EP3281879A1 - Machine de remplissage de capsules et procédé de remplissage des capsules avec de la poudre - Google Patents

Machine de remplissage de capsules et procédé de remplissage des capsules avec de la poudre Download PDF

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EP3281879A1
EP3281879A1 EP17185217.1A EP17185217A EP3281879A1 EP 3281879 A1 EP3281879 A1 EP 3281879A1 EP 17185217 A EP17185217 A EP 17185217A EP 3281879 A1 EP3281879 A1 EP 3281879A1
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Ralf Schubert
Uwe Sannwald
Haaf Walter
Simon Setzer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
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  • the invention relates to a device for producing powder-filled, sealed containers, such as coffee capsules, and a method for this.
  • the container to be filled is not filled with a prefabricated compact of powder, but with loose powder, a BrownStutzen over which the powder is supplied, with its lower powder discharge opening on the upwardly facing opening of the container is usually tight placed, the powder introduced into the container and the filler lifted off again.
  • a filling head which either comprises a plurality of filling nozzles arranged in a row or even two-dimensionally arranged in a horizontal grid several filler neck, so when lowering to analog arranged capsules always such a group of capsules at the same time of the Filling head can be filled.
  • the more filler neck comprises such a filling head, the more capsules per unit time can be filled.
  • the filling nozzles are structurally expensive to manufacture and control, and especially because of the mechanics contained in the filler the filler considered in the view must have a much larger diameter than the diameter of the capsule to be filled, this is due to the grid size of the filler neck in the filling head the grid determined by the capsules must be arranged within a filling group.
  • the size of the filling head and thus of the filling group of capsules becomes a limiting factor, since with increasing size of the filling group, the support plate in which the filling group is arranged becomes larger and larger.
  • the next support plate after filling a filling group by means of the transport device, the next support plate must be positioned below the filling head and cover a transport path that corresponds at least to the length of a support plate in the direction of passage of the device, resulting in relatively long dead times between the individual filling operations.
  • this object is achieved in that a filling head, the plurality of filling nozzles, each of which can fill only one capsule at a time, arranged on a corresponding filling pipe of the filling group of capsules is lowered and then filled the capsules of this group at the same time, and this is done in succession for several filling groups.
  • an arrangement of capsules which, depending on the number of capsules, in particular an integer multiple of the number of a filling group, is moved only by a distance relative to the filling head, which is smaller than the longitudinal extent and also the transverse extent of the filling group, and In particular, even equal to or less than the smallest distance between two adjacent filler neck in the filling head.
  • the travel times between the individual filling operations are kept low, and only when all the capsules contained therein are filled in the entire arrangement of filling groups, the process can be repeated with a new arrangement of filling groups.
  • the arrangement may also have a quasi-infinite sequence of filling groups whose areas viewed in plan may overlap within the array, but one capsule only ever belongs to one of the filling groups.
  • the capsules are inserted into the recesses of support plates individually and with the opening upwards, so that in each case an array of capsules is arranged in a support plate. If, after several filling operations, all the capsules on the support plate, which comprise a plurality of filling groups, are filled, a new carrying plate loaded with empty capsules is filled in the same way, preferably by moving under the filling head, which is preferably only in the Vertical is movable.
  • the process grass preferably contains no oxygen, but is preferably nitrogen or carbon dioxide, so that fermentation processes do not use or extremely slowly inside the capsule.
  • the powder contained in the capsules is compressed so that in particular it no longer projects upwards beyond the opening of the capsule, this compression being able to be carried out functionally together with the filling.
  • the compression and / or sealing may be done in groups, ie preferably in the filling groups of capsules defined during filling, or over all capsules of the entire arrangement of capsules, when using carriers or carrier plates for all capsules present in a carrier, in particular a carrier plate or - when using the carriage - at the same time for the capsules of all existing in a carriage carrier, in particular support plates.
  • the individual sealed capsules which are usually still part of a common, deep-drawn plastic part, the so-called benefit in which many capsules are formed, isolated by punching out of the benefit and - if a support plate is used - in particular subsequently removed from the support plate
  • this device initially comprises a base frame.
  • the first processing unit a filling unit with a filling head, which comprises a plurality of filling nozzles, each of which can be placed on a capsule and fill it with powder, and of course for several capsules in a row.
  • the device preferably further comprises a carrier, preferably carrier plates, for the capsules to be filled, in which the capsules are preferably received in a form-fitting manner, in particular in recesses, in which in each case one capsule with the opening upwards in a defined manner Position can be recorded while the support plates are held with the top approximately horizontal and transported through the device.
  • a carrier preferably carrier plates
  • the device preferably further comprises a transport device with which the capsules to be filled, in particular by means of the carrier, in particular the support plates, can be moved in the direction of passage through the device, which is particularly useful if next to this filling unit further processing units downstream of the filling unit available:
  • a plurality of filling nozzles are arranged next to each other and preferably arranged in a two-dimensional nozzle grid relative to one another, while in the supporting plate the recesses are viewed in the plan view next to each other in a preferably two-dimensional plate grid.
  • the distances between mutually adjacent recesses in the carrier grid of the carrier, in particular in the plate grid of the support plate, are usually less than the distances of the filler within the filling head in the nozzle grid, which is because the filler neck considered for design reasons in the plan require a minimum size, which is much larger than the distance between two recesses arranged as close as possible, in each of which a capsule can be introduced.
  • the number and arrangement of the filling nozzles within the filling head defines the number and arrangement of a filling group of capsules which can be filled at once by the filling head, and thus also the number and arrangement of a recess group of recesses in the carrier, e.g. the support plate.
  • the recesses are arranged to each other so that it contains a plurality of recessed groups, said recessed groups are not spaced next to each other, but themselves overlap each other in terms of their areas, so that, for example, a recess of a recess group or filling group can be surrounded by a plurality of recesses of the other recess group or filling group.
  • a support plate contains exactly a plurality of recess groups or filling groups in that the number of recesses in a plate preferably corresponds to an integer multiple of the number of filling nozzles of the filling head.
  • all capsules of a carrier plate can be filled with a certain number of filling operations - in which a filling group of capsules is filled in each filling process.
  • the carrier or the support plate is movable relative to the filling head in at least one horizontal direction and the vertical direction.
  • the support or support plates are in one or two different directions, in particular horizontal directions, moved out again below the filling head and after filling, preferably always in the same direction, while the vertical movement is preferably carried out by the filling head between the raised upward starting position and the lowered down filling position, in which the filler neck in each case sit tightly on the upper edge of a capsule.
  • the support plates can move clocked for this purpose in the passage direction, ie the transport direction of the transport device, under the filling head, wherein the relative movement between the filling of the individual filling groups also takes place only in this direction of passage.
  • a transport device for the carrier, in particular support plates, in the passage direction is preferably a transport path, in particular rails, by means of which the carrier - which are preferably arranged along the transport path controlled slide - in the direction of passage, for example, within the filling unit and / or to a possibly on the Filling unit following press unit for pressing the filled powder into the capsule and / or to a sealing unit for sealing the filled capsule and / or a punching unit are moved, so that by means of the transport device the support, in particular support plates, can pass through the entire filling and closing device.
  • the carriages are preferably movable independently of each other along the transport path.
  • the transport device preferably comprises a track body on which - viewed in the transport direction - a plurality of transport tracks are arranged, in particular two transport tracks on two opposite sides of the track body.
  • individual sections or modules of the web body are pivotable about a pivot axis lying in the transport direction, that one of the transport paths located on this section, for example, the first upper transport path, by pivoting the web body by 180 ° in alignment with the adjacent to the section of Transport device lower transport path can be brought.
  • transport carriages By virtue of the transport carriages being positively fastened to the transport path, in this way they can be pivoted by pivoting the correspondingly formed section of the path body according to methods in e.g. filled state along a guideway on the top and emptying of the carriage or the support plate mounted on it are pivoted down and transported back along the lower guideway.
  • the at least one support or support plate which is arranged on a carriage, wherein the carriages can move in the direction of passage with the one or more support plates positioned thereon, can - by means of possibly present support plate holders, in which the support plates are positioned - in horizontal transverse direction to the direction of passage relative to the carriage controlled.
  • the device has a gassing plate, which is arranged in the height above the top of the below in the transport direction and in the transverse direction along moving support, in particular support plates, with such a distance that the capsules located in the support plates as close as possible to the distance Take the bottom of the gassing, which is preferably less than 2 mm, preferably less than 1 mm.
  • the existing mainly in the interior of the capsules air and replace it by the flowing through the gas supply port process gas.
  • a sealing lip is arranged on the top of the support, in particular the support plate, at least externally around the entirety of all recesses of the support plate around, when passing through the support plates under the gassing to the bottom of the gassing a occupies very small distance and thus almost seals.
  • the gassing plate extends at least from the beginning of the filling unit to the end of the sealing unit, preferably beginning in the direction of travel measured length of the one or more carriers or support plates, which are located together on a carriage, in front of the filling unit.
  • the filling head as a rule is arranged in a stationary manner in the base frame and is only moved vertically, the gassing plate in the region of the filling head through openings through which the individual filler neck extend down until they are positioned on the below positioned to be filled Sit capsules tightly.
  • each filler neck is sealed off from the gassing plate, and this seal is maintained at least in the filling position, but preferably regardless of whether the filling nozzle is in the lowered filling position or in the raised waiting position.
  • each gassing plate includes not only a gas supply port and / or not just a gas discharge port, but each of them a plurality.
  • the gas supply and the gas suction can be controlled, in particular depending on whether the respective opening is located just inside the circumferential sealing lip of an underlying carrier, in particular a support plate.
  • the powder contained in the capsule which usually forms a projecting over the upper opening of the capsule mountain, compressed in the capsule, so that the powder at least no longer protrudes beyond the upper opening of the capsule.
  • compression fittings are placed on each one of the capsules and this compression of the powder carried out, wherein the compression nozzle are located on a pressing head, which corresponds to the filling head and the filler neck in terms of arrangement and movement in the unit.
  • the cradle unit weigh the filled capsules still in the recesses of the support plate and check that their fill weight reaches a given limit weight and, in the negative case now or later, discard these less filled capsules.
  • the capsules again together with the support plate receiving them, are transferred to the next working unit, e.g. spent the heating unit and an either integrated or downstream sealing unit, where on the upper edge of each capsule a sealing film is sealed tightly sealed around and thus the capsules are sealed.
  • the next working unit e.g. spent the heating unit and an either integrated or downstream sealing unit
  • the filled and sealed capsules are removed and usually converted into a package.
  • each of the aforementioned units is usually housed in a separate module frame 3 , which consists of four arranged in a square, upright, especially vertical, standing post 4th and the upper ends connecting, extending in the direction of passage 10 longitudinal bars 5 and transverse transverse members 6 is formed.
  • the respective units are housed, and also through all the module racks continuous transport device 1 is fixed to these module racks, preferably at about knee height between the posts 4 in the transverse direction 11 fixed cross braces.
  • FIGS. 1a . b also let the security doors 7 recognize that are present between the upright posts 4 and close the long sides and possibly also the front sides of the machine and usually shut down the machine automatically when one of the security doors 7 is opened.
  • the intermediate container 19 is at the top of the filling unit A further shown for powder 200 that provides the better apparent in the following figures filling head 15 with powder 200, and even via a connecting opening in the top - is supplied with powder 200 - batchwise or continuously.
  • FIGS. 2a . b . c the filling unit A is shown separately in perspective view, top view and viewed in the direction of passage 10, the latter in Figure 2c , where in Figure 2 c already the filling head 15 and the transport device 1 are clearly visible.
  • the lifting mechanism for the filling head 15 can already be seen, consisting of a vertical guide 26 along which the filling head 15 is movably guided in the vertical 12 , driven by an engaging in the upper region of the filling head 15 connecting rod 24, the upper end eccentrically on a rotating crank 25 is attached.
  • gassing plate 8 In the lower part of the later explained gassing plate 8 can be seen and including, at about knee level, the transport device 1, consisting of two transverse guide rails 11 on the top and two each on the underside of the web body of the transport device, both on the top than Also shown on the underside of a slide 21 of the plurality, both on the top and on the bottom independently of each other along the transport device 1 movable carriage.
  • the transport device 1 consisting of two transverse guide rails 11 on the top and two each on the underside of the web body of the transport device, both on the top than Also shown on the underside of a slide 21 of the plurality, both on the top and on the bottom independently of each other along the transport device 1 movable carriage.
  • Each carriage 21 carries on the side facing away from the transport device 1 side a carriage attachment 22 as an adapter, which is adapted to the element to be transported, here the support plate 13 , so that the support plate 13 can be firmly fixed to the carriage attachment 22 .
  • the carriage attachment 22 is fixedly connected to the carriage 21 and also the support plate 13 is captively fixed to the carriage attachment 22 so that the support plate 13 can not fall from the guided on the underside of the transport device 1 and down hanging carriage 21 and carriage attachment 22 .
  • the carriage From the top to the bottom of the transport device 1, the carriage reach 21, in which a turn portion of the transport device 1 is pivotable about an axis extending in the direction of passage 10 turning axle 1 '.
  • the support plate 13 extends in the longitudinal direction 10 between the front and the rear extension 22 a and is guided by means of transverse guides 23 thereto in the transverse direction 11 slidably and can be moved in this way so far in the transverse direction 11 to the side that they are in Transverse direction 11 substantially completely outside the width range of the carriage 21 , at least as far outside that all present in the support plate 13 recesses 14, which indeed serve the inclusion of a capsule 100 , lie in the transverse direction outside of the carriage 21 and thus a total of outside considered in the supervision slide 21 .
  • This lateral guidance of the transport plate 13 via transverse guides 23 in mounted on a carriage 21 carriage attachment 22 and in particular its front and rear laterally projecting projections 22 a shows best the FIG. 5a , viewed in the transverse direction.
  • the transport plate 13 is supported at its freely projecting end of a base frame, in particular on the module frame 3 of the machine, arranged support 27 to absorb the application of force from above through the filling head or pressing head can shows Figure 2c2 ,
  • the three parts support plate 13, carriage attachment 22 carriages 21 are in FIG. 5b separated from each other again viewed in the transverse direction.
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b show, viewed in the direction of passage 10, a single carriage 21 with carriage attachment 22 and the support plate 13 once in the retracted state substantially completely over the carriage attachment 22 and once in the laterally extended state substantially completely laterally adjacent to the carriage 21, and also to the side over the Extensions 22 a protruding.
  • the guide elements 29, in particular guide rollers, of the carriage 21 can be seen, with which the carriage 21 along the guide rails 1 a, b of the transport device 1 is guided, and the open towards the bottom slit waveguide 30 of Carriage 21, in which the attached on the transport device 1 state of the longitudinal conductor 31 extends over the preferably both the power transmission as well as the signal transmission to the carriage 21 takes place.
  • the weighing in the weighing unit W can also be carried out in this manner, as exemplified FIG. 3e explained.
  • FIG. 4a shows the support plate 13 in the plan view, wherein the two spaced apart in the longitudinal direction 10 fastening tabs 33 on the free, in the extended state laterally outwardly facing, the carriage 21 opposite longitudinal edge of the support plate 13 can be seen, for securing a not shown here Drive unit for the transverse movement of the support plate 13 serve.
  • the inner space 17 a is so large that it all recesses 14 - viewed in the top view - Surrounds the support plate 13 and that with a sufficient distance from the recesses 14, so that all the capsules 100 inserted therein are completely surrounded by the sealing frame 17 .
  • the top of the sealing frame 17 is located at a very small distance 24 of a few 1/10 millimeters to the bottom of the gassing 8, which is so wide in the transverse direction 11 , that the support plate 13 and also firmly attached, patch sealing frame 17 regardless of its transverse position to the carriage 21 is always below this gassing plate 8 .
  • the gassing plate 8 extends in the longitudinal direction 10 over the entire length of the filling unit A and at least the pressing unit B and extends in particular into the area and over the sealing unit D, so that via the gas discharged from the gassing 8 down process gas of the entire filling , Press and sealing process takes place in a process gas atmosphere and thus no air oxygen inside the filled and sealed capsules 100 is present.
  • the gassing plate 8 preferably begins sufficiently far in the direction of passage 10 in front of the filling head 15, so that the still brought to the filling head by means of the support plate, still empty capsules 100 inside their air no longer contain, but the air by fumigation from above already by the process gas was displaced, such as in FIG. 1b to recognize.
  • the process gas enters via gas supply openings 8 a, from the bottom of the gassing 8 and in the space 17 a formed by the sealing frame 17 between the gassing 8, sealing frame 17 and support plate 13 , and from there preferably only over the distance 24 emerge, and / or via an existing in the gassing 8 gas-discharge opening.
  • the latter has the advantage that the gas discharged above can be cleaned before discharging into the environment and the possibly contained therein powder can be fed back to the filling process
  • the gas supply openings 8 a and / or gas-removal openings 8 are present more than once in the direction of passage 10, preferably also several times within one unit of the machine, and also in the transverse direction 11 each preferably more than once and preferably can be controlled individually, so that they are therefore separated or connected can to a not shown process gas source or vacuum source which b is the gassing to a gas-supply opening 8 8 in combination, one of which also may be present several distributed over the gassing plate. 8
  • the supply of process gas can be controlled so that only from those s supply openings 8 a process gas exits downwardly, which are currently above the free space 17 a in the interior of the sealing frame 17 .
  • the distance 24 in the direction of passage 10 at the beginning of the gassing 8 may be made larger than in the rest of the gassing 8, so that not shown above, enlarged and opening in particular under the initial end face of the gassing 8 enlarged distance 24 the displaced Air can flow out unhindered.
  • the recesses 14, shown here as through holes, in the support plate 13 for the capsules 100 are arranged substantially narrower spaced from each other, as the filler neck 16 to each other at the filling head, usually fixed, are arranged.
  • the filler neck 16 are - viewed in plan view - arranged in a filler neck grid - preferably in the direction of passage 10 rows and extending in the transverse direction 11 columns - in which the distances From center to center of the filler neck 16 are significantly larger, in particular twice as large as the distances in the plate grid in the support plate thirteenth
  • the nozzle grid can be seen, because only on the provided with a cross capsules 100 already sits a filling nozzle 16 of the filling head 15 and fills this filling group 9 of Capsules 100, by all the filler neck 16 of the filling head 15 and in particular the entire filling head 15 - as based on FIG. 4b1 . 4b2 Recognizable -, is lowered to the filling position according to Figure 3c , Right, in which each filler 16 is seated on the upper edge 100 a of a capsule 100 and rests tightly on this and can fill them.
  • the next filling group 9 is filled.
  • the filling head 15 is raised so far that the lower end of the filler neck 16 is higher than the top of the edge 100 a of the capsules 100 and also the support plate 13 - the support plate 13 first once in the transverse direction 11 by the distance two adjacent recesses 14 offset from the center thereof to the center thereof within a row of recesses 14 extending in the transverse direction 11 , so that then the filling head 15 can lower again and a can fill more filling group 9 of capsules 100 within the support plate 13 .
  • the local support plate 13 contains four filling groups 9 and consequently four filling operations with traversing movements d1, d2, d3 - in accordance with the offset of the four filling groups 9 to each other -between are necessary to fill all the capsules of this support plate 13 and a Traversing movement d4 back to the starting position.
  • FIG. 4b1 and 4b2 show a different arrangement of the recesses 14, in which they are indeed arranged in a similar grid as in the support plate 13 of FIG. 4a However, they have a sufficiently large distance from each other, so that with only two filling operations - with a relative offset d1 - according to the offset of the contained two filling groups 9 to each other - from filling head 15 to the support plate 13 in the diagonal direction between two diagonally adjacent recesses - all capsules 100 a support plate 13 can be filled.
  • This diagonal movement can be controlled by successive or simultaneously occurring movement on the one hand the support plate 13 in the transverse direction 11 to the carriage 21 and on the other hand of the carriage 21 in the direction of passage 10 along the guide rails 1 a of the transport device.
  • FIG. 4b1 filling the first filling group and FIG. 4b2 filling the second filling group of capsules 100 within the support plate 13.
  • FIG. 4b1 filling the first filling group
  • FIG. 4b2 filling the second filling group of capsules 100 within the support plate 13.
  • the gassing plate 6 also extends into the pressing unit B, it also has passages 28, arranged in the same nozzle grid as in the filling unit A, only just in the pressing unit B, and with sufficient diameter to lead through the lower portion of the compression nozzle 38th ,
  • the pressing piece 38 which put as the filler 16 on either of the seated in the recess 14 of the support plate 13 capsules 100 and are fixed to a press head 37 with its upper end having - at least in the upper region - just as the filler 16 a larger diameter than the distance between the centers of two adjacent recesses 14 in the support plate thirteenth
  • 3d figure shows the on the upper edge 100 a each one of two not directly adjacent, received in the support plate 13 , capsules 100 lowered compression port 38, which can be seen that on the intervening Capsule 100 no such further compression port 38 could be lowered because of the lack of existing space on this intervening capsule 100th
  • the pressing takes place in this case so that the compression nozzle 38 is sleeve-shaped in its lower portion and the sleeve on the edge 100 a of the capsule 100 touches and partially immersed in the interior along the edge of something for positive positioning on the capsule 100th
  • the inner space of the sleeve-shaped lower end of the compression nozzle 38 forms a downwardly open cylinder, in which a plunger 36 is axially movable, be it by means of a mechanical or a hydraulic or a pneumatic drive.
  • the plunger 36 is pulled back so far into the downwardly open cylinder of the compression nozzle 38 , that despite placing the lower edge of the compression nozzle 38 on the capsule 100 - as in 3d figure
  • the tappet 36 preferably still does not contact the convex upper side of the accumulated powder 200 , which protrudes convexly upward and over the opening 101 of the capsule 100 .
  • the plunger 36 is pressed downwardly until the lower end face of the plunger 36 is located, and below the opening 101 of the capsule 100 is compressed while the powder 200 contained in the capsule 100 so far that it just no longer over the upper opening 101 of the capsule 100 protrudes, but preferably just with the upper opening 101 of the capsule 100 closes or even slightly offset from this back down.
  • the - preferably still open - capsule 100 in this compressed state, be weighed to see if there is enough Fill weight of powder 200 is located in the capsule 100 , or the capsule 100 represents rejects.
  • the support plate 13 with the transport device 1 preferably again moved to a defined position in dire next unit, the weighing unit W, so then below each of the capsules 100, or preferably all capsules of a group of capsules, in particular one Nozzle group, one load cell 32 is located.
  • the load cell 32 is movable relative to the capsule 100 , preferably for this purpose, the load cell 32 or all present in the weighing unit W load cells 32 is raised and the capsules located above 100 lifted out of their respective recess 14 , so that the weighing capsule 100 only auflastet on top of a load cell 32 and no longer on the support plate thirteenth
  • Capsules 100 below a threshold weight are detected and discarded now or in a later step.
  • the load cells 32 are lowered again and get out of contact with the weighed capsule 100, so that the support plate 13 with the still contained therein, filled and compressed capsules 100 can be further transported by means of the transport device 1 in a next module frame 3, in the For example, the capsules 100 are sealed by sealing a sealing film on the upper opening 101 of the capsules 100 .
  • the first filling head 15.1 disposed in the direction of passage 10 downstream of the approaching support plate 13 above the transport device 1 comprises a nozzle group of filling nozzles 16 which, in their plan view of the arrangement of the first filling group 9.1 of capsules 100 marked by crosses equivalent. Furthermore, this filling head is 15.1 in the transverse direction 11 to the transport device 1, which transports the support plate 13 zoom, and arranged in their altitude that when positioning the first filling 9.1 below by lowering the first filling head 15.1 in the filling position, the individual nozzle 16 on the individual capsules 100 of the first filling group 9.1 are arranged so that they can fill these capsules 100.
  • the support plate 13 After filling the first filling group 9.1 and raising the first filling head 15.1 in the starting position, the support plate 13 is further moved by the carriage 21 along the transport device 1 until the second filling group is 9.2 below the nozzle group of the second filling head 15.2, stopped and after lowering of the second filling head 15.2 to the second filling group 9.2 whose capsules 100 filled.
  • the nozzles 16 within the two filling heads 15.1, 15.2 are arranged identically to one another, ie they each form an identical nozzle group, but the two filler heads 15.1, 15.2, and thus their nozzle groups, are usually identical in Transverse direction 11 slightly offset from each other, according to the distance d1.11, as in FIG. 4b1 shown.
  • the additionally present within the support plate 13 offset the two filling groups 9.1, 9.2 (crossed or non-crossed capsules 100) in the transport direction 10 to each other is additionally handled by a corresponding route of the support plate 13 in the direction of passage 10 from the first filling head 15.1 to the second filling head 15.2 ,
  • FIGS. 7a - D show a suitable transport of the support plates 13 transport device 1, along which the support plates 13 each carrying carriage 21 are individually and independently controlled moved.
  • the peculiarity of the transport device 1 shown here is that the transport device 12 has two transport paths 20a, b, along which - also several simultaneously, and yet independently controlled - carriage 21 are movable, these two transport paths 20a, b on the one hand the upper side and on the other hand on the underside, at least on two preferably opposite sides of a web body 30, which consists of in the direction of passage 10, the transport direction of the transport device 1, successive rail body modules 30a, b.
  • the web body includes WendeModule 30a - which are preferably located at the ends of the transport device 1 - whose web body modules about a lying in the transport direction 10 turning axis 1 ', viewed in the transport direction 10 in the middle between the two transport paths 20a , B and parallel to these, controlled by 180 ° can be rotated.
  • the carriages 21 must be secured against falling from the lower guide track 20b on which they are suspended.
  • a corresponding turning module 30a at the other end of the transport device 1 or at any point in the central region of this carriage 21 can be rotated back up to the upper transport path 20a, and the him - also captive salaried - support plate 13 again with empty Capsules 100 are filled or a new support plate 13 are placed on the carriage 21, if the support plate 13 was removed before the process of moving back of the carriage 21 of this.
  • the turning modules 30a are thus aligned in their two pivoting positions with their upper and lower transport path 20a, b with the corresponding transport paths 20a, b of the subsequent, non-rotatable, fixed module 30b, of which several can be present in succession in the transport direction to the desired To achieve length of the transport device 1.
  • the individual web body modules 30a, b and the transport paths 20a, b arranged thereon adjoin one another in the transport direction quasi-gapless, ie with such a small distance that this gap can be overridden by a carriage 21 without problems.

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