JP2012121627A - Simple liquid commodity filling apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semi automatic simple liquid commodity filling apparatus which is economic and is easy to operate.SOLUTION: The liquid commodity filling apparatus includes: a liquid commodity filling machine provided with a plurality of injection pipes; a capper provided with cap-inserting rods of the same number with the number of injection pipes; a control switch board for controlling the liquid commodity filling machine and the capper; a bottle conveyance device comprising two uneven conveyors which run side by side; and a cap delivering device and a cap supply conveyor for the cap delivering device which are laid on the side opposite to the capper via the conveyance device, wherein the filling machine and the capper are configured respectively such that the former injects liquid commodity to bottles of the same number with the number of the injection pipes at the same time and, meanwhile, the latter caps, tightly seals and forwards the commodity filled bottles at the same time or individually and, as necessary, different kind of liquid commodities of the same number with the number of the injection pipes are injected at the same time and are capped and tightly sealed at the same time or individually and semi-automatically produced and forwarded.

Description

      The present invention relates to a simple liquid merchandise filling apparatus that bottles liquid merchandise such as liquid merchandise such as soy sauce, drinking water, liquor, and edible oil.

Conventionally, a large number of fully automatic large-scale manufacturing apparatuses or manufacturing lines that inject and fill liquid products into bottle containers, seal them, attach labels, and ship them as bottle products have been proposed.
However, there are relatively few proposals for such a semi-automatic small-scale or small-scale device or line that is easy to handle, can be easily operated by beginners, and is space-saving and semi-automatic and economical. The reality was that most were inefficient devices or lines.

Such an economical semi-automatic filling machine is generally used for a bottled product with a small amount of shipment, or for a small production site of a small company. At the same time, space saving was an essential condition.
Accordingly, all equipment and manufacturing means, except for liquid merchandise containers, were required to be as small as possible and to have an intensive structure and arrangement.

      Therefore, the present inventor has not provided such a semi-automatic simple liquid product bottle filling device, and in the previous invention, first of all, the supply / conveying means (A, (1): A single belt conveyor for transporting an empty bottle, (2): A bottle gripping-sliding conveyor, which is parallel to this, comprising a plurality of reciprocating and freely openable / closable bottle gripping claws and a single sliding surface, (3) : Second belt conveyor connected to this conveyor, (4): Consists of a single rotating disk type collector base connected to this conveyor and finally shipped as goods from this conveyor, and this conveying means A main part (B) such as a liquid product filling machine, a sealing cap plugging machine, and a control switch panel for controlling these devices is laid in a substantially straight line on one side of the plugging machine. On the opposite side of the sealing cap supply means An accessory supply unit (C) integrated with the labeling device is laid to minimize the laying area of the entire device, and the main device part is detachable so that it can be separated when not in operation. Separately storing and storing the free parts to secure a production site for other work or other products, and to make effective use of the factory site.

    On the other hand, one problem in handling liquid products is that the equipment and products that are being worked on are contaminated by liquid leakage and dripping from the filling machine and become unsanitary, and at the same time, this can lead to product deterioration. In the apparatus of the invention of the present invention, a check valve, a foam cap, a liquid leak receiving tray, etc. are attached to the tip of the product injection pipe of this filling machine to prevent product backflow and dripping contamination. Improvements were made to prevent wasteful outflow of liquid products.

Furthermore, in this invention, the integrated cap supply device and the label sticking device are detachable from the oblique direction at a position facing the plugging machine with the traveling bottle conveying means (A) interposed therebetween. In order to save space, attach various sensors to the appropriate places, and at the time of each work failure, stop the entire production line to eliminate excess loss as much as possible, and at the same time apply labels The device part is also formed so that labeling can be adapted to several bottle sizes, and the label gluing operation is performed by a skillful label feeding belt and a rational gluing roller to increase the efficiency of each part. ing.
JP 2010-131975

    Such a simple liquid merchandise filling apparatus could achieve the intended purpose, but the liquid merchandise filling machine and its cap plugging machine, ie, the liquid filling tube and cap capping rod, The work efficiency was extremely limited because only the product was filled and capped.

Furthermore, since the labeling device and the cap supply means of the present invention described above are integrally mounted on a single cradle, the mechanism of this part is somewhat complicated, and this type of handle is used for handling. There were drawbacks that considerably offset the space-saving benefits of the filling equipment.
The first object of the present invention is to substantially double the production efficiency of such a conventional apparatus by a relatively simple improvement, and by further improving this improved liquid commodity filling machine. Another object is to provide this kind of new filling apparatus capable of producing a plurality of commodities at the same time.

Means to solve the problem

    In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention firstly attaches a plurality of (for example, two) injection tubes capable of performing the same operation to the liquid merchandise filling device, and a single type or a plurality of injection tubes are simultaneously provided from the respective injection tubes. Construct so that different liquid products can be poured into the same number of empty bottles at the same time, produce one or more bottled liquid products in one device, or use only a single liquid product and multiply multiple at the same time The first feature is that it is configured to produce the same kind of products.

    Furthermore, since this seed filling device uses a plurality of injection pipes at a time, the amount of bubbles, dripping, etc. of liquid goods at the time of injection is considerably increased compared to the case of single goods and single bottles. Therefore, the second feature is that the bubble removing means and the liquid dripping means corresponding to each device are attached.

    Next, as a third feature, corresponding to the filling rate of the plurality of product injection pipes, the number of the stopper rods of the stopper is the same, and depending on the situation, a single punch, a multiple punch mode The third feature is that the efficiency of the filling machine is adapted.

The invention's effect

Based on the above-described configuration and operation, the liquid product filling apparatus of the present invention is:
(1) Since there are a plurality of liquid commodity injection pipes and cap stopper rods, respectively, the production efficiency is considerably improved as compared with the conventional apparatus.
(2) Since the labeling device is separated, it is space-saving and labor-saving.
(3) It is possible to produce a plurality of necessary bottled different liquid products at the same time by simply installing the required number of additional liquid product storage tanks and electric pumps in the same apparatus.
(4) Since multiple injection pipes are used, foaming and dripping increase considerably. However, the cleanliness of the device is maintained at the same level as that of the conventional product with only minor improvements in machine parts. Is done.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

    In the best mode for carrying out the present invention, first of all, in order to save space in a production facility, a transport device for bottles for filling liquid goods is provided with two continuous non-uniform parallel conveyors (belt conveyors and In order to clean the product and equipment at the same time as the bottle gripping (sliding conveyor), thorough prevention of dripping, foam removal and backflow prevention of the liquid product during the production process is achieved, and the product and equipment are completely cleaned. It is characterized in that it can be achieved.

Next, the main best mode of this apparatus is that a plurality of injection pipes and stopper rods of a liquid product filling device are attached to each unit to produce the same liquid bottle product and a plurality of different liquid bottle products. In this case, a plurality of electric pumps and their associated liquid commodity supply members are required).
That is, when the same product is produced with this device, the same liquid product is first injected into each injection tube at the same time, and at the time of the stoppering process, a single cap or a plurality of strikes are performed to improve the production speed. The same number of electric pumps for supplying merchandise per unit and their accessories so that different liquid products can be simultaneously injected into each of the plurality of injection pipes during simultaneous production of the other different liquid products. It is characterized in that it is constructed so that multiple types of bottled liquid products can be produced only by adding parts and improving so that different liquid products can be simultaneously injected into the plurality of injection tubes. Is.
In the following, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

    As shown in FIG. 1 and particularly FIG. 5, the basic simple liquid product filling device (1) of the present invention is mainly composed of two non-uniform bottle conveyors (A) that run side by side, and one side thereof. A filling apparatus comprising a liquid product tank (T), a liquid product filling machine (2), a cap sealing stopper (3), and a control switch panel (4) for controlling these devices, which are arranged in series. A main part (B), a bottle cap gripping / delivering means (23) laid at a position facing the plugging machine (3) on the other side, and an attached part (C ) And more.

      In such a configuration, the conveyor (A) for conveyance is configured substantially the same as the structure of [Patent Document 1], and in particular, as shown in FIG. 5, a single line for conveying an empty bottle (10). The first belt conveyor (6) and a plurality of bottle grippers which run parallel to the first belt conveyor (6) and are integrated with the filling machine (2) and the cap capping machine (3), and are interlocked with reciprocating movement and freely opening and closing. Bottle gripper-sliding conveyor (7) (hereinafter referred to as bottle gripper) that grips and transfers empty bottles from the first belt conveyor by means of the claws (12a), (12b). And a second belt conveyor (8) for transferring the product bottle (25) connected to this and sealed with a stopper to the circular collection platform (9).

    In the conveying conveyor (A) having such a configuration, first, the empty bottle (10) from the first conveyor (6) depends on the push rod (11) at the end of the conveyor (W). Pushed in the direction (see FIG. 5), received on the side-by-side bottle gripping conveyor (7), on which it is pushed and held by the bottle gripping claw (12a) waiting for the claw to open. , Toward the liquid product filling position in the next process, transferred in the direction of the arrow (t), and after a predetermined time, the subsequent empty bottle (10) carries back the preceding bottle and holds it back (12a) ) In the same manner, and both the preceding empty bottles gripped by the preceding gripping claws (12b) are transferred directly under the two injection pipes (13) and (13) of the liquid product filling machine, as will be described later. Liquid merchandise is injected at the same time.

    In this way, the bottles (10) and (10) filled with the liquid merchandise are repetitively moved back and forth in the same manner according to the bottle gripping claws (12a) (12b). (7) Move up sequentially and move under the two stopper rods (22) and (22) of the cap sealing stopper (3) as indicated by (10 ′) and (10 ′). As will be described later, the sealing cap (24) from the cap conveyor (5) is attached to the cap clamping delivery claw (23) (hereinafter referred to as the cap clamping claw) on the cradle (3) provided on the opposite side. After being plugged, it is extruded as a bottled product (25) onto the second belt conveyor (8) and shipped through a circular collection platform (9).

    Further, the liquid product filling machine (2) provided on one side of such a liquid product transport conveyor (A) includes a cap plugging machine (3) (hereinafter referred to as a plugging machine) in the next process and the like. Along with the control panel (4), etc., as shown by the symbol (B), it is arranged in a series, and is operated by a compressor (C), an electric pump (M), etc. provided at appropriate positions along each of them. The liquid merchandise tank (T) provided at an appropriate position is sequentially filled with liquid merchandise into empty bottles (10) on the conveyor.

    The liquid merchandise filling device (1) of the present invention having such a configuration is based on the electric pump (M), and the liquid merchandise prepared in the tank (T), for example, soy sauce, is supplied to each hose (16). , (17) and one branch pipe (18), it is divided into two hoses (19), (19), each introduced into two filling machine injection pipes (13), (13), Two bottles sent by the conveyor (A) are injected and filled at the same time, and in the next plugging process, two bottle plugs (22) and (22) are also used. The main feature is that the liquid product bottle is sealed and plugged, and finally shipped as two liquid product bottles, and the production efficiency is remarkably improved compared with the conventional single filling and single plug production method. It is what.

In this case, the function and effect of the defoaming cups (14) and (14) of the present apparatus are substantially the same as those of the conventional apparatus, that is, the technology disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2010-137815. This will be described in detail below because it is structurally and functionally different.
That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the liquid product diverted in the branch pipe (18) is provided in the lower part from above the respective injection pipes (13) and (13) as indicated by arrows (f). It flows into the defoaming cup (14) (14), but this part is closed by a check valve (30) (30), and is configured not to flow out unless its valve stem is actuated. .

    The two empty bottles that have been carried to the reciprocating bottle gripping claws (12b) (12c) that have already been linked are directly under the injection pipes (13) and (13) in this state. 10) (10) is fixed by means of a removable claw (15) (15) which is also provided on the injection tube base in the same manner, and is in a standby state. ), The injection pipes (13) and (13) are pressed down in the direction of the arrow (P), and the tips of the defoaming cups (14) and (14) are respectively connected to the two liquid commodities. It inserts simultaneously in the inlet of an injection | pouring waiting empty bottle (10) (10).

    The defoaming cup (14) (14) inserted in this way is lowered further because the bottom inside the insertion port is received by the upper end of the bottle port as shown in the right bottle (10) of FIG. In response to further pressurization, the valve rod (29) inside the injection pipe (13) to be connected is lowered, the check valve (30) at its tip is opened, and the direction of the arrow (f) The liquid product (L) is jetted to fill the bottle.

    The foam of the product and the excess liquid product (w) generated during the injection are prevented from flowing out by the packing (v) provided inside the foam removal cup insertion port, and back flow in the direction of the arrow (f ′). And taken out to the foam outlet (20) through the gap between the injection pipe (13) and the defoaming cup adjusting pipe (28), along with the liquid commodity from the dripping tray (21), The waste liquid tank (27) is taken out and collected.

    On the other hand, the two bottles (10) and (10) injected with the liquid goods by the filling machine (2) are first put one by one while being sandwiched between the bottle gripping claws (12d) and (12e) from the direction of the arrow (t). It is transported and fixed with fixing claws (15) and (15) directly under the stopper rods (22) and (22), and waits in response to the cap delivery operation in the next step.

    When the plugging situation is thus established, as shown in FIG. 4, it slidably moves on the cradle provided with the bottle gripping conveyor (7) sandwiched at the position facing the plugging machine. One cap delivery claw (23) receives bottle caps (24) one by one from a conveyor (5) provided at an appropriate position, and first, on the cradle, in the direction of arrow (m), ie, bottle flow. A bottle cap that slides in the opposite direction and stops at a position opposite to the subsequent right second bottle (10 '), and rotates 90 degrees as indicated by an arrow (r) with respect to its traveling direction axis. (24) is delivered to the mouth of the second bottle, and is sealed in the direction of (p ′) with the corresponding first stopper rod (right rod) (22).

    When this second bottle has been capped, the cap delivery claw (23) is immediately turned back 90 degrees, with the tip of the claw leading and heading in the direction of the arrow (m ') (bottle travel direction). The cap is delivered back to the cap delivery position, that is, the first bottle stopper relative position, and a new cap (24) is received from the cap conveyor (5), and the toe is rotated 90 degrees in the same manner as the stopper action. Then, the second stopper rod (left rod) (22) is used to seal the stopper.

    Thus, at the same time as the first bottle is plugged, the subsequent two liquid commodities filled with the liquid product are transported by the previous gripping nails. The two liquid product bottles are ungripped by the gripping claws (12 ′) (12 ′) and lowered onto the sliding surface of the conveyor, and the subsequent two bottles are similarly gripped by the gripping claws (12d) (12e). ) Is pushed onto the second belt conveyor (8) outside the front claw (12e), and through this, the liquid product bottle is placed on the circular collection platform (9). (25) Collected as (25).

In FIG. 5, in order to explain one embodiment of the device of the present invention, in particular, the bottle gripping conveyor (7) has five equally spaced claws (12a) (12b) (12c) (12d) (12e). The liquid product filling machine (2) is equipped with two injection pipes and simultaneously injects the liquid product, and the cap stopper (3) has two stopper rods. The manufacturing process of this kind of filling device that performs single punching is shown as a schematic plan view.
However, in this figure, the intervals between the respective nails are shown unevenly, for the purpose of avoiding complication of the drawing. In particular, in FIG. It should be understood in particular that the description herein is primarily for the embodiment of FIG. 5 because it illustrates the embodiment of two bottle simultaneous injection and single bottle punching molds and is somewhat complicated. .

    In the manufacturing process of FIG. 5, first, a liquid product such as soy sauce (L) is charged into the material tank (T), and the pipes (16), (17), The liquid is simultaneously supplied to the two empty bottles (10) and (10) from the two injection pipes (13) and (13) of the filling machine (2) through the branch pipe (18) and the pipes (19) and (19). The product (L) is configured to be filled.

    On the other hand, the liquid product filling empty bottles (10) and (10) are supplied in the direction (t) through the first belt conveyor (6) as described above, and at the end of the conveyor, The push rod (11) is pushed in the (W) direction to the sliding surface of the bottle gripping conveyor (7), and is received and fixed by the five interlocking bottle gripping claws (12a).

    The bottle (10) gripped in this way is positioned at the position of the second gripping claw (12b) directly below the liquid product filling machine in the next stroke before the subsequent empty bottle on the first belt conveyor (6) is pushed out. , Moved along the arrow (t), and at this position, in the direction of (12F) (12F ′) ′ shown in FIG. , Retreating toward the rear mounting base with the claws open, passing through the back side of the bottle, together with the other four claws to be interlocked, each front position (if the grasping claws (12a), Return to the belt conveyor push-out position) and wait in the same position (the position with the claws open) in preparation for the arrival of the next bottle.

    At this time, the bottle gripping claw (12b) that has been moved to the position of the bottle gripping claw (12c) also returns to the original position while the claw is opened, and the claw (12a) is carried and put on the slide. Grasp the first empty bottle on the surface and bring it to the position of the claw (12c), that is, directly below the second injection pipe. At the same time, the claw (12a) also follows the first belt conveyor (6) on the sliding surface. The second empty bottle that has been pushed out is sandwiched and carried to the original position of the claw (12b), that is, directly below the first injection tube.

    Thus, the first and second empty bottles carried simultaneously under the injection pipes (13) and (13) by the two gripping claws (12a) and (12b) are detachably mounted on the rear cradle. The bottle fixing claws (15) and (15) hold the respective neck portions firmly and fix them on the sliding surface, and liquid products are simultaneously injected from the injection pipes (13) and (13).

    The two bottles filled with the liquid merchandise in this way are moved to the plug sealing process in the next step, and these bottles are empty from the first belt conveyor (6). Each time the bottles are pushed out one by one onto the smooth surface of the bottle gripping conveyor, depending on the bottle gripping nails (12d) (12e) for the stopper, which is interlocked with the previous gripping claws (12a) (12b) (12c) One by one, it is carried and fixed directly under the stopper rods (22) and (22), and as described above, it is stoppered and sealed by the cooperative operation of the cap sealing claw and shipped through the collection platform (9).

FIG. 6 shows an operation flow sheet of another embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention in which two kinds of liquid goods are filled and sealed in one empty bottle at the same time.
In this apparatus, two kinds of liquid products (a) and (b), for example, soy sauce and kimchi liquid are charged into each tank (Ta) (Tb ′), and two electric pumps (M) (M ') Is directly introduced into the two injection pipes (13) and (13) of the filling machine, and each of the empty bottles is filled and filled in accordance with the method of the first embodiment. It is configured so that two bottled liquid products can be produced by sealing with stoppers by a home-made or double-handed method.

    Therefore, three types of bottled liquid products can be produced with only a slight increase in equipment costs as in the above embodiment, provided that the same number of material tanks, electric pumps, injection pipes and stopper rods are prepared. Therefore, it can be regarded as a device with extremely reasonable practical benefits.

It is a front view of one embodiment of the simple liquid goods filling device of the present invention. It is a partial cutting front fragmentary view which shows the liquid goods injection | pouring state to the two empty bottles of the two injection pipes of this invention. It is a front view which shows the stoppering effect | action of the stoppering machine of this invention apparatus. FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3. It is an effect explanation top view of the same kind liquid goods two bottle packing whole production process of other embodiments of the device of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a plan view similar to FIG. 5 showing two bottles of different types of liquid goods.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Simple liquid goods filling device of this invention 2 ... Liquid goods filling machine 3 ... Cap stopper 4 ... Control switch panel 5 ... Cap Conveyor 6 ··· First belt conveyor 7 ··· Bottle gripping conveyor 8 ··· Second belt conveyor 9 ··· Circular collection platform 10 ··· Empty bottle 11 ··· · Push rod 12a ··· Bottle gripping claw 13 ··· Injection tube 14 ··· Foam removing cap 15 ··· Bottle fixing claw 16 ··· Hose 21 ··· Liquid drop tray 22 ··· ··· Plug stopper 23 ··· Cap clamping claw 24 ··· Cap 28 · · · Adjusting tube 29 · · · Valve rod 30 · · · Check valve A · · · Bottle transport Conveyor B ... Filler main part C ... Compressor M ... ..Electric pump T ... Liquid product tank

Claims (6)

        Consisting of a non-uniform and intermittently parallel running conveyor that transports liquid product filling bottles, and a circular collection platform that connects to one end of this conveyor and collects shipping product bottles With a bottle transport unit, in series along one side of this transport unit, each equipped with a liquid product filling machine and a cap stopper, at the position facing the latter on the other side, It comprises a structure in which a reciprocating reciprocating cap delivery claw means is provided, and a suitable cap conveyor is connected to the tip of this means, and the liquid merchandise filling machine and the cap capping machine are each in one work process. In addition, a simple liquid product filling apparatus characterized in that a plurality of bottles can be filled with the same or different liquid products at the same time, and a plurality of caps can be sealed individually or simultaneously.         The liquid merchandise filling machine and the cap capping machine each include a liquid merchandise injection tube and a capping rod as many as the number of bottles to be filled and capped during one work process. Item 2. The filling device according to Item 1.         In the liquid merchandise filling machine and the cap capping machine, the former fills the same number of bottles with a single liquid merchandise or multiple liquid merchandise at the same time during one working process. 3. The filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the latter is configured such that a plurality of sealing caps are simultaneously or individually plugged into the same number of bottles.         Each injection pipe of the liquid merchandise filling machine is provided with a liquid merchandise check valve and a defoaming cap, and is configured to share a dripping tray and collect the drained liquid from these separately. A filling device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that:         The non-uniform and intermittently running two-line conveyor is composed of a single first belt conveyor, a reciprocating interlocking bottle gripping claw and a bottle receiving sliding surface that can move back and forth in parallel with the first belt conveyor. The filling apparatus according to any one of the preceding items, comprising a bottle gripping conveyor provided, a second belt conveyor directly connected thereto, and a circular collection platform.         6. The filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the filling apparatus includes a number of electric pumps corresponding to the injection pipes and a liquid commodity transfer pipe attached thereto. .

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