EP4108626A1 - Procédé et unité de remplissage pour remplir une bouteille avec un aliment liquide - Google Patents

Procédé et unité de remplissage pour remplir une bouteille avec un aliment liquide Download PDF

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EP4108626A1
EP4108626A1 EP22179374.8A EP22179374A EP4108626A1 EP 4108626 A1 EP4108626 A1 EP 4108626A1 EP 22179374 A EP22179374 A EP 22179374A EP 4108626 A1 EP4108626 A1 EP 4108626A1
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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
    • B67C3/28—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves
    • B67C3/282—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to filling level control
    • 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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C3/2614—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling
    • B67C3/2617—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling the liquid valve being opened by mechanical or electrical actuation
    • B67C3/2622—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling the liquid valve being opened by mechanical or electrical actuation and the filling operation stopping when probes, e.g. electrical or optical probes, sense the wanted liquid level
    • 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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C2003/2602—Details of vent-tubes
    • 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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C2003/2651—The liquid valve being carried by the vent tube
    • B67C2003/2654—The liquid valve being carried by the vent tube specially adapted for bottom filling, e.g. the liquid valve being located at the lowest part of the vent tube

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a filling unit for filling a bottle with a food liquid.
  • the filling of bottles with food liquids is generally classified into two categories based on the technology used to detect that the right amount of liquid has been delivered, and precisely, filling by level and filling by volume.
  • filling by level is categorised into physical filling by level, obtained by inserting in the bottle a duct (also known as a "vent tube") which allows the gas to exit the container during the filling and causes the filling to stop at a certain level, i.e., at the height of insertion of the duct in the neck of the bottle, and filling by level with a sensor, where a sensor causes the delivery to stop when it gets wet with the liquid.
  • a duct also known as a "vent tube”
  • Volumetric filling is also categorised into physical volumetric filling (obtained by pre-filling a known-volume chamber and then transferring into the container the dose entered into said chamber), volumetric weight filling (a load cell stops the filling of the container when the desired weight is reached), and volumetric filling with a flow meter, in which a flow meter stops the filling when the filling valve has delivered the desired volume or mass into the container to be filled.
  • the filling valves differ according to the liquid to be processed.
  • the filling can be carried out by sealing the container on the filling valve, or without contact between the container and the valve.
  • the product is usually bottled at atmospheric pressure, under light pressure or under slight depression.
  • the container In the case of carbonated liquids, on the other hand, the container is normally sealed on the filling valve and pressurized. The filling takes place at a pressure well above atmospheric pressure, to prevent excessive foaming during the filling. This type of filling is also commonly referred to as "isobaric filling".
  • Valves suitable for filling with carbonated liquids can usually also be used for filling with flat liquids and, with some construction variants, also with viscous liquids, whereas valves suitable for filling with flat products and valves for viscous liquids cannot be used for filling with carbonated liquids.
  • the gas return duct In order to fill the next bottle, the gas return duct must be emptied, and to do this the liquid in the return duct can be dropped/pushed into the next bottle or sent back to the feeding tank or to a secondary tank by overpressure in the bottle or vacuum suction.
  • the volume of the liquid contained in the gas return duct may not be negligible, in some cases reaching 20-30 ml.
  • the gas return duct In the volume filling mode, in which the stopping of the filling is determined by the signal coming from the flow meter when the correct dosage is reached, and not by the reaching of the height at which the gas return duct is, the gas return duct is kept at some distance from the final level of the liquid in the bottle at the end of the dosing.
  • the known volume filling valves normally require the liquid shutter to be at a certain distance from the liquid outlet mouth, especially for construction/dimensional reasons.
  • This construction form gives rise to a chamber with a non-negligible volume between the liquid shutter and the outlet mouth.
  • a certain amount of liquid remains trapped in the aforementioned chamber, which must be appropriately managed in order to avoid loss of dosage accuracy (due to the random behaviour of the liquid trapped in the chamber) or, in the case of high-pressure filling, it must be prevented that during the depressurization of the container the liquid comes out of the chamber violently, thereby striking the liquid already in the bottle and resulting in the formation of foam.
  • valve is considerably complicated, thus making its sanitization more difficult.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide a filling unit for filling a bottle, which allows the above problems to be solved in a simple and inexpensive way.
  • a particular object of the present invention is to provide a filling unit, which allows precise dosing when it operates by level filling, thereby significantly reducing or eliminating the contamination problem due to the presence of liquid in the return duct following the filling of each of the bottles, and avoiding additional operations such as levelling.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a filling unit, which is capable of either filling by level or by volume and which, when filling by volume, allows the path followed by the liquid inside the bottle to be controlled in a simple way.
  • a filling unit for filling a bottle with a food liquid is provided, as claimed in claim 1.
  • the present invention further relates to a method for filling a bottle with a food liquid.
  • a method for filling a bottle with a food liquid is provided, as claimed in claim 9.
  • the present invention essentially proposes a hybrid feeding unit, which allows the advantages of both traditional filling machines to be combined in a single machine, so that the filling mode can be easily adapted to the different conditions of use.
  • the invention aims to find a simple, compact and highly hygienic construction form that perfectly combines the two filling technologies, without their coexistence restricting the functionality of each, indeed the combination of the two allowing additional advantages.
  • a filling unit according to the present invention allows the drawbacks of the prior art to be limited.
  • the liquid in the gas return duct can be prevented from reaching the level in the tank, or in any case, the height reached by the liquid in the return duct can be significantly limited by closing the liquid flow-through shutter when the flow meter detects that a volume equal to or close to that required to reach the desired level has been delivered.
  • the unit according to the invention allows operation in the level filling mode, thus limiting the amount of excess liquid that is necessarily delivered in traditional level filling valves. This makes it possible to minimize the amount of liquid in the gas return duct, irrespective of the physical volume of this circuit and the height of the head.
  • a unit according to one embodiment of the present invention offers the advantage during volume filling of being able to regulate/choose the best liquid delivery area inside the bottle neck, both to maximize the flow rate of the valve and to limit the formation of foam during the filling.
  • the position of the liquid outlet and gas return shutters can be conveniently changed by the operator, ranging from a few millimetres above the final level obtained with the dosage up to the mouth of the container.
  • the advantage is evident, for example, in the aforementioned case of containers having deep filling levels (i.e., very far from the mouth) and a section in the level area that is wide compared to the section in the mouth area.
  • a filling unit 1 for filling machines, for filling containers in general, and a bottle 2 in particular, with food liquids comprises a tank 9 adapted to contain a food liquid to be bottled and a filling device 10 for filling by level, which includes a fixed body 12 having an inner cavity 14 extending axially through the body 12.
  • the device 10 then includes an outer tube 16, which communicates with the inner cavity 14 of the body 12 and protrudes downwards beyond the body 12 by such an amount as to be inserted, in use, inside the bottle 2, as shown in Figures 4 and 5 .
  • the outer tube 16 protrudes just below the body 12 to cooperate as much as possible with the free end or the mouth R of the neck of the bottle 2.
  • the device 10 also includes an inner tube 18, which is arranged coaxially with the outer tube 16, is mobile with respect to the outer tube 16, extends with a lower section thereof inside the outer tube 16 and protrudes upwards relative to the outer tube 16, so that its upper end, when the filling unit 1 is fitted to the machine, is above the level L of the liquid contained in the tank 9.
  • the outer tube 16 and the inner tube 18 delimit therebetween an annular duct 20 which extends to the lower end of the outer tube 16 and ends with an outlet mouth 21, through which the liquid contained in the tank 9 can flow out to fill the bottle 2.
  • the inner tube 18 is configured to allow the gas to flow back from the bottle 2 to the tank 9.
  • the device 10 also comprises a centring cone 22 which is arranged coaxially with the outer tube 16 and the inner tube 18 and is configured to provide a seal against the upper end of the neck of the bottle 2 to be filled ( Figure 4 ).
  • the height position of the centring cone 22 along the axis z and thus the insertion depth of the inner tube 18 inside the bottle 2 are continuously adjustable by means of an adjustment device 23, which is per se known.
  • the device 10 further comprises a shutter 24 which is arranged vertically movable and is configured to seal the outlet mouth 21 of the annular duct 20.
  • the shutter 24 is arranged in the vicinity of the lower end of the inner tube 18 and is adapted to cooperate with the lower end of the outer tube 16 to open/close the outlet mouth 21 at the bottom.
  • the shutter 24 is arranged at the inlet of or along the outer tube 16 or at the outlet of the inner cavity 14.
  • the shutter 24 is configured to be inserted, in a condition of use of the filling assembly 1, in the bottle 2, i.e., below the mouth R of the bottle 2 to be filled.
  • the device 10 also includes an operating unit 26 designed to control the vertical movement of the shutter 24.
  • the filling unit 1 also comprises a duct 30 designed to place the inner cavity 14 in fluid connection with the tank 9, and a flow meter 40 designed to measure the flow rate of fluid passing through the duct 30 and through the outlet mouth 21 of the annular duct 20.
  • the flow meter 40 is arranged along the outer tube 16 or at the inlet of the annular duct 20, and in general, in such a position as to measure the volume of liquid passing through the outlet mouth 21.
  • magnetic-inductive flow meters for filling with conductive liquids
  • mass flow meters for filling with conductive and non-conductive liquids
  • the shutter 24 is fixed to the inner tube 18, and the assembly formed by the inner tube 18 and the first shutter 24 is vertically movable between an opening position, wherein it opens the outlet mouth 21 to the maximum to allow the liquid contained in the tank 9 to flow downwards and fill the bottle 2, and a closing position, wherein it occludes the outlet mouth 21 at the bottom, thus preventing outflow of the liquid from the annular duct 20.
  • the operating unit 26 of the device 10 conveniently comprises a first linear actuator 32, adapted to control the vertical movement of the first shutter 24, and a movement head 34 integrally movable with the inner tube 18 along the axis of the latter.
  • the inner tube 18 may be conveniently provided, in its upper part, with an extension 19, in the form of a duct extended above the level L of the fluid in the tank 9. This extension 19 substantially extends the tube 18 until it is in fluid communication with the tank 9, so that the gas flowed back through the second tube 18 is returned to the tank 9.
  • the extension 19 flows into a secondary tank 9a, separated from the tank 9 and capable of collecting any fluid residues rising up the tube 18, so that the latter do not re-enter the tank 9, with the risk of contaminating it.
  • the device 10 comprises a valve assembly 25, which is per se known and comprises a plurality of valves, which are preferably pneumatically controlled and configured to start and stop the various steps of the bottle filling cycle.
  • the device 23 acts on a support frame for these valves.
  • the presence of the flow meter 40 allows the quantity of liquid introduced to be measured precisely and it is used, as will be better described below, to control the device 10, for example, to prevent the liquid from flowing back into the gas duct, or to limit it to a negligible amount, or to control the travel path of the liquid entering the bottle 2.
  • the operating unit 26 may conveniently comprise a first linear actuator 32 adapted to control the vertical movement of the first shutter 24, a movement head 34 integrally movable with the inner tube 18 along the axis of the latter, and a second linear actuator 36 axially interposed between the first linear actuator 32 and the movement head 34.
  • This second linear actuator 36 is movable between an inactive position in which it is at a maximum axial distance D 0 from a lower face of the movement head 34, and an active position in which it engages said lower face of the movement head 34.
  • the maximum axial stroke M 0 of said second linear actuator 36 between the active and inactive positions shall have a value between the value of the axial stroke So of the movement head 34 between said opening and closing positions of the first shutter 24 and the value of said maximum axial distance D 0 .
  • the filling device 10 comprises at least one support column 38, fixed relative to the body 12 and extending along an axis parallel to and not coinciding with the longitudinal axis z of the body 12.
  • This support column 38 comprises two abutments 38a, 38b, against which the movement head 34 in the opening position of the first shutter 24 and the second linear actuator 36 in the active position abut, respectively.
  • the movement head 34 comprises a flange 34a which can slide along the support column 38 integrally with a buffer 34b which, in a closed position of the first shutter 24 (i.e., in an axially retracted condition of the second tube 18), is located at a distance So from the upper abutment 38a.
  • the second linear actuator 36 can also slide along said support column 38, and shall be located, in the closed position of the first shutter 24, at a distance M 0 from the lower abutment 38b.
  • the above configuration allows the passage section of the first shutter 24 to be choked so that the flow of liquid through this first shutter 24 can be adjusted more precisely when the level has nearly reached the first shutter 24.
  • the first shutter 24 is axially retracted upwards, so as to occlude the outlet mouth 21 of the annular duct 20.
  • the movement head 34 (connected to the second tube 18, which carries the first shutter 24 at the tip) is raised upwards to the maximum, and the second actuator 36 is in a distal position with respect to a lower face of said movement head.
  • the potential downward stroke of the movement head 34 will be So (i.e., equal to the maximum stroke of the first shutter 24 of the annular duct 20, when open), the initial distance of the second actuator 36 from the lower face of said movement head 34 shall be D 0 , and the potential upward stroke of the second actuator 36 shall be M 0 .
  • the second actuator 36 will have travelled the full upward stroke M 0 (in the example shown, the second actuator 36 will have abutted against the lower abutment 38b of the support column 38).
  • the lower face of the movement head 34 is carried by a ring nut 35, coupled to the movement head 34 and axially adjustable so as to vary said maximum distance D 0 .
  • This ring nut 35 will act as an axial extension of the movement head 34.
  • the filling device 10 further comprises a second shutter 42, which is arranged vertically movable and is configured to seal the inner tube 18, and a third linear actuator 44, which is adapted to control the vertical movement of the second shutter 42, the first linear actuator 24 and the third linear actuator 44 being fitted in series with each other.
  • the second shutter 42 can be carried by a stem 43, which can be axially moved by the third linear actuator 44 and is coaxial with the second tube 18, so that it can form with the latter a second annular duct 45 for the return of the gas from the container.
  • the described unit 1 makes it possible to carry out either a filling by level or a filling by volume by only using a level filling device and controlling it on the basis of a delivery signal proportional to the volume delivered emitted by the flow meter 40.
  • the unit 1 comprises a command and control assembly indicated with 50, which in turn comprises a block 51 configured to receive a delivery signal emitted by the flow meter and proportional to the volume of liquid passing through the annular duct 20 and the outlet mouth 21, and a memory block 52 which stores, for each type of bottle, the volume of liquid envisaged to reach the desired level, when filling by level, and the envisaged volume of liquid, when filling by volume.
  • the assembly 50 further comprises a comparison block 53 configured to compare the volumes detected by the flow meter 40 with those stored in the block 52, and a block 54 for controlling the device 23 and the actuators 32, 34 and 36.
  • the block 54 in response to the delivery signal controls the actuator 32 or the actuator 44 at the moment when the volume of liquid delivered is equal to or close to the volume of liquid envisaged for the container, so as to move the shutter 24 towards its closed position, thereby preventing the escape of additional liquid in order to zero or limit the amount of liquid that may flow back upwards into the tube 18.
  • "Equal to or close to” means when the volume of liquid delivered reaches a volume between approximately 95% and 100% of the theoretical volume envisaged for that particular container. This percentage value varies mainly as a function of the following factors: response times of the device 10, type of liquid, internal shape of the container in the level area.
  • the comparison block 53 compares, instantaneously or at the end of the delivery, the liquid volume(s) measured by the flow meter 40 with the volume(s) envisaged to reach the desired level in the bottle and generates a failure or alarm signal if it detects a difference between the volumes. This makes it possible to monitor the correct functioning of the various parts making up the assembly 10 and to intervene promptly by keeping the envisaged level in each bottle or the envisaged volume of liquid constant. Not only that, but this control makes it possible to intervene promptly in the event of the bottle breaking or bursting during the filling.
  • the comparison between the delivered volume and the envisaged volume made by the block 53 allows the actuator 36 to be controlled via the block 54 in order to choke the passage section of the outlet mouth 21 when the volume of liquid measured by the flow meter 40 is close to the volume of liquid envisaged both to reach the desired level and to fill by volume.
  • the assembly 50 makes it possible to accurately check the volume actually delivered through the outlet mouth 21 and the exact level reached by this liquid and, via the block 54, to control the device 23 so as to arrange the same outlet mouth 21 and the outlet of the inner tube 18 above this level and to adjust vertically and continuously the distance of the outlet mouth 21 in the space between the determined liquid level and the upper end R of the bottle 2 so as to cause the fluid threads of the liquid supplied to the bottle to adhere and remain adherent to the inner surface of the bottle whatever the geometric and dimensional characteristics of said inner surface and the characteristics of the liquid delivered.

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EP2958851A1 (fr) 2013-04-15 2015-12-30 Gai Macchine Imbottigliatrici S.p.A. Dispositif de remplissage pour machines de remplissage en vue d'un remplissage de niveau de bouteilles avec des liquides alimentaires
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EP2903929A1 (fr) 2012-10-05 2015-08-12 Gai Macchine Imbottigliatrici S.p.A. Dispositif de remplissage pour machines de remplissage isobares pour le remplissage de bouteilles avec des liquides alimentaires et machine de remplissage isobare comprenant un tel dispositif
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