EP2848325B1 - Dispositif calorfuge pour le nettoyage de caisses de boisson - Google Patents

Dispositif calorfuge pour le nettoyage de caisses de boisson Download PDF

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EP2848325B1
EP2848325B1 EP14184594.1A EP14184594A EP2848325B1 EP 2848325 B1 EP2848325 B1 EP 2848325B1 EP 14184594 A EP14184594 A EP 14184594A EP 2848325 B1 EP2848325 B1 EP 2848325B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/04—Cleaning involving contact with liquid
    • B08B3/041—Cleaning travelling work
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
    • B08B9/28—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking
    • B08B9/30—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking and having conveyors

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  • the present invention relates to a device for washing beverage crates.
  • Such devices have long been known from the prior art.
  • beverage crates are usually conveyed through a treatment room by means of a transport device and, in this treatment room, cleaning media, for example warm water, liquid cleaning agents and the like, are applied to them in order to clean them.
  • cleaning media for example warm water, liquid cleaning agents and the like
  • devices of this type also have separating means in order, for example, to separate out bottle residues left behind in the bottle crates, such as broken glass, for example.
  • the use of such bottle crate washing systems has proven itself in the prior art.
  • An example of such a device for cleaning bottle crates is in DE 44 00 871 A1 specified.
  • EP 1 477 240 A2 describes a bottle crate cleaning system having thermal insulation on an outer surface of the peripheral wall disposed between it and a cover according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the housing has at least one peripheral wall which surrounds the treatment space and a bottom wall which is arranged below the treatment space. According to the invention, all walls have a heat-insulating wall, with an insulating medium for insulating the wall being integrated into this wall.
  • the insulating means can be plastics or polyurethane foams, for example, but it would also be possible for the insulating means to be air or a partial vacuum, for example, which is introduced between the two walls of the wall delimiting the treatment chamber.
  • the device also has a cover wall which delimits the treatment space at the top.
  • the housing is therefore advantageously completely closed, with the exception of a first opening through which the beverage crates are fed in, a second opening through which the beverage crates are removed and, if necessary, one or more further openings through which dirt or other objects, such as broken glass in the can be disposed of during operation.
  • Filter devices are also advantageously arranged in the treatment room or in the housing, which filter the liquid medium used for rinsing or cleaning the bottle crates. This can be, for example, coarse filters and fine filters and the like.
  • the device has an immersion bath, within which the bottle crates are transported. It is possible that the bottle crates are transported by a current occurring in this immersion bath.
  • a side wall of this immersion bath is also advantageously at least partially thermally insulated. It is possible that any flow in this immersion bath is generated by pumps and the like, with these pumps advantageously being arranged outside the housing.
  • at least one circulating pump generating the flow of cleaning medium in the immersion bath is provided, which is preferably in flow connection with its outlet to one end of the immersion bath and with its inlet to the other end of the immersion bath, preferably via a return channel.
  • the transport route, along which the beverage crates are guided has at least two sections which are offset in the vertical or horizontal direction and extend in a longitudinal direction of the device. These two sections can be connected to one another, for example, via a turning conveyor, which rotates the beverage crates by 180° with respect to a predetermined plane or axis of rotation.
  • the sections of the transport route arranged one on top of the other in a vertical direction may be connected to each other via jaw conveyors provided inside the housing, and the sections may be formed by separate conveyors, respectively.
  • Such a clamping jaw conveyor is preferably connected to the above-mentioned immersion bath.
  • further application devices are preferably provided which apply a cleaning liquid to the bottle crates, such as spray nozzles which apply a cleaning agent to the bottle crates or fresh water nozzles which rinse the bottle crates after they have been cleaned.
  • the device itself including its walls, to be constructed first and for an insulating material to be introduced into these walls in a final method step.
  • the device has a heat exchanger which supplies heat to the treatment space from the outside.
  • This can be a gas/liquid heat exchanger, a gas/gas heat exchanger or a liquid/liquid heat exchanger.
  • the thermal energy of other sub-units which is produced there as a waste product, can be used in order to provide the thermal energy required in the present invention.
  • cleaning machines that clean the bottles themselves are also provided in manufacturing plants. These usually work at much higher temperatures and therefore emit much higher amounts of heat than the machine described here. This emitted energy can be used by using the heat exchanger to supply additional heat to the treatment room.
  • Each wall has an outer wall element and an inner wall element pointing towards the treatment room, with the insulating medium being arranged between the outer wall element and the inner wall element.
  • the insulating material itself is not visible during operation and, above all, does not have to be protected separately from cleaning or rinsing agents.
  • At least one wall element i.e. the outer wall element or the inner wall element, is made of stainless steel. Both the outer wall element and the inner wall element are advantageously made of stainless steel.
  • the device has at least one liquid line in order to transport the liquid between the treatment room and the outside of the treatment room.
  • This can be, for example, a supply of the above-mentioned immersion bath, where, as mentioned above, the pumps for generating the flow in the immersion bath are preferably arranged outside the housing.
  • the pumps for other units of the device can also be arranged outside the housing, for example the pumps which supply the spray nozzles arranged inside the treatment chamber, any pumps with which waste water is transported away and the like.
  • This liquid line preferably extends through a heat-insulated wall.
  • the device has at least one viewing window, this viewing window also having an insulating element.
  • the viewing window is made of insulating glass or single-pane safety glass (ESG).
  • ESG single-pane safety glass
  • double pane safety glass or multiple pane safety glass At least one window is preferably made of laminated safety glass.
  • this glass can have a film between two panes of this glass, and in particular a tough-elastic film.
  • This film advantageously consists of polyvinyl butyral or ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), which are preferably bonded to the respective adjoining panes by the action of pressure and temperature.
  • EVA polyvinyl butyral or ethylene vinyl acetate
  • partially toughened glass can also be used
  • the viewing window can be opened and closed.
  • This viewing window is of a size that allows a user to climb into the machine or into the housing when the viewing window is open. In this way, the viewing window also serves to release an access hatch when the system is in the open state.
  • the window itself to be a double window.
  • the outer wall has a number of wall modules which are connected to one another. These wall modules are each constructed in the manner described above, i.e. with an outer wall element and an inner wall element, within which the relevant insulating body is arranged.
  • the device also has a cleaning system in order to clean the device itself.
  • a so-called CIP (Cleaning In Place) cleaning system can be provided, which in particular also cleans the inner walls of the device.
  • a cleaning system can have spray nozzles arranged inside the housing, which apply a further cleaning medium to components of the devices, such as wall components, but also components of the transport device.
  • all peripheral walls and also a cover wall of the housing are thermally insulated in the manner described here.
  • the bottom wall is also thermally insulated.
  • a heat-insulated bottom wall is dispensed with. It should be noted that on the one hand a larger part of the heat is lost in the upper areas of the housing, but on the other hand the water bath or immersion bath described is also arranged in the lower area of the housing and the liquid itself already causes a certain thermal insulation. In particular, it would be possible for the bottom insulation of this immersion bath to be constructed on only two surfaces.
  • a valve element is arranged inside the housing or the treatment chamber, and a drive device for actuating this valve element is arranged outside the housing.
  • this valve element can be a valve element that controls the closure of a splash tank, and this valve element is in turn controlled by a drive arranged outside of the housing, in particular, but not exclusively, an electric motor, pneumatic or hydraulic drive.
  • This valve element can, for example, be a ball valve, in particular for a post-spray tank.
  • a rinsing trough is advantageously arranged in the interior of the housing in such a way that rinsing water, which is used for rinsing the beverage containers, can be caught by this trough.
  • This ball valve can be actuated, for example, by a drive spindle, and this drive spindle can be passed through a heat-insulated wall of the housing.
  • the device 1 shows a roughly schematic representation of a device 1 for cleaning bottle crates. It is conceivable that the bottle crates (not shown) are fed to the device at the bottom right and removed at the top left, as indicated by the arrow.
  • the device has a housing which is designated in its entirety by 2 and which surrounds the bottle crates at least during the cleaning process.
  • a treatment room 4 is formed within this housing 2 . Outside of the housing 2, pump devices 32, 34 and the like can be arranged, which serve to flush the containers inside the housing.
  • the feed openings for feeding the beverage crates into the device 1 and the discharge openings for discharging the beverage crates from the device 1 are therefore preferably arranged at different heights.
  • the device it would also be possible for the device to have two or more tracks, ie the beverage crates to be conveyed through the device on two or more parallel tracks.
  • Reference numerals 42 and 44 denote wall elements which, as will be explained in more detail below, also have a heat-insulating function.
  • the reference number 22 designates a window which is integrated here in the wall element 42 or in the housing 2 . This can also be a thermally insulating window. The windows are dimensioned so large that users can also enter the interior of the housing 2 for maintenance purposes, for example.
  • reference numeral 44 refers to a bottom wall. This bottom wall could also be multi-walled with an insulating medium located between two walls. In a form not according to the invention, it would also be conceivable for this bottom wall to have only one wall, in particular if a liquid is conducted above this floor, since in this case this liquid also has a certain insulating function.
  • the reference number 46 relates to drains, for example to be able to drain dirty water out of the device 1 .
  • a cover wall of the device is also designed with two walls with an insulating medium lying between them.
  • Temperature measuring devices for measuring a could also be provided inside the treatment room.
  • FIG. 2 shows a further representation of a device for cleaning bottle crates.
  • transport devices are also shown inside the housing, which are turning conveyors 6 here, which transport the crates and turn them at the same time.
  • Figure 3a shows a wall element 142 according to the prior art. It can be seen that this wall element is designed in one layer. It was possible in the prior art, for example, to attach a carrier 132 to this wall element in turn carries 4 further elements inside the treatment room. However, such a fastening of a carrier to the wall element 142 was often accompanied by disfigurements of the outer surface 142a since, for example, welding processes on the inner wall are also visible on the outer side 142a.
  • Figure 3b shows a representation of a wall element 42 according to the invention. This has an outer side 42a and an inner side 42b. An insulating medium 42c is introduced between these two sides.
  • This can be, for example, air, PU foam, rock wool, Styrodur and the like. It is advantageously a material that has a lower thermal conductivity coefficient than the material of the walls, which is aluminum, for example.
  • the insulating medium advantageously has a physical density which is less than 2.7 g/cm 3 , preferably less than 2.0 g/cm 3 , preferably less than 1.5 g/cm 3 .
  • the insulating medium can also be composed of several components or materials.
  • the insulating medium advantageously has a thickness between the outside 42a and the inside 42b that is between 0.5 cm and 20 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 15 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 10 cm. The distance between the outside and the inside is therefore considerably greater than the thickness of the outside or the inside.
  • the outer wall 42a and the inner wall 42b can preferably have thicknesses of between 0.2 cm and 3 cm, preferably between 0.4 cm and 2.0 cm. The outside 42a and the inside 42b (or the outside wall 42a and the inside wall 42b) are thus spaced apart from one another.
  • the wall element is cuboid in its entirety and forms a cavity within which the insulating medium is arranged.
  • FIG. 4 shows a further illustration of a wall element 42.
  • a feed-through opening 12 is also provided here, through which, for example, further lines 8 can be guided.
  • Wall elements 42d can also be seen here, which delimit this feed-through line from insulating medium 42c.
  • the reference number 18 denotes, roughly diagrammatically, a carrier which is provided inside the housing and on which further elements such as components of the transport device can be arranged.
  • This carrier is fastened here to the inner wall 42a, for example screwed or welded on. However, this does not affect the outer wall 42b.

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  1. Dispositif de nettoyage de caisses à bouteilles (1), avec au moins un espace de traitement (4) formé à l'intérieur d'un boîtier (2), avec un système de transport (6), lequel transporte les caisses à bouteilles le long d'un trajet de transport spécifié à travers l'espace de traitement (4), avec au moins un système de contrainte (12), qui soumet les caisses à bouteilles aux fins de leur nettoyage à l'action d'un agent de nettoyage liquide, dans lequel le boîtier (2) présente au moins une paroi périphérique, qui entoure l'espace de traitement (4) ainsi qu'une paroi de fond (44), qui est disposée sous l'espace de traitement (4),
    caractérisé en ce que
    chaque paroi périphérique, la paroi de fond (44) et une paroi de couvercle est une paroi à isolation thermique, dans lequel un milieu isolant (42c) destiné à isoler la paroi est intégré dans ladite paroi, dans lequel la paroi à isolation thermique présente plusieurs modules de paroi (42), qui sont reliés les uns aux autres et qui présentent respectivement un élément de paroi extérieur (42a) et un élément de paroi intérieur (42b) pointant vers l'espace de traitement (4), dans lequel le milieu isolant (42c) est disposé entre l'élément de paroi extérieur (42a) et l'élément de paroi intérieur (42b), dans lequel un module de paroi (42) est élaboré dans sa globalité avec une forme carrée et réalise un espace creux, à l'intérieur duquel le milieu isolant (42c) est disposé.
  2. Dispositif (1) selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    au moins un module de paroi (42) est fabriqué à partir d'acier inoxydable.
  3. Dispositif (1) selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif (1) présente au moins un conduit de liquide (8) pour transporter du liquide entre l'espace de traitement (4) et un environnement extérieur de l'espace de traitement (4).
  4. Dispositif (1) selon la revendication 3,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le conduit de liquide (8) s'étend à travers une paroi à isolation thermique.
  5. Dispositif (1) selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif (1) présente au moins une fenêtre d'inspection (22), dans lequel ladite fenêtre d'inspection (22) présente un élément isolant.
  6. Dispositif (1) selon la revendication 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la fenêtre (22) est une fenêtre double.
  7. Dispositif (1) selon au moins l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    sont prévus dans l'espace de traitement (4) des éléments de support et au moins un élément de support est soudé directement à une zone de la paroi à isolation thermique (42).
  8. Dispositif (1) selon au moins l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    un élément de soupape (24) est disposé à l'intérieur du boîtier, et un système d'entraînement destiné à actionner ledit élément de soupape (24) est disposé à l'extérieur du boîtier.
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