EP3621661A1 - Verfahren zum sterilisieren einer blasformmaschine und blasformmaschine - Google Patents
Verfahren zum sterilisieren einer blasformmaschine und blasformmaschineInfo
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- EP3621661A1 EP3621661A1 EP18726365.2A EP18726365A EP3621661A1 EP 3621661 A1 EP3621661 A1 EP 3621661A1 EP 18726365 A EP18726365 A EP 18726365A EP 3621661 A1 EP3621661 A1 EP 3621661A1
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a method for operating a forming device for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers and in particular to a method for sterilizing such systems and / or for mounting and dismounting of blow molds.
- the invention relates to a device for forming plastic preforms to plastic containers.
- plastic preforms are heated in an oven and blown in this heated state to plastic bottles.
- the heated plastic preforms are introduced into blow molds and subjected to compressed air within these blow molds. If different containers are to be blown, the blow molds must be exchanged.
- the parts of the blow mold in particular their side parts and bottom parts, are released from the carriers and replaced by other blow molds.
- blow molding machines have recently become known from the prior art. Such blow molding machines can be used, for example, to produce already sterilized plastic containers, which are needed in particular in the filling of sensitive drinks. It is necessary to sterilize the respective machine at predetermined time intervals.
- Applicator's current internal state of the art blow molding is carried out in a specially isolated area by an operator.
- a device that actuates the mold carrier allows the operator to remove the blow molds from the mold carrier via a window to the sterile area of the blower wheel.
- the blow molds are stored separately in the bottom mold and two side parts or mold shells in a special blow molding magazine, which is housed in a specially insulated area. After manually changing the blow molds, the sterile area of the blower wheel is sterilized with the molds used, for example by means of H2O2.
- dirt and other particles can enter the otherwise hermetically separated sterile area by the operator and an interface for changing the mold.
- a manual change of the blow molds, separated in soil form and two side forms, causes further high set-up times and thus set-up costs.
- An object underlying the invention is to reduce the set-up times for such systems.
- a possibility should be created to achieve a more complete sterilization of the plants.
- a blow mold change is required, in particular to make it possible to switch to the production of other beverage containers.
- a manual change of the blow molds usually a preservation of the blow molds takes place in a mold carriage.
- an automatic mold change which has recently become known from the applicant's internal state of the art, a robot is used, and mold storage takes place in a blow molding magazine and in an aseptic blow molding machine in a blow-molding magazine designed according to aseptic design.
- blow molds except for the automatic mold change by means of a robot separated in soil form and two side panels are individually stored and stored in a mold storage. Since each set of blow molds is stored separately in a mold carriage or a blow molding magazine in the bottom shape and two side parts, and the mold carriage or the blow molded magazine is stored outside the machine, storage costs and additionally requires a Blasformen Lobby a high preparation time (for example the transport of the mold carriage or the blow molding magazine from a warehouse, the change of the blow molding magazine during automatic mold change and, for example, an additional test run of the robot is conditional), which is necessary because it should be checked whether the correct shapes are present and properly inserted. In addition, when storing the blow molds outside of a machine, especially during transport, the risk of damage or a dirt entry.
- the device has a movable and, in particular, rotatable carrier on which a multiplicity of forming stations for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers are arranged.
- these conversion stations each have blow molds which are suitable and intended for molding the plastic preforms, and which are arranged at least indirectly on Blasformaniin.
- the blow molds are removed from the blow mold carriers at least at times before and / or during the sterilization of the device and / or before and / or during a sterilization of the blow molds.
- blow molds are removed from their carriers, so as to achieve complete sterilization, in particular also of the rear regions of the blow molds and the corresponding sections of the mold carriers on which these rear sections are arranged ,
- the present invention is further directed to a method for operating a device for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers and in particular in particular to a method for assembling and disassembling blow molds on such devices.
- the device has a movable and, in particular, rotatable carrier, on which a multiplicity of forming stations for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers are arranged.
- these forming stations each have blow molds which are suitable and intended for shaping the plastic preforms, and which are arranged at least indirectly on blow mold carriers.
- these blow molds are at least temporarily stored in a magazine device, this magazine device being suitable and intended for receiving a plurality of sets of blow molds.
- a magazine device which can accommodate a plurality of sets of blow molds.
- the magazine device can, as mentioned above, also be arranged in a clean room and also have the properties already described above.
- one or more storage devices are provided, but only one set of blow mold per storage device is kept.
- a storage and / or a sterile room may be provided, wherein in this sterile room, a plurality of storage devices may be provided, each of which serves to receive (exactly) a blow mold set.
- a bearing as described above, which is suitable and intended for receiving a plurality of blow mold sets, is also referred to below as a dynamic bearing.
- the invention is preferably directed to a method for converting machines and in particular for changing blow molds on machines. It should be noted that in the manner described here, other components of a forming station can be changed, such as stretching bars, nozzles, and the like.
- the blow molds are removed and / or reassembled by means of an alternating robot.
- the respective blow mold set is selected by means of an alternating robot.
- the robot it is possible for the robot to identify the blow mold set by means of an identification device.
- the particular blow molding set it would also be possible for the particular blow molding set to be selected via a control device and in particular by an operator via a control device.
- the blow molds removed from the carriers are stored at least temporarily in a magazine device.
- this magazine device is also at least temporarily sterilized.
- the blow molds are at least temporarily sterilized.
- the blow molds are removed in sterilized form from the magazine device.
- the blow molds taken from the magazine device are also sterilized, whereby this sterilization can preferably take place before and / or during storage in the magazine device. Sterilization by exposure to a sterilizing agent can preferably also be carried out here.
- the blow molds are sterilized during their storage in the magazine.
- the magazine device itself can also be sterilized.
- At least one sterilization takes place within a clean room, in which a plurality of forming stations for the transformation of plastic preforms into plastic containers are transported into a working operation.
- these forming stations each have blow molds which are suitable and intended for molding the plastic preforms, and which are arranged at least indirectly on the blow mold carriers.
- at least some of the blow molds, and preferably all blow molds are removed from the blow mold carriers before the device or areas of the device are sterilized.
- the blow molds are loaded by means of an automatic changing device and in particular by means of an alternating robot.
- a robot is therefore preferably used in this process which changes the blow molds fully automatically.
- the robot is suitable for a clean room or sterile room, and / or, for example sterilized with a sterilizing agent such as H2O2 and / or from a sterile room of the device by a cleanraum- or sterilraumgeeigne- te and particularly preferably with a Sterilization agent such as H2O2 sterilizable protective sheath (especially hermetically) is separated.
- lines of the alternating motor such as, for example, cables and / or pneumatic and / or hydraulic lines, run within the replacement robot or within a protective cover into a predetermined area, for example downwards.
- the changeover robot is preferably designed sterilizable and / or is located in a sterile room.
- this robot is arranged on a rear side of the device, for example on an opposite side with respect to the side on which graduation delay stars are located.
- the robot is located in a robot cell and in particular a sterilizable robot cell.
- This robot cell can form an extended sterile room with the removable robot.
- a second extended sterile room can be located next to this extended sterile room with the changeable robot, in which, for example, one or more blow molding magazines can be provided for receiving the blow molds.
- This mold magazine is preferably designed in such a way that the blow molds can be accommodated in a sterilizable manner and are particularly preferably kept at a distance.
- this blow molding magazine itself is sterilizable and preferably also the blow molds arranged in the blow molding magazine can be sterilized and in particular sterilized within a sterile room.
- molded shells and / or side parts of the blow molds on the one hand and bottom parts of the blow molds can be blown on the other hand. On the one hand, they are kept at a distance in order to be able to sterilize the shell molds and / or side parts everywhere.
- blow molding magazines it is preferably possible for the blow molding magazines to be introduced via an access, for example via a bulkhead, which particularly preferably seals off an expanded sterile space (preferably hermetically) from an environment.
- two sterile rooms are provided, which are considered as a sterile room and in which a mold change robot and one or more blow magazines are housed.
- the sterile room with the forming robot can be hermetically separated from a sterile space of the blowing wheel (or the conversion stations) via a first bulkhead.
- two sterile rooms can be regarded as one sterile room and hermetically separated from the sterile space of the blowing wheel via a bulkhead.
- a blow-molding change can be prepared during production since the shape-changing robot and regions behind it are hermetically separated from the sterile space of the blowing wheel via the bulkhead.
- a sterile room it would also be possible for a sterile room to be separated from another sterile room via a second bulkhead and, in particular, to be hermetically separated. It is possible that this first sterile room is connected to the sterile space of the blowing wheel, and in this way blow mold magazines can be changed during production.
- bulkheads may also be provided which hermetically separate the sterile space of the blowing wheel from the environment and / or further sterile areas.
- a sterile room for the blow molding magazine and a sterile room for the shape change robot to be considered as a sterile room and to be connected without a bulkhead to a sterile room of the blowing wheel.
- these two sterile rooms would also be particularly preferably separated hermetically from the surroundings via a further bulkhead. With this procedure, however, it is not possible to prepare for changing the blow mold during production.
- the device is sterilized by administering at least parts of the device with a flowable sterilization device.
- a flowable sterilization device onsmedium.
- this sterilization medium is a sterilization medium such as in particular but not exclusively H 2 O 2 or peracetic acid.
- sterilization it would also be possible for sterilization to take place by irradiation of plant parts, for example with electromagnetic radiation and / or with UV light or the like.
- the blow molds are again arranged on the blow mold carriers after sterilization has taken place. It is possible that the same blow molds, which have been used before, be arranged again, or even that new blow molds are attached to the blow mold carriers. Preferably, a sterilization of the blow mold after a disassembly of the individual transformation stations.
- the blow molds removed from the carrier are stored at least temporarily in a magazine device. It is conceivable that this magazine device is temporarily sterilized. In addition, it is also possible that in a preferred method the stored and / or stored in the magazine device blow molds are sterilized. This sterilization is preferably also carried out by loading the corresponding molds or areas of the magazine with a flowable sterilization medium.
- a new set of blow molds is arranged on the blow mold carriers.
- a blow mold change is also preferably carried out in this process.
- the removed blow molds are sterilized. It is also possible to sterilize the blow molds during their storage in the magazine.
- the present invention is further directed to an arrangement for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers.
- This arrangement has a movable carrier on which a plurality of forming stations are arranged for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, wherein these forming stations each have blow molds which are used to mold the plastic preforms. are suitable and determined, and which are at least indirectly arranged on the Blasformtainen.
- the device has a clean room which at least partially surrounds at least one transport path along which the plastic preforms are transported in the conversion stations and separates this transport path (preferably hermetically) from an unsterile environment.
- the arrangement further comprises an exchange robot which is suitable and intended for the dismantling and / or mounting of the blow molds on the blow mold carriers associated therewith and a magazine device which is suitable and intended for at least temporary storage of the blow molds.
- a sterile room in which at least one and preferably exactly one blow mold set is stored or can be stored.
- the present invention is further directed to an arrangement for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers.
- This arrangement comprises a movable carrier to which a plurality of forming stations for converting plastic preforms to plastic containers are arranged, these forming stations each having blow molds which are suitable and intended for molding the plastic preforms, and which at least indirectly arranged on Blasformtainen.
- the arrangement has a changing device and in particular a removable robot which is suitable and intended for mounting and / or dismounting of the blow molds, and a magazine device which is suitable and intended for at least temporary storage of the blow molds.
- the magazine device is suitable and intended for receiving a plurality of sets of blow molds.
- a dynamic magazine device and / or a dynamic bearing are, as mentioned above, a dynamic magazine device and / or a dynamic bearing.
- only blow-mold set is preferably stored.
- a magazine device is present, which is suitable and intended for receiving a plurality of sets of blow molds in order to be able to carry out a blow mold change in this way more easily.
- a plurality of different sets of blow molds are preferably selectable within the magazine device and the access to these blow molds possible.
- At least one magazine device is arranged within a clean room. It is both possible for a magazine device, which is suitable and intended only for accommodating a blow molding set, to be arranged within a clean room, and for the above-mentioned dynamic magazine device, which is suitable and intended for receiving a plurality of blow mold sets ,
- a magazine device itself is aseptically formed, that is to say it can be sterilized, for example, by means of sterilization means.
- the magazine device is suitable and intended for receiving the blow mold or the blow molds in an assembled and / or assembled state of these blow molds.
- the side parts can be fastened to one another and / or a bottom part can be fastened to the side parts, so that the blow mold can be removed in its entirety, ie in particular with side parts and bottom parts.
- the blow molds (having two shell molds and a bottom mold) are not really assembled, but are held together by the magazine and / or the robotic gripper as a package.
- the bottom mold is held in the two mold shells via a centering ring.
- the shell molds are compressed by robot gripper or held together in the magazine by this.
- the magazine device - in particular movable - receiving means for receiving the blow molds. That's it conceivable and preferred that ever a receiving means for receiving a blow mold is suitable and intended. However, it could also be provided stationary receiving means.
- the magazine device has a selection device which allows an automatic selection of a blow molding set. For example, a specific set of blow molds can be selected based on a user specification. It would also be possible for this selection device to be coupled to a controller of the machine, and this controller determines which set of blow molds should be taken.
- a bearing and in particular a dynamic bearing is connected to the machine.
- this dynamic bearing can be designed inter alia as a vertical or horizontal circulation shelf such as a paternoster shelf, as a tower shelf, as a high rack, as a sliding shelf or the like.
- a bearing includes a plurality of systems for blow molding, that is, blow molding magazines. This allows several sets of blow molds to be stored in this warehouse.
- the blow molds are used as a mold package (that is, consisting of at least one bottom mold and two side parts) in the blow mold storage.
- These storage systems in this dynamic storage can be arranged displaceable and movable in the warehouse or can be moved or retrieved by a storage and retrieval unit or the like in a dynamic warehouse.
- a required blow molding set can be selected in the dynamic bearing.
- the dynamic bearing moves the storage systems such that the storage system is provided with a required blow mold set for a mold change.
- the arrangement of a dynamic bearing takes place directly at the area of the automatic mold change and in particular with an interface to it.
- the protected area of the robot cell is connected to that of a warehouse.
- this bearing or the magazine device can not be sterilized or sterilized with sterilization media such as H2O2, and / or can be performed aseptically.
- the storage system for the mold packages or the blow molds is not sterilizable or can be sterilized with hydrogen peroxide or designed aseptically constructed.
- the magazine device or the storage system is a sterilisable and / or aseptic storage system, this storage system and also the robot cell are preferably designed such that they can be subjected to an internal pressure that is greater than its ambient pressure.
- the bearing device or the magazine is coupled on the control side with a choice of type of the blow molding machine or an entire line and automatically provides the blow molds suitable for the grade change.
- different procedures can be selected.
- the molds it would be possible for the molds to be stored in a magazine, which can be the same or similar to the procedure for a mold change robot.
- these magazines it would also be possible for these magazines to be stored in a warehouse.
- the storage system has at least one preferably two interface / s or bulkheads.
- an interface provided to the outside be to fill the storage system or the warehouse and / or to use the individual storage systems.
- the bearing or the magazine device can be loaded and unloaded via this interface without interrupting the production of the machine or system.
- an optional bulkhead may be provided for separation between a possible sterile dynamic bearing and the environment.
- Another interface may be the machine and / or the mold change area of the machine.
- an optional bulkhead to a sterile room can also be provided.
- This invention makes it possible to store blow mold sets directly on the blow molding machine and also eliminates an even faster mold change by omitting the setting up of a blow molding magazine (transport paths from the bearing to the machine) and changing the blow molding magazine.
- a blow mold change can be carried out fully automatically and without any operator on the machine. Also, preparations by the operator can be omitted.
- the risk of damage and dirt entry during transport and external storage can be omitted.
- the above-mentioned sterile room or clean room surrounds the entire arrangement.
- this sterile room has at least two walls which delimit this sterile room from an environment, wherein these walls are particularly preferably movable with respect to one another.
- sealing systems such as so-called channel seals or water locks, can be used to seal the sterile room.
- the blow molds also have a bottom part, which is particularly preferably arranged on a bottom part carrier.
- the blow molds are removable from their carriers in an assembled state.
- the arrangement has at least one sterilization device, which is suitable and intended to attack components of the arrangement and / or the blow molds with a particularly flowable sterilization medium.
- the said robotic robot is also arranged in a clean room.
- This clean room can be a stationary clean room.
- this clean room in which the changeover robot is located, is delimited or delimited with the aid of a bulkhead or sluice opposite that clean room in which the plastic preforms are formed into plastic containers.
- This means that the changeover robot can be separated from the actual blow molding machine, in particular during a working operation of the blow molding machine.
- At least one magazine device is also arranged within a clean room.
- this clean room can be the same clean room in which the changeover robot is arranged.
- the magazine device for storing the blow molds it would also be possible for the magazine device for storing the blow molds to be arranged in a further clean room, which is then particularly preferably demarcated by means of a further lock and / or a further bulkhead in relation to those clean room in which the changeover robot is arranged is delimitable.
- the arrangement has at least one checking unit which is suitable for checking at least one physical property of the blow molds or a property which relates to an arrangement of the blow molds on the blow mold carriers.
- the checking device can check whether a correct blow mold is arranged on its carrier and / or whether the blow mold is correctly positioned or mounted on its blow mold carrier.
- no operator is bound to a mold change and can take on other tasks during this time, such as a change of cloth, a label change and the like.
- an alternating robot and / or the above-mentioned checking device can preferably perform a check for correctness and correct seating of the blow molds. This can be done for example via RFID tags and / or a mechanical intervention in the blow molds.
- the operator may intervene in the event of problems (for example, an incorrect inserted mold, a correctly or improperly recognized mold, and the like) before the blow molds are sterilized.
- problems for example, an incorrect inserted mold, a correctly or improperly recognized mold, and the like
- sterilization it is possible that two bulkheads or locks are closed, while a bulkhead, which connects the magazine device with the removable robot, is open.
- the machine or the blowing wheel remains also in this case sterile and it is also a test by the robotic change during production possible.
- a blow mold change can be started. For this purpose, it is possible to close a bulkhead to the environment and vice versa to open the bulkhead to the machine.
- the replacement robot preferably first takes all blow molds from the mold carriers. Subsequently, the blow molding machine is preferably sterilized without blow molds, so that the rearward areas of mold bowls and bottom molds are sterilized.
- a sterilization of an extended sterile room can take place with a mold change robot, and sterilization of the extended sterile room with the blow molding magazine and the blow molds can also take place.
- the new blow molds are inserted into the mold carriers by the changeable robot.
- the bulkhead which is a connection to the space of the removable robot, is closed again and production can be resumed.
- a dynamic bearing can be connected to the extended sterile room in which the robotic robot is located, in which a plurality of blow mold sets are stored in blow molding magazines. If the operator selects a new set of blow molds, or if a signal comes from the interchangeable robot or the controller of the machine, it is possible that this dynamic bearing will move the blowmolding magazines accordingly.
- a bulkhead can open and the blow molding with the required blow-mold set and in the case of sterilization of the machine without forms and an empty blow-molding be provided.
- the changing robot is also suitable and determined to check a proper fit of the individual blow molds and in particular to check this proper seating of the blow molds already inside a magazine.
- the changing robot is preferably suitable and determines to check or to ensure which blow mold is arranged at which position within the magazine device. This can be done, for example, by reading out RFID elements.
- it can also be checked whether the respective Blow mold belongs to the correct mold insert.
- one of the changeable robots is suitable and intended for arranging the blow molds on blow mold carriers intended for them. In this way, such a dynamic bearing or such a dynamic storage device is particularly preferably separated off from the environment (in particular hermetically) by means of a further bulkhead.
- the dynamic bearing it would also be possible for the dynamic bearing to be regarded as a further sterile space which can also be sterilized by means of a sterilization agent such as, for example, H2O2.
- a bulkhead may also be dispensed with or else the sterile space of this dynamic bearing and the sterile space of the robot device may be designed as a sterile room.
- FIG. 2 shows a detailed view of a lock section of the system shown in FIG. 1.
- Fig. 1 shows an arrangement 50 for the manufacture of plastic containers.
- This arrangement 50 has a heating device 4, such as a furnace, within which the plastic preforms are heated.
- This furnace may preferably have a circulating conveyor chain (not shown), on which a plurality of holding elements for holding the plastic preforms is arranged.
- this heating device 4 can also have heating elements (not shown), past which the plastic preforms are guided.
- the heating device 4 is adjoined by a (transport and) sterilization module 6, which is suitable and intended for sterilizing the heated plastic preforms.
- This transport and sterilization module 6 can, for example, have a sterilization device 62, which likewise transports the plastic preforms and, during this transport, carries out a sterilization of the plastic preforms.
- a sterilization device 62 which likewise transports the plastic preforms and, during this transport, carries out a sterilization of the plastic preforms.
- beam fingers can penetrate into the plastic preforms, which deflect the inner walls. sterilize the plastic preforms by means of electron radiation.
- sterilization by means of a flowable medium, such as hydrogen peroxide take place.
- the reference numeral 64 designates a further transport device, which transfers the so-sterilized plastic preforms to a forming device 1 for forming the plastic preforms into plastic containers.
- the reference numeral 66 schematically indicates a clean room which at least surrounds the transport path of the plastic pre
- the forming device 1 has a rotatable carrier 2, on which a plurality of forming stations 20 is arranged. Each of these conversion stations has side sub-carriers 22 which are pivotable with respect to each other and blow molds 10 arranged on these side sub-carriers.
- the reference numeral 12 characterizes roughly a clean room, within which the forming stations 20 are transported and / or within which the plastic preforms are formed into plastic containers.
- This clean room 12 can be designed such that it surrounds the transport path of the conversion stations like a channel.
- the reference numeral 8 designates a robot device which serves for exchanging the blow molds from the conversion stations.
- This change device or this change robot 8 is preferably arranged within a second clean room 14.
- This second clean room 14 can be connected by means of a lock device 13 or a bulkhead with the clean room 12 of the device 1, or this connection can be interrupted. It is thus possible for the clean room 14, in which the interchangeable robot 8 is located, to be separated from the clean room 12 in which the forming process with the conversion stations 20 takes place in a normal operating mode.
- the reference numeral 16 refers to a third clean room, in which a only schematically illustrated mold magazine 36 is arranged.
- this third clean room 16 can be separated from the clean room 14 in which the changeover robot 8 is located.
- the changing robot 8 can remove blow molds from the magazine 36 or deposit blowing molds that collect from the forming device into this mold magazine. With this configuration, it is possible that already in the normal operation of the blow molding machine, a set-up process can be completed. Thus, it is possible that the bulkhead or the lock 24 is closed, and in this way the clean rooms 16 and 14 are separated from each other.
- the reference numeral 18 denotes a further optional clean room in which a dynamic magazine 38 can be arranged.
- This dynamic magazine 38 can be suitable and intended for receiving a plurality of sets of blow molds.
- This magazine can be present in particular instead of the magazine 36.
- Another lock device 26 or a bulkhead can separate the clean room 18 from the clean room 16. In this way, it is also possible that during a blow mold change operation of the device itself can be continued.
- the reference numeral 28 denotes a further bulkhead or a lock, which serves to delineate the clean room 18 against (non-sterile) environment.
- Fig. 2 shows another embodiment of the present invention.
- the clean room 18, in which the dynamic mold magazine 38 is located directly adjoins the clean room 14, in which the changeover robot 8 is located.
- This format magazine is suitable for receiving a number of sets of blow molds. Via a controller, it is possible for the robot to selectively remove desired blow molds from the dynamic magazine 38.
- the lock device or the bulkhead 26 which separates the clean rooms 14 and 18 from each other.
- the individual clean rooms 14, 16 and 18 shown can also be sterilized separately, and also the individual magazines 36 and 38 are preferably sterilizable.
- the changeover robot itself or its components can also be sterilized. It would also be possible for a protective cover which shields the robot to be provided.
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