ES1238647U - OLIVE PUMP CLEANING MACHINE (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Olive bottle cleaning machine, characterized in that it is constituted from a frame, assisted by the corresponding closing housing, housing in which respective steps or openings of entrance and exit of the machine are properly faced, in whose bottom a conveyor device for the cylinders is established with its mouth facing downwards, with the particularity that in the bosom of the casing and superiorly to the conveyor device a vertical displacement carriage is established through a rack-and-pinion type system, equipped carriage of a clamp for holding the cylinders, a clamp in which two coplanar and facing plates, essentially rectangular prismatic, are involved, affected by respective semicircular recesses adapted to the diameter of the cylinders in their mooring and fixing area, with one of said plates being provided be fixed, while the other is scrollable against it along the corresponding guides and by means of respective end sprockets associated with an electric motor, which engage on solidarity racks to the mobile plate, counting the clamp system with inductive sensors, through which to determine the end of travel in the maneuvers of hold of the bottles; with the particularity that said vertical displacement car is complemented by a second horizontal displacement car, capable of moving the pair of cylinders to the other side of the chassis, where a pair of cleaning brushes emerge from the bottom thereof, capable of penetrating into the interior of the respective cylinders in their downward and controlled displacement, said brushes being duly motorized to rotate inside the respective cylinders, with means for providing a mixture of water and detergent. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

D E S C R I P C I Ó N

OLIVES PUMP CLEANING MACHINE

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a cleaning machine, which has been specially designed to carry out the cleaning of bottles commonly used in the handling of olives.

The object of the invention is to provide the olive sector with a machine that ensures a perfect washing, fully automatically, with significant savings in both labor and time and in cleaning water.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As it is known, when the olive is destined for direct consumption, it undergoes a treatment whose description does not apply to the case, in which bottles of considerable capacity participate, as plastic jars, which must be conveniently washed every time a operational cycle or use thereof.

Currently, these washing operations of the aforementioned cylinders are carried out manually, which brings with it a problem with a double aspect.

• On the one hand, a large labor force participation is required, which implies not only an economic cost but also an uncertainty in the results, from the hygienic point of view, since the final state of each bottle will depend on the ability of the operator in charge of washing it, of the time and interest that it puts for such work, etc.

• On the other hand there is a high consumption of water and detergent, which on the one hand implies the wasting of an increasingly scarce good, specifically water, and on the other hand the environmental pollution caused by the spillage of detergents

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The bottle cleaning machine that is recommended solves in a fully satisfactory way the problems previously exposed, in each and every one of the aspects mentioned, offering an automated operation, so that the necessary personnel to carry out said washing is minimized, all this with optimal cleaning results and with minimal consumption of water and detergent.

More specifically, the machine of the invention is constituted from a frame, which is crossed by a conveyor mechanism responsible for moving the cylinders from the entrance to the exit of the machine, provided with a drive chain moved by the corresponding motor reducer.

On the aforementioned conveyor and inside the chassis there is a clamp with a motor and inductors that, when started, tie the cylinders that are supplied to the machine in pairs and in an inverted arrangement, so that the clamp is associated with a carriage of vertical displacement responsible for raising and lowering the pairs of cylinders.

Said carriage moves vertically by means of a rack-and-pinion type system, which is mounted on a second carriage, horizontally movable through which each pair of cylinders once reached inside the washing machine, and once tied by the clamp, are displaced laterally towards another sector of the machine frame, in which the said washing operation occurs.

To do this, a pair of cleaning brushes, one for each cylinder, are established in said lateral and annexed area of the chassis, whose operation is carried out simultaneously through a transmission associated with a single motor.

Each brush has a configuration like a large mop, so that when the corresponding bottle is lowered it penetrates inside of the bottle and turning it causes a superficial and helical action that ensures a perfect cleaning of the inner surface of the bottle.

Said brushes incorporate in their free end nozzles for water projection with detergent on the bottom of the bottle.

The mixture of water and detergent is extracted from a main washing tank located under the aforementioned brushes, which is propelled at the appropriate pressure with the help of the corresponding pump.

In this way, the said pump takes water from the main wash tank, drives it against the inside of the jars, and returns again to said main tank, for indefinite reuse, as long as the conditions of the same do not advise its elimination and replacement for clean water.

Finally, it should be noted that in the exit zone of the transport mechanism of the cylinders, that is to say at the exit of the frame, a secondary tank is established, of smaller capacity than the first, for rinsing the bottle, in the that a second pump takes water from it and projects it against the inside of the cylinders, to pick it up again after rinsing them, and for indefinite reuse until its dirt level makes its replacement advisable.

The displacements of the different elements that participate in the machine are controlled by a programmer or automaton, so that the input conveyor advances in a magnitude corresponding to two cylinders, which are introduced into the chassis of the machine, the vertical carriage descends on they, the clamps are closed and the two bottles are tied to the aforementioned vertical car, which moves on the horizontal guides to take the bottles to the cleaning area, where the vertical car descends again so that the bottles are washed, leaving the brushes inside them, at which point the rotation of the latter begins for cleaning, which is ensured, in a homogeneous manner throughout the inner surface of the bottles.

Once the cleaning operation is finished the vertical travel car ascends to separate the cylinders from the cleaning brushes, after which the transverse carriage moves towards the opposite area of the chassis, that is, until the cylinders face the bottle carrier, at which point the vertical carriage descends and the motorized clamp it opens, leaving the cylinders already washed deposited on the conveyor, at which time it advances again by removing them from the chassis and leaving them in a terminal sector of the conveyor, superimposed on a small secondary rinse tank that, with the collaboration of nozzles such as those incorporate the mochos of the previous mechanism, ensure the final and optimal cleaning of the bottles.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

To complement the description that will then be made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical implementation thereof, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description. where, for illustrative and non-limiting purposes, the following has been represented:

Figure 1. Shows a perspective view of an olive bottle cleaning machine made in accordance with the object of the present invention.

Figure 2. Shows a side elevation view of the assembly shown in the previous figure.

Figure 3.- Shows a detail in perspective of the machine at the level of the tweezers intended to tie the olive bottles two at a time.

Figure 4. Shows a profile or longitudinal view of the same cleaning machine.

Figure 5. Finally shows a top plan view of the cleaning machine, also according to a schematic representation as in the case of the previous figures.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

In view of the aforementioned figures, it can be seen how the olive bottle cleaning machine that the invention proposes is constituted from a frame (1), duly protected through the corresponding housing (2), although in Figure 1 part of said housing has been removed to facilitate the visualization of the internal structure of the machine.

In any case, the housing (2) includes two facing openings (3-3 '), one inlet and one in the outlet, in correspondence with which a conveyor (4) for feeding the cylinders (5) is established at the lower level ), equipped with a drag chain driven by a motor-reducer (6).

The openings (3-3 ') are laterally offset, so that a passage area for the conveyor (4) is defined between them, while the washing zone (7) of the cylinders is located on the other half of the frame .

The conveyor (4) will be provided with lugs in its chains or any other type of stop that ensures a correct positioning for the cylinders (5) in its access to the interior of the frame (1), regardless of their size, producing its advance at intervals equivalent to two cylinders (5), as shown in the figures.

Within the chassis, specifically in the half corresponding to the conveyor (4) a double clamp has been established, in which two plates (8-8 ') coplanar and facing, essentially prismatic rectangular, affected by respective semicircular recesses appropriate to the diameter of the cylinders in their mooring and fixing zone, so that while the plate (8) is fixed, the plate (8 ') is movable against the fixed plate along the guides (81) by means of respective extreme pinions (82) associated with an electric motor, and that engage on rack (83) in solidarity with the plate (8 '), counting the clamp system with inductive sensors, not shown in the figure, through which to determine the end of the route in the maneuvers of seizing the cylinders, all this in a totally safe and precise way.

This structure therefore allows two cylinders (5) to be held firmly in an inverted position, said clamp being mounted on a carriage (9) of vertical displacement, provided with zippers (10) on which respective pinions (11) conveniently motorized act, of so that said carriage (9) is able to descend in a vacuum to pick up a pair of cylinders, fix them with its electric drive clamp, and raise them to a level above that determined by a pair of brushes (12) correspondingly located cleaners with the other half of the frame (1), the alien to the conveyor (4).

In parallel, it is provided that the carriage (9) of vertical displacement is mounted on a second carriage (13) horizontally movable on guides (14) and also conveniently motorized, in this case acting through a chain (15) mounted on end sprockets (16).

Through this horizontal car the pair of cylinders (5) in process, are likely to face the respective brushes (12), mounted with their axis in vertical arrangement on a lower platform (17) that constitutes the cover of a cleaning water supply tank with its corresponding detergent, both brushes (12) being driven by a common motor reducer (18), and their filaments being of appropriate length to describe the helical path that has been schematically represented in the figures , be able to rub and scrub perfectly the inner wall of the cylinders (5) in all its extension.

Water from the main wash tank or tank (19) established under the platform (17) is driven by a pump, not shown, through the hollow interior of the brush shafts (12), to nozzles (21) established in the upper extremity of the same, that project the water on the upper lateral zone of the cylinders.

Once the washing has been carried out, the vertical displacement carriage (9) ascends to an upper limit level, then it is displaced transversely by the horizontal carriage, then the vertical carriage acts again, in the opposite direction, for lowering the cylinders up to the level of the conveyor, and finally the clamp opens leaving said cylinders already washed on the conveyor, in conditions to leave the machine through the outlet (3 ') to reach a rinse or rinse area, where nozzles Elevable and not shown in the figures, they penetrate inside the cylinders (5) and supply them with pressurized water, with the collaboration of a second pump, for definitive cleaning of the same.

It only remains to point out finally that both the cleaning water and the rinse and rinse water return to the machine for reuse as many times as it is advisable until it reaches a level of dirt that makes it unusable, which evidently saves very considerable both water and detergents contributed to it.

Claims (5)

1a.- Olive bottle cleaning machine, characterized in that it is constituted from a frame, assisted by the corresponding closing housing, housing in which respective steps or entrance and exit openings of the machine are duly faced, in which In the background, a conveyor device for the cylinders is established with its mouth facing downwards, with the particular feature that a vertical displacement carriage is established in the carcass and, above the conveyor, through a rack-and-pinion, carriage-type system equipped with a clamp for gripping the cylinders, a clamp in which two coplanar and facing plates, essentially prismatic rectangular, are involved, affected by respective semicircular recesses adapted to the diameter of the cylinders in their mooring and fixing zone, with one of said plates be fixed, while the other is movable against it along d and the corresponding guides and by means of respective end sprockets associated with an electric motor, which engage on solidarity zips to the mobile plate, counting the clamp system with inductive sensors, through which to determine the end of travel in the maneuvers of holding the bottles; with the particularity that said vertical displacement car is complemented by a second horizontal displacement car, capable of moving the pair of cylinders to the other side of the chassis, where a pair of cleaning brushes emerge from the bottom thereof, capable of penetrating into the interior of the respective cylinders in their downward and controlled displacement, said brushes being duly motorized to rotate inside the respective cylinders, with means of providing a mixture of water and detergent. 2nd. Olive bottle cleaning machine, according to claim 1, characterized in that the conveyor incorporates a drive chain driven by a motor-reducer and provided with lugs for predetermined positioning of the bottles, which penetrate impulses and two by two in the corresponding half of the receptacle defined by the machine housing. 3a.- Olive bottle cleaning machine, according to claim 1, characterized in that the cleaning brushes have their hollow shaft and topped by their upper end in a nozzle for pressure outlet of the cleaning water with the detergent, the axes of both brushes being driven simultaneously by the same common motor reducer. 4a.- Olive bottle cleaning machine, according to claim a, characterized in that a main washing tank is established under the cleaning brushes, a water container with the detergent and provided with a water supply pump towards the top-end nozzles Cleaning brushes 5a.- Machine for cleaning olives cylinders, according to claim a, characterized in that a secondary rinsing tank is established in the outlet sector of the conveyor, which acts on the cylinders in the process of exiting them from the area of washed once they have been washed. one