JP2005145480A - Beverage filling device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beverage filling device capable of preventing a nozzle to fill beverage such as beer from being contaminated with drips. <P>SOLUTION: The beverage filling device 22 to fill beverage into an inverted container 10 comprises a beverage filling nozzle 40 which is directed upwardly to fill beverage into the container from a mouthpiece part 10a of the inverted container, a beverage feed pipe 34 to feed beverage to the beverage filling nozzle from a storage tank with beverage stored therein while a part of the pipe is located above the beverage filling nozzle, and a drip receiving plate member 42 which is arranged above the beverage filling nozzle and below the beverage feed pipe portion 34 located above the beverage filling nozzle, and receives drips dropping from the beverage feed pipe portion 34. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus for filling a container with a beverage in a production factory for beverages such as beer.

  Conventionally, when beer is filled in a beer barrel in a beer factory, a filling apparatus as shown in FIG. 6 has been used.

In FIG. 6, beer stored in a storage tank (not shown) is supplied to the filling nozzle 110 through the liquid feeding pipes 102, 104, 106, and 108. As shown in FIG. 6, the beer barrel 10 is installed in the filling device in an inverted state with the base facing downward, and is pressed from above by the clamp hand 112 and fixed to the filling device. Then, the beer ejected from the nozzle 110 is filled into the beer barrel 10 from the base portion 10a opened downward.
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  By the way, in the filling device as described above, since the cooled beer passes through the liquid feeding pipes 102, 104, 106, and 108, when the room temperature air in the factory contacts the liquid feeding pipe, the outer surface of the liquid feeding pipe Water droplets adhere. Such water droplets are also generated, for example, in the liquid feeding pipe 104 positioned above the filling nozzle 110 and may fall from here. Conventionally, the clamp hand 112 is formed in a cross shape in plan view as shown in FIG. 7, so that a dropped water droplet passes through the gap in the cross shape as shown by W in FIG. In some cases, the nozzle 110 falls near the nozzle 110. In this case, there is no particular problem in a state where the beer barrel 10 is installed in the filling device, but when a water droplet falls in a state where the beer barrel 10 is not installed, the water droplet adheres to the filling nozzle 110 and the filling nozzle 110. There was a risk of contamination.

  Therefore, this invention is made | formed in view of the subject mentioned above, The objective is to prevent that the nozzle for filling drinks, such as beer, is contaminated with a fall water droplet.

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, a beverage filling apparatus according to the present invention is an inverted container in which a cap portion is directed downward in a beverage filling apparatus for filling a beverage in a container. A drink from a lower part, a drink filling nozzle which is arranged on the support and fills the container with the drink from the cap part, and a drink tank is stored in the drink filling nozzle. A liquid feed pipe having an upper liquid feed pipe portion disposed so as to pass above the beverage filling nozzle, and above the beverage filling nozzle and the upper feed pipe. A water drop receiver is provided below the liquid pipe part and receives a water drop falling from the upper liquid feed pipe part.

  The beverage filling apparatus according to the present invention further includes a pressing member that presses the container toward the beverage filling nozzle from above, and the water droplet receiver is formed integrally with the pressing member. To do.

  In the beverage filling apparatus according to the present invention, a frame-shaped rising portion is formed on the outer peripheral portion of the water droplet receiver.

  According to this invention comprised as mentioned above, it becomes possible to prevent that the nozzle for filling drinks, such as beer, is contaminated with the falling water droplet.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a side view showing a configuration of an embodiment of a beverage filling apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view schematically showing an arrangement state of a plurality of filling portions of the filling apparatus shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 1, a filling device 20 includes a plurality of filling units 22 that fill beer barrels with beer, a rotation driving unit 24 that rotates the plurality of filling units, and each filling unit that stores beer from a beer storage tank (not shown). Liquid supply pipes 32, 34, 36, and 38 for supplying the liquid to the pipe 22. The plurality of filling portions 22 are arranged at equal intervals on the circumference as shown in FIG. 2, which is a schematic view of FIG. 1 as viewed from above, and are rotated in the direction of arrow A around the rotation drive portion 24. The beer barrel 10 is filled with beer. The beer barrel 10 is charged into the filling device at the charging position I and discharged toward the next process at the discharging position O, and the beer barrel 10 is rotated from the charging position I to the discharging position O. Beer is filled.

  FIG. 3 is a detailed view showing one of the plurality of filling portions 22 described above.

  In FIG. 3, beer stored in a storage tank (not shown) is supplied to the filling nozzle 40 through liquid feeding pipes 32, 34, 366, and 38. As shown in FIG. 3, the beer barrel 10 is placed on the bottom surface 22 a of the filling unit 22 in an inverted state with the base facing down. In this state, the clamp hand 42 is pushed down by the air cylinder 44 as indicated by an arrow, whereby the clamp hand 42 presses the beer barrel 10 against the bottom surface 22a of the filling portion 22 via the rubber pad 42a. Thereby, the beer barrel 22 is fixed to the filling part 22. And beer is ejected from the nozzle 40 and it fills in the beer barrel 10 from the nozzle | cap | die part 10a opened toward the bottom of the beer barrel 10. FIG.

  At this time, as described above, since the cooled beer passes through the liquid feeding pipes 32, 34, 36, and 38, the room temperature air in the factory comes into contact with these liquid feeding pipes and the outside of the liquid feeding pipe. Water droplets adhere to the surface. Such water droplets are also generated, for example, in the liquid feeding pipe 34 located above the filling nozzle 40 and may fall from here. In the prior art, the water drops may pass through the clearance of the cross-shaped clamp hand 112 (see FIG. 7 showing a conventional clamp hand) in a plan view and fall to the vicinity of the filling nozzle 40 to contaminate the filling nozzle. It was.

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4 which is a plan view of the clamp hand 42, the clamp hand 42 receives the clamp hand 42 even when water drops fall in a substantially flat shape with no gap in the plane direction. Therefore, it does not fall to the position of the filling nozzle 40. A frame-like rising portion 42 b is provided on the outer peripheral portion of the clamp hand 42, so that water drops falling on the clamp hand 42 are not easily spilled from the outer peripheral portion of the clamp hand 42.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

  In the second embodiment, the clamp hand 112 has a cross shape in plan view as shown in FIG. 7 as in the prior art, and a receiving plate 50 for receiving a dropped water droplet is separately provided on the upper part of the clamp hand 112. Is provided. The planar shape of the receiving plate 50 is the same as the shape of the clamp hand 42 shown in FIG.

  As described above, according to the first and second embodiments described above, even when water droplets attached to the liquid feeding tube through which the chilled beverage passes fall, it is separated from the clamp hand 40 or the clamp hand. Since it is received by the provided receiving plate, it does not drop to the position of the beverage filling nozzle, and the filling nozzle can be prevented from being contaminated.

  In addition, in said embodiment, although the case where beer was filled into a beer barrel was explained as an example, the present invention is not limited to this, and also when filling other beverages other than beer into containers. Applicable.

It is a side view which shows the structure of embodiment of the drink filling apparatus of this invention. It is a top view which shows typically the arrangement | positioning state of the some filling part of the filling apparatus shown in FIG. It is the detailed view which extracted and showed one of several filling parts. It is a top view of a clamp hand. It is a figure which shows the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the conventional filling apparatus. It is a top view of the conventional clamp hand.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 20 Filling device 22 Filling part 24 Rotation drive part 32, 34, 36, 38 Liquid feeding pipe 40 Filling nozzle 42 Clamp hand 44 Air cylinder

Claims (3)

In a beverage filling apparatus for filling a beverage in a container,
A support base for supporting the inverted container with the base portion directed downward from below;
A beverage filling nozzle disposed on the support and filling the beverage into the container from the base portion;
A liquid supply pipe for supplying a beverage to a drink filling nozzle from a storage tank in which a drink is stored, the liquid supply pipe having an upper liquid supply pipe portion arranged so as to pass above the drink filling nozzle When,
A water droplet receiver that is disposed above the beverage filling nozzle and below the upper liquid feeding pipe portion, and receives water drops falling from the upper liquid feeding pipe portion;
A beverage filling device comprising:   The beverage filling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a pressing member that presses the container toward the beverage filling nozzle from above, wherein the water droplet receiver is formed integrally with the pressing member.   The beverage filling device according to claim 1, wherein a frame-like rising portion is formed on an outer peripheral portion of the water droplet receiver.

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