MX2013014490A - Machine for bottling pet containers integrating from blowing process to packing process. - Google Patents

Abstract

The machine for bottling PET containers integrating from blowing process to packing process comprises the processes of blowing, labeling, filling and threading in a single machine. It has the possibility of bottling low weight containers, producing 2500 containers per cavity per hour, being able to blow containers from 40 ml to 3.5 liters and threads of 16 mm to 70 mm, processing multiple products such as: soft drinks, beer, water, food, chemicals, personal hygiene products, pharmaceutical products amongst others, also being a compact machine where molds are easily changed. The machine for bottling PET containers integrating from blowing process to packing process is characterized in that the bottles are gripped by the threads during the whole travel; it is highly efficient and autonomous, which results in large savings of power, reducing the percentage of wastes, having the flexibility of processing different products, the machine being compact therefore saving 90% of space in wareho uses, the machine being able to pack a wide variety of products per package and having low maintenance requirements.

Description

PET PACKING MACHINE THAT INTEGRATES FROM THE BLOWING PROCESS TO THE PACKAGING PROCESS.

DESCRIPTION FIELD OF THE INVENTION A PET bottle bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process. The PET packaging machine integrates the processes of blowing, labeling, filling, lid placement, screwing and packing, which has a preform elevator, a preform guide, a thermal conditioning unit, a mold with cooling system, Stretching system, the integrated blower valve with blow nozzle that integrates the blow valves and everything is handled from the part that makes the neck or thread of the container, a labeling unit, a filling unit, an orientation and placement unit for caps and a wrapping process with a flexible film of heat-shrinkable plastic that adjusts heat to the containers leaving them in a single package. It is a whole system integrated in a continuous process.

BACKGROUND Currently there are machines with processes for filling and sealing PET containers, such as patent FR2859100, which refers to a molding plant by blowing and filling plastic bottles and, has the transfer of the containers through roller conveyor, is a pneumatic system, has an oven equipped with a penetration heating zone installed so that the preforms follow a twisting between short infrared lamps arranged vertically. It includes a mechanism to cover the containers that positions the caps of the covers through a band and fixes them by polyethylene foam. Finally, it comprises a labeling post with marking systems based on a C02 laser. The patent US6205743, which patents a machine to manufacture, verify, fill and cover bottles made of a thermoplastic material, and consisting of several cavities, performs horizontal movement for transfers from one process to another through the 5 processes using tweezers of transfer. It has rollers that lead to waste or rejection outside the process, it is an electronic system, with thermo adhesive labeling, the containers are held by jaws and clamps for their movements. It comprises a horizontal bench with suction holes to support and retain the containers and a tray that is a scale, it also has filling noses with solenoid valves, a row of caps to be screwed by a spindle. The covers are routed and stored in a row by vibration, passing pro-axles to cover the container. The patent application published under number EP1122168 and disclosing a method of molding and filling aseptic containers, in which the heating device has a hot air heater where the preforms are heated with hot air at an appropriate temperature oriented between 90 ° C and 120 ° C. In addition to the patent US7549275 that discloses a machine for filling and closing containers. However, the bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, of the present invention, has the advantage of integrating in a single machine the production line consisting of the processes of blowing, labeling, filling , cover, screw and packaging, which has a preform lift, a preform guide, a thermal conditioning unit, a mold with cooling system, the stretching system, the integrated blower valve with blow nozzle that integrates the blow valves and everything is handled from the part that makes the neck or thread of the container, a labeling unit, a filler unit, an orientation and lid placement unit and a wrapping process with a flexible film of a shrinkable plastic that with heat fits the containers leaving them in a single package.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES FIGURE 1. It is a perspective view of the bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, where all the details of the machine are appreciated.

FIGURE 2. It is a perspective view of the bottling machine of PET containers where the integration of the process is appreciated, from the blowing to the packing of the filled, labeled and closed containers.

FIGURE 3. It is a top view of the bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, where the complete machine and its respective units can be appreciated up to the wrapping and accommodation.

FIGURE 4. It is a top view of several PET bottle bottling machines that integrate from the blowing process to the packaging process, illustrating the formation in a space that is not very wide because each is a compact machine.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention refers to a bottling machine for PET containers that integrates the processes of blowing, labeling, filling, screwing and packing in a single machine to achieve the possibility of packaging, and with low grammage containers produce 2,500 containers per cavity per hour , being the fastest in the world, is able to blow containers from 40 milliliters to 3.5 liters capacity and threads from 16mm to 70mm, process multiple products, such as soft drinks, beers, water, food, chemicals, personal care products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and many more, be a compact machine with easy change of molds, and handle bottles by the threads. Additionally you can pack a variety of flavors per package.

The bottling machine for PET packaging that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process reduces costs due to integrated processes, packaging is not exposed to the environment, light and economical packaging results thanks to the integration of processes and because it is a machine that costs a tenth of foreign machines, it requires a single mold that is also economical and can produce a minimum of 15,000 containers.

The bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, integrates the processes of blowing, labeling, filling, screwing and packing in und machines, and offers great energy savings through the recielaje of air, ovens of high efficiency and thermodynamics in molds. It works with a single mold at a speed that reaches to produce 2,500 containers per hour in a single cavity, resulting 20% faster taking into account the bottles manufactured by cavity of the others existing in the market, thanks to the integration of all the process, the raw material warehouse of empty containers is eliminated recovering 90% of the space, the bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packing process coordinates the movements by means of servo motors that are located in strategic points of the machine, handles threads from 16mm to 70 mm and containers of 40 milliliters up to 3.5 liters capacity, has screens sensitive to touch or touch screen, access and remote diagnosis, is a compact machine.

The bottling machine of PET packaging that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process consists of the following systems: A preform elevator 1 consisting of a vertical inclined band 2 that raises the preforms 11 to be able to start the system taking them to the next of its components, which is a preform guide 3, consisting of a system that by means of gravity it guides the preforms 11 by means of bars 4, where they are guided through the vertical band 2, leaving the roller orienting the preforms 11, arranging them all in a row to be able to take them and pass them through the processes, the machine is also composed of a thermal conditioning unit 5, which heats between 80 ° C and 200 ° C intelligently for a uniform heating, with long infrared lamps arranged horizontally, is a furnace that heats the preforms to the exact temperature and then, they are stretched 12 the preforms 11, the stretching system 12 enters the mold 13 and applies the stretch 12 to make the transport by means of the neck 14, it is adjustable, thin and with greater possibility of making light containers 15, the blowing valve is activated, the blower valve is integrated with a blow nozzle, the blow nozzle is integrated with the blow valves and everything is handled from the part that makes the neck or thread of the container and then blow into a mold 13 with thermodynamic cooling system, thermodynamics it is applied in an arrangement that allows to save energy, and time in the process, giving shape to the container 15 to avoid what happens in the common machines, which deform or do not fill the containers with their capacity, afterwards, some tweezers lead to the bottle To start the screwing and labeling process, the labeling unit 8 is composed of about vertical drums 9 where each of the containers 15 is labeled 16 to then arrive at the filling unit 17 which is composed of the tank 18 and the high-precision filling valves 19 accommodated in carousel and driving the containers to the orienting and placing unit of caps 20 consisting of a hopper 7 from which the caps 21 exit through a dedicated rail in which they enter a pneumatic orienting system 20 to orient the caps, to properly place them to the nozzle 10 of each container and screw them, the screwing unit 6, is a cylinder, which is like a drill with the wide hand so that it coils, then, the filled and capped containers 22 arrive at the wrapping process 23 which is carried out with a flexible film of a heat-shrinkable plastic in a unit automatic 23 that wraps the containers and then passes them through an oven that, with heat, makes the shrink-wrap plastic fit the containers, leaving them in a single package 24 n where after a robot accommodates them in pallets according to the previously programmed arrangement, finally the accommodating robot leaves the pallets formed, leaving the finished product and packed, made by the bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packed and ready for the conveyor unit to move the pallets to the distribution center 25, or, where appropriate, to the point of sale 25.

The PET bottle bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process achieves everything at once, 2,500 containers per hour, which is equivalent to 1.4 containers per second in a process without breaks, in the that the transfers from one unit to another, or between processes, are very brief.

Claims (16)

CLAIMS Having described enough the bottling machine for PET packaging that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, I consider it as a novelty and therefore claim as my exclusive property, what is coned in the following clauses:

1. The bottling machine for PET packaging that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, characterized by the fact that it integrates the processes of blowing, labeling, filling, screwing and packing in unimolde machines, and that offers great energy savings through the recielaje of air, ovens High efficiency and thermodynamics in molds.

2. The bottling machine of PET coners that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 1, characterized in that it works with a single mold at a speed that reaches to produce 2,500 coners per hour in a single cavity.

3. The bottling machine of PET coners that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 1, characterized by coordinating the movements by means of servo motors that are located at strategic points of the machine.

4. The bottling machine for PET packaging that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process, characterized in that it comprises a preform elevator, a preform orienter, a thermal conditioning, a stretching system, a spraying system, a mold with thermodynamic cooling system, a conveying system, a labeling unit, a filling unit, a lidding unit, a screwing unit, a packing unit and a unit usherette.

5. The PET packaging bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, comprising a preform lifting unit characterized in that it consists of a vertically inclined band that raises the preforms to be able to start the system.

6. The bottling machine of PET coners that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, which comprises a preform guide characterized in that it consists of a system that by means of gravity directs the preforms by means of bars where they are driven through the vertical band, leaving the roller to orientate the preforms, order them all in a row to be able to take them and pass them through the processes.

7. The bottling machine of PET coners that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, which comprises a thermal conditioning unit characterized by heating between 80 ° C and 200 ° C intelligently for heating uniform with long infrared lamps arranged horizontally, is a furnace that heats the preforms to the exact temperature.

8. The PET packaging bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, comprising a stretching system characterized in that the stretching system enters the mold and applies the stretch to make the transport by means of the neck.

9. The PET packaging bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, which comprises a blowing system characterized by being a blower valve that is integrated with a blow nozzle integrated with the blow valves and everything is handled from the part that makes the neck or thread of the coner and then they are blown.

10. The bottling machine of PET coners that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, which comprises a mold with a thermodynamic cooling system characterized in that the thermodynamics is applied in an arrangement that saves energy and time in the process , shaping the coner.

11. The bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, which comprises a transport system characterized by clamps that lead to the bottle through continuous processes.

12. The bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, comprising a labeling unit characterized in that it consists of the tank and the high precision filling valves arranged in a carousel that lead to the containers .

13. The bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, which comprises the orientation and lid placement unit, characterized in that it consists of a hopper from which the covers exit through a dedicated rail. where they enter a pneumatic orienting system to orient the caps, to place them properly to the nozzle of each container.

14. The bottling machine of PET containers that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, comprising the screw unit characterized in that it is a cylinder that is like a drill with the wide hand for screwing.

15. The PET packaging bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, comprising a packaging unit characterized in that it is made with a flexible film of a shrink-wrap plastic in an automatic unit that wraps the packages to then pass them through an oven that heat makes the shrink-wrap plastic fit the containers leaving them in a single package

16. The PET packaging bottling machine that integrates from the blowing process to the packaging process according to claim 4, comprising an accommodating unit characterized by a robot that accommodates the packages of labeled containers, filled and screwed in pallets according to the arrangement previously. programmed to leave the platforms formed.