RU2266861C2 - Device bottle filling with beverage and sealing thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: food industry, particularly semi-automatic device for pouring beer and other foamed oxygen-sensitive beverages in plastic bottles from constant-pressure vessels under backpressure and sealing above bottles.

SUBSTANCE: device comprises table, horizontal rotary carrousel arranged on the table and mounted on vertical post. The carrousel is provided with holes for plastic bottle receiving, which retain plastic bottle necks. The device also has sealing unit, pouring unit with heads adapted to supply beverage under backpressure in plastic bottles and control unit provided with pneumatic system and control panel. The pouring unit is connected with constant-pressure vessel by pipelines. The device also has upper and lower sliding cross-bars formed as plates with guiding bushes arranged on the table from opposite sides thereof and secured to vertical post above rotary carousel, wherein the bushes are arranged at different vertical post heights and have drives for vertical displacement thereof along vertical post. Pouring unit is installed on upper sliding cross-bar. Sealing unit is connected to lower cross-arm. Bottle receiving holes are arranged on rotary carrousel under pouring unit and sealing unit. Pouring unit heads are provided with filling tubes.

EFFECT: increased output, reduced time of beverage contact with oxygen during bottle filling and sealing.

5 cl, 5 dwg

Description

The invention relates to the field of food industry, in particular, to semiautomatic devices for bottling beer and other foaming drinks that do not allow contact with oxygen, into plastic bottles from isobaric containers with back pressure and corking these bottles.

There are many automated lines, including the operation of filling and capping drinks in plastic bottles (US patent No. 6601618, IPC B 67 3/06, publ. 08/05/2003; US patent No. 6192946, IPC B 65 V 1/04, publ 02/27/2001; Australian patent No. 491145, IPC B 67 3/10, 3/06, publ. 1978; Wolfgang Kunze. Technology of malt and beer. - St. Petersburg: "Profession", 2001. - p. 566-567).

However, such technological lines of the road are difficult to operate and are not very suitable for the conditions of small food industry enterprises.

Known apparatus for bottling drinks or apparatus for closing bottles with a drink (Technological equipment of canneries. - M, 1986. - S.418-419).

However, each of the devices requires a separate workplace and an operator for its maintenance.

The bottling and capping operations follow one after another, so in many cases it is advisable to carry them out in one unit. Such a combination of two machines into one unit with a common drive and a bed is rational not only for technical and economic reasons (reducing the weight, occupied area, energy consumption, reducing the time between filling a drink and corking it in bottles to reduce the contact time of the drink with oxygen, etc. ), but also in terms of improving the sanitation of technological processes.

A known filling machine (RF patent No. 2098346, IPC B 67 C 3/02, publ. 10.12.1997), containing dispensing and capping devices with dosing cups and capping cartridges, a conveyor for feeding and moving bottles, a drive for capping cartridges, a feeding device covers and control unit. In addition, it additionally contains a filling unit drive with a traverse and outlet fittings, counting and fixing devices for filling and closing units, bottle position sensors under the closing cartridge and upper and lower positions of the closing cartridge, a locking element on the fluid supply manifold to the filling unit, and the drive the filling unit is connected mechanically with the locking element of the fluid supply manifold, a traverse with outlet fittings and counting-fixing devices of the filling unit, the drive of the capping cartridges is connected mechanically with about the counting-fixing device of the capping unit, and the position sensors of the capping cartridge, the position sensors of the bottles are electrically connected to the control unit and the latter with the bottle conveyor and the drives of the filling and capping units. The filling unit is made in the form of successive dispensing cups with the possibility of separately adjusting the dose in each cup. The outlet fittings are connected by flexible hoses with outlet nozzles of the dispensing cups, and when the traverse is in the upper position, the flexible hoses are closed with the outlet fittings, and when the traverse is in the lower position, they are open. Counting-fixing knots of filling and capping are made with the possibility of changing the angle of rotation between two consecutive fixations of dividing stars. The drives of the filling and capping units, as well as the conveyor drive are made with the possibility of an independent change in speed from zero to the maximum possible.

However, such a high-performance unit has significant linear dimensions, which requires large production areas, as well as at least two operators for feeding and unloading bottles. The conveyor system for moving the bottles does not provide for their fixation relative to the conveyor belt, which does not allow you to quickly move the bottles after filling the drink to the place of their closure, which lengthens the contact time of oxygen with the drink, in particular beer, worsening its quality. In addition, the unit does not allow bottling drinks from isobaric containers with back pressure and capping plastic bottles with a drink that are deformed in such a unit under axial loads.

The closest technical solution (prototype) is the installation for bottling and corking drinks in bottles (Utility Model of the Russian Federation No. 14924, IPC В 67 С 3/00, publ. 09/10/2000), which includes a working table with a mounting frame mounted on a working a table, a clamping unit comprising a holder that can be rotated in a horizontal plane, and a mechanism for holding the holder for axial movement in a vertical plane, a closure head with a rotation drive and a casting head with two backings mounted on the mounting frame above the clamping unit yaschimi fittings and a retractable fitting. The drive mechanism includes a holder fixing unit in the working position, relative to the casting and capping heads.

However, such an aggregate has low productivity, because filling and capping operations are carried out sequentially and the cycle time is the sum of the total execution time of these operations. The device simultaneously provides sequential filling and capping of one plastic bottle. With an increase in the number of bottles, the dimensions of the unit and its service area will significantly increase, which will complicate the work of the operator. In addition, when using this apparatus for pouring beer, the latter does not provide the necessary condition for the process of filling and capping the beverage, namely: there is a long contact of beer with oxygen during its filling in a plastic bottle, which is performed by feeding beer into the bottle from top to bottom, due to whereby the drink is in contact with oxygen during the entire time the bottle is filled.

The technical result of the invention is to increase the productivity of the apparatus with the provision of its maintenance by one operator, as well as reducing the time of contact of the drink with oxygen during its filling in plastic bottles.

The specified technical result is achieved by the fact that in the apparatus for filling and capping drinks in plastic bottles, including a table with a counter top made in the form of a pallet, a horizontally located rotary carousel with manual drive for discrete rotation and nests for holding plastic bottles placed on a table on a vertical rack by the necks, a capping unit with a drive for rotating heads, a filling unit with heads for supplying a counter-pressure beverage to plastic bottles, connected by pipelines to the pressure vessel and the control unit of the apparatus with the pneumatic system and the control panel, according to the invention, it is equipped with upper and lower movable traverses made in the form of plates with guide bushings located on the table from opposite sides on a vertical rack above the rotary carousel at different heights and having their drives vertical reciprocating movement along the vertical rack, and on the upper movable traverse installed filling unit, on the lower traverse - capping unit, and nests for holding bottles by their necks are located on the rotary carousel under the filling unit and the bottle capping unit, the number of which corresponds to the number of filling and capping heads in the filling and capping units. The heads of the filling unit are equipped with filling tubes.

The rotary carousel contains a pipe, upper and lower disks located around a vertical rack. The upper disk is fixedly attached to the upper end of the pipe, and the lower disk is mounted around the pipe with the possibility of axial movement along the pipe and fixation on it by means of a locking mechanism (to ensure the carousel is configured for different containers). The sockets for holding the bottles by their necks are made on the upper disk, and on the lower disk there are handles for manually driving a carousel and figured nests for bottle bottoms to prevent them from turning, located under the sockets of the upper disk and aligned with them. The rotary carousel is installed with the possibility of locking in the position when one part of the bottles is under the corking unit, and the other is under the filling unit.

The mechanism for starting the drive of the reciprocating movement of the lower crosshead of the capping unit is installed with the possibility of switching on through the breaking lever when it engages with the upper crosshead of the filling unit at the moment of its translational movement down.

The apparatus has two filling and two capping heads, respectively, in the filling and capping units.

The technical solution is illustrated by the following graphic materials. Figure 1 presents a diagram of an apparatus for bottling and corking bottles. Figure 2 is the same, view A. Figure 3 is the same, view B. Figure 4 is the same, view B, from above. Figure 5 presents the pneumatic control circuit of the apparatus.

The apparatus for filling and capping drinks in plastic bottles includes a table 1 with a counter top made in the form of a pallet, and a horizontally located rotary carousel 3 with a manual drive for its discrete rotation, mounted on a table 1 on a vertical rack 2, a closure unit 4 with a drive for rotating two heads 5 , a filling unit 6 with two heads 7 for supplying a counter-pressure beverage to plastic bottles 8 connected by pipelines 9 to an isobaric tank (not shown in the drawings) and a control unit of the apparatus with a pneumatic system and control panel 10. In addition, the apparatus is equipped with upper 11 and lower 12 movable traverses made in the form of plates with guide bushings located on the table 1 from its opposite sides on a vertical rack 2 above the rotary carousel 3 at different heights and having drives 13 and 14 of their vertical reciprocating movement along the vertical strut 2. A filling unit 6 is installed on the upper movable traverse 11, and a closure unit 4 is installed on the lower traverse 12. The rotary carousel 3 contains a pipe 15, the upper 16 and lower 17 discs located around the upright 2. The upper disc 16 is fixedly attached to the upper end of the pipe 15, and the lower disk 17 is mounted around the pipe 15 with the possibility of axial movement along the pipe 15 and fixation on it by means of a locking mechanism 18. On the upper the disk 16 has slots 19 for holding the bottles 8 by the necks, and on the lower disk 17 there are handles 20 for manually driving the carousel 3 and figured slots 21 under the bottoms of the bottles 8 to prevent them from turning, located under the slots 19 of the upper disk 16 and dream to them. The rotary carousel 3 is installed with the possibility of locking in the position when one part of the bottles 8 is located under the capping unit 4 and the other under the filling unit 6. The sockets 19 for holding the bottles 8 by the necks are located on the upper disk 16 of the rotary carousel under the filling unit 6 and the unit 4 capping bottles 8, the number of which corresponds to the number of capping and filling heads 5 and 7, respectively, in the filling and capping units. The heads 7 of the filling unit are equipped with filling tubes 22 and are connected by pipelines 23 to the foam separators 24.

The operation of the apparatus is controlled through a pneumatic system (Fig. 5), which contains a pneumatic receiver 25, a control circuit 26 for operation of the closure unit 4, and a control circuit 27 for operation of the filling unit 6. The circuit 26 includes a pneumatic cylinder 28 kinematically connected by a rod 29 with a lower crossarm 12 of the closure block 4 , as well as a three-line two-way distributor of 30 flows with a breaking arm "A", pneumatically connected through a two-way five-line distributor of 31 flows (with pneumatic control) with a pneumatic cylinder 28, the rotation drive is tightened rocker heads 5 and pneumatic receiver 25. The start of the reciprocating drive of the lower crosshead 12 of the capping unit 4 is carried out through the lever "A" of the distributor 30 when it engages with the upper crosshead 12 of the filling unit 6 at the time of its downward movement.

Scheme 27 includes a pneumatic cylinder 32 kinematically connected by a rod 33 with the upper crosshead 11 of the filling unit 6, as well as a five-line two-way distributor 34 of flows with a control handle and a position lock, pneumatically connected to an pneumatic cylinder 32 and an air receiver 25, and a three-line two-way distributor of 35 flows with a control handle and fixing the position pneumatically connected to pinch valves 36 and pneumatic receiver 25. In addition, the circuit 27 has a ball valve 37 pneumatically connected to a carbon dioxide source of gas (not shown), and heads 7 bottling unit 6.

The device operates as follows. The traverses 11 and 12, respectively, of the bottling 6 and capping 4 blocks are in the upper initial position. The bottom disk 17 of the carousel 3 is set in accordance with the size of the bottles 8 and fixed by the mechanism 18 on the pipe 15. In the capping zone, empty plastic bottles 8 are installed in the carousel nests 19 and 21 of the carousel 3 and the plugs are inserted into the heads 5 of the closure unit 4. Next, the operator turns the handle 20 carousel 3 by 180 °, bringing empty bottles 8 into the filling zone under the heads 7 of the filling unit, and turns on the distributor 34 flows for lowering the beam 11 with the filling unit 6. When the beam 11 moves down, the distributor 30 flows automatically breaking lever "A", which controls the capping unit 4 through the distributor 31. The pneumatic cylinder 28 lowers the yoke 12 capping unit 4 down. At the same time, the head spindles 5 of block 4 with plugs are untwisted. After the time of twisting the caps on the bottles 8, the pneumatic cylinder 28 returns the yoke 12 to its original upper position. After sealing bottles 8 with heads 7 of the filling unit 6 in the filling zone, the operator opens the valve 37 to fill these bottles with carbon dioxide. After 2-3 seconds, the valve 37 closes. The operator moves the distributor 35 flows, controlling pinch (bulk) valves 36 in the position of "filling" of beer. The beverage is poured into the bottles 8 through the filling tubes 22 from the bottom up (from the bottom to the neck of the bottle), as a result of which a layer of foam protects the drink, such as beer, from contact with oxygen, which preserves its quality. During the filling time (15-20 s), the operator removes the beer bottles and capped bottles 8 from the capping zone, inserts empty bottles 8 and corks into the heads 5 of the corking unit 4 in their place. After filling the bottles with beer 8 to a certain level (in the filling zone) , the operator moves the distributor 35 streams to close the valves 36. Then, the pressure in the bottles 8 is released and the distributor 34 flows are placed in the position for lifting the beam 11 of the filling unit 6. After raising the beam 11, the operator turns the carousel 3 by 180 ° and empty the backs 8 are transferred from the capping zone to the filling zone.

The inventive small-sized apparatus of parallel-sequential action for bottling with backpressure of beer and other foaming drinks in plastic bottles and capping them with plastic caps is served by one operator. In addition, compared with the known analogues, the time (up to 1 s) between pouring and capping operations is reduced, which reduces the contact time of the drink with oxygen. Pouring the drink into the bottles is done through the filling tubes from the bottom up (from the bottom to the neck of the bottle), as a result of which a layer of foam protects the drink, such as beer, from contact with oxygen, which preserves its quality.

Increasing the productivity of the apparatus is achieved by simultaneously filling and capping several bottles.

Claims (5)

1. The apparatus for bottling and capping drinks in bottles, including a table with a worktop made in the form of a pallet, a horizontally located rotary carousel with a manual drive for discrete rotation and nests for holding plastic bottles by the necks, a capping unit with a drive, placed on a table on a vertical rack rotation of the heads, a filling unit with heads for supplying a counter-pressure beverage to plastic bottles connected by pipelines with an isobaric tank, and a control unit of the apparatus with a pneumatic system and a control panel, characterized in that it is equipped with upper and lower movable traverses made in the form of plates with guide bushings located on a table from opposite sides of it on a vertical rack above the rotary carousel at different heights and having drives for their vertical reciprocating movement along a vertical stand, and a casting unit is installed on the upper movable traverse, a closure block is installed on the lower traverse, and the filling unit heads are equipped with filling tubes. 2. The apparatus for bottling and capping drinks in bottles according to claim 1, characterized in that the nests for holding bottles by the necks are located on the rotary carousel under the filling unit and the bottle capping unit, the number of which corresponds to the number of filling and capping heads in the filling and capping units . 3. The apparatus for bottling and capping drinks in bottles according to claim 1, characterized in that the rotary carousel comprises a pipe, upper and lower disks located around a vertical rack; the upper disk is fixedly attached to the upper end of the pipe, and the lower disk is mounted around the pipe with the possibility of axial movement along the pipe and fixation on it by means of a locking mechanism, the sockets for holding bottles by the necks are made on the upper disk, and on the lower disk there are handles for manual drive carousels and figured nests under the bottoms of the bottles to prevent them from turning, located under the nests of the upper disk and aligned with them. 4. The apparatus for bottling and capping drinks in bottles according to claim 1, characterized in that it has two filling and two capping heads, respectively, in filling and capping units. 5. The apparatus for bottling and capping drinks in bottles according to claim 1, characterized in that the start-up mechanism of the reciprocating drive of the lower crosshead of the capping unit is installed with the possibility of switching on through the breaking arm when it engages with the upper crosshead of the filling unit at the moment of its translational movement way down.

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