KR200415118Y1 - Automatic filling apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

 The present invention relates to an automatic filling device for filling a liquid cosmetics, medicines, etc. into a container, and more particularly, the liquid contents to be filled once from the contents supply tank by suction using a no-packing piston and formed by a predetermined means. The present invention relates to an automatic filling device capable of continuously quantitatively filling liquid cosmetics and medicines without using a separate quantitative control device by repeatedly performing a filling cycle of filling a container which is automatically supplied by discharging the contents to the discharge port.

Automatic filling apparatus according to the present invention, the contents supply unit consisting of a filling tank (5) in which the contents are stored, and an inlet nipple (80) connected to the supply hose (15) extending from the outlet of the filling tank (5); Filling cylinder formed on the outer circumferential surface of the second fixing plate 65 is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the inlet port 160 is directly connected to the inlet nipple 80 to which the contents are introduced and the outlet nipple 85 is directly connected to the discharge nipple 85 for discharging the contents. (30) of the gate piston 200 and the filling cylinder 30 is inserted into the upper portion of the filling cylinder 30 and the upper end is connected to the rotating pneumatic cylinder (10) installed on the first fixed plate (70) A plurality of charging parts inserted into the lower part and having a lower end connected to an upper surface of the moving plate 75 and including a filling piston 40 formed only of a rigid body without packings;

A support part including a plurality of support rods 50 on which the first fixing plate 70 and a second fixing plate 65 are mounted perpendicularly to the axial direction, and a table 60 on which the plurality of support rods 50 are installed vertically; And a vertical moving part including a vertical driving shaft 45 penetrating the table 60 and connected to a bottom surface of the movable plate 75 and a driving device for vertically moving the vertical driving shaft 45. It is characterized by.

Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, metering, no-packing pistons, gate pistons

Description

Automatic filling apparatus

1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of an automatic charging device according to the present invention.

2 is a view illustrating a charging unit according to the present invention.

3 is a view illustrating a driving principle of an automatic charging device according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of the filling piston according to the present invention.

  <Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

5: contents tank 10: rotating pneumatic cylinder

15 tube 30 filling cylinder

40: filling piston 45: vertical drive shaft

50: support rod 60: table

75: moving plate 80: incoming nipple

85: discharge nipple 100: automatic charging device

130: through hole for suction 140: through hole for discharge

150: inlet and outlet 160: inlet

170: outlet

 The present invention relates to an automatic filling device for filling a liquid cosmetics, medicines, etc. into a container, and more specifically, to suck the liquid contents to be filled once from the contents supply tank by using a no-packing piston, Automatic filling device capable of continuously quantitatively filling liquid cosmetics and medicines without using a separate quantitative control device by repeatedly performing a filling cycle of filling the container which is automatically supplied by discharging the contents to the discharge port formed by the means of It is about.

Various filling devices are known and used for filling liquid materials into small volume containers.

However, in such a conventional filling apparatus, when the nozzle head is pressed, the contents are discharged at the same time by the pressing pressure of the nozzle head, the contents are discharged all at once, and the contents cannot be discharged quantitatively. In order to discharge by using a pump, a control device for controlling the pump is installed, which not only increases the size of the filling device but also has a disadvantage in that the manufacturing cost is high.

In addition, the conventional filling apparatus is provided with a piston for pushing the liquid to the discharge port, and the head portion of the piston is used a lot of soft packing for maintaining the inner wall and airtight. However, if the packing is damaged by cosmetics or medicines and the airtightness of the piston is destroyed or the packings are melted, there is a problem of deteriorating the quality of the cosmetics or medicines.

In addition, most packings are standardized in size. Therefore, the size of the piston head, which serves to push out the liquid, should also be designed according to the size of the packing.In some cases, it is not possible to obtain a packing of the appropriate size to match the exact amount of a cosmetic or pharmaceutical container with various capacities. Have.

An object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional charging device described above. That is, an automatic filling device that can fill the container accurately without contamination by using a no-packing piston that does not use a separate control device to control the discharge amount and does not use a packing with abrasion. The purpose is to provide.

In addition, it is easy to replace parts according to various size changes of the container for the liquid, and if necessary to provide an automatic filling device capable of quantitative filling in multiple stages.

Automatic filling apparatus of the present invention for achieving the above object, the contents supply unit consisting of a filling tank in which the contents are stored, and an inlet nipple connected to the supply hose extending from the outlet of the filling tank; A charging cylinder formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inlet port through which the inlet nipple is directly connected to the second fixing plate and directly connected to the inlet nipple for discharging the contents, and inserted into an upper portion of the filling cylinder and installed on the first fixing plate. A charging part including a gate piston connected to the rotating pneumatic cylinder and an upper end and a charging piston inserted into a lower portion of the filling cylinder and connected to a lower end on an upper surface of the moving plate and formed only of a rigid body without packing; A support comprising a plurality of support rods on which the first fixing plate and the second fixing plate are mounted perpendicular to the axial direction, and a table on which the plurality of support rods are mounted vertically; And a vertical movement unit configured to penetrate the table and connected to a bottom surface of the moving plate, and a driving device configured to move the vertical drive shaft up and down.

The above objects, features and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

In general, an automated system for automatically filling a small volume container with liquid cosmetics or medicines includes a container transfer device, a container hopper, a content filling device, a capping device, a lid feeding device, a discharge device, and a control device for controlling the devices. . That is, a transfer device for loading empty small-capacity containers one by one on a transfer block and sequentially moving them to each process device, a container hopper for receiving and aligning the small-capacity containers and continuously supplying them to the transfer block of the transfer device, and a liquid to be filled Filling device for filling a certain amount of the liquid in the storage tank containing the contents into the empty container transported, Capping device for sealing the cap and sealing the container transported after the liquid is filled by the filling device, and accommodates and aligned the lid A lid feeder for supplying the capping device, a discharge device for completely discharging the contents and the capped container from the automation system and sending it to the next process, and a control device for controlling the respective devices.

The present invention relates to an automatic filling device or an automatic filling device which automatically fills a small amount of contents in a container of the automated system, or a filling device used alone, hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the filling device according to the present invention When described in detail based on the accompanying drawings as follows.

1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of an automatic charging device according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a view illustrating a charging unit according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 1 to 2, the automatic filling apparatus according to the present invention, the contents supply unit for supplying the liquid contents to the charging device, the charging unit for performing the charging and suction by intermittent the moving passage of the contents, and the charging device It consists of a support for supporting, and a vertical movement for performing the vertical reciprocating motion for filling and suction.

The contents supply part has a configuration in which a supply hose 15 extending from the outlet of the filling tank 5 in which the contents are stored is connected to the inlet nipple 80 of the filling apparatus.

The charging section includes a plurality of support rods 50 in which the first fixing plate 70 and the second fixing plate 65 are fixed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction and in parallel with the table 60, and the plurality of support rods 50 in the vertical direction. It is installed in connection with a support consisting of a table 60 installed on the upper surface.

That is, the filling unit may include a filling cylinder 30 formed at an outer circumferential surface of the suction port 160 on which the inlet nipple 80 into which the contents are introduced and the discharge port 170 on which the discharge nipple 85 to discharge the contents is formed. 2 is installed through the fixing plate 65, the pneumatic cylinder 10 for rotation and the top end of the gate piston 200 directly connected to the first fixing plate 70 is inserted into the upper portion of the filling cylinder 30, Filling piston 40 formed only of the rigid body without packing is inserted into the lower portion of the filling cylinder 30 has a configuration in which the lower end of the filling piston is connected to the upper surface of the moving plate (75). Although it is shown in FIG. 1 that two charging units are provided, two or more charging units may be provided.

In addition, the vertical movement portion is composed of a vertical drive shaft 45 and a driving device (not shown), the upper and lower drive shaft 45 penetrates through the table 60, one end of the moving plate 75 connected to the filling piston 40 It is connected, and the other end is connected to the drive device for moving the vertical drive shaft up and down. Here, the drive device may use a mechanical cam drive device as well as an electric servo device, which is obvious to those skilled in the art.

The automatic filling apparatus of the present invention configured as described above can fill a quantity of contents in a container of a small capacity continuously supplied. First, the filling step is as follows.

That is, when the container is supplied to the predetermined position by the container transfer device, the rotary cylinder 10 installed at the top of the automatic filling device 100 rotates to rotate the gate piston 200 connected to the rotary cylinder. The gate piston 200 inserted in the upper portion of the filling cylinder 30 is aligned with the outlet 170 provided in the filling cylinder 30 by the rotation to form a passage for discharge. The alignment operation with the discharge port and the suction port of the gate piston 200 will be described later in detail. Thereafter, a driving device (not shown) installed at the lower portion of the table 60 is driven to move the upper and lower driving shafts 45 upward, and as a result, the filling piston 40 inserted into the lower portion of the filling cylinder 30 is raised. As the filling piston 40 is raised, the contents of the liquid sucked into the filling cylinder 30 are filled in the container through the inlet and outlet 150 and the outlet 170, and the filling cycle proceeds.

In some cases, cosmetics or medicines may be prevented from overflowing or may be divided into multiple stages for quantitative filling. In this case, it is possible to adjust the speed or the stage of filling by adjusting the driving of the cam drive. It is a self-evident fact.

When the filling piston 40 ascends to the highest point through this ascending operation, the suction cycle is started. That is, when the filling piston 40 rises to the highest point, the rotating cylinder 10 installed at the top of the filling device 100 starts reverse rotation to reversely rotate the gate piston 200 connected to the rotating cylinder, and the gate piston The 200 is aligned with the suction port 160 provided in the filling cylinder 30 by the rotational movement to form a passage for suction. After the suction passage is formed in this manner, the cam or servo drive moves the upper and lower drive shafts 45 downward, and as a result, the filling piston 40 descends, the suction port 160 is removed from the contents storage tank 5. The contents are replenished into the filling cylinder 30 through. When the filling piston 40 reaches the bottom, the suction cycle is terminated, and the filling cycle described above can be started again, thereby enabling continuous filling.

As described above, since the amount of the contents to be filled in the container is the same as the amount that the filling piston 40 sucks and discharges through one up and down movement, in order to precisely control the filling amount, the stroke of the up and down reciprocating motion is adjusted or The diameter in the filling cylinder 30 can be adjusted.

2 is a view illustrating a charging unit according to the present invention, as shown in the gate piston 200 is provided with a connecting ring for receiving a rotation operation of the rotary cylinder 10, the body portion of the gate piston ( In the 120, the suction through hole 130 and the discharge through hole 140 formed at right angles to the axial direction are installed on the side of the body portion 120 of the gate piston, and the suction through hole and the discharge through hole are They are at an acute angle with respect to the central axis. In addition, the suction and discharge through holes 150 are formed along the axial direction from the lower portion of the body 120 of the gate piston, and the suction and discharge through holes 150, the suction through holes 130, and the discharge through holes 140 are formed. ) Are connected to each other and serve as a passage through which the contents of the liquid pass.

The gate piston 200 configured as described above has an action of controlling the opening and closing of the inlet port 160 and the outlet port 170 in the inlet cycle in which the automatic filling device 100 sucks the contents into the filling cylinder and the filling cycle for filling the container with a small capacity. Do it.

3 is a view illustrating a driving principle of the automatic charging device according to the present invention.

3 (a) illustrates a suction cycle, in which the suction through-hole 130 of the gate piston 200 is aligned with the suction port 160 of the filling cylinder 30 by the rotation of the rotary cylinder 10. The through hole 140 is closed by the cylinder inner wall. Therefore, the contents of the liquid sucked through the inlet port 160 of the filling cylinder 30 into the empty space inside the filling cylinder 30 generated while the filling piston 40 is lowered are penetrated through the suction through hole 130 and the suction discharge. It passes through the hole 150 and is charged into the filling cylinder 30.

Filling cycle proceeds in the same principle as the suction cycle, as shown in Figure 3 (b), the gate piston is rotated so that the discharge through-hole 140 and the outlet 170 of the filling cylinder 30 is aligned and suction After the through hole 130 is closed by the inner wall of the cylinder, when the filling piston 40 is raised, the contents of the liquid charged in the inside of the filling cylinder 30 by the suction cycle are sucked and discharged through holes 150 and discharged. It can be seen that through the through-hole 140 for filling the small-capacity container through the outlet 170.

4 shows an embodiment of a filling piston according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 4 (a), the filling piston 40 according to the present invention is a no-packing piston having a standardized dimension and does not use any kind of packing retaining elastic force, and the inner wall of the filling cylinder 30 and The surface of the filling piston 40 is characterized by grinding and plating to form a sliding contact. Therefore, since the packing is not used, it is possible to proactively cope with the contamination problem caused by the packing, and it is easy to change the size of the filling piston, so that it can cope with various kinds of capacities accurately.

On the other hand, the filling piston having a different structure from the rod-shaped filling piston as described above is shown in Figure 4 (b), the head portion of the filling piston 40 is V-shaped to finely adjust the diameter of the piston The groove is formed using a plurality of rings, which has a feature that can solve the problem that the outer diameter of the filling piston (40) is worn out is not quantitative control or difficult to maintain airtightness with the inner wall of the filling cylinder (30). The filling piston having the diameter adjusting means is described in detail in 20-2006-0003585 filed by the present applicant, and the description thereof is omitted in the present application.

As described above, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined by the claims below and equivalents thereof.

As described above, the present invention uses a no-packing piston that does not use a separate control device for controlling the discharge amount and does not use a packing with abrasion, so that the container does not accurately contaminate liquid contents. Not only can be filled in, but also easy to replace parts, it has the effect of actively coping with various size changes of the container to contain the liquid.

Claims (3)

In the automatic filling device for continuously filling the contents of the liquid into a small capacity container, A contents supply unit including a filling tank (5) in which contents are stored and an inlet nipple (80) connected to a supply hose (15) extending from an outlet of the filling tank (5); Filling cylinder formed on the outer circumferential surface of the second fixing plate 65 is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the inlet port 160 is directly connected to the inlet nipple 80 to which the contents are introduced and the outlet nipple 85 is directly connected to the discharge nipple 85 for discharging the contents. (30) of the gate piston 200 and the filling cylinder 30 is inserted into the upper portion of the filling cylinder 30 and the upper end is connected to the rotating pneumatic cylinder (10) installed on the first fixed plate (70) A plurality of charging parts inserted into the lower part and having a lower end connected to an upper surface of the moving plate 75 and including a filling piston 40 formed only of a rigid body without packings; A support part including a plurality of support rods 50 on which the first fixing plate 70 and a second fixing plate 65 are mounted perpendicularly to the axial direction, and a table 60 on which the plurality of support rods 50 are installed vertically; And And a vertical movement unit including a vertical drive shaft 45 penetrating the table 60 and connected to a bottom surface of the movable plate 75 and a driving device for vertically moving the vertical drive shaft 45. An automatic charging device characterized by the above. The method of claim 1, wherein the gate piston 200, The suction through-hole 130 is aligned with the suction port 160 of the filling cylinder 30 and the discharge through-hole 150 is aligned with the discharge port 170 of the filling cylinder 30 of the gate piston 200. It is formed vertically from the surface to the central axis, and the suction and discharge through holes 150 are installed downward along the axial direction, and the suction through hole 130, the discharge through hole 140 and the suction discharge through hole 150 are provided. ) Is an automatic charging device characterized in that the connection is made through each other. The method of claim 1, wherein the drive unit, An automatic charging device characterized in that a mechanical cam device or an electric servo device is selectively employed.

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