JP2010155652A - Variable bottle gauge and positioning setting method by the gauge - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for carrying out positioning setting easily and accurately in a short period of time without the need of skills when positioning setting is to be carried out by providing a clearance between a container and a constituent part of a container conveying part or when the size of the container is to be changed, and to provide a variable bottle gauge used in that case. <P>SOLUTION: In a method of setting the position between the constituent parts 4 and 5 of the container conveying part in a filling machine or the like, a first gauge body 32 abutting the constituent part 4 and a second gauge body 33 abutting the other side part 5 are combined with a gauge body 31 so that the positioning dimension is variable. The positioning setting is carried out by using the combined gauge 30. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention requires a clearance larger than the outer dimension of the container when setting the positioning between the component parts of the container transfer unit in a filling machine having a container transfer unit such as a bottle, a plastic bottle, or a can. The present invention relates to a variable bottle gauge and a positioning setting method using the gauge, which perform positioning setting easily and accurately when there is a need to change the size of a container.

In a filling machine with a container transport unit such as bottles, PET bottles, cans, etc., for the device that sets the positioning between the component parts of the container transport unit, the gauge with the same outer dimensions as the outer dimensions of the parts to be transported Devices for positioning and setting in contact with each other are known. (Patent Document 1)
A test dummy container for simplifying the test of the filling device is known as a bottle gauge. (Patent Document 2)

Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 2-62095 (FIGS. 1 and 2) Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-153885 (FIGS. 4 and 5)

According to Patent Literature 1, a technique is disclosed in which positioning is set by bringing a gauge having the same outer dimension as the outer dimension of a part to be conveyed into contact with each other.
On the other hand, in a filling machine or the like, it may be necessary to provide a clearance between the container and the component parts of the container transport unit in order to smoothly transport the container. A method is adopted in which an actual container is inserted between the component parts of the transport unit, and the position of the component part is appropriately adjusted and positioned so as to provide an appropriate clearance between the actual container and the component part of the container transport unit. In this method, skill is required to provide clearance, the setting of the clearance often changes depending on the person even if the skilled person works, and the positioning setting takes a lot of time. It was. If the clearance is not set correctly, the container will not be transported smoothly, and the container will be transported until the cap and lid are tightened after filling with the filling machine. There was a problem that the filled liquid spilled during this time.
However, Patent Document 1 does not disclose a technique that can cope with this problem, that is, a technique that performs positioning setting easily and accurately.

  According to Patent Document 2, a test dummy container 200 configured to have a different height in a normal state and a ruptured state (the symbol in the figure of Patent Document 2 is indicated by (). The same applies in the following paragraph). The second portion 250 has an outer diameter substantially the same as that of the bottle container, and may have a larger outer diameter or a smaller outer diameter than the bottle container, but the outer diameter is fixed. In addition, a technique corresponding to the size change of the outer diameter is not disclosed.

  The present invention, when setting the positioning by providing a clearance between the components of the container and the container transport unit, and when the container size is changed, without requiring skill, easily and accurately, and It is an object of the present invention to provide a method capable of positioning in a short time and a variable bottle gauge used at that time.

The present invention solves the above problems by the following means.
(1) The variable bottle gauge of the first means and the positioning setting method using the gauge are the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in the filling machine and the bottle gauge used at that time. The first gauge body that abuts on one side and the second gauge body that abuts on the other are combined such that the positioning dimension is variable, and the positioning is set using the combined gauge. To do.
(2) The variable bottle gauge of the second means and the positioning setting method using the gauge are the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in the filling machine or the like, and the bottle gauge used at that time. A gauge body that abuts on one side and a gauge body that abuts on the other are combined such that the positioning dimension is variable, and positioning is set using the combined gauge.
(3) The variable bottle gauge of the third means and the positioning setting method using the gauge are the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in the filling machine or the like and the bottle gauge used at that time. As a structure in which a contact gauge body that comes into contact with the gauge body is fitted and combined with the gauge body, and the contact gauge body of the combination gauge is exchanged according to the positioning setting dimension, positioning is set by using the combination gauge. It is characterized by that.
(4) The variable bottle gauge of the fourth means and the positioning setting method using the gauge are the same as the variable bottle gauge and the positioning setting method using the gauge according to any one of the first to third means. Is configured to engage a gripping mechanism or neck holder of the mouth or grip portion of the container, and also serves as a positioning setting between the gripping mechanism or neck holder and the component parts of the container transporting portion, The positioning between the components is set.
(5) The positioning setting method using the variable bottle gauge of the fifth means is the positioning setting method using the variable bottle gauge of any one of the first to fourth means. It is characterized in that positioning is set using a plurality of sets of gauges.

In the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in the filling machine or the like and the bottle gauge used at that time, the present invention according to claims 1 and 6 includes a first gauge body that contacts one of the component parts, The second gauge body that contacts the other is combined with the gauge body so that the positioning dimension is variable, and the present invention according to claims 2 and 7 includes the gauge body that contacts one of the components and the other. Further, the present invention according to claims 3 and 8 is configured such that the abutting gauge body that abuts between the component parts is fitted to the gauge body, and the gage body is positioned. Since the combination is set so that it is exchanged according to the set interval, and the positioning is set using the combination gauge, there is a clearance between the container and the component parts of the container transport unit. In the positioning set is provided, also, in the case where the container size is changed, without requiring skill, easily, accurately, and has the effect that can be positioned quickly set up.
Moreover, since the present invention according to claim 5 is a positioning setting method using a plurality of combinations of the combination gauges, there is an effect that positioning can be set efficiently.
Further, the present invention according to claims 4 and 9 is configured such that a part of the bottle gauge is engaged with a gripping mechanism or neck holder of the mouth or grip of the container. This also has the effect that the positioning setting between the component parts can be efficiently performed while also serving as the positioning setting between the component parts of the container transport unit.

It is a top view which simplifies and shows the whole structure of the rotary type filler concerning this invention. It is sectional drawing which rotated 90 degrees of AA arrow view of FIG. 1 clockwise. It is sectional drawing equivalent to FIG. 2, and is a thing at the time of installing the variable type bottle gauge to which this invention is applied. It is DD sectional drawing of FIG. FIG. 5 relates to the second embodiment of the present invention and is a view corresponding to arrow C in FIG. 2 and corresponding to a case where the infeed screw is shown long in the longitudinal direction in FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG. 1 according to the third embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a top view of FIG. 6. This relates to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, and corresponds to FIG. 6 in the case where there is a neck support for the heel portion of the container. FIG. 9 is a top view of FIG. 8 and corresponds to FIG. 7. FIG. 10 relates to the fifth embodiment of the present invention and corresponds to FIG. 6 which is a BB cross-sectional view of FIG. 1 and shows a different embodiment from FIG. It is a top view of FIG. FIG. 11 is a view corresponding to FIG. 10, in the case where there is a neck support of the buttock of the container.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments. In addition, constituent elements in the following embodiments include those that can be easily assumed by those skilled in the art or those that are substantially the same.

(First embodiment)
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a simplified overall configuration of a rotary filler according to the present invention.
2 is a cross-sectional view of the AA arrow view of FIG. 1 rotated 90 ° in the clockwise direction.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view corresponding to FIG. 2 and shows a case where a variable bottle gauge to which the first embodiment of the present invention is applied is installed.
4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line DD of FIG.

  In the figure, containers 1 conveyed from the direction of the arrow 2 upstream by the conveyor 3 are indexed by the infeed screw 4 and conveyed by the inlet star wheel 6 while being guided by the guide 7 to be rotated by the rotary filler. It is delivered so as to engage with 20 filling nozzles 25. The container 1 filled with the filling nozzle 25 during the rotation of the rotary filler 20 in the direction of arrow 21 is carried out to the conveyor 10 by the outlet star wheel 8 while being guided by the guide 9 and is conveyed in the direction of arrow 12.

  A clearance 15 is provided between the infeed screw 4 and the guide 5 so that the container 1 can be smoothly conveyed. In order to set the positioning of the infeed screw 4 and the guide 5 including the clearance 15, the variable bottle gauge 30 is in the first gauge body 32 so as to come into contact with the infeed screw 4 at the position of the recess 36 in the gauge body 31. However, the second gauge body 33 is combined with a fastening part 34 such as a bolt via a spacer 35 so as to contact the guide 5. Here, the spacer 35 is selected and used in order to obtain a target dimension, and the materials of the gauge body 31, the first gauge body 32, and the second gauge body 33 are components of the container transport unit. Although it is made of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene so as not to be damaged, stainless steel or aluminum may be used. The first gauge body 32 is provided with a stepped hole 37 for the fastening part 34, and the second gauge body 33 is provided with a screw hole 38 for the fastening part 34. The outer peripheral portions of the first gauge body 32 and the second gauge body 33 that are in contact with the infeed screw 4 and the guide 5 have an arc shape corresponding to the container 1 in the horizontal cross section.

Next, the operation of the variable bottle gauge 30 according to the present embodiment will be described.
The infeed screw 4 is adjusted so that the dimensions including the gauge main body 31, the first gauge body 32, the second gauge body 33, and the spacer 35 of the variable bottle gauge 30 are adjusted to the dimensions including the target container 1 and the clearance 15. The infeed screw 4 and the guide 5 are positioned.
With this positioning setting method, even an unskilled worker can easily perform positioning setting with reproducibility. Further, even when the dimensions of the container 1 are different, the distance between the infeed screw 4 and the guide 5 can be easily and accurately determined as the variable bottle gauge 30 having the clearance 15 corresponding to the container 1. You can set it.
The variable bottle gauge 30 can be easily removed after the positioning setting operation.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 5 is a view corresponding to arrow C in FIG. 2 and corresponds to a case where the infeed screw in FIG. 4 is shown long in the longitudinal direction.

In FIG. 5, two variable bottle gauges 30 are provided in the longitudinal direction of the infeed screw 4.
When the variable bottle gauge 30 is placed in one position in the longitudinal direction of the infeed screw 4 and set for positioning, it is necessary to set the positioning once in another position in the longitudinal direction after setting the positioning once. In this case, there is a case where the position where the positioning is set first is set again, and there is a problem that the positioning setting takes a long time and the accuracy of the positioning setting is lacking. If the variable bottle gauge 30 is provided at two positions in the longitudinal direction of the infeed screw 4 as in the case of the above, the positioning setting of the infeed screw 4 and the guide 5 can be performed very easily and accurately.

(Third embodiment)
Furthermore, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
6 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG.
FIG. 7 is a top view of FIG.

In the drawing, the container 1 indicated by a two-dot chain line is accommodated in a pocket 65 of a pair of inlet star wheels 6 integrated with the rotation center shaft 26, and the frame 11 is illustrated while being guided by the guide 7 on the outer periphery. It is transported on the sliding surface that does not. A clearance 16 is provided between the pocket 65 of the pair of inlet star wheels 6 and the conveyance surface of the guide 1 for the container 1 so that the container 1 is smoothly conveyed.
In order to set the positioning of the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 including the clearance 16, the variable bottle gauge 40 has a longitudinal groove 48 formed in the gauge body 41 so that the gauge body 41 contacts the pocket 65. Are combined by fastening parts 43 and 44 via a spacer 45 at the position of the recess 46 of the gauge main body 41 so that the gauge body 42 accommodated in the guide 7 comes into contact with the guide 7. The horizontal cross section of the gauge body 41 has an arc shape corresponding to the container 1, and the horizontal cross section on the opposite side of the spacer 45 of the gauge body 42 has an arc shape corresponding to the container 1. Here, the spacer 45 is selected and used for a desired dimension, and the material of the gauge body 41 and the gauge body 42 is made of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, but is made of stainless steel. Or aluminum may be sufficient. The gauge body 42 is provided with a stepped hole 47 for the fastening component 43.
Reference numeral 411 denotes a gauge wire attached to the gauge body 41. When the positioning is set by the gauge wire 411, the variable bottle gauge 40 can be placed in the correct orientation and position, and the positioning setting is easy and accurate. It can be carried out.

The operation of the third embodiment will be described. The dimensions including the gauge main body 41, the gauge body 42 and the spacer 45 of the variable bottle gauge 40 are adjusted to the dimensions including the target container 1 and the clearance 16. The pocket 65 and the guide 7 are brought into contact with each other, and the distance between the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 is set.
With this positioning setting method, even an unskilled worker can easily perform positioning setting with reproducibility. Further, even when the dimensions of the container 1 are different, the distance between the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 can be easily and accurately determined as the variable bottle gauge 40 having the clearance 16 corresponding to the container 1. You can set it.
FIG. 7 shows a case where one set of variable bottle gauges 40 is provided. However, two or more variable bottle gauges 40 are provided in the conveyance section of the container 1 between the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7. Of course, if positioning is set, positioning can be set very easily and accurately as in the second embodiment.
In the above description, the positioning setting of the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 has been described. The same applies to the positioning setting of the outlet star wheel 8 and the guide 9.

(Fourth embodiment)
Furthermore, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 8 is a view corresponding to FIG. 6, and shows a case where there is a neck support of the heel portion of the container.
FIG. 9 is a top view of FIG. 8 and corresponds to FIG.

8 and FIG. 9, the same structure as that in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 is denoted by the same symbol, and redundant description is omitted. The variable bottle gauge 50 is obtained by adding a gauge main body 51 having a flange 52 corresponding to the flange of the container 1 to the variable bottle gauge 40 of the third embodiment. The variable bottle gauge 50 is configured so that the gauge body 42 contacts the guide 7 so that the gauge body 51 abuts against the pocket 65 of the inlet star wheel 6 for setting the positioning of the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 including the clearance 16. It is combined by the fastening parts 43 and 44 via the spacer 45 at the position of the recess 46 of the gauge body 51 so as to contact.
When the container 1 indicated by the two-dot chain line in the figure is conveyed by the inlet star wheel 6, its neck is supported from below by a neck support 55 attached to a wheel 262 integrated with the rotation center shaft 261. However, it is conveyed by the rotation of the wheel 262 in synchronization with the inlet star wheel 6, but when setting the positioning, the collar portion 52 of the variable bottle gauge 50 is also a neck support 55 like the collar portion of the container 1. Can be supported from below.
Here, an example in which the collar portion of the container 1 is supported from below by the neck support 55 is shown, but the same applies to the case where the collar portion or the mouth portion of the container 1 is gripped by a gripping mechanism, and detailed description thereof is omitted. .
Reference numeral 511 denotes a gauge wire attached to the gauge body 51, which is the same as the gauge wire 411 in the case of the third embodiment.

Next, the operation of the fourth embodiment will be described.
In order to transport the container 1 in a correct posture, the collar 1 may be transported while being supported from below by the neck support 55. In this case, it is possible to easily and accurately set the positioning of the collar portion 52 and the neck support 55 of the variable bottle gauge 50 and the variable bottle gauge 50, the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 simultaneously.
The fourth embodiment can be applied in addition to the first embodiment.

(Fifth embodiment)
Further, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
10 is a view corresponding to FIG. 6 which is a BB cross-sectional view of FIG. 1, and is a view showing an embodiment different from FIG.
FIG. 11 is a top view of FIG.
FIG. 12 is a view corresponding to FIG. 10 and shows a case where there is a neck support of the heel portion of the container.

In the drawing, a clearance 16 is provided at a distance between the pocket 65 of the pair of inlet star wheels 6 of the container 1 and the conveying surface of the guide 7 indicated by a two-dot chain line so that the container 1 is smoothly conveyed. However, for the positioning setting of the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 including the clearance 16, the variable bottle gauge 60 is located at the position of the recess 66 formed in the outer peripheral direction of the gauge body 61, and the pocket 65 and the guide 7 The gauge body 62 is combined by being fitted so as to be in contact with each other. Here, the gauge body 62 is variable and appropriately selected depending on the intended positioning dimension. The material of the gauge body 61 and the gauge body 62 employs ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, but may be stainless steel or aluminum.
The lower portion of the gauge body 61 has a second gauge body 67 fitted into a step 69 through a hole 672, and the step portion 671 of the second gauge body 67 abuts against the pocket 65 of the inlet star wheel 6 to form a nut. 68, the inlet star wheel 6 is sandwiched therebetween.

Next, the operation of the fifth embodiment will be described.
First, the second gauge body 67 is mounted with the nut 68 sandwiching the pocket 65 portion of the inlet star wheel 6 so that the stepped portion 671 contacts the pocket 65 of the inlet star wheel 6. Next, the gauge body 62 having the dimensions including the target container 1 and the clearance 16 is fitted into the recess 66 of the gauge body 61 in which the stepped portion 69 is fitted in the hole 672 of the second gauge body 67, and the variable bottle gauge. 60, the positioning of the distance between the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 is set.
With this positioning setting method, even an unskilled worker can easily perform positioning setting with reproducibility. Further, even when the dimensions of the container 1 are different, the distance between the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 can be easily and accurately determined as the variable bottle gauge 60 having the clearance 16 corresponding to the container 1. You can set it. Further, the above-described embodiment using the second gauge body 67 requires fine adjustment so that the liquid filled from the filled container 1 does not spill in the positioning setting of the outlet star wheel 8 and the guide 9. In such a case, there is an effect that the reproducibility of the positioning setting is good.
In addition, although the example which provided the 2nd gauge body 67 was demonstrated here, there is also a method of providing the two gauge bodies 62 without providing the 2nd gauge body 67. Detailed description in this case is omitted.
Further, FIG. 11 shows a case where one set of variable bottle gauges 60 is provided. However, two or more variable bottle gauges 60 are provided in the transport portion of the container 1 between the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7. Of course, if positioning is set, positioning can be set very easily and accurately as in the second embodiment.
In addition, as shown in FIG. 12, as in the case of the fourth embodiment, in order to transport the container 1 in the correct posture, when transporting the collar while being supported from below by the neck support 55, The collar 72 of the gauge body 71 of the variable bottle gauge 70 is supported by the neck support 55 from below so that the positioning of the collar 72 and the neck support 55 of the gauge body 71 and the inlet star wheel 6 and the guide 7 Of course, positioning setting can be performed simultaneously. In FIG. 12, the gauge body 71 has a recess 76 for fitting the gauge body 62 and a step 78 for fitting the second gauge body 67.

1 Container 4 Infeed screw 5, 7 Guide 6 Inlet star wheel 15, 16 Clearance 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 Variable bottle gauge 31, 41, 51, 61 Gauge body 32 First gauge body 33 Second gauge body 35, 45 Spacer 42, 62 Gauge body 52 Buttocks

Claims (9)

  In the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in a filling machine or the like, the first gauge body that abuts one of the component parts and the second gauge body that abuts the other are variable in the gauge body. Thus, the positioning setting method using the variable bottle gauge is characterized in that the positioning is set using the combination gauge.   In the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in a filling machine or the like, the gauge body that contacts one of the component parts and the gauge body that contacts the other are combined so that the positioning dimension is variable, and the combined gauge Positioning and setting method using a variable bottle gauge, characterized in that positioning is set using   In the positioning setting method between the component parts of the container transport unit in a filling machine or the like, a contact gauge body that contacts between the component parts is fitted to the gauge body and combined, and the contact gauge body of the combination gauge is positioned and set in dimension. Positioning and setting method using a variable bottle gauge, characterized in that positioning is set by exchanging it according to the use.   The positioning setting method using a variable bottle gauge according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a part of the gauge body is configured to engage with a gripping mechanism or a neck holder of a mouth part or a grip part of a container. In addition, the positioning setting by the variable bottle gauge is characterized in that the positioning setting between the gripping mechanism or the neck holder and the component parts of the container conveying unit is also performed. Method.   The positioning setting method using a variable bottle gauge according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the positioning is set by using a plurality of sets of the combination gauges as component parts of the container transport unit. Positioning setting method with variable bottle gauge.   In a variable bottle gauge used for positioning between component parts of a container transport unit in a filling machine or the like, a first gauge body that contacts one of the component parts and a second gauge body that contacts the other A variable bottle gauge characterized by combining the gauge body with variable positioning dimensions.   In a variable bottle gauge used for positioning between component parts of a container transport unit in a filling machine or the like, the positioning setting dimension of the gauge body that abuts one of the component parts and the gauge body that abuts the other is variable. A variable bottle gauge characterized by a structure that can be combined so that   In the variable bottle gauge used when setting the positioning between the components of the container transport unit in a filling machine or the like, the contact gauge body that contacts between the components is configured to be fitted to the gauge body, A variable bottle gauge characterized in that the contact gauge body can be replaced according to the positioning set interval.   The variable bottle gauge according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein a part of the gauge main body is configured to engage with a gripping mechanism or a neck holder of a mouth portion or a grip portion of a container. Variable bottle gauge.

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