JPH11189206A - Filling and packaging unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a line compatible for many kinds of goods which is compact in size and excellent in productivity in a filling and packaging unit. SOLUTION: In a filling and packaging unit 10, a bottle carrying conveyor 113 is built in capping machines 40A, 40B and the capping machines 40A, 40B are installed on the bottle carriage line in an attachable/detachable manner. When the capping machines 40A, 40B for cover cap are inserted in a container carrying line to change the kind of the container, intermediate parts of container carrying conveyors 111, 114 constituting the carrying line are opened to form an installation space for the capping machines for cover cap, and a conveyor 113 built in the capping machines is inserted in the installation space.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a filling and packaging facility for filling a container with contents such as shampoo and capping the container.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional filling and packaging facility, there is a conventional filling and packaging facility in which a filling machine and a capping machine are sequentially arranged along a conveyor constituting a container transport line, and the contents are filled in the containers and caps are applied.

[0003]

However, in the conventional filling and packaging equipment, the filling machine and the capping machine are provided separately from the conveyor constituting the container transport line, and the following problems are encountered. If there is a plan to add, for example, a capping machine for the cover cap to the container transport line in order to change the type of the container as the filling and packaging target, the capping machine for the cover cap will be placed next to the container transport line. It is necessary to secure a space in which the container can be installed in advance, and the entire length of the container transport line is constantly increased. This means that the number of container conveyance tools that are circulated and used in the container conveyance line is large, and the number of parts / man-hours required for changing the type of the container conveyance tool when the type of the container is changed.

For example, when a capping machine for a cover cap is attached to or detached from a container transport line in accordance with the container type change, it is necessary to match the capping work center of the capping machine with the position of the container opening of the container transport line. However, the alignment is accompanied by great difficulty and the productivity is low.

An object of the present invention is to provide a filling and packaging equipment,
It is to constitute a compact and highly productive multi-product line.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided a filling and packaging equipment for arranging a filling machine and a camping machine in order along a container conveying line, filling the container with contents, and capping the container. The container transport conveyor is built in the capping machine, and the capping machine is detachable from the container transport line.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the filling machine also has a built-in container conveying conveyor, and the filling machine is detachable from the container conveying line. Things.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first or second aspect of the present invention, the container transport conveyor can be driven by a servomotor, and the servomotor can be controlled by a controller. It was done.

[0009]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the following operations are provided. The capping machine has a built-in container transfer conveyor, and the capping machine is detachable from the container transfer line. Therefore, for example, when inserting a capping machine for a cover cap into a container transport line for the purpose of changing the type of container, the intermediate portion of the container transport conveyor constituting the transport line is cut open to open the cover cap. The installation space for the capping machine is formed, and a conveyor built in the capping machine is inserted into the installation space. For this reason, the entire length of the container transfer line can be kept compact within the range of the length required for the line components at that time, and it is possible to eliminate the necessity of providing a long line in advance. For this reason, the number of container conveyance tools that circulate through the container conveyance line is minimized in the line, and the number of parts / man-hours required for changing the type of container conveyance tool when changing the type of container can be reduced.

For example, when a capping machine for a cover cap is attached to or detached from a container transport line in accordance with the container type change, the transport line of a conveyor built in the capping machine is simply matched with the transport line of another adjacent conveyor. Is enough. The productivity can be improved easily and simply as compared with the case where the capping operation center of capping is matched with the set position of the container mouth of the container transfer line.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the following operations are provided. Since the container conveyor is built in the filling machine, and the filling machine is detachable from the container conveyance line, it is compact and has high productivity for multiple products, as described above by incorporating the container conveyor in the capping machine. Lines can be configured.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the following:
Has the effect of The transport speed of the container can be arbitrarily set by controlling a servomotor that drives the container transport conveyor. For this reason, even if the transfer speed of the container is increased, the shock at the time of acceleration from stop of the container to the transfer or at the time of deceleration from the transfer to the stop can be mitigated to avoid the liquid splash.

[0013] By the above, splashing can be avoided while the container is being conveyed at a high speed, and the productivity of the filling and packaging can be increased without arranging the filling and packaging lines in multiple rows. And the number of container transport tools used for transporting containers can be reduced, and the number of parts and man-hours required for changing the type of work heads and container transport tools associated with container type switching can be reduced.

As described above, since the number of parts and man-hours required for changing the type of container can be reduced, high productivity can be maintained even in a multi-type production line. In addition, since the stop position of the container can be arbitrarily set by controlling the servo motor that intermittently drives the container transport conveyor, the container is filled in a container whose mouth is eccentric with respect to the container body (hereinafter, referred to as an eccentric container). The stop position of the container with respect to the machine and the capping machine can be reliably and easily adjusted according to the amount of eccentricity, and high productivity can be maintained even in a multi-product production line including eccentric containers.

The servo motor used in the present invention is:
Electrical Engineering Pocket Book published by Ohmsha Ltd. (JR
Version) As described in the eighth edition of the third edition, "a control element having a mechanical output in a servomechanism which is a follow-up feedback control in which a control amount is a position or an angle" is referred to.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a filling and packaging facility, FIG. 2 is a front view showing a filling and packaging facility, FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a filling and packaging facility, and FIG. ,
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a filling machine, FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a cap feeder, FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a bottle front / back discriminating correction machine,
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating a front / back discrimination correcting machine of a bottle front / back discriminating machine, FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a bottle reversing state of the bottle front / back discriminating / correcting machine, and FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a front / back discriminating correcting machine of a bottle front / back discriminating / correcting machine. Fig. 11, Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram showing a bottle discharging machine, Fig. 12 is a control system diagram of a filling and packaging facility, Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram showing a bottle carrier, Fig. 14 is an exploded view of the configuration of the filling and packaging facility, and Fig. 15 is capping. FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram showing a combined state of the machines, FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram showing a positioning structure of a bottle conveying conveyor, FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram showing a positioning device of FIG.
FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram showing a modified example of the layout of the filling and packaging equipment, and FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram showing a modified example of the layout of the filling and packaging equipment.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the filling and packaging equipment 10 fills a bottle 1 with contents such as shampoo and applies a spray cap 2 and a cover cap 3 (FIG. 13). Bottle 1 is supplied by bottle supply machine 20,
The contents are filled by a filling machine 30, the spray cap 2 is supplied by a capping machine 40A, and the cover cap 3 is supplied by a capping machine 40B.

The filling and packaging equipment 10 includes a bottle transport conveyor 11 constituting a bottle transport line and an upper and lower upper transport path 11.
A and a lower transport path 11B, and the uppermost transport path 11A and the lower transport path 1 at the most upstream end of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
1B and an upper transport path 11A and a lower transport path 11B at the most downstream end of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
Are connected by an elevator 13, and as a result, the upper transport path 11A and the lower transport path 11B are connected so as to form an endless orbit.

The filling and packaging equipment 10 includes a filling machine 30, a capping machine 40A, and a capping machine 40A, which are arranged in order from the most upstream side to the most downstream side along the upper conveying path 11A of the bottle conveying conveyor 11.
0B, a bottle feeder 20 is arranged. The filling and packaging equipment 10 has a filled and capped bottle discharging device 50 in a bottle discharging portion 50A between the capping device 40B and the bottle supplying device 20. Reference numeral 51 denotes a bottle unloading line composed of a conveyor.

In the filling and packaging equipment 10, a bottle processing device 60 is disposed along a lower transport path 11B of the bottle transport conveyor 11. The bottle processing device 60 includes a bottle front / back discriminating / correcting device 61 and an in-bottle cleaning device 71.

The bottle conveyor 11 is a belt conveyor composed of two conveyor belts 14 on both sides. The bottle conveyor 4 holding the bottle 1 can be conveyed by the conveyor belts 14. And As shown in FIG. 13, for example, the bottle carrier 4 includes first and second base members 81 and 82, a height adjusting member 83, and a bottle holding member 84. The bottle 1 can be held.

In the filling and packaging equipment 10, as shown in FIG. 12, a bottle transport conveyor 11 is controlled by a line controller 100 via a transport conveyor controller 101.
And the filling machine 30 via the filling controller 102
To control the capping machines 40A and 40B via the capping controller 103, and control the bottle feeding machine 20 via the bottle feeding controller 104,
Bottle discharging machine 5 via bottle discharging controller 105
Control 0.

Hereinafter, the bottle transport conveyor 11, the bottle feeder 20, the filling machine 30, and the capping machines 40A, 40
B, each of the bottle discharger 50 and the bottle processing device 60 will be described.

(Bottle Transport Conveyor 11) (FIGS. 2 to 4) The bottle transport conveyor 11 includes a bottle transport conveyor 111 installed in front of the bottle feeder 20, and a bottle transport conveyor 112 built in the filling machine 30. , Capping machine 40A (cap tightening machine 46A), capping machine 4
OB (cap driving machine 46B) and a bottle conveying conveyor 114 built in the bottle discharging machine 50 are mutually positioned and connected on a conveying line by a positioning device 115 described later. (FIGS. 15 to 17). And
The bottle conveyor 11 is provided with a certain timing so that each of the bottle feeder 20, the filling machine 30, the capping machines 40A and 40B, and the bottle processing device 60 can apply a predetermined operation to the bottle 1 in the bottle carrier 4. Then, the bottle carrier 4 is intermittently fed.

At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 3, and FIG. 12, the bottle transporting conveyor 11 transfers the bottle transporting tool 4 to the bottle feeder 20, the filling machine 30, and the capping machines 40A, 40A.
B, a drive unit for sequentially and intermittently positioning each of the bottle discharger 50 and the bottle processing device 60 is a bottle transport servomotor M1, and this servomotor M1 is controlled by the speed controller and the position controller of the transport conveyor controller 101. By controlling, the transport speed and the stop position of the bottle transport device 4 can be controlled. Thereby, the bottle conveyor 1
1 is, for example, a moving section from the filling machine 30 to the capping machine 40A, the initial section is set to an acceleration area, the intermediate section is set to a constant velocity area, the final section is set to a deceleration area, and the vehicle slowly starts from the filling machine 30; The transport speed of the bottle transport device 4 is controlled so that the bottle transport device 4 is gently positioned and stopped. In addition, the bottle transport conveyor 11 includes (a) the bottle 1
Is a symmetrical bottle, the stop position of the bottle carrier 4 is controlled so that the center of the bottle carrier 4 is stopped in accordance with the center of the cap setting device 47 in the mechanical center, for example, the capping device 40A, and (b) Bottle 1
Is an eccentric bottle (eccentric amount e), for example, the position of the center of the bottle 4 with respect to the center of the cap setting device 47 of the capping machine 40A is shifted by the eccentric amount e so that the bottle carrier 4 Control the stop position.

The bottle conveyor 11 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the drive units for the elevators 12 and 13 are servo motors M2 and M3, and the lower transport path 11
The servomotor M4 is used as a drive unit for moving the bottle in front of the filling machine 30 in FIG. B before the bottle elevating device 34 described below, and the bottle elevating device 34 described below is used in front of the filling machine 30 in the upper transport path 11A. And a servo motor M5, and the servo motors M2 to M5 can also be controlled by the speed controller and the position controller of the conveyor controller 101.

(Bottle Feeding Machine 20) (FIGS. 1 and 4) As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the bottle feeding machine 20 includes an empty bottle feeding hopper 21, an empty bottle feeding conveyor 22, and an empty bottle feeding robot 23. And Bottle feeder 2
0 indicates that the empty bottle 1 sent by the empty bottle supply conveyor 22 is
A, and the empty bottle 1 is transferred to the upper transfer path 11A.
The bottle is supplied to the bottle carrier 4 stopped at the upper bottle supply position.

On the front of the bottle feeder 20, an upper transport path 11A and a lower transport path 11
B is arranged as a bottle transport conveyor 111.

At this time, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 12, the bottle feeder 20 includes an X-axis drive unit, a Y-axis drive unit, a Z-axis drive unit, and a rotary shaft drive unit of the empty bottle supply robot 23. Each is a servo motor M6, M7, M8, M9, and these servo motors M6 to M9 can be controlled by a speed control unit and a position control unit of the bottle supply controller 104.

(Filling Machine 30) (FIG. 5) As shown in FIG. 5, the filling machine 30 includes a liquid supply pipe 31, a piston portion 32, a filling nozzle 33, and a bottle elevating device 34.
And The filling machine 30 raises the bottle conveying tool 4 stopped at the filling position on the upper conveying path 11A by the bottle lifting / lowering device 34, so that the bottle conveying tool 4
The filling nozzle 33 is inserted into the bottle 1 held by. Then, the filling of the contents from the filling nozzle 33 into the bottle 1 is started, and the bottle conveying tool 4 is lowered by the bottle lifting / lowering device 34. When the filling of the contents into the bottle 1 is completed, the bottle conveying tool 4 is moved. It is deposited on the upper transport path 11A again.

The filling machine 30 has an upper conveying path 11A and a lower conveying path 11B constituting the bottle conveying conveyor 11 built therein as a bottle conveying conveyor 112.

At this time, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 12, the filling machine 30 uses a bottle lifting servomotor M10 as a driving unit of the bottle lifting device 34 and a filling piston servomotor M11 as a driving unit of the piston unit 32, as shown in FIGS. The servo motors M10 and M11 are controlled by the speed control unit and the position control unit of the filling controller 102, so that the filling liquid level and filling amount (for example, the liquid level and filling amount according to the bottle shape) for the bottle 1 can be controlled. I have.

(Capping Machines 40A and 40B) (FIGS. 1 and 6) As shown in FIG.
Cap supply hopper 41 and cap supply conveyor 42
, Cap supply robot 43, cap feeder 4
4 and a cap supply head 45.

The capping machine 40A has a cap tightening machine 46A, and the capping machine 40B has a cap driving machine 4A.
6B is additionally provided. The cap tightening machine 46A
And the cap driving machine 46B have substantially the same configuration. Cap tightening machine 46A (Cap driving machine 46B)
Has a cap setting device 47.

The capping machine 40A converts the spray cap 2 sent from the cap supply conveyor 42 into
The spray cap 2 is chucked by the chuck 43A of the cap supply robot 43, and the spray cap 2 is
4 and transfer. Then, the cap feeder 44
Is supplied by the chuck 45A of the cap supply head 45, and the spray cap 2 is supplied to the cap setting device 47 of the cap tightening machine 46A. The cap setting device 47 of the cap tightening machine 46A receives the spray cap 2 supplied from the cap supply head 45 of the capping machine 40A on the chuck 47A, and stops the spray cap 2 at the cap tightening position on the upper transport path 11A. Screwed into the bottle 1 in the bottle conveying tool 4.

The capping machine 40A is an ironing chuck for ironing the dip tube of the spray cap 2 with a dip tube from the upper end side to the lower end side so as to straighten the dip tube and enabling the dip tube to be smoothly inserted into the bottle 1. 48 is also provided.

The capping machine 40B chucks the cover cap 3 sent by the cap supply conveyor 42 by the chuck 43A of the cap supply robot 43, and aligns and transfers the cover cap 3 to the cap feeder 44. Then, (A) the cap feeder 44
Of the bottle 1 in the bottle conveying tool 4 stopped by the chuck 45A of the cap supply head 45 and stopped at the cap driving position on the upper conveying path 11A. 2 and then the cap driver 46
B is driven around the spray cap 2 of the bottle 1 by the driving head 47B of the cap setting device 47 of B. Alternatively, (B) the driving cap 3 sent from the cap feeder 44 is
A, and the driving cap 3 is held around the spray cap 2 of the bottle 1 in the bottle conveying tool 4 stopped at the cap driving position on the upper conveying path 11A while the driving cap 3 is chucked by the cap supply head 45. The cap setting device 47 of the cap driving machine 46B
Is driven around the spray cap 2 of the bottle 1 by the driving head 47B.

Cap tightening machine 4 of capping machine 40A
6A, cap driving machine 46B of capping machine 40B
Is an upper conveying path 11 constituting the bottle conveying conveyor 11.
A, the lower transport path 11B is incorporated as a bottle transport conveyor 113.

At this time, the capping machine 40A (40
B), as shown in FIGS. 6 and 12, the X-axis direction drive unit, the Y-axis direction drive unit, the Z-axis direction drive unit, and the rotation axis drive unit of the cap supply robot 43 are each connected to a servomotor M12.
M13, M14 and M15, and their servo motors M
12 to M15 can be controlled by the speed control unit and the position control unit of the capping controller 103.

The capping machine 40A (40B)
Sets the drive unit of the cap feeder 44 to the servo motor M1.
6, the servo motor M16 can be controlled by the speed control unit and the position control unit of the capping controller 103.

The capping machine 40A (40B)
Are the servo motors M17 and M18 for the elevation drive unit and the traverse drive unit of the cap supply head 45, and these servo motors M17 and M18 are
Controllable by the speed controller and the position controller.

Further, the capping machine 40A comprises a servo motor M19 for raising and lowering the drive of the cap setting device 47 and a motor 1 for the roller rotating device 113 of the chuck 47A.
Reference numeral 21 denotes a servo motor M20, and the lifting drive unit and the traverse drive unit of the ironing chuck 48 are servo motors M21 and M22. These servo motors M19 to M22 can be controlled by a speed control unit and a position control unit of the capping controller 103.

(Bottle Dispenser 50) (FIGS. 1-3, FIG. 1)
1) The bottle discharging machine 50 has a bottle transfer robot 52 as shown in FIG. The bottle discharging machine 50 chucks the filled and capped bottle 1 in the bottle conveying tool 4 stopped at the bottle discharging section 50A on the upper conveying path 11A by the chuck 52A of the bottle transfer robot 52, and It is transferred to the bottle discharge line 51.

The bottle discharging machine 50 has an upper transport path 11A and a lower transport path 11B which constitute the bottle transport conveyor 11 built therein as a bottle transport conveyor 114.

At this time, the bottle discharging machine 50 is
As shown in FIG. 12, each of the X-axis direction drive unit and the Y-axis direction drive unit of the bottle transfer robot 52 is a servo motor M2.
3, M24, and these servo motors M23, M24
Can be controlled by the speed control unit and the position control unit of the bottle discharge controller 105.

(Bottle Processing Apparatus 60) (FIGS. 2, 7 to 10) The bottle processing apparatus 60 includes the bottle front / back discriminating / correcting apparatus 61 and the in-bottle cleaning apparatus 71 as described above.

The bottle front / back discriminating / correcting device 61 has a lifting / lowering turning table 62 at a bottle processing position on the lower conveying path 11B, and the front side of the bottle 1 held by the bottle conveying tool 4 stopped at this bottle processing position. Color mark sensor 6
3. A reflection plate 64 is provided on the back side. The lifting / lowering turning table 62 is disposed directly below the conveyor of the lower transport path 11B,
It has a lifting cylinder 62A, a swing actuator 62B, and a positioning pin 62C that can be engaged with and disengaged from a positioning hole 81E provided on the lower surface of the base member 81 of the bottle carrier 4. The color mark sensor 63 is
It is determined that there is no bottle 1 at the bottle processing position by detecting strong light saturation based on the amount of light reflected by the reflection plate 64. For example, the front surface of the bottle 1 is determined by low light saturation, and the back surface of the bottle 1 is medium. Discrimination is based on lightness and saturation.

When the color mark sensor 63 detects the absence of the bottle 1 and the surface of the bottle 1,
2 is inoperative. Color mark sensor 63 is bottle 1
When the back surface of the table 62 is detected, the table 62 is raised by the lifting cylinder 62A,
2C is engaged with the positioning hole 81E of the bottle carrier 4 to lift the bottle carrier 4 above the conveyor belt 14 of the lower conveyor path 11B, and then the bottle actuator 4 is rotated 180 degrees by the turning actuator 62B. , Lifting cylinder 62
The table 62 is lowered by A, and the bottle conveying tool 4 is returned on the conveying belt 14 of the lower conveying path 11B, and the front and back are corrected so that the surface of the bottle 1 faces the front side.

The in-bottle cleaning device 71 moves the cleaning head 72, which is disposed directly above the bottle 1 held by the bottle carrier 4 stopped at the bottle processing position at the bottle processing position above the lower transport path 11B. Have. The cleaning head 72 is lowered by the elevating cylinder 72 </ b> A and fitted to the mouth of the bottle 1, and the air blow passage 72.
B and an air suction passage 72C. The in-bottle cleaning device 71 lowers the cleaning head 72 by an elevating cylinder 72A,
Is fitted to the mouth of the bottle 1 and air blow and suction for removing foreign matter in the bottle 1 are performed.

That is, the bottle processing device 60 operates as follows. (1) The bottle 1 conveyed along the lower conveyance path 11B is stopped at the bottle processing position (FIG. 8).

(2) The front and back of the bottle 1 are determined by the color mark sensor 63.

(3) Simultaneously with the above (2), the lifting cylinder 72
The cleaning head 72 is lowered by A, the cleaning head 72 is fitted to the mouth of the bottle 1, and air blowing and suction inside the bottle 1 are performed (FIG. 9).

(4) When the back side of the bottle 1 is detected, the lifting / lowering turning table 62 is raised by the lifting / lowering cylinder 62A to separate the bottle carrier 4 from the lower conveying path 11B, and the table 62 is rotated by 180 ° by the turning actuator 62B. Then, the surface of the bottle 1 is turned to the front (FIG. 9). At this time, the operation (3) is performed while the cleaning head 72 is fitted to the mouth of the bottle 1. When the surface of the bottle 1 is detected, both the lifting cylinder 62A and the turning actuator 62B are deactivated.

(5) The lifting / lowering turning table 62 is lowered by the lifting / lowering cylinder 62A, and the bottle transporting tool 4 is moved to the lower transport path 1.
1B, the cleaning head 72 is raised by the lifting cylinder 72A and returned to the original position.

(6) The bottle transporter 4 returned to the lower transport path 11B is carried out through the lower transport path 11B.

Therefore, the filling and capping operation by the filling and packaging equipment 10 is performed as follows. (1) Bottle supply The upper transport path 1 is controlled by the transport control of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
When the bottle carrier 4 on 1A is intermittently fed and stopped at the bottle supply position, the empty bottle 1 supplied by the bottle supplier 20 is supplied to the bottle carrier 4. The bottle conveying tool 4 is transferred to the lower conveying path 11B by the elevator 13 at the lowermost end of the upper conveying path 11A.

(2) Bottle processing The lower transport path 1 is controlled by the transport control of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
When the bottle conveying tool 4 on 1B is stopped at the bottle processing position, the bottle front / back discriminating / correcting device 61 of the bottle processing device 60 and the in-bottle cleaning device 71 discriminate the front / back of the empty bottle 1 and clean the front surface of the bottle 1. While turning to the front side, the inside of the empty bottle 1 is cleaned. The bottle transporter 4 is located at the lowermost end of the lower transport path 11B,
2 to the upper transport path 11A.

(3) Filling The upper transport path 1 is controlled by the transport control of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
When the bottle carrier 4 on 1A is stopped at the filling position, the contents are filled into the empty bottle 1 by the filling machine 30.

(4) Cap supply The upper transport path 1 is controlled by the transport control of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
When the bottle carrier 4 on 1A is stopped at the cap tightening position, the spray cap 2 supplied by the capping machine 40A is screwed onto the bottle 1.

Subsequently, when the bottle conveying tool 4 on the upper conveying path 11A is stopped at the cap driving position, the cover cap 3 supplied by the capping machine 40B is moved to the bottle 1 position.
Around the spray cap 2.

(5) Bottle discharge The upper transport path 1 is controlled by the transport control of the bottle transport conveyor 11.
When the bottle conveying tool 40 on 1A is stopped by the bottle discharging unit 50A, the bottle discharging device 50 transfers the bottle 1 to the bottle discharging line 51 and discharges the bottle 1 to a lower process.

When executing the filling capping operations (1) to (5), the line controller 100 uses numerical control data corresponding to the type of the bottle 1 to be filled and packed this time. 102, 10
3 and the like, a bottle conveying conveyor 11 and a bottle feeder 2
0, the servo motors M1 to M24 of the filling machine 30, the capping machines 40A and 40B, and the bottle discharging machine 50 are controlled as described above. Bottle conveyor 11, bottle feeder 20, filling machine 30, capping machine 40A, 4
0B, the numerical control data predetermined for the various types of bottles for the bottle discharging machine 50 is not limited to those stored in the line controller 100, but may be stored in the controllers 101, 102, 103 and the like. Alternatively, it may be stored in a host computer for the line controller 100.

However, in the filling and packaging equipment 10, as described above, the bottle transport conveyor 11 is connected to the bottle transport conveyor 111 installed in front of the bottle feeder 20.
A bottle transport conveyor 112 built in the filling machine 30,
It is divided and divided into a bottle conveying conveyor 113 built in each of the cap tightening machine 46A of the capping machine 40A and a cap driving machine 46B of the capping machine 40B, and a bottle conveying conveyor 114 built in the bottle discharging machine 50 ( (FIG. 14). Then, each of the filling machine 30, the cap tightening machine 46A of the capping machine 40A, the cap driving machine 46B of the capping machine 40B, and the bottle discharging machine 50 is attached to and detached from the bottle conveying line, and the conveyors 112 to 114 incorporated therein are adjacent to each other. Other conveyor 1
1 to form a bottle transport line. FIG. 15 shows a configuration in which two cap tightening machines 46A are inserted into a bottle conveying line, and the conveyors 113 are positioned and connected by a positioning device 115. The positioning device 115 is connected to the conveyor 11
3 (111-114) are positioned on the transport line with each other, as shown in FIG.
114 are provided on both side end surfaces. Then, as shown in FIG. 17, the positioning device 115 is connected to the conveyed conveyor 1.
13, a spacer 116 is interposed between the two conveyors 113 if necessary, and a lock plate 117 fixed to one of the conveyors 113 and a positioning pin 119 held by a guide plate 118A are fixed to the other conveyor 113. The operation handle 119A of the positioning pin 119 is engaged with the lock recess 117A of the lock plate and locked.
This completes the positioning of the three.

In the filling and packaging equipment 10, bottle transport conveyors 111 to 111 constituting the bottle transport line 11 are provided.
After positioning 114 on the transport line, for example, FIG.
5. As shown in FIG. 16, a toothed belt 121 wound around a toothed wheel 120 fixed to the output shaft of the servomotor M1.
To the drive toothed wheel 1 of one of the conveyors 113 phase-coupled.
22 and the drive toothed wheel 122 of the other conveyor 113, the two conveyors 113, 113 (111-114)
Speed control and position control are synchronized. Conveyors 111 to 11 by the same servo motor M1
The synchronization structure of No. 4 comprises a filling machine 30, a capping machine 40
A, 40B, and the upper discharge path 11A in which the operations of the bottle discharger 50 for the bottle 1 are performed sequentially and successively have a special meaning. The servo motor M1 of the lower transport path 11B is connected to each of the conveyors 113 (111 to 11).
4) It is not always necessary to independently use each of the conveyors 113 and 113 to achieve synchronization.
(FIG. 16).

In the filling and packaging equipment 10, the filling machine 3
0, each of the cap tightening machine 46A of the capping machine 40A, the cap driving machine 46B of the capping machine 40B, and the bottle discharging machine 50 incorporates the bottle transport conveyors 112 to 114 as described above, and the filling machine 30, the cap tightening machine Since the attaching machine 46A, the cap driving machine 46B, and the bottle discharging machine 50 are detachable from the bottle conveying line, the filling and packaging equipment 10 can be changed very easily according to the type of the bottle 1 as follows. At this time, the filling machine 30, the cap tightening machine 46A of the capping machine 40A, the cap driving machine 46B of the capping machine 40B, and the bottle discharging machine 5
0 are the mounting legs 131 (FIG. 5), 132 on their bottoms.
(FIG. 6) 133 is provided (FIG. 11) and a certain gap is provided between the floor and the floor, and a fork of a forklift can be easily inserted into this gap and moved into and out of the bottle conveying line. The mounting legs 131 to 133 can be replaced with moving wheels (casters).

(A) Two-cap line (FIGS. 1 to 3) Spray cap 2
When two types of caps are applied, such as a cover cap and a cover cap 3, as shown in FIGS.
(Cap tightening machine 46A) and the capping machine 40B (cap driving machine 46B) for the cover cap 3 are both inserted.

(B) 1 cap line (FIGS. 18 and 19) Spray cap 2 is applied to bottle 1 depending on the type of bottle 1.
If only the cover cap 3 is not required,
From the filling and packaging equipment 10 of the above (A), the capping machine 40B
(Cap driving machine 40B) is removed, and a single conveyor 113A can be inserted into the removed portion (FIG. 1).
8). Alternatively, without using the conveyor 113, in the filling and packaging equipment 10 from which the capping machine 40B (cap driving machine 46B) has been removed, the filling machine 30 and the capping machine 40B are removed.
A (cap tightening machine 46A) and the bottle discharging machine 50 can be directly connected to each other to shorten the line (FIG. 19).

(C) Three Cap Line When three kinds of caps such as an inner stopper, a cap, and a cover cap are applied to the bottle 1 depending on the type of the bottle 1, three types of capping machines are provided on the bottle transport line. It will be inserted.

If it is necessary to use a ball loading machine for stirring contents depending on the type of the bottle 1, this ball loading machine is also inserted into the bottle transport line. At this time,
If the bottle loading machine has a built-in bottle transport conveyor, it can be easily loaded into the bottle transport line in the same manner as the above-described capping machine.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the following operations are provided. The capping machines 40A and 40B have a built-in bottle conveying conveyor 113 so that the capping machines 40A and 40B can be attached to and detached from the bottle conveying line. Therefore, when, for example, a capping machine 40B for a cover cap is inserted into the bottle transport line for changing the type of bottle, the bottle transport conveyor 1 constituting the transport line is required.
The intermediate portion 1 is cut open to form an installation space for the capping machine 40B for the cover cap, and the conveyor 113 built into the capping machine 40B is inserted into the installation space. For this reason, the total length of the bottle transport line is kept within the range required for the line components at that time, thereby making the bottle compact, and it is possible to eliminate the necessity of providing a long line in advance. For this reason, the number of bottle transport tools 4 that circulate through the bottle transport line can be minimized, and the number of parts and man-hours required for changing the type of bottle transport tool 4 when changing the type of bottle 1 can be reduced.

For example, when the capping machine 40B for the cover cap is attached to or detached from the bottle transport line in accordance with the bottle type change, the transport line of the conveyor built in the capping machines 40A, 40B is connected to another conveyor 1 adjacent thereto.
It suffices to match only one transport line. Compared to the case where the capping work center of the capping machine 40B is matched with the bottle mouth set position of the bottle transfer line,
It is simple and can improve productivity.

The bottle conveying conveyor 11 is placed in the filling machine 30.
2 and the filling machine 30 can be attached to and detached from the bottle conveying line, so that the bottle conveying conveyor 113 is built in the capping machines 40A and 40B.
In the same manner as above, a compact and highly productive multi-product line can be constructed.

The bottle conveyor 11 (111 to 11)
4) The bottle 1 is controlled by the control of the servomotor M1 for driving
Can be set arbitrarily. For this reason, even if the bottle conveyance speed is increased, the shock at the time of acceleration of the bottle 1 from the stop to the conveyance or at the time of the deceleration from the conveyance to the stop can be mitigated to avoid the liquid splash.

As described above, splashing can be avoided while the bottle 1 is conveyed at a high speed, and the productivity of filling and packaging can be increased without increasing the number of rows of filling and packaging lines.
0 and the number of working heads of the capping machines 40A and 40B can be reduced, and the number of bottle conveying tools 4 used for conveying the bottle 1 can be reduced. Parts / man hours can be reduced.

As described above, the number of parts and man-hours required for changing the type of bottle 1 can be reduced, so that high productivity can be maintained even on a multi-type production line. Further, a servo motor M for intermittently driving the bottle transport conveyor 113 is provided.
1, the stop position of the bottle 1 can be arbitrarily set, so that the stop position of the bottle 1 with respect to the filling machine 30 and the capping machines 40A and 40B can be reliably and easily adjusted according to the amount of eccentricity. High productivity can be maintained even on a multi-product line including bottles.

The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration of the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and the design may be changed without departing from the scope of the present invention. The present invention is also included in the present invention.

[0077]

As described above, according to the present invention, a compact and highly productive multi-product line can be constructed in a filling and packaging facility.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a filling and packaging facility.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a filling and packaging facility.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a filling and packaging facility.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing a bottle feeder.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing a filling machine.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a cap feeder.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a bottle front / back discriminating / correcting machine.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating a front / back discrimination state of the bottle front / back discriminator.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing a bottle inversion state of the bottle front / back discriminating / correcting machine.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a front / back discrimination correction state of the bottle front / back discrimination / correction machine.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view showing a bottle discharging machine.

FIG. 12 is a control system diagram of a filling and packaging facility.

FIG. 13 is a schematic view showing a bottle carrier.

FIG. 14 is an exploded view of the configuration of a filling and packaging facility.

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram showing a coupled state of the capping machine.

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram showing a positioning structure of a bottle transport conveyor.

FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram showing the positioning device of FIG. 16;

FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram showing a modification of the layout of the filling and packaging equipment.

FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram showing a modification of the layout of the filling and packaging equipment.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bottle (container) 2, 3 Cap 10 Filling and packaging equipment 11, 111-114 Bottle transport conveyor (container transport conveyor) 30 Filling machine 40A, 40B Capping machine

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A filling and packaging facility in which a filling machine and a camping machine are arranged in order along a container carrying line, and a container is filled with contents and a cap is provided. Filling and packaging equipment, characterized in that it can be attached to and detached from the container transport line. 2. The filling and packaging equipment according to claim 1, wherein the filling machine also has a built-in container conveyor, and the filling machine is also detachable from the container conveying line. 3. The filling and packaging equipment according to claim 1, wherein the container transport conveyor can be driven by a servomotor, and the servomotor can be controlled by a controller.