EP3717397B1 - Verschliessvorrichtung zum begasen und verschliessen von behältern, die eine einfüllöffnung aufweisen - Google Patents

Verschliessvorrichtung zum begasen und verschliessen von behältern, die eine einfüllöffnung aufweisen Download PDF

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EP3717397B1
EP3717397B1 EP18811714.7A EP18811714A EP3717397B1 EP 3717397 B1 EP3717397 B1 EP 3717397B1 EP 18811714 A EP18811714 A EP 18811714A EP 3717397 B1 EP3717397 B1 EP 3717397B1
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Daniel SPIELER
Tim GÖGELEIN
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C3/222—Head-space air removing devices, e.g. by inducing foam
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/003—Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • B65B31/04—Evacuating, pressurising or gasifying filled containers or wrappers by means of nozzles through which air or other gas, e.g. an inert gas, is withdrawn or supplied
    • B65B31/046—Evacuating, pressurising or gasifying filled containers or wrappers by means of nozzles through which air or other gas, e.g. an inert gas, is withdrawn or supplied the nozzles co-operating, or being combined, with a device for opening or closing the container or wrapper
    • 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
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers

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  • Closing devices of the type considered here are used, for example, in the chemical industry and in the pharmaceutical industry in order to close the relevant containers after they have been filled with, for example, oxygen-sensitive, liquid chemicals or pharmaceuticals. It is already known to flush the head space volume of the container with an inert gas, for example nitrogen, as a flushing gas, in order to displace oxygen from the head space, before closing such filled containers.
  • an inert gas for example nitrogen
  • closure devices in which nozzles of a nozzle device are positioned obliquely on the mouths of the container while the inert gas flows into the container.
  • the nozzles are withdrawn from the container mouths at the end of the respective flushing gas in order to make room for the operation of a closure element setting device, which attaches a respective closure, for example a respective rubber stopper, to the container to be closed, ie brings it into the filling opening around the container in question to close.
  • the rinsing of the containers by means of the rinsing device and, if necessary, also the closing of the containers can, if necessary, take place during a transport movement of the containers, the nozzles and possibly the closure setting means being moved along in the transport direction.
  • the relevant elements of the closing device can, for example, move along with the containers in one cycle step and then start again at the next machine cycle.
  • Inert gas e.g. nitrogen, is preferably used as the flushing gas.
  • the central nozzle arrangement and the peripheral nozzle arrangement together form a gas discharge area which is larger than the filling opening of a relevant container to be closed.
  • flushing gas is blown from the central nozzle arrangement into the filling opening of the container in question.
  • the peripheral nozzle arrangement discharges flushing gas into the area of the periphery of the filling opening.
  • the central nozzle arrangement and the peripheral nozzle arrangement are each designed as a tubular element, the tubular element forming the central nozzle arrangement being received in particular concentrically in the tubular element forming the peripheral nozzle arrangement.
  • Such a construction can be produced inexpensively with simple means and, moreover, has the advantage that a favorable flow of flushing gas is possible when flushing the relevant container.
  • the peripheral nozzle arrangement can surround a plurality of the central nozzle arrangement all around Have peripheral nozzles.
  • the central nozzle arrangement can also optionally have several nozzles as a bundle.
  • the flushing gas flow of the central nozzle arrangement and the flushing gas flow of the peripheral nozzle arrangement can preferably be controlled separately in order to set optimal conditions during flushing.
  • the position for closing and the rinsing position for a respective container to be rinsed and closed correspond to one another, the nozzle device being movable between the rinsing position and a retracted position relative to a container brought into the position for closing by means of the positioning device.
  • the flushing position its flushing gas outlet end is positioned opposite the filling opening of the container, overlapping it.
  • the final process of attaching the closing element i.e. closing the container, can be carried out quickly after the nozzle device has at least largely carried out its movement into the retracted position. In this way, it can be largely prevented that, after the flushing process and before the container is completely closed, atmospheric oxygen can again enter the container through the filling opening.
  • the nozzle device is advantageously designed in such a way that, in the rinsing position, it is oriented at an angle to the filling opening of a container that is positioned in the position for closing and is to be rinsed.
  • a nozzle device can be moved quickly in the shortest possible way, for example by pivoting it sideways and / or pulling it away from its rinsing position into the retracted position.
  • the nozzle device is beveled at its flushing gas outlet end relative to the longitudinal axis of the pipe element, so that the flushing gas outlet end in the flushing position of the nozzle device lies at least approximately in a plane that is parallel to the upper edge of the filler opening of a respective position for Closing the positioned container extends.
  • Such an arrangement allows an even further improved flow guidance of the flushing gas when flushing a container.
  • the closure element setting device can have a closure element holder which can be moved between a retracted passive position and an advanced closure element delivery position, which can for example be a stopper setter that can press a stopper as a closure element into the filling opening of a container to be closed.
  • the closing device is preferably controllable by means of the control device in such a way that the movement of the closing element holder from its retracted passive position into the advanced closing element delivery position and the movement of the nozzle device from the rinsing position into its retracted position take place at least partially simultaneously. This also serves to minimize a period of time between the targeted flushing and the subsequent attachment of the closure element to a relevant container, so that hardly any air can flow into the container during this period.
  • the closing device has an additional nozzle device with at least one flushing nozzle for discharging flushing gas in the direction of the locking element holder, so that the flushing nozzle can blow flushing gas onto a locking element held by the locking element holder for a current closing process.
  • This measure serves to prevent atmospheric oxygen, which can be located in a recess in the relevant closure element, from being introduced into the container to be closed.
  • the additional nozzle device serves to displace and replace such air oxygen residues with flushing gas, so that flushing gas, but as far as possible no oxygen, can be introduced into a relevant container when the sealing element is put on.
  • the positioning device is designed to arrange a group of containers to be closed in a position for closing, the closure element setting device also being designed for attaching closure elements to a corresponding group of containers to be closed in a position that closes the filling openings .
  • the nozzle device of the flushing device is provided several times to form a group of similar nozzle devices.
  • the figure shows a partially schematic, partial detailed sectional view of a region of the closing device in which the purging of a relevant container with inert gas and the closing of the container take place.
  • a bottle 3 can be seen as a container, which is filled with an oxygen-sensitive liquid pharmaceutical 7 except for a headspace volume 5.
  • the vial 3 is located in a positioning device 9 of the closure device and has been brought into the position shown for closure by means of this positioning device 9, this position for closure also corresponding to the rinsing position in which, for example, inert gas is introduced as rinsing gas into the head space 5 of the vial 3 will.
  • a rinsing device 11 serves for this purpose, of which essentially a nozzle device 13 can be seen in its rinsing position relative to the bottle 3 in the figure.
  • the nozzle device 13 has, as a central nozzle arrangement, an inner cylindrical tubular element 15 which, in the rinsing position, is directed essentially at the filling opening 18 of the vial 3 in order to inject the inert gas there.
  • the nozzle device 13 further comprises, as a peripheral nozzle arrangement, a cylindrical tubular element 17 which coaxially surrounds the tubular element 15 and which also serves to discharge inert gas.
  • Inert gas can thus be blown into the periphery of the filling opening 18 of the vial 3 from the space 19 between the central tube element 15 and the peripheral tube element 17 in order to displace air and thus the atmospheric oxygen so that it does not enter the filling opening due to suction during the flushing process 18 is sucked in.
  • the pipe element 17 and / or the pipe element 15 can be expanded like a funnel at the outlet of the nozzle device 13.
  • the gas flow 20 of the central tubular element 15, which is directed towards the filling opening 18 of the vial 3, and the gas flow 22 delimited on the outside by the peripheral tubular element 17 are separate from one another in their Controllable strength.
  • a control device 24, which also controls the other functions of the closing device, is used for control.
  • a further measure to minimize the residual oxygen content in the bottle 3 is an additional nozzle device 26 with at least one additional flushing nozzle 28, which in the example in turn is directed towards an inert gas in the direction of a closure element in the form of a stopper 30, which is kept ready for the subsequent closing process, so that the flushing gas enters the lower recess 32 of the plug 30 and can displace air there.
  • the frame 34 of the additional nozzle device 26 is constructed in such a way that the areas 5, 32 to be rinsed are well shielded from the outside against the ingress of air when the vial 3 and the nozzle device 13 are in the rinsing position shown. In this way, it is prevented that outside air can flow in critical quantities to the flushed areas.
  • the plug 30 is located at the lower end of a push-in plunger 36 as a closure element holder of a closure element setting device 38.
  • the push-in plunger 36 is shown in a retracted passive position, from which it can be moved into an advanced closure element dispensing position, around the plug 30 into the filling opening 18 of bottle 3.
  • the nozzle device 13 must first be moved out of the way between the stopper 30 shown and the filling opening 18 of the vial 3. This takes place very quickly after the rinsing process by moving the nozzle device laterally to the right in the figure by means of a relevant component, utilizing an at least approximately horizontal movement component Drive device (not shown) is moved to a retracted position.
  • a drive device of the closure element setting device 38 moves the push-in plunger 36 from the withdrawn passive position shown in the figure into an advanced closure element dispensing position, in which it presses the stopper 30 into the filling opening 18 of the vial 3.
  • the bottle 3 is then tightly closed and has an extremely low residual oxygen content in its head space 5.
  • the nozzle device 13 in its rinsing position is oriented at an angle to the filling opening of the bottle 3 that is positioned in the position for closing and is to be rinsed. It should also be noted that the nozzle device 13 is beveled at its purge gas outlet end relative to the pipe element longitudinal axis 42, so that the purge gas outlet end 40 in the purge position of the nozzle device 13 lies at least approximately in a plane that is parallel to the upper edge of the filling opening 18 of the vial 3 extends. These measures serve, on the one hand, to improve the flushing effect of the vial 3, and, on the other hand, to enable the nozzle device 13 to move more quickly out of the space between the stopper 30 and the filling opening 18.

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