EP2881359B1 - Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Aufbringen eines Formteils auf einen Behälter - Google Patents

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EP2881359B1
EP2881359B1 EP14196870.1A EP14196870A EP2881359B1 EP 2881359 B1 EP2881359 B1 EP 2881359B1 EP 14196870 A EP14196870 A EP 14196870A EP 2881359 B1 EP2881359 B1 EP 2881359B1
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Klaus Buchhauser
Sebastian Klepatz
Markus Schoenfelder
Bernhard Mueller
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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
    • B67B3/20—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying and rotating preformed threaded caps
    • B67B3/2066—Details of capping heads

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  • the present invention relates to a device and a method for applying a molded part to a container, preferably for closing a container with a container screw in a beverage filling plant.
  • the Kunststoffschraubver may have different configurations with respect to their outer shape.
  • asymmetric and non-round plastic screw caps are known in their outer contour.
  • known Kunststoffschraubver nowadays on different thread heights.
  • flat caps known as flat caps, which are used for closing bottles in which a low internal pressure prevails, so for example when filling still waters or other non-carbonated drinks are used.
  • Plastic screw caps are also known for closing carbonated beverage bottles, these plastic screw caps having a significantly higher thread in order to counteract the internal pressure can.
  • Kunststoffschraubver makes visible to the end user, whether it the bottle is an originally filled or already opened bottle.
  • plastic screw caps have a greater extent in the direction of the screw axis, as a flat cap.
  • the plastic screw caps are usually added in the capping head in a capper cone.
  • the capper cone has an inner contour which is complementary to the outer contour of the plastic screw cap to be applied.
  • the plastic screw caps are pressed accordingly into the capper cone, then pressed onto the mouth region of the respective bottle to be closed and screwed by rotation until the predetermined Aufschraubformatmoment is reached. Then the capper cone is pulled upwards.
  • a device for screwing caps on vessels which in each case has a controllable gripping tongs, which serves to grip the respective closures.
  • the said gripper arms are each pivotable about horizontal axes, ie about axes which are arranged perpendicular to the screw axis, around which the screwing of the actual closure takes place.
  • the gripping arms are driven by a control head, which is moved over a vertical rod which can perform a directed in the direction of the screw axis movement, such that the gripping arms are opened and closed.
  • closing levers can be pivoted about a pivot axis arranged perpendicular to the screw axis and the closing levers can be actuated via a closing member moving in the direction of the screw axis.
  • the height of the coatable with the device closure is limited by the arrangement of the pivot axes and the length of the gripping arms.
  • any desired closure height for example a sports cap, can not be absorbed by the gripper arms in such a way that any tolerances in the outside diameter can be compensated at the same time since too far pivoting of the gripper arms to the outside would be necessary.
  • the JP H08 91484 A describes a device according to the preamble of claim 1 and a method for gripping an article.
  • the WO 2012/155208 A1 and US 2006/0150580 A1 describe holding devices for screw caps for closing bottles.
  • an apparatus for applying a molded part to a container preferably for closing a container with a Be memorierschraubver gleich in a beverage filling plant, proposed, wherein the molded part aligned to a screw axis on the container can be applied and at least one pivotable about a pivot axis Gripper for gripping the molding comprises.
  • the pivot axis of the gripper is arranged parallel to the screw axis.
  • the gripping or clamping of the molded part can furthermore be achieved independently of the height of the respective molded part in the direction of the screw axis in a predetermined plane of the molded part.
  • the shaped parts can be gripped in any plane along the extension of the molded part in the direction of the screw axis, since the pivot axes extend parallel to the molded part. This increases the flexibility with regard to the molding heights to be processed as well as the flexibility with respect to the tolerances in the diameter. Likewise, it is easily possible not to grip rotationally symmetric or asymmetrical moldings.
  • a control element which can be moved along the screw axis is provided, by means of which the pivoting of the gripper about the swiveling axis can be effected. Due to the design of the control element such that it can be displaced along the screw axis, a device for applying a molded part can be formed, which allows simple control of the grippers by displacing the control element in the direction of the screw axis, for example with a conventional slide control. This can be done for example via a known link control above the capping in a Rundurgirversch remplier.
  • control is preferably arranged rotationally fixed relative to the screw axis. In this way, the registered via the gripper torques can be supported on the control and at the same time can achieve a simple mechanical construction.
  • the control element is provided movably in the direction of the screw axis in order to achieve a pivoting movement of the gripper about the pivot axis.
  • Such a design of the control makes it possible to achieve the closing, holding, clamping, as well as the opening of the gripper by a simple linear lifting movement of the control.
  • the operation of the gripper can be achieved accordingly in a simple mechanical manner, for example by a backdrop.
  • the control element is preferably arranged concentrically to the screw axis in order to achieve a rotationally symmetrical design of a closure head.
  • the device comprises at least one transmission means, by means of which a translational movement of the control element in the direction of the screw axis is effected in a pivoting movement of the gripper about the pivot axis aligned parallel to the screw axis. Accordingly, by moving the control element along the screw axis, a gripping of a molded part, a holding or clamping of the molded part during application to the container, as well as a subsequent release of the molded part from the device can be controlled in a simple manner. Accordingly, a translational movement in the direction of the screw axis is deflected into a rotational movement of the gripper about the pivot axis arranged parallel to the screw axis.
  • the transmission means comprises a lever, preferably a toggle lever which is pivotally connected at its one end to the control and is connected at its other end to the gripper via a ball joint, preferably via a ball joint arranged on an axle element and / or lever.
  • a pivoting of the lever can be achieved with a displacement of the control in the direction of the screw axis, whereby the distance between the pivot axis and the axis defined by the ball joint axis element changes. This is easily comprehensible through the Pythagorean theorem.
  • a rotation of the axle element and thus of the gripper about the pivot axis due to a linear displacement of the control element is made possible.
  • the control element is thus connected via a lever with a rotatably connected to the gripper axis element so that a translation of the control in the direction of the screw axis in a rotation or pivoting of the gripper results around the parallel to the screw axis aligned pivot axis of the gripper.
  • a contact device for applying a molded part in the direction of the screw axis is provided such that the gripper can grip the molded part applied to an end face on the abutment device at a predetermined position or plane of the molded part.
  • a predetermined distance of the gripper from a predetermined structure of the molded part is correspondingly predetermined via the abutment device, so that the gripper can engage in a predetermined plane of the molded part.
  • an axle element which is non-rotatably connected to the gripper and which extends along the pivot axis, via a bellows, preferably via a twistable bellows, sealed from the environment.
  • the control element which is movable in the direction of the screw axis, sealed by a bellows against the environment.
  • the device is suitable for use as an aseptic capping head in an aseptic rounding server in an aseptic beverage bottling plant by means of a corresponding sealing or encapsulation.
  • the device furthermore preferably has a housing for encapsulation, in particular for aseptic encapsulation, which has areas which come into contact with a clean room or a filling product with respect to the environment, so that the apparatus can also be used in an aseptic beverage bottler, in particular an aseptic beverage bottling plant.
  • a housing for encapsulation in particular for aseptic encapsulation, which has areas which come into contact with a clean room or a filling product with respect to the environment, so that the apparatus can also be used in an aseptic beverage bottler, in particular an aseptic beverage bottling plant.
  • an embodiment of the housing is provided in such a way that any sterilization medium or cleaning medium possibly used runs off without accumulating.
  • At least two grippers are preferably provided.
  • at least two grippers and preferably three grippers are preferably provided.
  • an ejector rod is provided, by means of which a molded part held in the device can be ejected.
  • the ejector rod is actuated via the control element.
  • a method for applying a molded part to a container preferably for closing a container with a Be memorierschraubver gleich in a beverage filling plant, proposed, wherein the molded part is applied aligned to a screw axis on the container and thereby by a pivotable about a pivoting axis gripper by pivoting the pivot axis is held.
  • the gripper is pivoted for gripping the molded part about a pivot axis aligned parallel to the screw axis.
  • FIG. 1 shows a device 1 for applying a molded part 10, for example, a indicated in the figure sports cap on a container, not shown here.
  • the device 1 is provided in particular as an aseptic capping head of an aseptic capper in an aseptic beverage bottling plant, wherein in such a capper usually a plurality of capping heads are guided on a closed circular path.
  • the so-called treatment angle an application of the respective molded part 10, for example in the form of the sports cap shown, takes place on the container.
  • the in FIG. 1 schematically shown device rotates about a screw axis S around, so that the received in the device 1 molding 10 is screwed by the rotation of the container to be closed.
  • the molding 10 is held substantially rotationally fixed in the device 1, so that a corresponding torque can be applied to the molding 10.
  • the molded part 10 is aligned with the screw axis S so that screwing with the mouth of the container can easily take place.
  • the screw axis S is corresponding to the application of the molding 10 is substantially identical to the axis of the mouth region of the container to be closed.
  • FIG. 3 the device 1 is shown in a view from below, here also the molding 10 is clearly visible, which is to be screwed onto the corresponding container.
  • the device 1 comprises three grippers 2, which are held at one end of their gripper arm 26 so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis V on the device 1.
  • a pivot axis V on the device 1.
  • an opening of a holding region 20 defined in this way can accordingly take place, in which the molded part 10 is held.
  • the molding 10 is released accordingly or it may be a new molding 10 in the holding area 20th be introduced.
  • an inwardly pivoting the gripper 2 in the direction of the pivot axis S to a arranged in the holding portion 20 molded part 10 can be held and clamped accordingly.
  • the clamping side 22 of the gripper arms 26 is structured so that slippage of the molded part 10 during application of a torque, for example when screwing the molding 10 onto a container, can be easily transferred.
  • the clamping side 22 of the gripper arms 26 may be structured with nubs or teeth, which can engage in complementary nubs or teeth of the molding 10 so that here a positive connection for transmitting a torque arises. The transmission of torque through a pure traction, only due to the clamping force of the gripper 2 on the molding 10, but is also possible.
  • the pivot axes V of the gripper 2 are guided parallel to the screw axis S. Accordingly, an opening and closing of the gripper 2 allow lateral clamping of the molding 10.
  • an improved balancing of manufacturing tolerances of the molded part 10 can take place.
  • the grippers 2 can engage, for example, in a lower region of the molded part 10, that is, in a region on which, for example, a thread is provided, by means of which the molded part 10 is screwed onto a corresponding mating thread of a container.
  • the molding 10 can also be gripped in an overlying area or in a central area with respect to the height (along the screw axis S) of the molding 10.
  • the grippers can by the pivoting about the pivot axis V around also occupy a large displacement, which leads to a reliable recording of the molded part 10 in the device 1 regardless of tolerances.
  • An abutment device 30 is provided on the bottom plate 3, which serves to provide a contact surface for an end face region of the molded part 10.
  • the abutment device 30 is here provided with openings 300, which serve to provide for a ventilation of the molded part 10, on the one hand, and to enable a proper cleaning of the device 1 with cleaning fluids.
  • the grippers 2 are arranged so that they are freely pivotable below the abutment device 30 so that an intervention in the molded part 10 in the plane E is made possible.
  • the molded part 10 is a sports cap with a drinking spout 12, which can be seen schematically through an opening 300 in the abutment device 30.
  • the position of the gripper 2 below the bottom plate 3 and below the abutment device 30 is made via the axle elements 24, which protrude through the bottom plate 3 and which take over a pivotable about the pivot axis V storage of the gripper 2.
  • An axial displacement along the pivot axis V of the axle elements 24 is prevented by a corresponding bearing, so that only a rotational movement or a pivoting about the pivot axis V is possible.
  • the axle elements 24 can be sealed off from the base plate 3 by means of a bellows 4, in particular a twistable bellows. Since it is in the pivoting movement of the gripper 2, also depending on the selected lever, only a fraction of a revolution having rotational amount, a twistable bellows 4 here provide a reliable seal against the environment.
  • a control element 5 extending along the screw axis S is provided, which is movable in the direction of the screw axis S.
  • Such a translation of the control element 5 along the screw axis S is used to control and trigger the pivoting movement of the gripper 2 about the pivot axis V.
  • the along the screw axis S directed translation movement of the control element 5 in a pivoting movement of the axle elements 24 and thus also reaches the rotatably connected with this grippers 2 to the pivot axis V.
  • the control element 5 is secured against rotation about the screw axis S. In the exemplary embodiment shown, this is achieved via an anti-rotation lock 50, which is correspondingly connected to the control element 5.
  • the anti-rotation device 50 may be formed, for example, via a sleeve of polygonal cross-section arranged non-rotatably on the base plate 3, in which a corresponding, polygonal section of the control element 5 complementary thereto is arranged to be movable along the screw axis S.
  • an anti-twist device which is produced via a simple positive connection, all other possibilities for producing such an anti-rotation device are also conceivable for the anti-twist device 50.
  • a transmission means 6 is provided in the form of a toggle lever 60, which is arranged on the control element 5 via a bolt 62 pivotable about an axis perpendicular to the screw axis S axis.
  • On the axle member 24 of the toggle lever 60 is pivotable about a ball member 64 disposed about a perpendicular to the pivot axis V axis, as well as pivotable about an axis parallel to the pivot axis V arranged axis.
  • the toggle lever 60 not only the toggle lever 60 but also another lever 66 is provided, which is rotatably connected to the axle member 24 and which is arranged perpendicular to the pivot axis V so that via the lever 66, a movement of the toggle lever 60 in a corresponding rotational movement the axis element 24 and thus of the gripper 2 can be achieved around the pivot axis V around.
  • the toggle lever 60 moves due to its pivotability about the bolt 62 when moving the control element 5 along the screw axis S, for example in FIG. 1 in the upward direction, accordingly pulled by the bolt 62 also upward.
  • the toggle lever 60 pivots simultaneously about the ball joint 64. Due to the deflection of the toggle lever 60 from the parallel to the bottom plate 3 arrangement, as in FIG. 1 is shown schematically, in an orientation in which the toggle lever 60 is inclined with respect to the bottom plate 3, wherein the bolt 62 arranged on the part of the toggle lever 60 then, for example, upwards is deflected, the lever 66 is pulled towards the control element 5 or towards the center of the device 1 out. This is easy to understand about Pythagoras' theorem.
  • the pivoting movement can be correspondingly easily triggered by the toggle lever 60, since the pivoting movement of the axle member 24 and the axis member 24 fixedly connected lever 66 about the pivot axis V around due to the ball joint 64 not to tilting or wedging the toggle lever 60th leads. Accordingly, by raising the control element 5 upward along the swiveling axis S, pivoting of the toggle lever 60 and thus attraction of the lever 66 in the direction of the screw axis S and thus then pivoting of the axle element 24 about the swiveling axis V can be achieved. Thus, the translational movement of the control element 5 along the screw axis S in a rotational movement of the gripper 2 is deflected about the pivot axis V around.
  • the control element 5 can be controlled, for example, via a slotted guide which runs above the respective closing head, such that the grippers 2 are moved by a corresponding movement of the gripper Control element 5 are opened at a predetermined position, remain in this open position until a molding 10 is present in the receiving position 20 and the molding 10 accordingly rests against the abutment device 30 until it abuts an end face.
  • a closing and clamping of the mold element 10 is performed by the gripper 2, to then achieve a pressing and screwing the mold element 10 to a corresponding container by the movement of the corresponding capping head.
  • the gripper 2 are opened by a corresponding relative movement of the control element 5 relative to the bottom plate 3 again.
  • the molding 10 are ejected from the receiving area 20 again, the control element 5 is moved downwards and the control element 5 is ejected downwards via an ejector rod (not shown in the figures), which is actuated by the control element 5 or which constitutes an extension of the control element 5, while the grippers 2 open simultaneously.
  • an ejector rod not shown in the figures
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of the device 1 is shown, wherein in addition a housing 7 is provided, in which the in FIG. 1 mechanism provided above the bottom plate 3 is received. Furthermore, a bellows 40 is provided, which seals the relative movement of the control element 5 relative to the housing 7 or relative to the bottom plate 3. Recesses 70 are correspondingly provided in the housing 7 again, which ensure that the bellows 40 can be cleaned or sterilized and no areas arise in which product or cleaning fluids can stand, so that a hygienically perfect device is provided.

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