EP4104934A1 - Couvercle de récipient pour un récipient, ainsi que procédé et dispositif de remplissage d'un récipient - Google Patents

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EP4104934A1
EP4104934A1 EP21179368.2A EP21179368A EP4104934A1 EP 4104934 A1 EP4104934 A1 EP 4104934A1 EP 21179368 A EP21179368 A EP 21179368A EP 4104934 A1 EP4104934 A1 EP 4104934A1
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Tom Philipps
Robert Toroczkay
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  • the invention relates to a container lid for a container for accommodating liquid or pasty products, with a lid body that can be fixed over a container opening on a container housing of the container, and with a manually operable dosing dispenser device with which, when an actuating element of the dosing dispenser device is actuated, a predefinable amount is dispensed of the product can be dispensed from the container housing through a product dispensing opening of the dosing dispenser device.
  • Such container lids with a manually operable metering device are known in various designs and are suitable for metered dispensing of a liquid or pasty product from a container.
  • Such dosing dispenser devices can be used, for example, in soap dispensers in which an actuating element is pressed or displaced and a predetermined amount of soap is conveyed out of the container and dispensed through a product dispensing opening.
  • the product dispensing opening is often located at one end of the actuator, with a product dispensing channel connecting an interior of the container to the product dispensing opening in the actuator.
  • the product dispensing channel opens into a dosing dispenser chamber of the dosing dispenser device, which is arranged in the interior of the container.
  • the dosing dispenser chamber has at least one chamber opening through which the product located in the interior of the container can flow into the dosing dispenser chamber.
  • the actuating element is actuated, the chamber opening is closed.
  • a displacement element of the dosing dispenser device penetrates into the dosing dispenser chamber and displaces a portion of a quantity of product in the dosing dispenser chamber, which is pressed through the product dispensing channel and is dispensed through the product dispensing opening.
  • the actuating element As soon as the actuating element is released and no longer actuated, the actuating element is moved back into an unactuated initial state by a spring device.
  • the product dispensing channel is closed, the chamber opening of the dosing dispenser chamber is opened and the displacement element is moved out of the dosing dispenser chamber, so that the product quantity dispensed during actuation can flow from the interior of the container into the dosing dispenser chamber and the dosing dispenser device can be actuated again and a further dispensing effected as a result amount of product is ready from the container.
  • Dosing dispenser devices of this type are widespread in practice and are suitable for numerous different areas of application and for dispensing different products in doses.
  • the products can be liquid or pasty, with liquid being a viscosity of the product that is comparable to that Viscosity of water is, and pasty denotes a higher viscosity than the viscosity of water and a pasty product is therefore more viscous or less free-flowing than water.
  • a dosing dispenser device can be manufactured and assembled inexpensively from a few individual parts. Many dosing dispenser devices can be used reliably and maintenance-free over a long period of time. Most dosing dispenser devices are insensitive to the mechanical loads that usually occur. Due to the design and dimensioning of the dosing dispenser chamber in particular, different quantities of the product can be dispensed by a single actuation process. The dosing dispenser device can therefore be easily adapted to different products and containers or container sizes.
  • the dosing dispenser devices known from practice have a dosing dispenser chamber with a chamber opening, the arrangement of which does not change relative to the container lid and thus to the surrounding container during the useful life of the container.
  • the chamber opening can therefore be arranged in an area within the interior of the container which is at the bottom when the container is used as intended, so that the quantity of product located in the interior of the container collects in the region of the chamber opening even as the container is increasingly emptied and a large , or close to the complete emptying of the container with the dosing dispenser device is possible.
  • the dosing dispenser chamber and thus also the chamber opening in the Located in or near the container lid are examples of the dosing dispenser chamber and thus also the chamber opening in the Located in or near the container lid.
  • the chamber opening is then often connected to a suction pipe, which usually extends to the bottom of the container or at least to the vicinity of the bottom of the container, so that as the container is increasingly emptied it can still protrude into the product residue accumulating on the bottom and when the Actuator to be able to suck a quantity of product into the dosing dispenser chamber.
  • a suction pipe usually extends to the bottom of the container or at least to the vicinity of the bottom of the container, so that as the container is increasingly emptied it can still protrude into the product residue accumulating on the bottom and when the Actuator to be able to suck a quantity of product into the dosing dispenser chamber.
  • Products which consist of two or more product components. With some products, segregation and separation of the various product components does not take place, or only so slowly that during a normal period of use of a container filled with the mixed product, there is no significant segregation and therefore no significant inhomogeneity of the product over a long period of use during a period of use with the dosing dispenser device effected product issue takes place.
  • other products can be composed of two or more product components that separate after a comparatively short period of time, which means that after some time the dispensing of the product with the dosing dispenser device is impaired and no longer the desired homogeneously mixed product, but predominantly a separated product Product component is issued.
  • the container lid engages with the container with a mixing device for the product located in the container, the mixing device having a displaceable mixing element which is operatively connected to the actuating element of the dosing dispenser device and is displaced by an actuation of the actuating element. It is preferably provided according to the invention that the mixing device is arranged on the container lid.
  • the mixing device When the container lid is used as intended, the mixing device is located in an interior space of the container. Intended use includes not only closing the container with the container lid, but also a mixing process carried out with the mixing device, with which the in the container product is mixed without the container lid having to be fixed on the container.
  • the operative connection between the actuating element and the displaceable mixing element can be designed such that a single actuation of the actuating element already sufficiently mixes the product in the container and the product dispensed from the container by the dosing dispenser device amount of product is sufficiently homogenized for the intended use of the product.
  • the manner in which the mixing element is displaced can correspond to the displacement of the actuating element, so that a rigid connection between the actuating element and the mixing element is possible.
  • the mixing element can be fixed laterally protruding on a rod that is rigidly connected to the actuating element and aligned in such a way that the rod with the mixing element protrudes from the container lid into the interior of the container.
  • the mixing element is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation and a displacement of the actuating element along the axis of rotation is converted into a rotary movement of the mixing element about the axis of rotation.
  • the mixing element can be, for example, a tongue-shaped or paddle-shaped formation.
  • the mixing element can be essentially planar or have a complex three-dimensional shape.
  • the mixing element is displaced by actuating the actuating element of the dosing dispenser device along a predetermined mixing element trajectory within the interior of the container and thereby displaces a portion of the product located in the region of this mixing element trajectory, causing the product to be thoroughly mixed in the interior of the container.
  • the shape of the mixing element is predetermined in such a way that the movement of the mixing element within the container causes the product located in the container to be mixed as efficiently as possible.
  • the mixing device can also have a plurality of mixing elements which can be displaced uniformly or else relative to one another by actuating the actuating element.
  • a mixing element can also be operatively connected to the actuating element via a transmission, so that displacement of the actuating element along an actuating element trajectory causes displacement of the mixing element along a mixing element trajectory that is shorter or preferably significantly longer than the actuating element trajectory.
  • the mixing device is arranged or mounted on the container cover and can be moved together with the container cover.
  • the container lid can be brought closer to the container and then moved in such a way that a mixing element of the mixing device protrudes into the interior of the container and is displaced in the interior by the movement of the container lid in order to mix the product located therein.
  • the mixing device is arranged in the container and the container lid can be brought up to the container in such a way that the actuating element of the dosing dispenser device is brought into operative connection with the mixing device located in the interior of the container.
  • the dosing dispenser device has a suction pipe, which extends away from the lid body, for the product to be dispensed through the product dispensing opening, and that the mixing element is displaceably mounted on an end region of the intake pipe remote from the cover body.
  • a suction pipe extending away from the lid body is advantageous, which protrudes far into the interior of the container and optionally extends to a bottom of the container.
  • a suction opening for the product to be dispensed with the dosing dispenser device can expediently be formed on the face side at an open end of the suction tube or on the side in an end region of the suction tube remote from the lid body. It is advantageously provided that the mixing element is arranged on the end region of the intake pipe remote from the cover body and can be displaced there in order to be able to reliably mix the remaining quantity of the product even when the container is increasingly emptied.
  • the arrangement and design of the mixing element which is mounted displaceably on the end area of the intake pipe, can be specified in such a way that the product is mixed in particular in an area around the intake opening, so that a quantity of product mixed during actuation of the actuating element flows through the intake pipe into the dosing dispenser chamber is sucked in and conveyed.
  • the mixing element extends in the longitudinal direction of the intake pipe over an intake opening formed in the intake pipe for the product to be dispensed.
  • a region surrounding the suction opening upon actuation of the mixing element is effectively mixed and, in particular, a suction area around the suction pipe contains a well-mixed product.
  • the mixing device has a displaceably mounted mixing element sleeve, which is arranged coaxially to the intake pipe and is operatively connected to the actuating element, so that when the actuating element is actuated, the mixing element sleeve is displaced relative to the intake pipe.
  • the mixing element sleeve can be shifted or shifted back and forth either in the axial direction and thus along a direction predetermined by the intake pipe. It is also conceivable and advantageous for many containers, or for many products, that the mixing element sleeve is caused to rotate by actuating the actuating element and is twisted relative to the intake pipe.
  • a suitable transmission or a mechanical transmission device can be used to ensure that a short displacement of the actuating element causes a rotary movement of the mixing element sleeve and thus the mixing elements arranged thereon, possibly comprising several complete revolutions. It is also conceivable that the mixing element sleeve both an axial during a complete actuation of the actuating element Shift and a rotational movement performs.
  • the displacement of the mixing element sleeve can take place simultaneously along an axial direction and in the circumferential direction, or individual displacement sections can be specified in which predominantly or exclusively an axial displacement or a rotational movement of the mixing element sleeve takes place.
  • a single mixing element can be fixed rigidly to the mixing element sleeve. It is also conceivable that the mixing element is connected to the mixing element sleeve via a joint or via an operative connection and is caused by a displacement of the mixing element sleeve to a different displacement within the interior of the container. Several mixing elements can also be arranged or formed on the mixing element sleeve.
  • the mixing element is pivotably mounted about a displacement axis extending away from the lid body. It has been shown that a comparatively effective mixing of the product in the area around the mixing element can be brought about by a circumferential displacement of the mixing element. It is also conceivable and advantageous for corresponding applications that the mixing element can be displaced within the container along a helix. In this way, a volume within the interior of the container that extends in the axial direction along the displacement axis can be traversed by the mixing element and the product located in this area can be mixed as a result.
  • the mixing element has at least one mixing lamella running along a helical line.
  • a mixing lamella shaped in this way forms a mixing element that causes a displacement of adjoining product quantities both in the circumferential direction and simultaneously in the axial direction within the interior of the container even if the displacement is exclusively in the axial direction or also in the case of an exclusively in the circumferential direction.
  • a particularly efficient mixing of the product in the container can be brought about without requiring a constructively expensive and complex active connection between the actuating element, which is usually linearly displaceable, on the one hand, and the mixing element, on the other hand.
  • the mixing lamella which runs along a helical line, can only extend over a partial area of the circumference in the circumferential direction. It is also possible for the mixing lamella to extend in the circumferential direction over a complete circumference or to be longer in the circumferential direction than a complete circumference of the container.
  • the mixing lamella can be flat and extend radially from a displacement axis radially to an outer peripheral edge of the mixing lamella. It is optionally provided and advantageous with regard to the most efficient possible mixing of the product located in the interior that the at least one mixing lamella is mounted at a radial distance with respect to a displacement axis. Such a mixed lamella is therefore in Substantially band-shaped and runs along a helix with a radial distance around a displacement axis. The displacement of such a strip-shaped mixing lamella can take place along an axial direction of the displacement axis or in the circumferential direction around the displacement axis.
  • the mixing lamella can be designed to be flat or running in a straight line in the radial direction. It is also conceivable that the mixing lamella has a curvature in the radial direction. Furthermore, curved or angled edge regions of the mixing lamella can be provided.
  • a mixing element or several mixing elements can also be provided which are planar and protrude tongue-like or in the form of a paddle from a mixing element fastening expediently running along a displacement axis.
  • Each individual mixing element can also have a complex shape and, for example, have a curvature or bevel in the edge regions or have protruding formations that possibly protrude from the mixing element in different directions.
  • a mixing element can also have a convex or concave curvature.
  • the mixing element is made of a material or has a coating with a material that has the lowest possible adhesive effect for the product filled into the container.
  • the mixing element is made of a material or has a coating with a material that has the lowest possible adhesive effect for the product filled into the container.
  • a suction opening for the transfer of the product from the interior of the container into the dosing dispenser chamber may be covered with a close-meshed grid or net or with a membrane permeable to the product, in order to prevent larger particles from entering through the suction opening into the Invade dosing dispenser chamber and be issued upon actuation of the actuating element.
  • the invention also relates to a method for filling a container with a liquid or pasty product, the product being introduced into the container in a filling step with a filling device through a container opening and the filled container then being closed with a container lid.
  • a container can be filled with a liquid or pasty product in a partially or fully automated manner.
  • the container is placed under a filling device with a filling nozzle and the liquid or pasty product is filled into the container from the filling nozzle.
  • the filling nozzle can either be arranged directly above the container opening or protrude slightly through the container opening into the interior of the container in order to prevent a portion of the product quantity from flowing laterally past the container opening during the filling process or from sticking to a container edge surrounding the container opening .
  • a container cover is usually fixed to the container with a container cover handling device and the container opening used for filling the container is thereby closed.
  • the container opening used for filling can then also be used to remove the product from the filled container.
  • the container lid can, for example, be screwed onto a screw thread formed on the container and unscrewed if necessary in order to remove a quantity of the product located in the container through the container opening which is then open.
  • a closure cap can be opened or pulled off in order to reveal a removal opening in the container lid.
  • container lids which have a dosing dispenser device with the aid of which a predetermined quantity of the product can be dispensed by actuating the dosing dispenser device.
  • Some products require that the product placed in the container be mixed prior to sealing. Thorough mixing can be particularly advantageous or even necessary when the product is made up of several product components that are filled into the container one after the other.
  • either the container can be closed with the container lid and then moved along a predetermined mixing trajectory in order to mix the product located in the container.
  • a mixing device is introduced into the interior of the filled container and the product located therein is mixed with the mixing device. After the mixing process, the mixing device is moved out of the container and the container is closed with the container lid.
  • Such a method which is already known from practice, can be carried out in a cost-effective and fully automated manner in particular when a large number of similar containers are to be filled with the same product.
  • the mixing device that has been removed from a container that has already been mixed can then be introduced directly into the next container and used to mix the same product in this next container.
  • such a method is often associated with considerable effort and corresponding costs connected if different products are to be filled into containers that are to be mixed in succession.
  • it is often necessary for the mixing device to be cleaned between two consecutive mixing processes in order to avoid that a portion of a product from a first and already mixed container, which sticks to the mixing device after the mixing process in the first container, subsequently is introduced into a second container that is still to be mixed.
  • the product filled into the container is mixed in a mixing step, with the container lid being brought into operative connection with a mixing device in an interior of the container or the container lid with a Having a mixing device with a mixing element, which is introduced into an interior of the container during the mixing step, and that a mixing element of the mixing device is displaced in the interior of the container before the container lid is fixed to the container and the container opening is thereby closed.
  • the mixing device which is used to mix the product into the container, is already in the container or it is arranged or formed on the container lid, which is then attached to the relevant container and thereby closes the container opening. In both cases, only the mixing device assigned to the relevant container is used for a mixing process in a container. Subsequent cleaning of the mixing device is not required since the mixing device remains on the container or in the interior of the container.
  • the mixing device Since the mixing device remains in the interior of the container after the mixing step has been carried out, it can be ruled out that any quantities of product adhering to the mixing device are discharged from the container during a filling process and are lost for filling the container.
  • a proportion of the product quantity lost during the filling process can be largely reduced, as a result of which the filling process can be carried out very cost-effectively and efficiently.
  • the mixing device is attached or formed on the container lid and no separate handling of the mixing device on the one hand and of the container lid on the other hand during a subsequent closing of the container is required during the filling process, the filling process can be carried out and completed very quickly. In addition, fewer components of a device are required, with which the filling process can be carried out automatically.
  • the container lid with the mixing device projecting into the interior of the container is rotated about an axis of rotation.
  • the axis of rotation expediently corresponds to a central axis of the container running through the container opening.
  • the axis of rotation of the mixing device can correspond to the axis of rotation of the shape of the container. It is also possible, for example, for the container opening not to be arranged centrally or for the container cover to be arranged on the container opening in such a way that the axis of rotation of the mixing device does not run symmetrically within the surrounding container.
  • the mixing device projecting into the interior of the container is not rotated about an axis of rotation, but merely performs several successive pivoting movements about a pivot axis.
  • the mixing device can also be linearly displaced along a displacement axis and thus, for example be shifted back and forth several times during actuation of the actuating device.
  • the method according to the invention is optionally suitable in particular for the fact that in the filling step at least two product component filling steps are carried out one after the other, in each of which a product component is filled into the container.
  • the at least two product components can be pasty materials, for example, which would not mix, or only mix insufficiently, without subsequent mixing.
  • a mixing step then ensures that the two product components mix sufficiently and that a product made from the two or more product components has sufficiently homogeneous properties after the filling process.
  • the invention further relates to a device for filling a container with a liquid or pasty product, the device having a filling device for filling an interior space of the container with the product, and the device being designed in such a way that the container and a mixing device are arranged relative to one another in such a way can be relocated that a mixing element of Mixing device protrudes into the interior of the container and the mixing element of the mixing device is displaced in the interior of the container.
  • numerous devices are known from practice with which a container can be filled with a product.
  • the container is positioned relative to a filling device in such a way that a quantity of product discharged, for example, from a filling nozzle is introduced into the interior of the container.
  • the container can then be closed with an associated container lid. If the product filled into the container is to be mixed before sealing with the container lid, a mixing element of a mixing device can be brought into the interior of the container and displaced therein in order to cause thorough mixing of the product in the container. The mixing element is then removed from the container again and the thoroughly mixed container is closed with the container lid.
  • a mixing device or a mixing element for mixing a plurality of containers filled in succession can be implemented inexpensively and automatically if a large number of similar containers are to be filled with the same product in each case.
  • successive filling processes for different products are to be carried out with the same mixing device, it is regularly necessary for the mixing device to be cleaned between two consecutive mixing processes in order to avoid residues adhering to the mixing device causing a subsequently mixed container to have a Residual quantity of a product from a previous mixing process of another container is contaminated.
  • the mixing device has a mixing element which, after the container has been filled, remains in the interior of the container, which is then closed with a container lid.
  • a mixing element which, after the container has been filled, remains in the interior of the container, which is then closed with a container lid.
  • the mixing element can be designed in such a way that after the container has been closed with the container lid, it does not impair subsequent removal of a quantity of product and can remain permanently in the interior of the container.
  • the mixing element is made of a material which is inert to the product placed in the container.
  • the mixing element can take up a comparatively small volume and only slightly reduce the interior space of the container that can be used for filling with the product.
  • the mixing element can have a predetermined breaking point, for example, so that the mixing element can be detached from the mixing device after the product filled into the container has been thoroughly mixed along the predetermined breaking point and can remain in the interior of the container after the container has been removed from the mixing device. It is also possible that the mixing element has magnetic properties and is displaced inside the container by a suitable change in a magnetic field generated from outside the container and, for example, rotates about an axis of rotation predetermined by the magnetic field.
  • the filling device has a plurality of product component storage containers from which a product component can be filled into the container.
  • the plurality of product component reservoirs can be arranged in a reservoir magazine, for example.
  • individually specified quantities of the respective product component can be filled into the container from individually selected product component storage containers.
  • an individual selection of the individual product components and the respective quantities of the product components can be made for each container.
  • a product mixing device of the device has a container lid handling device, with which a container lid with a mixing device arranged on the container lid can be gripped with a mixing element and brought to the container in such a way that the mixing element of the Mixing device protrudes into the interior of the container, and wherein the mixing element can be displaced with the container lid handling device within the interior of the container.
  • the container lid shows in this case, in a particularly advantageous manner, a dosing dispenser device and a mixing device, as has already been described above.
  • the container lid In order to mix the product filled into the container, the container lid can be moved to the container with the container lid handling device in such a way that the mixing element of the mixing device protrudes into the interior of the container and the product in the interior of the container is mixed by moving the container lid , without the container lid thereby already being fixed on the container.
  • efficient thorough mixing of the product can be brought about by a rotational movement of the container lid and by a rotational movement of the mixing element projecting into the interior of the container caused thereby.
  • the mixing device can also be actuated with the container lid handling device, there is no need for the production and operation of a further handling device for a separate mixing device in the device designed according to the invention.
  • the filling process including individual mixing steps and including the subsequent sealing of the container with the container lid, can be carried out within a very short time, since, for example, after the end of the last mixing step, which was carried out with the container lid handling device, the container lid already taken is only fixed to the container must without the mixing device having to be taken out of the interior of the container and removed from the container opening beforehand.
  • the container lid handling device If the container lid is fixed, for example by screwing on a correspondingly designed screw thread on the container opening, the container lid handling device must already be designed and set up in such a way that a rotary movement of the container lid is possible. With the same turning movement, the mixing of the product located in the container can be effected during a mixing step with a container lid still located at a distance from the screw thread in the vicinity of the container. As a result, the container lid handling device does not have to have any additional degrees of freedom and no separate actuators or drive devices in order to be able to carry out both a mixing step and the subsequent fixing of the container lid to the container.
  • the device has a container handling device with which the container can be gripped and brought to a container lid with a mixing device arranged on the container lid with a mixing element such that the mixing element of the mixing device can be pushed into the interior of the container protrudes. Only relative movements between the container and the container lid are required to carry out a mixing step and then close the container opening with the container lid. For this reason, it can be advantageous to carry out part of the required movement sequence or the complete movement sequence with a displacement of the container instead of a complex movement of the container lid, which with a suitably designed container handling facility.
  • the container handling device in such a way that both all movement sequences can be carried out , which are required for the filling process, as well as some or all movements can be performed, which are required for the mixing step and for the subsequent definition of the container lid on the container.
  • both the container handling device and the container lid handling device can also be advantageous for both the container handling device and the container lid handling device to take over part of the required movement sequences and carry them out simultaneously during a mixing step and when the container lid is subsequently fixed to the container.
  • the container with the container handling device can be displaced in such a way that the mixing element is displaced within the interior of the container.
  • the mixing step can be largely or completely by a suitable control and manipulation of the container handling device are carried out.
  • the container lid is moved relative to the container with a container lid handling device in such a way that the mixing element is moved within the interior of the container.
  • the container lid can either be moved back and forth along a straight trajectory or rotated about a predetermined axis of rotation. Complex trajectories or displacement sequences are also conceivable in order to bring about the most efficient possible mixing of the product located in the container.
  • the device has a container closure device with which the container lid can be attached to the container after the container has been filled with the product and the product has been mixed in the container.
  • the container lid can be screwed onto a thread section provided for this purpose, which is formed on the container, by means of a rotational movement.
  • the container lid can also be snapped onto the container over the container opening.
  • the container lid to be connected to the container with a material fit, with the container lid being connected to the container, for example, by ultrasonic welding or friction welding.
  • the container lid is glued to the container.
  • the device has a container magazine for accommodating a number of containers and a container lid magazine for accommodating a number of container lids, each with a mixing device arranged on the container lid.
  • a number of containers can be filled one after the other with an individually specified product composed of different product components without manual intervention or refilling of containers or container lids being necessary.
  • Such a device can be used over a long period of time to successively fill a container with a product prepared individually according to customer requirements from different product components and to dispense the relevant container.
  • Such a device is suitable, for example, for the individual preparation and filling of cosmetics in containers from which a predetermined quantity of product can be dispensed with a dosing dispenser device until the container is completely emptied.
  • one inside figure 1 device 1 shown as an example for filling an in figure 1 not visible container with a liquid or pasty product has a container magazine 2 with a number of containers and associated container lids 3, which are arranged in the container magazine 2 and are kept available for filling with the product.
  • the device 1 also has a storage container magazine 4 with a number of product component storage containers 5, in each of which one product component is kept in stock, which can be filled into a container provided for this purpose as part of a product composed of several product components.
  • the device 1 has a container handling device 6, with which a container is gripped and placed inside an in figure 1 Not shown housing of the device 1 can be shifted in all three spatial directions.
  • the container handling device 6 has a gripping and holding device 7 which can be displaced along correspondingly arranged displacement rails 8 , 9 , 10 on a container handling carriage 11 in all three spatial directions within the housing of the device 1 .
  • a number of container lids 3 are stored.
  • an associated container is connected to each container lid 3 .
  • the container can be gripped with the container handling device 6 and detached from the container lid 3 in order to then be filled with the product and reconnected to the container lid 3 after a mixing process to be and to be closed by the container lid 3.
  • the gripping and holding device 7 of the container handling device 6 is moved in a horizontal plane under a container 12 which is kept in stock together with the associated container lid 3 in the container magazine 2 ( figure 2 ).
  • the container 12 is then gripped with the gripping and holding device 7, which is then shifted in the vertical direction, and released from the associated container lid 3 ( figure 3 ).
  • the container 12 is removed from the container lid 3 with the gripping and holding device 7, with a mixing device 13 arranged on the container lid 3 having a mixing element 14 being pulled out of an interior 15 of the container 12 ( figure 4 ).
  • the container 12 is then moved with the gripping and holding device 7 of the container handling device 6 out of the container magazine 2 to the storage container magazine 4 with the product component storage containers 5 arranged there ( figure 5 ).
  • the container 12 In order to fill the container 12 with a product component from a selected product component storage container 5 in a product component filling step, the container 12 is moved directly under a product component storage container 5 and brought up to a filling nozzle 16 of the relevant product component storage container 5 from below.
  • a filling activation device 17 of the container handling device 6 deflects a filling valve actuating element 18 of the product component storage container 5 and thereby opens a filling valve of the product component storage container 5 and fills a predetermined quantity of a product component from the product component storage container 5 through the filling nozzle 16 of the product component storage container 5 into the container 12 ( figure 6 ).
  • the container 12 is then moved away from the product component storage container 5 with the gripping and holding device 7 of the container handling device 6 ( figure 7 ) and shifted back to the associated container lid 3, with the container 12 being moved and displaced in the vicinity of the container lid 3 in such a way that the mixing device 13 with the mixing element 14 is introduced into the interior 15 of the container 12 ( figure 8 ).
  • the container 12 is then moved back and forth several times in the vertical direction with the gripping and holding device 7 of the container handling device 6, or pivoted about a vertical axis of rotation or twisted in a rotational movement, so that the mixing device 13 protruding into the interior 15 of the container 12 also moves with it the mixing element 14 in the interior 15 of the container 12 located product component quantity mixed.
  • the container 12 is then brought several times to a specified product component storage container 5 and filled with a specified product component quantity from the relevant product component storage container 5 and then mixed with the mixing device 13 arranged on the associated container lid 3 until the container 12 is filled with all selected product components and that from there composite and mixed product is produced and completely filled into the container 12.
  • the container 12 is then brought up to the associated container lid 3 for the last time and, if necessary after a renewed mixing step with the mixing device 13, the container lid 3 is firmly connected to the container 12, for example by the container lid 3 being screwed onto a threaded section of the container 12 shown in the preceding figures is screwed on.
  • the container cover 3 is removed from the container magazine 11 ( figure 9 ).
  • the completely filled and thoroughly mixed container 12 which is closed with the container lid 3, is moved with the gripping and holding device 7 of the container handling device 6 in the vertical direction to a dispensing opening (not shown) in the housing (also not shown) and held ready for dispensing from the device 1 ( figure 10 ).
  • a container 12 with the container lid 3 fixed on the container 12 is shown in each case as an example and schematically.
  • the container lid 3 has a dosing dispenser device 19 with a dosing dispenser chamber 20 , an actuating element 21 and a product dispensing channel 22 which runs in the actuating element 21 and opens into a product dispensing opening 23 in the actuating element 21 .
  • the product dispensing channel 22 opens into the dosing dispenser chamber 20.
  • a chamber opening 24 of the dosing dispenser chamber 20 can be closed by a closure element 25 or opened.
  • the chamber opening 24 of the dosing dispenser chamber 20 is closed with the closure element 25 and a predetermined quantity of product is conveyed from the dosing dispenser chamber 20 through the product dispensing channel 22 and is dispensed from the product dispensing opening 23 ( figure 12 ).
  • the actuating element 21 is released, it is moved back into a starting position by a spring device 26 and the dosing dispenser chamber 20 is thereby simultaneously refilled with a quantity of product which flows from the interior 15 of the container 12 through the chamber opening 24 into the dosing dispenser chamber 20 ( figure 11 ).
  • a piston element 36 which is movably mounted between two stops 34, 35, is displaced when the actuating element 21 is actuated away from an orifice of the product dispensing channel 22 that opens into the dosing dispenser chamber 20 and releases the orifice of the product dispensing channel 22, so that as the piston element 36 increasingly penetrates into the Dosing dispenser chamber 20 pushes a quantity of product out of the dosing dispenser chamber 20 through the opened mouth opening into the product dispensing channel 22 and a corresponding quantity of product is discharged from the product dispensing opening 23 ( figure 12 ).
  • the opening of the product dispensing channel 22 is first closed again by the piston element 36 and then the piston element 36 is removed from the dosing dispenser chamber 20 pulled out again, so that an amount of product corresponding to the amount of product previously pressed into the product dispensing channel 22 flows out of the interior 14 of the container 12 into the dosing dispenser chamber 20 and fills it up again ( figure 11 ).
  • a suction pipe 29 is formed, which extends away from a cover body 27 and extends to a bottom 28 of the container 12 .
  • the actuating element 21 of the dosing dispenser device 19 is in engagement with a mixing element sleeve 30 .
  • a suction opening 31 is formed between the mixing element sleeve 30 and the surrounding suction pipe 29, through which the product located in the interior space 15 of the container 12 is sucked in near the bottom 28 and is pumped into the dosing dispenser chamber 20 is sucked in.
  • mixing element sleeve 30 On the rotatably mounted and operatively connected to the actuating element 21 mixing element sleeve 30 are via connecting webs 37 two each helically running and over one Half the circumference extending mixing elements 14 fixed, which have a projecting into the interior 15 of the container 12 mixing lamellae 32 at a radial distance from the mixing element sleeve 30.
  • actuating element 21 When actuating element 21 is actuated, actuating element 21 is pressed in an axial direction into interior space 15 of container 12 .
  • the operative connection causes the mixing element sleeve 30 and the mixing elements 14 fixed thereto with the helically running mixing lamellae 32 to rotate and rotate about a displacement axis 33 running centrally through the interior 15 of the container 12 .
  • the product composed of several product components is mixed in the interior 15 of the container 12 immediately before it is sucked into the dosing dispenser chamber 20 through the suction opening 31 by the actuating element 21 being moved back.
  • the actuating element 21 being moved back.
  • Figures 13 to 15 only the container lid 3 with the dosing dispenser device 19 arranged thereon and with the mixing device 13 is shown in each case. In doing so, Figures 13 to 15 shown as an example that with an increasing displacement of the actuating element 21, the mixing element sleeve 30 is twisted and thereby the mixing elements 14 fixed to the mixing element sleeve 30 and carried along accordingly are also twisted, whereby the product is mixed in the interior 15 of the Figures 13 to 15 not shown surrounding container 12 is effected.

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