a container mouth of the container to be filled by actuation of a sealing sleeve coupled to the drive, which Piston comprises, which separates a working chamber of a biased for resetting the piston with a biasing pressure biasing chamber.
  • the bias pressure in the biasing chamber is maintained by means of a pressure compensation device in a predetermined preload pressure range, preferably between an upper and lower limit.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 is schematically shown a device 1 for filling a container with a filling product, in particular for filling a container with a carbonated beverage in a beverage filling plant.
  • the beverage is dispensed via a schematically indicated product valve 2, which has a corresponding outlet sleeve 20, in a container, not shown, to be filled.
  • the product valve 2 on a valve body 22 for controlling the outflow or the outflow velocity, wherein the filling product then emerges from the mouth 24 substantially in the free jet.
  • a sealing sleeve 3 is provided, which is displaceable in the direction of arrow upwards and downwards, wherein the in the FIGS. 1 and 2 shown upper position of the sealing sleeve 3 is the starting position in which a new container to be filled under the device 1 can be brought. In a downwardly deflected position, the sealing sleeve 3 then serves, pressed against a container mouth to center the container to be filled both with respect to the mouth 24 of the outlet sleeve 20 of the product valve 2, as well as to provide a gas-tight seal.
  • the container to be filled with a carbonated beverage can be preloaded with a biasing gas before filling product flows through the product valve 2 into the container.
  • the container After lowering the sealing sleeve 3 and pressing the sealing sleeve 3 to the container mouth, the container is either immediately preloaded with a clamping gas or biased after a Gas Whyvorgang with the clamping gas, and then the product valve 2 is opened by lifting the valve body 22 so that the Fill product can leak.
  • the valve body 22 After completion of the filling process, for example, controlled by a volume sensor 28, the valve body 22 is lowered again, so that the product flow from the mouth 24 of the product valve 2 is interrupted. Thereafter, the pressurized, completely filled container can be relieved via a relief valve 40 and the sealing sleeve 3 can again in the in the FIGS. 1 and 2 be retracted shown starting position. Starting from this starting position again a new container can be driven under the sealing sleeve 3, and the process begins again.
  • the biasing, purging and / or relieving of the container with purge gas, bias gas and product gas may be achieved via a gas passage 4 communicating with a respective relief valve 40 and a biasing gas valve 42 which is in communication with the product spout simultaneously.
  • the sealing sleeve 3 is connected to a drive 5.
  • the coupling between the sealing sleeve 3 and the drive 5 is magnetic.
  • the sealing sleeve 3 has a first permanent magnet 30, which is arranged opposite a second permanent magnet 50 of the drive 5.
  • the drive 5 is annularly arranged around the sealing sleeve 3 around and moves in a cylinder chamber 52, which is formed in the embodiment shown as an annular chamber.
  • the drive 5 has a piston 54, which is also annular in the embodiment shown and which extends concentrically to the sealing sleeve 3.
  • the piston 54 divides the cylinder space 52 into a prestressing chamber 56 and a working chamber 58.
  • the biasing chamber 56 is sealed by the piston 54 substantially gas-tight relative to the working chamber 58.
  • the working chamber 58 can be acted upon via a pneumatic channel 59 with compressed air or vented to ambient pressure.
  • the piston 54 Upon loading the working chamber 58 with a pressure via the pneumatic line 59, the piston 54 is moved in the direction of the biasing chamber 56 so that the volume in the biasing chamber 56 is compressed.
  • the sealing sleeve 3 via the magnetic coupling which is made via the two permanent magnets 30, 50, taken down, so that the sealing sleeve 3 can be pressed onto the container mouth.
  • the piston 54 which divides the cylinder chamber 52 into the working chamber 58 and the biasing chamber 56 and is correspondingly provided with a seal 540, which allow a corresponding gas-tight seal, must meet no special hygienic requirements accordingly.
  • a first check valve 70 is provided, which allows a volume flow from the working chamber 58 into the biasing chamber 56.
  • the first check valve 70 is biased by its corresponding biasing device into the closing device so that the introduced into the biasing chamber 56 pressure is lower than the pressure applied to the working chamber 58.
  • the bias pressure built up in the biasing chamber 56 which is necessary to return the piston 54 completely to its original position, increases over several process cycles. Such an increase in pressure can be done by, for example, small leaks occur in the seal 540 of the piston 54 relative to the cylinder chamber 52.
  • the biasing pressure in the biasing chamber 56 becomes too high, a reliable pressing of the sealing sleeve 3 at the respective container mouth can no longer be achieved, since the pressure applied to the working chamber 58 is then no longer sufficient to sufficiently build up the biasing pressure built up in the biasing chamber 56 to overcome.
  • a second check valve 72 is provided, which allows a volume flow from the biasing chamber 56 into the working chamber 58.
  • This second biasing valve 72 allows due to its bias after venting of the working chamber 58, the gas pressure present in the biasing chamber 56 so far that only a predetermined, for the complete return of the piston 54 necessary pressure in the biasing chamber 56 is present.
  • the first biasing valve 70 and the second biasing valve 72 are respectively formed as a pressure compensating device 7 so as to let opposite flow rates through.
  • the respective biasing elements in the check valves 70, 72 are formed so that the pressure located in the biasing chamber 56 is always maintained in a predetermined Vorspanntik Kunststoff so that on the one hand, a reliable return to the starting position can be achieved, characterized in that also in the Starting position is a slight overpressure in the biasing chamber 56 relative to the ambient pressure.
  • this biasing pressure in the preload chamber 56 but not so high that the force applied to the working chamber 58 pressure is no longer sufficient for complete pressing of the sealing sleeve 3.
  • the pressure compensating device 7 makes it possible to maintain the pressure in the biasing chamber 56 in a predetermined preload pressure range, which enables a reliable application of the sealing sleeve 3 to a mouth region for sealing, as well as a reliable reset of the sealing sleeve 3 in the starting position.
  • the sealing sleeve 3 is preferably designed so that it can be backwashed completely for cleaning.
  • an upper sealing ring 32 is provided, which in the complete retracted position, as in the FIGS. 1 and 2 is shown, a Schuzzikanal 34 provides, which allows a complete backwashing.
  • the upper sealing ring 32 is preferably designed so that it is slightly more extensive than the predetermined by the gas-tight partition wall 6 diameter. Accordingly, when lowering the sealing sleeve 3 down, the upper sealing ring 32 is brought into direct contact with the gas-tight partition wall 6 and thereby slightly deformed so that a fluid-tight sealing is achieved here. Accordingly, in the lowered position, in which a loading of the container takes place with span gas, purge gas and product, a complete seal can be achieved.
  • the sealing ring 32 preferably comprises a Teflon compound, so that the friction on the gas-tight partition wall 6 is minimized and, correspondingly, a secure resetting is made possible only on the basis of the prestressing pressure recorded in the pretensioning chamber 56.
  • the sealing sleeve 3 is further guided in the lower region by means of a guide ring 36, which also preferably comprises a Teflon compound material in order to provide a smooth running.
  • the guide ring 36 is preferably also slightly compressed because it has a smaller inner diameter than the outer diameter of the sealing sleeve 3. In this way, a secure sealing of the overall device can be achieved.
  • the in the FIGS. 1 and 2 Device 1 shown for filling a container is preferably accommodated in a rotary filler, so that a corresponding such filling member is provided at each position of the machine division.
  • the device 1 is provided, for example, in the form of a filling element of a beverage filling plant, which can often be provided in a rotary filler in a beverage filling plant.
  • a plurality of filling members are provided corresponding to the machine division of a rotary filler, wherein each individual filling member serves to fill a container arranged underneath and to be filled with the filling product.
  • the proposed filling member it is also possible to design a beverage bottling plant and in particular a filler so that it is intended both for filling with carbonated drinks, in which case the sealing sleeve 3 is always moved down to the container mouth of the container to be filled.
  • the device 1 for jet filling, for example, non-carbonated drinks such as still waters. Accordingly, the apparatus shown is predestined for bottling mineral waters, both carbonated and non-carbonated
  • Mineral waters can be filled with the same filling organ.
  • bottling non-carbonated mineral waters can be dispensed with a shutdown of the sealing sleeve 3 accordingly, so that the filling member works in principle as a free jet filler.
  • a seal 38 between the sealing sleeve 3 and the outlet sleeve 20 is further provided, which in the retracted state, ie in the FIGS. 1 and 2 shown starting position, the seal between the sealing sleeve 3 and the outlet sleeve 20 of the product valve 2 provides.

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